Set up the Jupyter Notebook Environment

Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 5 min

Questions

• How to access simulation campaign output with python?

Objectives

• Set up interactive python platform with Jupyter-notebook.

Set up Jupyter-notebook

• on Google Colab (recommended):
  • copy this notebook to your own google drive.
  • run the first cell under “setup” to install uproot and xrootd (takes ~10 minutes)
• on your local environment:
  • if not yet, install uproot and xrootd with your local package manager, or, in jupyter-notebook, run

    !pip install xrootd
    !pip install uproot
    !pip install fsspec-xrootd
    !pip install particle ## optional
    

Note: we will be using other standard python packages such as numpy and pandas, which are pre-installed on Colab.

Key Points

• install uproot and xrootd