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Jupyter Notebooks: Initial Webinar and Ongoing Activities

Kenton Ross, NASA (with thanks to Esther Conway, UKSA, who is the main organizer)

WGCapD-11 (virtual)

Day 1: February 23, 2022

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  • Calendar Year 2021 Jupyter Notebooks Webinar
    • Participation & Content
    • Outcomes

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  • Next Steps
    • Jupyter Notebooks “Foundations” Activity (WGCapD-led)
    • Best Practices Document (WGISS-led)

Jupyter Notebooks Activities

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WGCapD-11, 23-25 Feb 2022

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  • CEOS Deliverable CB-20-04 (2021 Q4 deadline) - completed 
  • Webinar delivered single body of content in two time zone sessions on 21 & 22 July 2021
  • Brought together a broad set of speakers and organizations within and outside of CEOS
    • Kenton Ross of NASA and Yousuke Ikehata of JAXA provided overviews of WGCapD and WGISS respectively
    • Esther Conway of NCEO-UKSA presented “Jupyter Notebooks for Capacity Development Overview” and demonstrated “Jupyter Notebooks on Data Analysis Platforms” using the UK’s JASMIN Jupyter Notebooks
    • Brian Killough of CEOS SEO demonstrated Open Data Cube Sandbox Notebooks
    • Simone Mantovani of MEEO demonstrated ESA PGDS Data Cube and Time Series Data
    • Matt Paget CSIRO demonstrated Earth Analytics Interoperability Lab and its applications to Big Data Processing
  • Each session also hosted a panel discussion with other capacity development professionals speaking to their experiences training with Jupyter Notebooks
    • Edward Boamah (Digital Earth Africa)
    • Hayley Evers-King (EUMETSAT)
    • Sean McCartney (NASA DEVELOP)
    • Franz Meyer (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

CB-20-04: 2021 Jupyter Notebooks Webinar

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https://ceos.org/meetings/jupyter-notebooks-for-capacity-development-webinar/

WGCapD-11, 23-25 Feb 2022

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  • 288 total attendees (243 for Session 1, 45 for Session 2)
  • Was the first test application of the CEOS Webinar Toolkit
  • Of those that responded to the post-webinar questionnaire, 96% of respondents said they would find a CEOS Jupyter Notebooks best practice document useful (70 total respondents)
  • 87% said they would like a follow up training on an “Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks and Earth Observation Data”
    • Importantly, this initial webinar was offered as a set of demonstrations to gauge interest as opposed to a training on the fundamentals of how to use Jupyter Notebooks
  • 100% find a repository of training or application-specific notebooks useful

2021 Jupyter Notebooks Webinar Results

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  • Jupyter Notebooks Foundations Webinar Deliverable 
    • Once again, a collaboration between WGCapD and WGISS with a Software Carpentry-style live coding approach
    • The delivery date is tentatively set as Q3 2023
    • We have initiated conversations with Esther Conway of UKSA and Brian Killough of CEOS SEO
    • Though there was broad interest from the 2021 webinar questionnaire response, the initial task for this activity is to define the target audience
    • The format and platform of this activity is also under discussion a shorter form webinar may not be long enough or interactive enough to accomplish desired outcomes
  • Jupyter Notebooks Best Practices Document
    • Led by WGISS, WGCapD has an interest in helping define best practices for using notebooks as training/capacity building modality
    • Will be presented and discussed at next month’s WGISS-53 meeting (https://ceos.org/meetings/wgiss-53/)
    • Activity led by Esther Conway of UKSA

Follow-Ups with Jupyter Notebooks

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WGCapD-11, 23-25 Feb 2022

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  • Please reach out!

Any Comments? Questions?

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kenton.w.ross@nasa.gov

WGCapD-11, 23-25 Feb 2022