"WhiteBoard" Topics

[edmondb]

On the final day (Friday, June 12) of the 2015 GSFC Python Bootcamp, we are willing to address those topics that interest you, the students.

Please comment on this issue with any topics you would like us to discuss (with details if applicable) during these sessions and we will attempt to cover all requests if possible.

[kialio]

Can you do my analysis for me?

[RaiMunoz]

A topic that I believe would be interesting to cover would be parsing and reading binary data as well as sending them in data packets with python. (personal interest would be doing this in the ccsds file format) The reason why I wanted to ask is due to interest in being able to read and interpret these packets quickly for GPS or accelerometer data.

[rohanb2018]

I would really be interested in learning more about embedding C/C++ code into Python, as I am specifically interested in integrating C kernel code with other Python modules.

[dobler123]

I would like to learn more about using Python to interact with SQL databases like Postgres. I can already see how useful Python is for massaging data and I would like to link up a database client like psql or the client library directly with Python so it can do reporting/client interaction.

[megmeehan]

Same request as RaiMunoz. I'd like to see an example of reading in a binary of ccsds formatted packets that are then selectively parsed by APID. I'd also be interested in how to efficiently handle this using irregularly sized/formed packets that have to be bit-busted. (i.e. we get length fields in a lot of our data and have a non-uniform pattern of data points within the packet payloads that I typically work with and the subfields within each of these data points are usually a few bits within a byte...; I can show you a sample of what I mean if this helps). Any hints or tips for working with time codes would also be helpful. Thanks!

[kab1976]

I'd like to learn how to create web pages in python.

[roosdw]

Reading in netcdf files using Python, and how to set up your system to do this. I suppose it is really easy to read in netcdf files once you have all the appropriate things installed, but I've looked into this before and never managed to set up my system (nasa computer, so not all software/ways of doing things is/are supported) in such a way it would actually read in netcdf files. Any help would be greatly appreciated :).

[SirBedevere]

Most app. examples are centered on post processing data. I would like to see data acquisition using Python. I'd like to see a Python application that runs in its own GUI window, is event driven with user interface I/O (buttons, graphs, numeric and string I/O, etc.) that is interactive, and continuously acquires data from a GPIB or Serial/USB instrument using pyVISA.

[GammaRayWurst]

LOLPython. Wait we already made this joke last year. Disregard. Unless someone actually wants to do it.

[noroozian]

I would like to see some examples of data acquisition over GPIB or serial port connected to an instrument (like a network analyzer or analog/digital converter).

[ebo]

On Jun 9 2015 10:24 AM, ietapi wrote:

LOLPython. Wait we already made this joke last year. Disregard.
Unless someone actually wants to do it

If you are going to do LOLPython, then you might want to add XKCD
plotting functionality to it:

http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/07/10/XKCD-plots-in-matplotlib/