Scientific Computing in Python: Introduction to NumPy and Matplotlib

Since many students in my Stat 451 (Introduction to Machine Learning and Statistical Pattern Classification) class are relatively new to Python and NumPy, I was recently devoting a lecture to the latter. Since the course notes are based on an interactive Jupyter notebook file, which I used as a basis for the lecture videos, I thought it would be worthwhile to reformat it as a blog article with the embedded ‘narrated content’ — the video recordings.