[Bessig] Fwd: ipython notebook

[Erin Robinson]

Rich - Thanks!

Bessig - Rich is massively clued in and shared this about a year ago over
beers and pizza in Boulder. He's passed on a few more ipython notebook
links in the note below.

E

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Signell, Richard <rsignell at usgs.gov>
Date: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Bessig] ipython notebook
To: Erin Robinson <erinrobinson at esipfed.org>
Cc: Ted Habermann <thabermann at hdfgroup.org>


The IPython notebook is the coolest thing since the Mosaic web browser.

Check this this talk at Scipy last year (20 min):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwVvqwLDsJo

And here are a few examples of how I'm using it:
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/4251308
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/4740419
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/5092905

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Erin Robinson <erinrobinson at esipfed.org>
wrote:
> Rich -
>
> Do you know anything about ipython notebooks? I remember you telling Ted
and
> me about something python several months back.
>
> Thanks for helping me fill in the gap.
>
> Erin
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Anne Wilson <anne.wilson at lasp.colorado.edu>
> Date: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bessig] ipython notebook
> To: Davide Del Vento <ddvento at ucar.edu>, Neal McBurnett
> <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us>, "bessig at lists.esipfed.org"
> <bessig at lists.esipfed.org>
> Cc: Monte Lunacek <Monte.Lunacek at colorado.edu>
>
>
> Good news!  We have a volunteer to present iPython Notebook to us in June,
> Monte Lunacek from CU Research Computing (cc'ed here).  He says they have
> been using, teaching, and trying to promote the iPython Notebook to python
> users in research computing.  He has used it on their supercomputer, and
> says, "wow, parallel computing on a cluster from a web browser".
>
> But, neither of us knows anyone using it for Earth or space science. Does
> anyone out there know someone that is?  That could be a nice complement to
> the presentation.
>
> When I get a title and abstract from Monte I'll post the info on the
BESSIG
> web site.  Stay tuned.
>
> Anne
>
>
> On 4/18/13 11:15 AM, Davide Del Vento wrote:
>>
>> I'll think about it, but I'm not sure I am the right person for this
>> talk, since I'm just a naive user of the tool. Even more so because
>> ipython was born at CU and its main developer often comes to Boulder and
>> can provide much better talks than mine. I can introduce you guys to him
>> if you want to invite him and don't have his contact. But if myself is
>> the only option, and that is "better than nothing" then we may discuss.
>>
>> Moreover, Do note these meetups at CU, where the speaker always (or
>> almost always?) uses ipython notebook as a presentation tool:
>>
>>
http://www.meetup.com/University-of-Colorado-Computational-Science-and-Engineering/
>> (if anybody plans to go, do note that the Google map at the meetup.com
>> is very incorrect: check the CU map for the actual location of the UCB
>> Koelbel building!)
>> This speaker and I (plus a few others) would like to widen these python
>> talks to a broader community, and BESSIG may be interested in that as
>> well.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Davide Del Vento,
>> NCAR Computational & Information Services Laboratory
>> Consulting Services Software Engineer
>> http://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/uss/csg/
>> SEA Chair http://sea.ucar.edu/
>>
>> On 04/18/2013 09:35 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>> I like the idea!
>>>
>>> Is anyone out there interested in presenting iPython Notebook to us?
>>>
>>> Anne
>>>
>>> On 4/17/13 6:10 PM, Neal McBurnett wrote:
>>> If others are also interested, perhaps someone (you?) could do a
>>> presentation on it for BESSIG?   :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/
>>>>
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