1. Applied Cyber Infrastructure Concepts Fall 2017
Will Computers Crash Genomics? Science Vol 331 Feb 2011
Nirav Merchant
CyVerse & Bio Computing
Eric Lyons CyVerse & Plant Sciences University of Arizona 1

2. Tasks for today Overview of Jupyter Jupyter UI and key features
Team project using Jupyter

3. What is Jupyter & Why use it ?
Jupyter and iPython history
REPL and Kernel concepts
Notebook, app, hub, narrative and other confusing terms
The Jupyter “Notebook” is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain
live code
equations,
visualizations and explanatory text
Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, machine learning and much more
Support for languages, sharing of notebooks, interactive widgets, significant support for ML and Data Science platforms.

4. Overview of UI http://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/ More intro
Walk through intro “Interface Tour” under help
Types of cells
Keyboard short cuts and tab completion
%lsmagic and %%bash fun

5. In class activity Work as a team (3 to 4)
Task: Take one of the API homework and create a notebook that allows you to specify multiple inputs e.g. if you looked something up for a zipcode modify it to take a list/array of multiple zipcodes.
Hint for working with json use pandas read_json
Put the notebook in git hub and show it nbviewer
Make sure you have nice documentation and explanation for your notebook content