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Welcome to Earth Data Science and Machine Learning Course Series

The Interactive Computing Environment

Overview
Intro to JupyterLab and Colab
Intro to Unix
Intro to Git
Assignment 1: Files, Git, and GitHub

Data

Overview
Formats and metadata
Loading data
Assignment 2: Explore a climate dataset

The Core Python Language

Overview
Python Fundamentals
Python Functions and Classes
Organizing Python Projects
Assignment 3: Core Python

Scientific Python Fundamentals

Overview
NumPy and Matplotlib
More Matplotlib
Assignment 4a: NumPy and Matplotlib
Assignment 4b: More Matplotlib

Pandas

Overview
Pandas Fundamentals
Pandas: Groupby
Assignment 5a: Pandas Fundamentals with Earthquake Data
Assignment 5b: Pandas Groupby with Hurricane Data

Xarray

Overview
Xarray Fundamentals
Xarray Advanced
Assignment 6: Xarray with Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data

Project

Final Project Requirements

Appendix: Further Topics

A quick tour of further topics in geoscience data science
Going Further with Computing

Repository
Open issue

Index

By Dhruv Balwada & Kara Lamb

© Copyright 2026, Dhruv Balwada & Kara Lamb.