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Hackathon Challenges and Resources

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Hackathon Challenges and Resources

These are notebooks and other resources to use as challenges for Callysto hackathons or related events. You're also welcome to use them for other non-commercial purposes.

Notebooks in this branch were tested on Callysto Hub.

Callysto Hub basics

Callysto Hub is a free Jupyter notebook environment provided by Cybera and PIMS.

To log in to Callysto Hub you can use a Google or Microsoft account.

The first time you log in your personal environment will be created where all your work will be stored.

Copy notebooks to Callysto Hub

Hackathon notebooks can be automatically copied to your Callysto Hub environment using this git-pull link.

Or to copy them manually:

  • Select New -> Terminal in the top right corner.
  • In the terminal window type git clone https://github.com/callysto/hackathon -b jupyter
  • Close the web page with terminal once the repository has been copied.

Open Notebooks in Callysto Hub

After you have copied the hackathon notebooks, to open them in Callysto Hub:

  • Click on the logo in the top left corner, it will redirect you to the home screen.
  • Click on hackathon repository folder and select the folder or notebook you are planning to work on.

  • To get started select the Prep_materials folder and work through the prepatory notebooks in this order:
  1. Markdown basics.ipynb
  2. Python and pandas basics solutions.ipynb
  3. Matplotlib basics.ipynb
  4. Cufflinks basics.ipynb

Some Jupyter Notebook Basics

Run a cell

To run a cell, select it and then either:

  • click the Cell menu and select Run Cells
  • or hit Shift-Enter
  • or click the Run button in the toolbar

Create a new cell

In order to create a new cell:

  • click the Insert menu then select Insert Cell Above or Insert Cell Below
  • or click the plus button in the top left corner

Delete a cell

In order to delete a cell, select it and either:

  • click the Edit menu then select Delete Cells
  • or click on scisors button in the top left corner

Undo deleting cells

If you accidentally deleted an incorrect cell, you can always bring it back:

  • click the Edit menu then select Undo Delete Cells

Download notebook

If you want to download the notebook in .ipynb format to your local machine:

  • Save the notebook first:
    • click the Save and checkpoint button in the top left corner
  • Click the File menu then select Download as -> Notebook(.ipynb)