Introduction to Jupyter and IPython

Sebastian Alvis, Shane Grigsby, Lindsey Heagy, Yara Mohajerani, Fernando Pérez

Schedule (all times in PDT)

• 10:45 - 11:00 AM [Anthony]: Getting connected
  • welcome and get everyone connected
• 11:00 - 11:15 AM [Fernando]: JupyterHub, Pangeo and JupyterLab overview
  • Basic architecture of our shared computing environment
  • Logging in/shutting down
  • Explaining shared drive space, what persists, need to push code changes to GitHub
  • Overview of the interface
  • What are the benefits of using Jupyter Notebooks? Collaboration, open workflows, etc.
  • What are the caveats? (e.g. hidden states, need to update intermediate cells)
• 11:15 - 11:25 AM [Yara]: Jupyter Notebooks
  • Focus in on JupyterNotebook interface - cells (type, running, editing, copy/pasting), kernel
  • What features are specific to notebooks?
• 11:25 - 11:55 AM [Shane]: IPython
  • Workflows beyond plain Python - tab completion, command line access, debugging
• 11:55 - 12:20 AM [Lindsey]: Widgets
  • creating just-in-time research GUIs: connecting interactive controls to your code
• 12:20 - 12:30 AM [Fernando]: Wrap up

Accessing the Pangeo Hub

https://icesat-2.hackweek.io/hub/login

Installing IPywidgets

https://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_install.html

Extras

• sharing your notebooks on Binder: https://mybinder.org
• widgets in action for education: https://github.com/geoscixyz/geosci-labs
• dashboarding with voila: https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila
• building a book with JupyterBook: https://jupyterbook.org

Credit

This collection of tutorials was adapted from the ICESat-2 Hackweek tutorial by @fperez