Week 4: Generating Reports, featuring Jupyter Notebooks and LaTeX

• Reports with Jupyter Notebooks
• Introduction to LaTeX
• LaTeX Essentials

Learning Outcomes

• Familiarity with using Markdown cells within Jupyter Notebooks

  • Why should I only use Jupyter notebooks for final reports (not as steps within the pipeline)?

  • Familiarity with nbconvert to convert notebooks to scripts, HTML, PDFs

  • Using nbconvert to execute a notebook from the command line. (Why would we want to do this?)

  • How to fit a notebook into the PyDoit workflow? (Use the workflow set up in my blank_project GitHub template repo.)

Agenda

Discuss Final Project:

• Final Project grading rubric is not yet available, but the old version is available here.

Finish up items from Week 3:

• Introduction to “Chartbook Project” Template

• Discuss structure of Financial Time Series Forecasting Repository

• Discuss simplified structure of the FTSFR project: ftsfr

  • Discuss how Chartbook pipelines and catalogs help organize this. Demo the catalog and the data load.

TA Session on Friday

• Introduction to LaTeX

• Basic familiarity with LaTeX.

  • Ability to edit and compile LaTeX templates in blank_project repo using TeXworks (which is included with TeX Live).

  • Understanding of how to automate the inclusion of an image or table into a LaTeX document.