Example files for 'Python for Managing Your Data'

This short Python course is taught during the British Society for Geomorphology's Windsor Workshop for PhD students, which is run annually at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK. For details of the 2018 workshop, see https://geomorphology.org.uk/workshops/windsor-postgraduate-workshop-2018

The aim of this course is to introduce the use of the Python programming language for tackling day-to-day data management tasks, the kind of thing that I and many other geomorphologists do regularly. This includes:

• format conversion, and data extraction and manipulation, to get data out of one software package and into another: e.g. to/from spreadsheets using .csv (“Comma Separated Value”) files, conversion between common GIS formats, etc.
• quick and easy data analysis
• mass production of many similar graphs.

The approach here is deliberately "work-a-day", not covering e.g. fancy user interfaces etc.

Dr David Favis-Mortlock | Honorary Research Associate

Environmental Change Institute | University of Oxford | www.eci.ox.ac.uk Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK david.favis-mortlock@ouce.ox.ac.uk | +44 (0)1865 275848