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A small example package for the iceclassic challenge during MUDE course

Project description

iceclassic

Toolkit for exploring data.

Long-term plan: public PyPI package with tools for manipulating data easily.

Context

Primary use:

  • used in class settings as a demonstration tool
  • used by students to work on assignments
  • used in interactive TeachBooks pages
  • open source community for expanding applications

Related:

  • iceclassic documentation: Sphinx pages (numpy documentation style) that illustrates the package features only (TeachBook for application)
  • TeachBook that introduces the Ice Classic, the package and explores various science, engineering, programming, modelling concepts
  • Contributors should somehow be able to set up more complex analyses and share them with the community

Features

Highest level:

  • summarizes breakup record (and includes data in package) via ability to export data in many formats: as output (formatted tables, figures, etc) as well as in several ready-to-go data types (ndarray, dataframe, etc)
  • includes a short list of extremely simple models (e.g., linear regression, univariate probability distributions, etc)
  • facilitates exploration of modelling concepts (calibration, verification, validation)
  • standardizes the way a prediction is defined, presented, etc
  • let's one choose/explore assumption of "start date" for the year or "reference date"
  • let's one explore the concept of prediction, extrapolation, etc (i.e., which info do you include, prediction variables, etc)

Lower levels:

  • students will be asked to read documentation and read code explicitly to teach good practices for programming
  • if possible, consider usage of various data types as well as OOP versus functional paradigms
  • names of objects are chosen very carefully
  • Consider how decorators, BMI, etc, could be used to incorporate contributions and modularity
  • advanced visualization is supported by the package via the design and implementation, but not accomplished internally
  • figures must be handled carefully to ensure that best practices are illustrated; must be easy to produce and modify them

Implementation

  • pure Python package
  • minimize dependencies (limit to common tools like Numpy, Scipy, etc)
  • avoid large packages (import in webassembly should be fast)
  • consider adopting BMI, or related frameworks
  • object oriented, but not exclusively so
  • should come packaged with a set of essential data (e.g., breakup record, discharge, stage, temperature, precipitation, snowfall, etc)

Can create a second package for "heavy" stuff, if needed. For example, setting up and running models.

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