[CIG-ALL] CIG Webinar: Project Jupyter for the geosciences, Thursday Feb 9 @ 2pm

[Lorraine Hwang]

Dear Community,

Our first CIG webinar of the new year is this  Thursday February 9th @ 2pm PT. Ian Rose in his talk Project Jupyter for the geosciences, will discuss the advantages of using notebooks and what they have to offer.
Project Jupyter for the geosciences

Ian Rose, UC Berkeley

As the results of scientific computing become more central in the geosciences, we have been confronted with a series of challenges that were not necessarily obvious from the outset. How does one ensure that the process by which the geoscientist arrives at a result is transparent and reproducible? What are the most effective ways to communicate a computational result? How does one teach computational geoscience to students?

Project Jupyter is a suite of tools for scientists and educators which helps to address these questions. Here I demonstrate the Jupyter (formerly IPython) notebook, which allows one to combine prose, equations, code, and the outputs of code, all in the same computational environment. Jupyter notebooks run in a web browser, which allows it to leverage the rich rendering capabilities of the modern web environment, including images, tables, audio, and video. It also has the ability to instrument code with interactive user interface elements like sliders and buttons, allowing for more user friendly interaction with scientific software.

I also discuss some more advanced usage, including JupyterHub deployments for use in the classroom. The web-based nature of the notebook allows teachers to serve notebooks to students over the internet. This allows students to learn programming in a custom environment without having to install or configure anything. This ability to serve computing environments could also be leveraged by an organization such as CIG to disseminate and advocate for software in the geosciences.

Use the following link to connect to the webinar:
	http://uc-d.adobeconnect.com/r28i3av93ti/ <http://uc-d.adobeconnect.com/r28i3av93ti/>

If you are new to adobe connect, please see our website’s webinar page prior to the meeting for links to system requirements and how you can test your connection: 
	https://geodynamics.org/cig/events/webinars/ <https://geodynamics.org/cig/events/webinars/>

Best,
-Lorraine

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Lorraine Hwang, Ph.D.
Associate Director, CIG
530.752.3656





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