MAT Software Carpentry Feb 2013 - Assessed Exercise¶

(i) Download fish datafile
The file contains three columns - date, species and a count of the number of sightings
of that type of fish¶

Some months, no fish of a certain type were seen, and there is no entry for the fish that month.
    There are some comment lines which you should ignore, these lines start with #.
    Someone thought that turtles were fish and entered counts for them. Ignore the turtles.

(ii) Create a Python script to create a single plot showing the number of each type of fish each month
i.e. the plot should have a line for each type of fish.
The script should take the name of the data file as a parameter.
If a type of fish appears more than one time in a month, add the counts together¶

(iii) Provide a text file (README) with your name and email and instructions on how to run your script¶

(iv) Put the scripts and the README file in a new repository under your bitbucket.org account
(make this repository private, but add at least one of us to it)
Chris: cannam
Luis: lafigueira
Steve: stevewelburn¶

Notes:
create the bitbucket repository as soon as you start working and commit frequently
if you have any questions, email either Steve, Chris or Luis.¶