ASTG Python Training Materials

This repository contains all the Python materials (mainly Jupyter notebook) we use for our training courses. They are meant to introduce the Python programming language (Python for Beginners) and Python related tools for Data Science, Machine Learning, Earth Science, Geospatial Analysis, etc. We do our best to make the materials self-contained. However, a few topics require large data files that only available during live presentations.

Here is a list of topics/tools we have materials on.

Jupyter Notebook

• Introduction to Jupyter Notebook

Version Control

• Introduction to Version Control with Git
• Creating and Maintaining Git Repositories with Github

Python for Beginners

• Basic Data Types
• Data Structures
• Conditional Statements
• For Loops and While Loops
• Functions and Modules
• Basic Manipulation of Text Files
• Manipulating YAML Files

Data Science

• datetime Module
• NumPy
• Visualization with Matplotlib
• Pandas
• Web Scraping (Requests, BeautifulSoup)

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

• Basic Concepts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
• Overview of Artificial Neural Networks
• Exploratory Data Analysis with Python
• AI/ML Modeling with Scikit-Learn
  • Regression problem
  • Image classification problem
• AI/ML Modeling with TensorFlow
  • Logistic regression classifier problem
  • Regression problem
  • Image classification problem
• AI/ML Modeling with PyTorch
  • Logistic regression classifier problem
  • Regression problem
  • Image classification problem
• Modeling with DINOv2

Best Practices

• Python Coding Standards
• Object Oriented Programming
• Exception Handling
• Packaging and Deployment

Optimization

• List Comprehension
• Optimizing Python Applications
• Speeding your Application with Numba
• Scaling your Application with Dask

NVDIA RAPIDS

• CuPy
• CuDF
• cuML
• Numba

Programming Tools

• Python Decorators
• Passing Parameters to Applications (argparse, click, configparser)

Visualization Tools

• Cartopy
• HoloViews
• GeoViews

Tools for Earth Science

• Manipulating Scientific Data Format Files
  • netCDF4
  • h5py
  • pyhdf
• Xarray

Tools for Geospacial Analysis

• Shapely
• GeoPandas
• MovingPandas

Other Topics

• SciPy
• Serialization and Deserialization with pickle and json