  The 8th edition of the European Conference on Python in Science, EuroSciPy
was held for the second time in the beautiful city of Cambridge, UK from
August, 26th to 29th, 2014. More than 200 participants, both from academia and
industry, attended the conference.
  As usual, the conference kicked off with two days of tutorials, divided into
an introductory and an advanced track. The introductory track, presented by
Joris Vankerschaver, Valerio Maggio Joris Van den Bossche, Stijn Van Hoey and
Nicolas Rougier, gave a quick but thorough overview of the SciPy stack, while
the experience track focused on different advanced topics. This second track
began with an introduction to Bokeh, by Bryan Van den Ven, followed by an image
processing tutorial with scikit-image by Emmanuelle Gouillart and Juan
Nunez-Iglesias. The afternoon continued with two tutorials on data analysis:
the first, intitulated "How 'good' is your model, and how can you make it
better?" (by Chih-Chun Chen, Dimitry Foures, Elena Chatzimichali, Giuseppe
Vettigli) focused on the challenges face while attempting model selections, and
the first day concluded with a statistics in python tutorial by Gael Varoquaux.
During the second day, the attendees tackled an in depth 4 hour tutorial on
Cython, presented by Stefan Behnel, and a crash course on "Evidence-Based
Teaching: What We Know and How to Use It", by Greg Wilson.
