IMPRS-gBGC course 'Python' 2021

1. General information

Date: September 13 - 17, 2021
Starting time: 10.00 am
Approximate end: 3.00 pm (except the first day which will end by noon)
Place: lecture hall , MPI for Biogeochemistry, Jena
Instructors: Sujan Koirala, Jacob Nelson, Alex Winkler
Category: Skill course
Credit points: 0.2 per course day
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2. COVID-19

Planning of the course is preliminary. This course is planned to be an in-person course. Depending on the restrictions on that date, the course might needs to be altered.

3. Concept

This course addresses everybody who is interested in learning Python from scratch. The course is organized in three parts: "Basics" on day one and two, "Advanced Analysis with Python" on day three and "Data Visualisation" on day four. Please sign up for the modules that are of interest for you. If you have any question ie. regarding the level of detail feel free to address the instructors.

4. Agenda

Day	Content
September 13	Setup	Sujan Koirala
13:00	Installation and package management Installation Package management with Anaconda Environments Integrated development environment - spyder
September 14	Python basics and data handling	Sujan Koirala
10:00	Data types Integers, floats, strings, boolean Lists and dictionaries Arrays Data Cubes Mathematical operations in NumPy Arrays Matrices Masks I/O Read data Save data
September 15	Data Visualization	Alex Winkler
10:00	Concepts behind Data Visualization MatPlotLib Basic plots Figure settings Geographical/Map plotting Cartopy Statistical analysis and plotting Seaborn Interactive Visualization Bokeh
September 16	Python programming	Sujan Koirala
10:00	Structure of a Python Program Writing first code Good practices Defining functions Writing your own module day ends at lunch
September 17	Advanced Analysis with Python	Jacob Nelson
10:00	Statistical Analysis SciPy Curve fitting/Least squares Machine Learning Scikit Learn

5. What you need to prepare

Bring a laptop.
Please also make sure that you can access the internet via WLAN (BGC-users, if you have a BGC-account; BGC-guests and eduroam if you don't have an account).