Teaching Demonstration - Bren 2023

📚 About

This repo contains materials for my teaching demo at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. This demo class covers basic concepts about the NetCDF data format and the Python package xarray.

Main files in this repo:

• xarray_demo.ipynb:

  This is the notebook we will run. It has a mix of blank and populated code cells for demonstration purposes. We will use this notebook to create an xarray.DataSet based on the exercise we solved during the conceptual section of the class.

• xarray_demo_BLANK.ipynb

  Same as xarray_demo, but with no code written in it. We would use this notebook during a class for students to code along.

• xarray_demo_KEY.ipynb

  Same as xarray_demo, but has all the code written in it. This kind of notebook with complete text and code would serve as notes for students.

• netcdf_demo_slides.pdf

  These are the lecture slides for the portion of the teaching demo covering NetCDF (covered before going into the xarray notebook).

➡️ CLICK THE BINDER BUTTON TO RUN THE DEMO NOTEBOOK ⬅️

To run the teaching demo notebook just click on the Binder link below. No need to install anything!

✏️ References

This notebook is based on a workshop I designed about Data Structures and Formats for Large Data for the NSF Arctic Data Center course on Scalable and Computationally Reproducible Approaches to Arctic Resarch.

✨See the complete lesson on NetCDF and xarray HERE.✨

🤓 Further Reading

• The xarray in 45 minutes tutorial is great to reinforce and get a deeper understanding of core xarray concepts.

• The xarray API references

• Gallery of Pangeo projects using xarray

• The NetCDF documentation

• NASA's review of the NetCDF data format