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Author  : Dazhong Xia <[email protected]>
Time    : 2024-12-12 15:21:58 +0000
Message : Merge pull request #4 from catalyst-cooperative/learner-profiles

Add learner profiles

learner-profiles.md

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+## 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
+

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