Py:python-ViCE-2015
iPython notebooks for Data Analysis and Visualisation: a ViCE 2015 workshop
This page is intended to have downloadable resources to support the 2015 Variety in Chemistry Education and Physics Higher Education Conference workshop, as well as guidance on how to install scientific python onto your own computer.
Abstract
IPython notebooks for data analysis and visualization
João Pedro Malhado, Clyde Fare, Andrew McKinley, Michael Bearpark
Imperial College London
This workshop is based on a course on data analysis and visualisation taught at the Chemistry Department of Imperial College London as part of the first year undergraduate curriculum. The purpose of the course is to introduce the basic data analysis techniques required to interpret experimental (or otherwise) data collected in the laboratory, along with introducing the IPython notebook as an electronic, multi-media, interactive computing notebook that students are encouraged to use throughout their degree.
Whilst the focus of the course is not computer programming, it could serve as a pre-introduction to the subject. It introduces variables, data structures in the form of arrays, functions, and more generally a computing platform.
The course was designed as a series of self-learning interactive exercises using IPython notebooks. The first three notebooks introduce concepts interactively while the two exercise notebooks develop problem solving based on these concepts. The course material can be found at: [1]
The conference workshop will be a session encompassing an adumbrated version of the key parts of this student class. This will be a hands-on session for participants to explore the possibilities of this new notebook technology and how to use it in a teaching environment.
(Participants should bring or have access to a computer with the Scientific Python installed – installations instructions will be circulated prior to the conference.)
