Exploration Books are Jupyter Notebooks designed to teach physics, scientific methods, and introductory programming and data skills using QuarkNet's cosmic ray muon data. Notebooks are based on the Cosmic Ray e-Lab analysis algorithms and incorporate the Python Parsl parallel-scripting library to illustrate and facilitate the data workflow.
The Exploration Books are organized into sets that correspond to each of the Cosmic Ray e-Lab studies. 'Exploration_Flux', for example, first steps the user through the five individual scripts of the Flux Study:
1_WireDelay_script
2_Combine_script
3_SingleChannel_script
4_Sort_script
5_Flux_script
and then brings these data transformations together in the 6_Flux_Study notebook. This final notebook shows the user how the previous workflow scripts, taken as a whole, transforms raw cosmic ray data into the results generated by the Flux Study analysis.
The Exploration Books can be previewed on GitHub, but using them interactively as intended is best done through Binder or Colab. The notebook CosmicExplorationBooks/Exploration_Flux/1_WireDelay_script.ipynb, for example, can be accessed as
in Binder or
in Colab. To access other notebooks, replace '1_WireDelay_script.ipynb' with the name of the notebook you'd like to view.