Resources of Heliophysics Research

Below are some resources currated by the mentors of the Helio HackWeek 2020 for use by all.

Contents

1. HackWeek QuickLinks
2. Introductory Programming Material
3. Intermediate Scientific Programming Material
4. Machine Learning Resources

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Recent & In the News

• (Free; Online) Helio Hackweek 2020 Collection of Python Classes by Jules Kouatchou, ASTG
• FDL Geoeffectiveness Project to Predict Space Weather Impacts

Quick Links

Main Website | GitHub | Schedule | Wiki

Training Sessions:

• ASTG - Google Colab | Pandas: Notebook | Recording by Jules Kouatchou, ASTG
• NVIDIA - Keras/Tensorflow: Slides | Recording by David Hall
• NVIDIA - CUDA/CuPy: Slides | Recording by Matthew Nicely
• NVIDIA - RAPIDS/Dask: Slides | Recording by Zahra Ronaghi

Introductory Programming Material

• Python Programming
  • (Free; Online) ASTG Courses - Intro to Python (requires Gmail account)
  • (Free; Online) Official Python Docs
  • (Free; Online) Learn X in Y minutes
  • (Free; Online) The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
  • ($29.99; Online) Learn Python 3 the Hard Way
  • (Free; Online) Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
• Jupyter Notebooks
  • (Free; Online) ASTG Courses - Starting Point (requires Gmail account)
  • (Free; Online) Jupyter Notebook Official Docs
  • (Free; Online) Real Python
• Git/GitHub
  • (Free; Online) ASTG Courses - Starting Point (requires Gmail account)
  • (Free; Online) Git - Documentation
  • (Free; Online) GitHub for Beginners: Don't Get Scared, Get Started
  • (Free; Online) GitHub Features
  • (Free; Online) GitHub Guide by Karl Broman
• Programming Practices
  • (Free; Online) ASTG Courses - Python Coding Standards
  • (Free; Online) Python Package: Black
  • (Free; Online) PyCodeStyle
  • (Free; Online) The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
• Linux/Unix OS terminal/command-line
  • (Free; Online) Unix/Linux: What is a Shell?
  • (Free; Online) Profiles and RC Files
• Virtual Environments
  • (Free; Online) Real Python: Python Virtual Environments - A Primer
  • (Free; Online) The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
• Vizualizations
  • (Free; Online) matplotlib
  • (Free; Online) PyViz

Intermediate Scientific Programming Material

• Numerical Modeling in Python
  • (Free; Online) PyCFD: a Pythonic introduction to computational fluid dynamics
  • (Free; Online) CFD Python: 12 steps to Navier-Stokes
• API Development in Python
  • (Free; Online) Designing a RESTFul API with Python and Flask
• Frontend Development in Python
  • (Free; Online) Flask
  • (Free; Online) Django
  • (Free; Online) Flask Mega-Tutorial
  • ($39; Online) The New and Improved Flask Mega-Tutorial
• Package Development in Python
  • (Free; Online) Python Packaging User Guide
• Python Programming with Databases
  • (Free; Online) PostgreSQL/psycopg2
  • (Free; Online) MongoDB/PyMongo

Machine Learning Resources

Concepts:

• (Free; Online) Machine Learning from Scratch
• (Free; Online) How to prepare your career for artificial intelligence driven automation
• (Free; Online) A visual introduction to machine learning
• (Free; Online) Machine Learning Mastery

Programming/Use:

• (Free; Online) Machine Learning, Statistics, and Data Mining for Heliophysics by Monica Bobra and James Mason
• (Free; Online) Neural Networks and Deep Learning by Michael Nielsen
• (Free; Online) Python Data Science Handbook: Chapter 5 - Machine Learning by Jake VanderPlas
  • Resources
• (Free; Online) The Difference Between, AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
• (Free; Online) Deep Learning with Python by François Chollet
  • Book
• (Free; Online) Deep Learning for Science School 2019 Hosted by Computing Sciences at Berkeley Lab
  • DL4SCI 2020; More Advanced
• (Free; Online) Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation by Christopher Olah
• (Free; Online) Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift by Sergey Ioffe and Christian Szegedy
• (Free; Online) JAX: Training a Simple Neural Network, with tensorflow/datasets Data Loading

Machine Learning Python Programming

• (Free; Online) TensorFlow
  • Tutorials
• (Free; Online) PyTorch - Start Locally
  • Tutorials
  • Documentation
• (Free; Online) SunPy - Examples Gallery
• (Free; Online) HelioPy - Examples Gallery
• (Free; Online) Jax

GPU Programming

• (Free; Online) RAPIDS - Docs
• Cuda:
  • (Free; Online) NVIDIA: Cuda Python Programming
  • Intro Cuda
  • Cuda refresher/Getting started with Cuda
  • Grid-Stride Loops
• (Free; Online) CuPy GTC Fall Code - Matthew Nicely
  • ($90; Online) Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA Python
  • (Free; Online) rapidsai/cusignal
• Numba:
  • (Free; Online) ASTG Courses - Numba (requires Gmail account)
  • Thread Positioning on GPU with Numba
• Princeton - GPU Programming Intro

Miscellaneous

• (Free; Online) Machine Learning for Software Engineers by Nam Vu
• (Free; Online Journal) Machine Learning Research Should Be Clear, Dynamic and Vivid. Distill Is Here to Help.
  • Suggestion: Feature Visualization - How neural networks build up their understanding of images by Christopher Olah, Alexander Mordvintsev, and Ludwig Schubert
• (Free; Online) HelioAnalytics: Heliophysics + Machine Learning + Statistics + Information Design by The Center for HelioAnalytics
  • Resources
• (Free; Online) Photutils: Python package for detecting and performing photometry of astronomical sources.