Notebook aspect

The Notebook aspect enables scientific analysis in a web browser by running Jupyter Notebooks and shell scripts. The Notebook aspect is powered by JupyterLab.

Most RSP users will find Jupyter Notebooks to be the most efficient and powerful way to interact with the LSST data sets.

Always save and shutdown all notebooks and log out of JupyterLab when done with a work session. This is important to preserve resources for other users and to ensure re-entry to the RSP in a known state every time. To help users avoid issues with stale instances, sessions will be automatically shut-down after 5 days of inactivity, or after 25 days.

Conceptual overview

The Notebook aspect offers a variety of functionality, including:

• programmatic access and analysis of LSST data

• Jupyter Notebooks

• terminal and iPython interface

• stable, Python-based software environment

• pre-installed LSST Science Pipelines

• shared computational resources and disk space

User guide

• Start and stop a server
• Using Jupyter Notebooks
  • Tutorial Notebooks
• Using the JupyterLab terminal
• Using the Science Pipelines
  • Using the LSST Science Pipelines in the terminal
  • Using the LSST Science Pipelines in notebooks (LSST kernel)
  • Developing LSST Science Pipelines packages in the Notebook Aspect
• Configuring the Notebook Aspect
  • Configuring Git for GitHub
  • Configuring your shell
  • Configure the shell environment for notebook kernels
  • Install packages in user environment
  • Customizing user interface appearance
• Frequently Asked Questions

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