/irfu-python-workshop

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Welcome to the IRF-Uppsala Python Workshop: Snakes in Space

Repository organisation:

You will find the Jupyter Notebooks of the tutorials for the workshop here.

Topics covered:

Quickstart (Dave)

Quick (re-)introduction to Python language:
- Packages
- Dictionnaries, lists, tuples
- Generators
- Lists and dictionnaries in comprehension
- maps and filters
- exceptions

Best practices (Louis)

Introduction to best practices to keep your code nice and readable:
- PEP 8 - the Style Guide for Python Code
- docstrings
- linters
- code style tools: black, isort
- Packaging
- Virtual environments

Python for data analysis (Dave)

Introduction to basic scientific computing and plotting tools:
- numpy: arrays, array operations, and times
- scipy: signal processing, fitting, statistics
- matplotlib: figures, axes, line plots, contour plots

CDF files with Python (Louis)

Introducing to CDF files, and Python I/O CDF tools:
- Structure of CDF files and ISTP
- Reading CDF files with pycdfpp

Time series, spectrogram, VDFs, & co. (Louis)

Introduction to data structures for space plasma analysis: - The xarray package
- DataArrays for time series and spectrograms.
- Datasets for velocity distribution functions.

Python tools for space physics analysis (Louis)

Introduction to PyRFU:
- Objective
- Quick demonstration

Geopack (Vanina)

Introduction to Geopack:
- The Geopack model
- The Tsyganenko models