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

contact: Alex Loew, Julia Pongratz

Contents

  1. LES python seminar series (Thursday, 10:30 - 12:00)
    1. What you should be able to do in advance
    2. Seminar outline
      1. Working with arrays (Gernot,Michael) (19.07.2012)
      2. Plotting (1D,2D,3D) (Alex) (2.8.2012)
      3. Geospatial data format handling and vizualization (Mikhail) (09.08.2012)
      4. system operations (Michael) (30.8.2012)
      5. structuring a program (Mikhail) (13.9.2012)
      6. time series analysis: the Pandas module (Mikhail)
      7. pyCMBS (Alex) (???? on a separate day BEFORE the summer break ???)
      8. Integration of other programming languages
      9. scientific data analysis in python
      10. running JSBACH offline in a python environment (Gernot)
      11. parallel programming (Heinrich Widmann)
      12. statistics in python (???)
      13. other topics
  2. 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)

  • numpy arrays (indexing, slicing, views ...)
  • array functions (mean, sum etc. along axes)
  • general information on python data model (copy, references, deepcopy)
  • masked arrays
  • reading ASCII files etc.
  • map and lambda functions
  • pickle, cPickle

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

  • subplots, figure, axis objects
  • a brief tour through matplotlib gallery
    • lineplots
    • fill between
    • contour plots
  • nice colorbars, colormaps handling etc.

Geospatial data format handling and vizualization (Mikhail) (09.08.2012)

  • Nio - handling netCDF
    • read netCDF
    • write netCDF
  • GDAL: the door to all available data 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

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) (???? on a separate day BEFORE the summer break ???)

  • introduction to pyCMBS
  • cdo interfacing
  • anomaly calculations, hovmoeller plots etc

Integration of other programming languages

  • 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

other topics

  • animations
  • GUI programming
  • H5PY - simple access to HDF5 files
  • python2.x or python3.x (does it make a difference?)

projects to work on ...

  • MPI-ESM in python (Christian) ;-)

LehreWiki: PythonCourse/PythonLES (last edited 2012-12-19 13:14:36 by AlexanderLoew)