Unidata Technology with Python

• What: Jupyter notebooks and related material on exploring Unidata technology with Python for the 2015 Unidata Training Workshop.
• When: <2015-07-20 Mon>–<2015-07-23 Wed>
• Where: UCAR Foothills Lab 4, Room 1201

Workshop Schedule for <2015-07-20 Mon>

	Section	IPyNB or Markdown	Presenter	Length	Time
1	Continental breakfast			0:30	08:30:00
2	Introductions and overview	presentations/Overview	Ethan	0:20	09:00:00
3	Software carpentry for science w/ git/github	presentations/git	Julien/Ryan	1:45	09:20:00
4	Break			0:20	11:05:00
5	Software carpentry for science w/ conda/binstar	presentations/conda_binstar	Julien	1:00	11:25:00
6	Lunch on your own			1:15	12:25:00
7	Jupyter notebook introduction	jupyter-notebook	Ward	1:00	13:40:00
8	Numpy with intro to matplotlib Part 1	intro-numpy-and-matplotlib	Ryan	1:00	14:40:00
9	Break			0:20	15:40:00
10	Numpy with intro to matplotlib Part 2	intro-numpy-and-matplotlib	Ryan	1:00	16:00:00
11	End of day 1				17:00:00

Workshop Schedule for <2015-07-21 Tue>

	Section	IPyNB or Markdown	Presenter	Length	Time
1	Continental breakfast			0:30	08:30:00
2	Introduction to netCDF	intro_netCDF	Russ/Ward	1:05	09:00:00
3	Break			0:15	10:05:00
4	Reading netCDF	reading_netCDF	Jeff W.	0:45	10:20:00
5	Writing netCDF	writing_netCDF	Jeff W.	0:45	11:05:00
6	Lunch on your own			1:55	11:50:00
7	Geoscience vis w/ matplotlib/cartopy	matplotlib-and-cartopy	Ryan	1:45	13:45:00
8	Break			0:15	15:30:00
9	NetCDF case study	casestudy	Julien	1:00	15:45:00
10	End of day 2				16:45:00

Workshop Schedule for <2015-07-22 Wed>

	Section	IPyNB or Markdown	Presenter	Length	Time
1	Continental breakfast			0:30	08:30:00
2	Pythonic Data Analysis	pythonic-data-analysis	Ryan	1:00	09:00:00
3	Siphon Part 1, Part 2	SIPHON*	Josh	1:00	10:00:00
4	Break			0:15	11:00:00
5	MetPy	MetPy	Ryan	1:00	11:15:00
6	Lunch on your own			1:00	12:15:00
7	Accessing radar composites	CompositeRadar	Ryan	1:00	13:15:00
8	Point observations w/ TDS	Geocoded_METAR	Sean	1:00	14:15:00
9	Break			0:15	15:15:00
10	Exploring WMS (w/ ncWMS & Cartopy extensions)	wms_sample	Sean	1:00	15:30:00
11	End of day 3				16:30:00

Installation Instructions

For this workshop, we will be using the following Python libraries:

• numpy
• netcdf4-python
• matplotlib
• cartopy
• OWSLib
• siphon
• MetPy
• xray

The easiest way to install these libraries is with conda.

1. Install Miniconda (Python 3.4) from Continuum Analytics. (Determine if your OS 32 or 64 bit)
2. Once Miniconda is installed, from the command line (e.g., OS X terminal, cmd.exe), run these instructions to clone the repository and create the environment:

git clone https://github.com/Unidata/unidata-python-workshop

cd unidata-python-workshop

conda env create -f environment.yml

From a Unix command line (e.g., OS X terminal)

If your default shell is NOT bash, first type bash. To activate or switch to a conda environment, you can source activate <environment>. For example,

source activate workshop2015

To switch and/or deactivate environments:

source deactivate
source activate <environment>

From a Windows command line (e.g., cmd.exe)

To activate or switch to a conda environment, you can activate <environment>. For example,

activate workshop2015

To switch and/or deactivate environments:

deactivate
activate <environment>

Docker

For those interested in Docker, Unidata maintains a Docker image containing conda and the packages needed to run these notebooks. The relevant conda environment is named unidata.

Running the notebooks

cd unidata-python-workshop

# unix, use bash. windows omit 'source'
source activate workshop2015

ipython notebook

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