Training Workshop (19th and 20th September, 2018)

Content

A GitHub repository for source material relevant to the workshop can be found here:

https://github.com/Ouranosinc/pavics-ogc-training

Note that there is material already developed by the Birdhouse team: http://birdhouse-workshop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I think it would be good to integrate our own training material with the Birdhouse stuff.

Pre-requisites

• Trainees
  • Basic understanding of Python (2 or 3)
  • Anaconda/Miniconda3 (Easier to manage with PyCharm)
  • QGIS
  • PyCharm - Community Edition (see Training)
  • Laptop
• Ouranos
  • JupyterHub/JupyterLab instance with dependencies installed and account created for users
  • Notebooks with examples, tutorials and exercises
  • Test framework

Prep work

Mourad has already installed a JupyterHub server on Medus. OWSlib is installed, we can test stuff.

It would be good to send out a survey to get a sense of what participants are expecting. A link to one can be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SYen8EZ_WQpaUB5xMYDGRifOsJKwr7gbV4w-DbcrcIU/edit

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ASsWtblcKljKl76WnFDVnRJw_xn5rUmpn50WXZUJEBI/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZLY_xthawKyJPbD3HNpLw4kdXmca4BIRsBgFTtYxm1s/edit?usp=sharing

Day 1 AM: Climate informatics landscape [1h] (DH, TJS)

Provide an overview of what other institutions are doing to improve how climate data sets are accessed and processed. The presentation by Nils is a good starting point. See Climate Informatics Landscape in google slides.

Topics:

• Open Source/Data Movement (TJS)
• Copernicus
• NASA EDAS (TJS)
• NCAR (TJS)
• Pangeo
• NCI
• Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (TJS)
• GeoMet
• Intro to PAVICS: What do we gain from it?

Day 1 AM: Standards for interoperability - overview [1.5h] (TL, TJS)

You've got all these different initiatives going, and one approach to make those different solutions accessible is to provide them through standards. See Standards for Interoperability in google slides.

Topics:

• What's an API ? (TJS)
• The Open Geospatial Consortium: what is it, how does it work ? (TJS)
• WFS (TL)
• WMS (TL)
• WCS (TL)
• WPS (TL)

Day 1 PM: Hands-on exersices with clients [3h]

Practice accessing open climate resources (e.g. GeoMET) using different clients Write as Jupyter notebooks in the birdhouse-workshop repo. See https://github.com/bird-house/birdhouse-workshop/blob/master/tutorials/31_owslib/owslib-wps.ipynb

• OWSlib and console access (Python) (TL)
• QGIS (TJS, TL)
• OWSlib and Folium (TJS)
• List of exercises to complete in class [TL, TJS]

Day 1 Evening

• Organize social event (pick location, make reservations, etc).

Day 2 AM: Writing WPS processes with PyWPS [3h] (TJS)

Notebook ?

Topics:

• PyCharm installation (TJS)
• PyCharm and Conda training [40m] (TJS)
• Writing a process + exercises [30m]
  • Study simple processes [15m]
  • Process definition [5m]
  • Inputs definition [10m]
  • Output definition [5m]
  • Testing processes + exercises [30m]
• Development workflow (Git Training) [45m] (TJS)
  • GitHub intro
  • Submitting issues
  • Submitting a pull request to GitHub
  • Reviewing code
  • Automated testing tools (Continuous Integration)

Day 2 PM: PAVICS processes [1h]

Present a few examples of programmatic workflows (access, subset, indices, download, mapping). Create exercises based on that...

Hands-on exercises

• CDO processes (cat,...) (TL)
• ICCLIM processes (TL)
• Subsetting and averaging processes (TL)
• Access to ESGF catalog with pyesgf (DH)
• Run processes on nrcan data (TL)
• Run processes on EC station obs ???? (TL)

Day 2 PM: PAVICS user interface (TJS)

Topics:

• UI tour
• Search data
• Visualize NetCDF files
• Launch processes
• Workflows
• Monitor execution

Day 2 PM: Feedback (DH)

Collect feedback from participants

• SurveyMonkey? Google Form?