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LES python seminar series (Thursday, 10:30 - 12:00, Geomatikum, 1729)

contact: Alex Loew, Julia Pongratz

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LES python seminar series (Thursday, 10:30 - 12:00, Geomatikum, 1729)
1. What you should be able to do in advance
2. Seminar outline
projects to work on ...

What you should be able to do in advance

python programming structures
if clauses
function calling
print statements
well, running python scripts (in python shell and interactive shell like ipython)
edit python scripts in the editor of your choice
...

Seminar outline

Working with arrays (Gernot, Michael) (19.07.2012)

Commented examples from the seminar
general information on python data model (copy, references, deepcopy)
map and lambda functions
numpy arrays (indexing, slicing, views ...)
array functions (mean, sum etc. along axes)
- data type conversions
- elementwise functions
- linear algebra
- array statistics
masked arrays
reading ASCII files etc.
- numpy input and output
- general input and output (opening a file and working with a file)
pickle, cPickle

Plotting (1D,2D,3D) (Alex) (2.8.2012)

Course material for plotting

* subplots, figure, axis objects; easy and more sophisticated appraoches

always use figure/ax
a brief tour through matplotlib gallery
- lineplots
- fill_between
- contour plots
nice colorbars, colormaps handling etc.
working with different axes in a single plot; twinx()
saving figures
- fitting to actual content
tight_layout

Geospatial data format handling and vizualization (Mikhail) (16.08.2012)

Nio - handling netCDF
- read netCDF
- write netCDF
  - data type conversions
GDAL: the door to a huge number of different file formats ...
Basemap
pyNGL

system operations (Michael) (30.8.2012)

replacing BASH: working with os adn system objects
os.system, subprocess etc.
python as a replacement for bash
how to debug a python program?

structuring a program (Mikhail) (13.9.2012)

python functions with optional and kwargs
python object oriented programming (classes etc)

time series analysis: the Pandas module (Mikhail)

introduction to pandas timeseries analysis module

pyCMBS (Alex)

introduction to pyCMBS
cdo interfacing
anomaly calculations, hovmoeller plots etc

Integration of other programming languages (Alex, no date yet)

R
f2py
C-code
matlab

scientific data analysis in python

EOF, SVD analysis

running JSBACH offline in a python environment (Gernot)

parallel programming (Heinrich Widmann)

openMP, MPI, subprocesses, threads

statistics in python (???)

statistical analysis of large data sets

projects to work on ...

MPI-ESM in python (Christian)

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-=== Working with arrays (Gernot,Michael) (19.07.2012) ===
 * numpy arrays (indexing, slicing, views ...)
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 [[/SeminarLog1|Commented examples from the seminar]]

 * general information on [[http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html|python data model]] ([[http://docs.python.org/library/copy.html | copy, references, deepcopy]])
 * [[http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#map|map]] and [[http://docs.python.org/tutorial/controlflow.html#lambda-forms|lambda]] functions
 * [[http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/arrays.ndarray.html|numpy arrays]] (indexing, slicing, views ...)
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- * general information on python data model (copy, references, deepcopy)
 * masked arrays
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  * [[http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/routines.math.html|elementwise functions]]
  * [[http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/routines.linalg.html|linear algebra]]
  * [[http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/routines.statistics.html|array statistics]]
 * [[http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/maskedarray.generic.html|masked arrays]]
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- * map and lambda functions
 * pickle, cPickle
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  * general input and output ([[http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#open|opening a file]] and [[http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#file-objects|working with a file]])
 * [[http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html|pickle]], cPickle
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- * subplots, figure, axis objects
 * a brief tour through matplotlib gallery
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* subplots, figure, axis objects; easy and more sophisticated appraoches
 * always use figure/ax
 * a brief tour through [[http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html |matplotlib gallery]]
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 * saving figures
  * fitting to actual content
 * [[http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/tight_layout_guide.html | tight_layout]]
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 * [[http://www.gdal.org/ | GDAL]]: the door to a huge number of different file formats ...
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