Jupyter Tutorial

Javier Sanchez, David Kirkby, Phil Marshall, July 2016

Basic tutorial on how to use Jupyter notebooks for Astrophysics/Cosmology.

Get Started

Chose one of the following methods to access the tutorial:

• View the tutorial notebook on GitHub. This only requires a browser but does not allow you to edit and run code.

• Download the necessary files from https://goo.gl/3GYFTQ then expand the archive (zip or tar file):

  • tar -zxf v0.1.tar.gz or unzip v0.1.zip
  • cd JupyterTutorial ; jupyter notebook &
  • The notebook should open in a nearby browser window: click on TutorialJupyter.ipynb to launch the notebook.

• Clone the repository from github (requires that you have git installed):

  • git clone https://github.com/fjaviersanchez/JupyterTutorial.git
  • cd JupyterTutorial ; jupyter notebook &
  • The notebook should open in a nearby browser window: click on TutorialJupyter.ipynb to launch the notebook.

• Step through the tutorial notebook at

Requirements

You'll need to install all the packages listed in [requirements.txt](https://github.com/fjaviersanchez/JupyterTutorial/blob/master/requirements.txt):

pip install -r requirements.txt

These are:

seaborn
randomfield
bokeh
speclite
sklearn

All of which are very useful! -- The tutorial also depends on astropy but this is included in anaconda. Also, it is optional but encouraged to install healpy