Tools

Agenda

• Last time...
• Schedule Overview
• Tools Introduction
  • Communicating: Gitter Chat
  • Writing: Markdown Syntax
  • Working: Colaboratory Platform
• Challenge Workflow
• Challenge One

What is Gitter?

• The place where you ask for help and help others!
• Free and Open source instant communication platform.
• Secure and decentralised conversation store.

What are notebooks?

• The place where you write and code in a reproducible way!
• A powerful free and open-source interactive web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain narrative text, live code, visualizations, but also allows you to do data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, data visualization, machine learning, and much more.
• Initially IPython then Jupyter/Colaboratory.

What is Markdown?

• The syntax you will use to write!
• An lightweight free and open source markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor.
• A syntax to annotate documents.

For next time

• Complete Challenge 1
• :fontawesome-solid-chalkboard-teacher: Live Demo
  • Book an appointment with the instructor.
  • Prepare a handout using the template and share it before the class meeting!
  • Prepare a 10 minutes live demo.
• Recommended Practice:
  • Getting Started
• Recommended Reading:
  • Perkel, J. M. (2018). Why Jupyter is data scientists' computational notebook of choice. Nature, 563(7732), 145-147.