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Orientation:

Take-home Notebooks

Zachary del Rosario (He/Him)

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Workshop Schedule

Extract

Wrangle + Tidy

Friday

Saturday

Visualize

Model

Sunday

Monday

Tabula +

WebPlotDigitizer

Python + Jupyter

Concepts

Execution

Concepts

Execution

Concepts

Fin

Focus

Live

Take-Home

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Briefly

  • What?
    • What is a Jupyter notebook?
  • How?
    • How should you use the take-home notebooks?

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But Before That: Survey!

This helps me improve the workshop

I’ll wait ~2 minutes for you to fill this out

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Why Go Programmatic

Why bother learning to do science

in a programming language?

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Bad Data Collection

No serious scientist would record data like this….

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Bad Analysis!

Jorge Cham, PhD Comics #1323

How many scientists do you know with a folder like this…?

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How Many Times Have You...

  • Modified data to fix an error, but then forgotten what error you had to fix?
  • Written complicated code to plot a particular dataset, then re-wrote everything for a new format?
  • Used to have a plot around, but had to re-run a whole analysis to see your old results?

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How Many Times Have You...

  • Modified data to fix an error, but then forgotten what error you had to fix?
  • Written complicated code to plot a particular dataset, then re-wrote everything for a new format?
  • Used to have a plot around, but had to re-run a whole analysis to see your old results?

Programmatic data science fixes all of this comprehensively.

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Project Jupyter to the Rescue!

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Project Jupyter to the Rescue!

Jupyter Notebooks:

  • Include code and human-readable text; you can do data operations, and record why you did them
  • Support Python libraries for data management and user-friendly visualization
  • Save old results, so you don’t have to!

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Take-Home Notebooks

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Quick Orientation!

You can get the take-home assignment from here...

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Quick Orientation!

You can download a Jupyter notebook with

the download button, but...

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Recommended Approach!

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Make Sure Your Setup Works!

From here on, a working Python/Jupyter installation is necessary

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Take-Home, but With Support Offered

  • Take-Home notebooks are designed to be done on your own, however:

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    • Office Hours offered (4--5pm)!
    • Make friends in the workshop!

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End of Day 1

I’ll re-open the breakout rooms so you can exchange contact info

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I’ll hang around until 2pm to help with software setup issues

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