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November 29, 2022

GeoCAT tutorials

The GeoCAT team has launched “GeoCAT Tutorials” to provide its community with guided teaching as well as self-taught content. The tutorial materials can be accessed via GitHub repository; by cloning and setting up a local configuration as described in the repository home, or through Binder environment right away online! ...

September 30, 2022

Visualizing wildfire data using VAPOR

On October 14, 2020, the East Troublesome Wildfire ignited. It burnt 193,812 acres over the course of 48 days. Between October 20-23 the wildfire rapidly intensified, exploding from 18,550 acres to 187,964 acres in size. ...

August 1, 2022

Project Pythia Hackathon Introduces Cookbooks

Project Pythia expanded its Scientific Python Ecosystem educational content during a successful hackathon with the introduction of Cookbooks. Members of the Project Pythia team gathered in Boulder, CO and remotely for a hybrid hacakthon in late June 2022 to develop content and infrastructure for a new pillar of our learning resources called “Cookbooks. ...

July 26, 2022

UXarray ready for unstructured grids data analysis!

Project Raijin realizes the unstructured grids data recognition and analysis through our recently created, open-source, Python-based package, UXarray. We are thrilled to announce that UXarray has made its official debut in June, 2022 via Conda and PyPI releases. ...