Jupyter Notebooks

Instructor: Ian Allison (PIMS)

This course will introduce researchers to Jupyter notebooks as a tool for conducting research and for communicating their work.

The Jupyter ecosystem is a rich environment for interactive computing which provides intuitive and powerful tools for data-analysis, computation and collaboration. We will explore the features of the jupyter notebook and the Python programming language. Specifically, we will look at

We will then use some popular Python packages (Pandas, Numpy, Scipy, Sympy, …) to work through a series of examples and exercises to see how they can be used to work with external data sources, produce insights and visualizations and help create compelling showcases of your work.

Target audience: general

Duration: 3 hours

Level: beginner

Prerequisites: This course does not have any firm requirements, but some familiarity with Python would be helpful.

Laptop software: All attendees will need to bring their laptops with wireless access.