Week 12 - Scientific Viz

We talked a little bit about publishing, networks, and scientific viz.

Resources

• We’ll be using the Isolated Galaxy dataset (292 Mb) dataset for sci viz today
• We’ll also be using this brain scan data (72Mb)

Outline of Topics

This week our objectives will be very similar to last week: (1) we’ll introduce the concept of scientific visualization, (2) discuss the final project, Part 3, (3) play with yt in Python, (4) continue talking about methods to publish and share your visualizations.

• Lecture
  1. Scientific visualization - differences between info viz
  2. Scientific visualization - terms, uses, resources
• Programming
  1. yt in Python
  2. Publishing jupyter notebooks - more details
  3. JS scripting in Idyll webpages if we have time

Materials

• Lecture 12: (view, source, present)
• Notebook inClass_sciViz_week12: (view, download)
• Notebook prep_notebook_week12: (view, download)
• Notebook test_widgets_publishing: (view, download)