Stand Back!: Building a scientific computing lab on public clouds with Python
A presentation at PyTexas 2022 in in Austin, TX, USA by Laura Santamaria
@nimbinatus | #PyTexas Stand Back! Building a scientific computing lab on public clouds with Python *With apologies to XKCD and Randall Munroe Laura Santamaria Developer Advocate Photo by Angela Compagnone on Unsplash
@nimbinatus | #PyTexas There are clouds, and then there are clouds. (I used to study those.) Photo by Tom Barrett on Unsplash
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@nimbinatus | #PyTexas Science data analysis is hardwareintensive. Photo by Timur Garifov on Unsplash
@nimbinatus | #PyTexas Clouds
@nimbinatus | #PyTexas What’s with all of these names?!?
@nimbinatus | #PyTexas Infra-as-Code to the Rescue! Photo by Joshua Hibbert on Unsplash
@nimbinatus | #PyTexas Deciphering the Catalog Photo by Erol Ahmed on Unsplash
@nimbinatus | #PyTexas Public Data!
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@nimbinatus | #PyTexas Enough! Let’s go code!
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As a citizen scientist, you want to learn more, but you’re hitting the limits of your computer. In this live demo, we’ll use Python to build a data lab on a public cloud. We’ll use that infrastructure to explore public data, and we’ll learn a bit more about “the cloud” along the way.
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