DASP 2024 Student Day Resources

All tutorials can be run in Google Colab without the need for installing a Python distribution.

If you are unfamiliar with Python and Programming have a look at the Google Colab Lectures for Starting in Python and the Python Tutorials.

If you want to run the tutorials locally be sure to have Python installed and follow the instructions for installing the necessary dependencies (GMAG, aurora-asi-lib, themis-imager-readfile, rego-imager-readfile, trex-imager-readfile, etc.).

Lectures

Speaker	Topic
Dr. David Milling	Ground-based Magnetometers
Dr. Emma Spanswick	All Sky Imagers
Dr. Kathryn McWilliams	SuperDARN

Labs

Topic	Resources
GMAG	DASP ReadMe
GMAG
GMAG	Local Notebook
aurora-asi-lib	DASP ReadMe
aurora-asi-lib
aurora-asi-lib	Local notebook
UofC ASIs
UofC ASIs	Local notebooks

Exercises

Topic	Links
GMAG
aurora-asi-lib	Colab
UofC ASIs

Python Resources

Below are a number of helpful resources for getting started with Python and Python in Heliophyics (focussing on solar physics and magnetospheric physics).

Installing Python

There are several ways to install python; however, the easiest way, with the most support for science is Anaconda.

• Installing on Windows
• Installing on macOS
• Installing on Linux
• Updating from older versions

Colab Lectures for Starting in Python

Below are a set of introductory lectures to help get started in Python and Python in Heliophysics.

Topic	Colab
Intro to Python
Control Flow
Packages and Environments
Scientific Data Structures
Heliophysics in Python

Tutorials

• Scientific Python Lectures
• Learning Scientific Programming with Python
• Problem Sovling in Python
• NASA Goddard ASTG Python Courses
• NASA GOddard Accelerated 1-Day Python Class for Programmers
• Python in Heliophysics Summer School

Heliophysics Resources

• Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC)
• Machine Learning, Statistics, and Data Mining for Heliophysics

Articles

• Mathesaurus - a thesaurus of Mathematical Languages including Python, R, IDL, Matlab
• 6 Best Python IDEs and Text Editors for Data Science Applications

Plotting in Python

• Matplotlib
  • Getting Started
  • Plot Types
  • Tutorials
  • Cheat Sheets
  • Gallery/Examples
• Free Code Camp - Matplotlib
• Goddard ASTG Python Tutorials - Matplotlib
• Goddard ASTG Python Tutorials - Visualization
  • Notebooks on Bokey, Cartopy, matplotlib, seaborn
• Problem Solving with Python - Matplotlib
• SciPy-Lectures Matplotlib
• SciPython Matplotlib Examples