This is the GitHub repository for Katy Abbott's 2018 - 2019 BridgeUP:STEM internship group: Ocean's Six
With all the useful commands we've learned so far.
| Date | Topic | Activities | Notes | Links |
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| Oct. 9, 2018 (Tuesday) | Welcome + introduction | - Ice breakers - Expectations - Get to know each other |
First day of official class | Python refresher |
| Oct. 11, 2018 (Thursday) | Introduction to OCEANS | - What is the Coriolis effect? - Python practice |
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| Oct. 16, 2018 (Tuesday) | Introduction to OCEANS | - Bermuda Triangle myths debunked - What are eddies? |
Ocean eddies activity | |
| Oct. 18, 2018 (Thursday) | Introduction to OCEANS | - Guest speaker | Guest speaker: David Lindo Atichati | |
| Oct. 23, 2018 (Tuesday) | Git tutorial + list comprehensions | - How can you use Git for source control? - What are list comprehensions |
List comprehensions Git tutorial |
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| Oct. 25, 2018 (Thursday) | Unseen Oceans exhibit + more Git | - Unseen Oceans (4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.) |
Meet at fourth-floor Roosevelt elevators by 4:30 p.m. | |
| Oct. 30, 2018 (Tuesday) | Introduction to numpy arrays | - How to store and access data with numpy + overview of our project -What types of visualizations will we make this year? |
Halloween | Tips for indexing numpy arrays |
| Nov. 1, 2018 (Thursday) | Introduction to netCDF files + array review | - Numpy array review - Practice with netCDFs |
numpy practice netCDF practice |
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| Nov. 6, 2018 (Tuesday) | No session | Election Day | ||
| Nov. 8, 2018 (Thursday) | Numpy arrays revisited | - Review of numpy arrays |
Visualizing numpy arrays | |
| Nov. 13, 2018 (Tuesday) | Guest speaker | - Guest speaker | Guest speaker: Mia Polansky | |
| Nov. 15, 2018 (Thursday) | How to work with netCDF data | - Opening files | netCDF practice | |
| Nov. 20, 2018 (Tuesday) | Review of what we've learned, more netCDF work | - Brainstorm about winter presentation - Introducing Sublime |
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| Nov. 22, 2018 (Thursday) | No session | Thanksgiving Day | ||
| Nov. 27, 2018 (Tuesday) | Path game | - What are file paths? - What is the difference between an absolute and relative path? |
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| Nov. 29, 2018 (Thursday) | Exploring our Bermuda SLA dataset | Resolving merge conflicts Diving into our Bermuda dataset |
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| Dec. 4, 2018 (Tuesday) | Exploring our Bermuda SLA dataset | Diving into our Bermuda dataset | ||
| Dec. 6, 2018 (Thursday) | Visualizing our dataset (by hand) | Louise visits | ||
| Dec. 11, 2018 (Tuesday) | Plotting SLA and developing presentation | - How to use pcolor - Adding labels and saving plots - Presentation outline |
Dataset visualization | |
| Dec. 13, 2018 (Thursday) | Community building activity | |||
| Dec. 18, 2018 (Tuesday) | Presentation practice | |||
| Dec. 20, 2018 (Thursday) | Interns winter presentation | |||
| Dec. 25, 2018 (Tuesday) | No class | Winter recess | ||
| Dec. 27, 2018 (Thursday) | No class | Winter recess | ||
| Jan. 1, 2019 (Tuesday) | No class | Winter recess | ||
| Jan. 3, 2019 (Thursday) | Review of internship topics so far | - Internship jeopardy - GitHub refresher |
Jeopardy answers | |
| Jan. 8, 2019 (Tuesday) | Hovmoller diagrams | - Popcorn review of code - What are Hovmoller diagrams? - Limitations |
Hovmöller diagrams | |
| Jan. 10, 2019 (Thursday) | Hovmoller diagrams and for loops | - Finish up Hovmoller diagrams - Review of for loops |
For loops exercise | |
| Jan. 15, 2019 (Tuesday) | Dataset for loops | - Using for loops with our dataset - Creating animations |
For loops and str.format | |
| Jan. 17, 2019 (Thursday) | Dataset for loops cont'd | - Using for loops with our dataset - Creating animations |
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| Jan. 22, 2019 (Tuesday) | For loops cont'd | |||
| Jan. 24, 2019 (Thursday) | Guest speaker (tentative) | Guest speaker: Nathalie Goodkin | ||
| Jan. 29, 2019 (Tuesday) | For loops cont'd | |||
| Jan. 31, 2019 (Thursday) | Internships canceled due to bad weather! | |||
| Feb. 5, 2019 (Tuesday) | No session | |||
| Feb. 7, 2019 (Thursday) | For loops and str.format | Using custom formats to save images | ||
| Feb. 12, 2019 (Tuesday) | No session | |||
| Feb. 14, 2019 (Thursday) | Creating an animation of our sea level anomaly data | Louise visits | ||
| Feb. 19, 2019 (Tuesday) | No session | Mid-winter recess | ||
| Feb. 21, 2019 (Thursday) | No session | Mid-winter recess | ||
| Feb. 26, 2019 (Tuesday) | Resume building workshop | Katy gone for conference | ||
| Feb. 28, 2019 (Thursday) | HTML/CSS Workshop | Katy gone for conference | ||
| March 5, 2019 (Tuesday) | Guest speaker: Alison Parrish | How can we use code to make poetry? | Alison's GitHub | |
| March 7, 2019 (Thursday) | Dataset for loops | - Review of script - Wrapping up animation of our data |
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| March 12, 2019 (Tuesday) | Contour maps | - What are contour lines? - Potato activity - Drawing contours by hand |
Lab activity | |
| March 14, 2019 (Thursday) | How can we use Matplotlib for contour maps? | - Practice with sample data | Contour notebook | |
| March 19, 2019 (Tuesday) | Making contour maps cont'd | - Finish practice with sample data - Maps of our dataset |
- Lab w/ instructions - Practice script |
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| March 21, 2019 (Thursday) | Contour maps of our dataset | - For loops review - Continue dataset contouring | Warmup | |
| March 26, 2019 (Tuesday) | Viewing the contours in a contour map | - Matplotlib and line collections - Jupyter Notebook practice |
- Jupyter Notebook - Atom script practice |
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| March 28, 2019 (Thursday) | Accessing contour lines | - Functions to return contours - Dataframes! | - Lab - Atom script | |
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| April 9, 2019 (Tuesday) | Guest speaker: Jessica Garson | Jessica's GitHub | ||
| April 11, 2019 (Thursday) | Guest visitor: David | |||
| April 16, 2019 (Tuesday) | Finishing up dataframes and algorithm | - All interns complete contour dataframe script - Work on identifying closed contours |
Guest visitor: Louise | Possible projects |
| April 18, 2019 (Thursday) | Eddy ID special projects | Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 |
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| April 23, 2019 (Tuesday) | No session | Spring recess | ||
| April 25, 2019 (Thursday) | No session | Spring recess | ||
| April 30, 2019 (Tuesday) | Guest speaker: Sahil Chinoy | Sahil's projects | ||
| May 2, 2019 (Thursday) | Eddy ID special projects | Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 |
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| May 7, 2019 (Tuesday) | Eddy ID special projects | Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 |
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| May 9, 2019 (Thursday) | Presentation skills workshop | |||
| May 14, 2019 (Tuesday) | Work on poster, presentation | |||
| May 16, 2019 (Thursday) | Work on poster, presentation | |||
| May 21, 2019 (Tuesday) | Work on poster, presentation | |||
| May 23, 2019 (Thursday) | Finish poster, practice presentation | Finish SRMP poster | ||
| May 28, 2019 (Tuesday) | Practice presentation | |||
| May 30, 2019 (Thursday) | ||||
| June 4, 2019 (Tuesday) | No session | |||
| June 6, 2019 (Thursday) | SRMP Colloquium | Poster and 5-minute presentation | ||
| June 9, 2019 (Sunday) | Brown Scholar Interns Graduation | 15-minute presentation |