Welcome to Week 6!

Welcome to Week 6 of the Earth Analytics Bootcamp course! This week, you will learn about a commonly used data structure in Python for scientific data: numpy arrays. You will write Python code to import text data (.txt and .csv) as numpy arrays and to manipulate, summarize, and plot data in numpy arrays.

Learning Objectives

After completing the lessons for 6, you will be able to:

• Define a data structure in Python (e.g. lists, numpy arrays)
• Explain the differences between Python lists and numpy arrays
• Write Python code to import text data (.txt and .csv) into numpy arrays
• Write Python code to manipulate, summarize, and plot data in numpy arrays

Homework Assignment

Click here to view the GitHub Repo with the assignment template.

Earth Data Science Textbook Readings

Please read the following chapters to support completing this week’s assignment:

• Numpy arrays in Python.