- Introduction to git, conda, jupyter notebooks: https://github.com/UCLAMLRG/Basics
- Introduction to SciServer (see below)
- Sign up for slack channel at https://uclaml.slack.com
SciServer.org is a computational cloud environment that Johns Hopkins University (IDIES group) has generously allowed us to use for our projects. Jupyter notebooks/terminal are the interfaces to access datasets such as SDSS. Here's how to clone this github repo into your SciServer account:
- Create an account at alpha02.sciserver.org and go to Compute
- Create a new container (Docker container), choose the type to be Python, and a container Jupyter notebook interface will be created.
- On the right hand side, go to New-> terminal and a black terminal interface will appear.
- In this order in the terminal, type each of these at a time (separated by a comma) and hit enter:
- ls, cd home, ls, cd idies, cd workspace, cd persistent, ls, git clone url-of-git-repository-here
- the repository will now be in your folder.
NOTE: Only data stored in persistent will be saved!