Introduction to Scientific Computing using DesignSafe JupyterHub

About the Webinar

DesignSafe developed and maintains the CyberInfrastructure for the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure, NHERI, program. This webinar series covers the basics of scientific computing using the DesignSafe JupyterHub. The DesignSafe Data Depot contains more than 1 PB of data related to natural hazards. The DesignSafe JupyterHub facilitates interaction with the data in the cloud without requiring users to download large datasets.

This webinar will demonstrate how to access published datasets in the Data Depot through the JupyterHub, using an earthquake ground motion dataset as an example. We clean the data using Pandas, plot desired quantities using Matplotlib, and perform numerical computing using Numpy. This webinar will be followed by a second that builds upon the first by applying advanced regression and machine learning methods to the dataset.

Presenter

Dr. Scott J. Brandenberg | Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles.

Scott J. Brandenberg is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a co-PI for the DesignSafe project. His expertise is in the area of geotechnical earthquake engineering.