[alecdbrooks]

If you're looking for a nice graphical way to play with data in Python, may I suggest IPython Notebook [0]? It's not always easy to configure, but it's maturing fast and lets you have Python code, Markdown, and graphs in one place, not to mention the 21 other languages available natively or as add-ons[1].

[0]: http://ipython.org/notebook.html.

[1]: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/IPython%20kernels%20... (I'm counting the two Perl kernels as one language and not counting Calico or the example kernel.)

[mrandrewandrade]

Another great graphical way to play with data in Python is using Spyder. It has an Rstudio/matlab sort of interface

https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyder_(software)

[cschmidt]

There is a version of iPython that works with Julia too

[kyllo]

Yeah you can run IPython Notebook with a Julia kernel.

[sebastianavina]

I just checked ipython notebook. Looks like Matlab Notebook, but in the browser instead of MS Word (I don't know if Matlab Notebook still exists, it's been a long time since the last time I used Windows), anyway, you should try org mode on emacs for python, is way more versatile, compiles to latex, html, and has almost all the features of the ipython notebook.... still Rstudio has a lot of graphical incentives, like data edition, environment variables, easy to follow documentation. Both org-mode and RStudio are very powerful tools, I was mostly ranting about how many options we have for making almost the same thing.

[semi-extrinsic]

RStudio is bringing org-mode to those of us who don't (know|want to learn) emacs. I like it a lot.