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Update dates in notebooks, set Colab as default.
bzrudski Mar 6, 2026
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Make README formatting consistent with other workshops.
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Update slides.
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Add outline document.
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Remove reference to removed section on environments.
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Fix missing word in a sentence on package imports.
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Add a compact version with shorter explanations.
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Add link to compact notebook.
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11 changes: 6 additions & 5 deletions Exercises/scripts/DataProcessingPython.ipynb
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"source": [
"# Data Processing in Python\n",
"\n",
"QLS-MiCM Workshop - November 18, 2025\n",
"QLS-MiCM Workshop - March 11, 2026\n",
"\n",
"Benjamin Z. Rudski, PhD Candidate, Quantitative Life Sciences, McGill University\n",
"\n",
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"metadata": {},
"outputs": [],
"source": [
"using_colab = False\n",
"using_colab = True\n",
"\n",
"if using_colab:\n",
" !wget https://github.com/QLS-MiCM/DataProcessingInPython/archive/refs/heads/main.zip\n",
" !unzip main.zip\n",
" base_dir = \"Data-Processing-in-Python-main/Exercises/\"\n",
" base_dir = \"DataProcessingInPython-main/Exercises/\"\n",
"else:\n",
" base_dir = \"../\""
]
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"\n",
"An example is [CuPy](https://cupy.dev/), which allows performing NumPy and SciPy operations on the GPU. This package **does not** work on all systems. It requires an NVIDIA GPU and CUDA, which is not available on macOS. In these cases, it's very important to read the [installation instructions](https://docs.cupy.dev/en/stable/install.html).\n",
"\n",
"If you have both `conda` and `pip` installed, the `conda` [documentation](https://conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html) recommends trying to install packages with `conda` first. You can easily search on https://anaconda.org to see if the package is available. Installing packages with `conda` makes it easier to manage multiple *environments* (which we'll discuss soon)."
"If you have both `conda` and `pip` installed, the `conda` [documentation](https://conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html) recommends trying to install packages with `conda` first. You can easily search on https://anaconda.org to see if the package is available. Installing packages with `conda` makes it easier to manage multiple *environments*."
]
},
{
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"\n",
"We've seen what packages are and how to install them, but now how do we use them?\n",
"\n",
"To use a package, we have to import it, just like we import a module. Since we use a lot of functions from a package, we often it a shorter name when we import it. Here's the syntax for doing this:\n",
"To use a package, we have to import it, just like we import a module. Since we use a lot of functions from a package, we often give it a shorter name when we import it. Here's the syntax for doing this:\n",
"\n",
"```python\n",
"import package_name as short_name\n",
"```\n",
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