From 1ea0b4d19af120d108f11b2304444330abad2b61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: GitHub Actions Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:07:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] differences for PR #4 --- learner-profiles.md | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- md5sum.txt | 2 +- 2 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/learner-profiles.md b/learner-profiles.md index 434e335..c62fa7c 100644 --- a/learner-profiles.md +++ b/learner-profiles.md @@ -1,5 +1,75 @@ --- -title: FIXME +title: Learner Profiles --- -This is a placeholder file. Please add content here. + +## Sparky Watts + +#### Profile + +Sparky Watts is a first-year PhD student in an interdisciplinary energy studies department. +As she's preparing for her qualifying exams, Sparky is looking at the available energy +data sources that she could use for her doctoral research. + +A few years ago, a postdoctoral scholar in her research lab worked on an analysis of hourly +demand data published by the EIA. With a clear research question in mind, Sparky is +interested in building on the postdoc's data cleaning scripts and updating them to +include newer years of data, but the code is scattered over several Jupyter Notebooks +without much documentation. None of the other lab members remember much about the +project. + +Though Sparky has taken a Python Software Carpentry workshop before and done some coding +using Pandas in Jupyter Notebooks, she's not quite sure where to start. The data is +larger than other datasets she's worked with before, and she can't even open it in a +spreadsheet to look at a few rows without Excel crashing. Inspired by her experiences +of looking at this postdoc's code, she's hoping to write software that others will be +able to use and adapt for their own work long after she's left the lab. + +#### Background knowledge and skills: + + Has energy domain knowledge and a research area in mind + Recently attended the Data Analysis and Visualization in Python for Ecologists workshop + Can install software using GUI’s + Has recently used Jupyter Notebooks and Pandas to analyze tabular data + +#### Goals: + + Adapt existing cleaning scripts to run more reproducibly on an open-source dataset + Analyze data that's too big to work with in a spreadsheet + Write and document code in a way that others can build on in the future + +## Gene Rator + +#### Profile + +Gene Rator is a postdoctoral researcher studying the carbon intensity of electricity +production. + +He writes his own analysis pipelines using Python scripts that he’s developed over the +years and is comfortable transforming data using Pandas. + +Recently, Gene sent his scripts to a collaborator at another research institute, who +struggled to run the pipeline because it’s heavily tied to Gene's own research +environment. + +Gene needs to publish his own pipeline to both share his work and fulfill publication +requirements. More worryingly, he recently tried re-running the pipeline after making +some small tweaks in response to feedback from a collaborator, and got some unexpected +results - something might be going wrong somewhere in his pipeline, but it's hard to +tell where. + +Gene needs strategies to debug his existing workflow, and a way to effectively share his +work with collaborators and the public. + +#### Background knowledge and skills: + + Proficient in writing Python scripts using Pandas + Uses Git to manage his code locally + Can install software using conda and write his own environment files + +#### Goals: + + Debug unexpected problems in existing pipeline + Specify his pipeline’s software requirements so that others can run it + Publish his pipeline on his Github repository for broader research use + diff --git a/md5sum.txt b/md5sum.txt index c2016f4..eac1ad8 100644 --- a/md5sum.txt +++ b/md5sum.txt @@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ "instructors/instructor-notes.md" "cae72b6712578d74a49fea7513099f8c" "site/built/instructor-notes.md" "2023-03-16" "learners/reference.md" "1c7cc4e229304d9806a13f69ca1b8ba4" "site/built/reference.md" "2023-03-16" "learners/setup.md" "5456593e4a75491955ac4a252c05fbc9" "site/built/setup.md" "2024-01-26" -"profiles/learner-profiles.md" "60b93493cf1da06dfd63255d73854461" "site/built/learner-profiles.md" "2022-04-22" +"profiles/learner-profiles.md" "c27972a33f7b3e682f875330515f7aab" "site/built/learner-profiles.md" "2024-12-11"