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Meeting on the 20th June

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For our meeting this week we have Simon Wotherspoon continuing his series of lectures on Time Series Analysis for fun and profit. This week it is an introduction to ARIMA and it’s uses.

ALSO: We NEED speakers for the next month or so. If you’ve been thinking of doing something with DaSH and have been too shy to say ‘Hi’ now is your chance! ALL WELCOME!

— When & Where —

Friday 20th June at 9:15am
IMAS Aurora Lecture Theatre – it’s the big lecture theatre on the left as you walk into the waterfront building foyer – 20 Castray Esplanade, Battery Point,  next to CSIRO.

The Python Fish

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Have you ever wondered if you could put a progress bar in your terminal to reassure you that your script is still running?

Enter the Python Fish:

>))’>

The Python Fish progress bar could be just what you were looking for! The Fish is a Python module that makes any program look awesome and displays useful data while munching away on your data.

Check it out in action:

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Install it with easy_install or fork it on github: https://github.com/lericson/fish

 

 

 

Meeting on the 6th June

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For our meeting this week we have Simon Wotherspoon giving the first of a series of lectures on Time Series Analysis for fun and profit. As always, it is sure to be entertaining and informative…

ALSO: We NEED speakers for the next month or so. If you’ve been thinking of doing something with DaSH and have been too shy to say ‘Hi’ now is your chance! We have openings on the 20th and 27th of June (and beyond…). Put your hand up, get involved, give back to your community or even pose some hard questions you’d like answered or discussed. ALL WELCOME!

— When & Where —

Friday 6th June at 9:15am
IMAS Aurora Lecture Theatre – it’s the big lecture theatre on the left as you walk into the waterfront building foyer – 20 Castray Esplanade, Battery Point,  next to CSIRO.

Python Install Fest – Resources

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Here are some the basic resources needed for tomorrows Python Install Fest:

Notes and Installation Instructions

Code Test Cases

These resources were created by Eric Oliver and me (Rob Johnson), they are provided for free but are in no way exhaustive – there are many ways to do this.

 

Python Install Fest

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This week we have the inaugural DaSH PUG (Python Users Group) meeting and to kick it all off we are running a Python Install Fest.

This session is for people who have thought about using Python but don’t know where to start. During the Install Fest we will help you to install a scientifically capable version of Python and to run a couple of simple test examples.

All operating systems are welcome.

Where:

IMAS Aurora Lecture Theatre – it’s the big lecture theatre on the left as you walk into the waterfront building foyer – 20 Castray Esplanade, Battery Point, next to CSIRO.

When:

Friday 9th May, 9:15am to 10am.

Happy birthday BASIC!

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Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the BASIC programming language!

Happy birthday BASIC!

BASIC is the language that many started their adventures in scientific computing with and the current generation of Data Scientists owe it quite a lot of respect. Dartmouth college and the hall where the very first BASIC code was run are holding a series of celebrations to mark this special anniversary, many of which can be viewed online, and have put together a Docco on the history and impact of the language.

Check out the party here:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/basic.html

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IPython 2.0 has been released!

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IPython 2.0 is actually out now! Yay! (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython)
If you don’t believe me then just:

pip install --upgrade ipython

See what’s new at http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/2/whatsnew/version2.0.html

but the highlights are:

  • interactive widgets for the notebook
  • directory navigation in the notebook dashboard
  • persistent URLs for notebooks
  • a new modal user interface in the notebook
  • a security model for notebooks.

You can check out the example IPython notebooks http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/master/examples/Index.ipynb on nbviewer.

The guys and gals at IPython HQ are asking that we all please give it a test. They plan to have 2.0.1 released within a month – based on the initial feedback.

Bring on the bug reports!

Just like lego: the building blocks for ecosystem modelling.

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Last week we had the exquisite Jess Melbourne-Thomas talk to us about her experience making mathematical models of the real world from scratch.

Her slides, with a rather fitting title, can be viewed here: “Just like lego: the building blocks for ecosystem modelling”

 

Meeting on the 28th March

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Recently, I asked Jess to describe how one makes a model of the real world from scratch. Her answer was it’s ‘Just like lego’.

So, for our meeting this week we have the exquisite Jess Melbourne-Thomas on modelling the real world and answering my silly questions.

The rather fitting title of her talk is:  “Just like lego: the building blocks for ecosystem modelling”

— When & Where —

Friday 28th March at 9:15am
IMAS Aurora Lecture Theatre – it’s the big lecture theatre on the left as you walk into the waterfront building foyer – 20 Castray Esplanade, Battery Point,  next to CSIRO.

 

 

How to plot in Python

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Tired of those ugly plots? Want to learn how to make your figures look nicer?

Python (may be) the answer for you.

Last week (Fri 21st Mar 2014) the super science man Eric Oliver gave us an Oceanographers perspective of plotting in Python. Here are his resources and lecture slides, including a brief into ‘how to’ and then some demos for plotting typical oceanography data (time series, maps, T-S diagrams, etc…).

Eric’s Plotting in Python Slides.

Eric’s demos – this is a GitHub repo of code and examples.