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Using JupyterLab

Overview

Teaching: 0 min
Exercises: 0 min
Questions

  • How can I use JupyterLab for Climate Data Analysis

Objectives

  • Learn key features of JupyterLab to use for Climate Data Analysis

JupyterLab (Jupyter Notebook)

JupyterLab allows us to create Jupyter Notebooks which can contain a combination of code, figures, links, Formatted text, and latex LaTex equations.

It is also a web-based programming interface for mutiple languages (e.g. Python, R, Matlab). We will use it as our Python programming interface.

Because it also allows figures, links, test, and equations in addition to code, it is very useful for use in research allowing all your information related to your research to be kept together rather than in separate documents.

Creating and working with a Jupyter Notebook

First, let’s create a new Jupyter Notebook by clicking File->New->Noteboo or clicking on Python 3 This creates a new notebook with a default title Untitled.ipynb or Untitled#.ipynb. Note that Jupyter Notebooks end in .ipynb

Change the name of your notebook to PracticeNotebook.ipynb by clicking File->Save Notebook As

The rectangular box in your notebook is called a cell it contains a block of code, Markdown, or Raw text. What a cell contains is indicated in te menu above.

To determine what kind of Code a cell contains for a given notebook, the kernel is shown in the upper right. This notebook contains Python 3 code.

What is Markdown?

Markdown is a formatting language that allows you to provide formatted text (e.g. bold, italics, links, different sized font, and LaTeX equations.

As an example, let’s type the following in a cell and change the cell to Markdown:

CLIM 680 Practice Notebook

by Kathy Pegion

for class

We can insert LaTeX equations

The equation for the mean is given by: \begin{equation} \mu_n=\sum_{i=1}^{N}X \end{equation}

The analysis in this notebook follows, Pegion et al. 2019

We can make a numbered list; This notebook will:

  1. First thing
  2. Second thing
  3. Third thing

We can make a bulleted list. Important things for this notebook are:

  • something important
  • something else important

Key Points

  • JupyterLab can be used as a Python programming environment

  • You can create notebooks with codes, figures, links, text, and equations

  • You can run your codes in JupyterLab cell by cell

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