University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tag: jupyter notebook

Jupytext 2-way reformat of Jupyter notebooks

Jupytext can save and reformat Jupyter notebooks I was trying to test a Jupyter notebook from NCBI titled “Getting Started with NCBI Data in Python” (March 2, 2022) that is now on a “Binder” web page. However, the system kept stalling, but I was given access to the “raw” script. To my surprise the format …

Understanding Python installation mess

Summary Useful ramblings about the difficulties to understand Python installation on macOS. In this Tutorial-like post we’ll see: – Where is Python installed, and which version – Upgrading to a new Python.org version, without replacement of previous version – Adding an alternate Python: Anaconda – Could Docker help? Python mess? The problem with Python is …

R and Python workshops – Fall 2022

Summary Check the Calendar listing for data analysis workshops links and registration forms. Below are workshop dates for SSCC, Madison chapter of Software Carpentry, and Steenbock Library series. Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) The table below shows only the R and Python courses. See complete listing at https://sscc.wisc.edu/sscc_jsp/training/  Title Date Time Instructor Introduction to Python …

Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 4. Reproducible reports

The message The essential message is this: stop using Copy/Paste from one program to another (e.g. a chart from Excel to Word) as this is a manual process that is not reproducible and can easily get out of sync if new data need to be incorporated and the report reconstructed anew. The solution is to …