This poster presents work by CMSETech Intern, Ahsa Shekar and her work on finding ways to make Jupyter More accessible.

Abstract

Jupyter is an open-source programming environment that uses "literate programming" by combining documentation, coding and visualization into one file format. The Jupyter notebook format is also particularly well-suited for …

This poster presents work by Professorial Assistance, Ty Buckly and Hattie Pimentel and their work on building an image annotation system inside of Jupyter.

Abstract

Scientists often gather observations of the world using images and need efficient image annotating tools to extract data from these images. Project Insight seeks to …

This year, the HPCC moved over to SLURM. Overall, I think the new scheduler is nice but it required me to relearn a bunch of things I have gotten to know by reflex.

One nice new feature is that I can manage our own Buy-in account. The CMSE department has …

I was invited to give a talk to a newly formed IT Research Support group here on MSU campus. As the name suggests, the purpose of this group is to find the best ways to help researchers use technology to do their science.

This talk was a patchwork of many …

The MSU Engineering Jupyterhub server provides 2GB of disk storage space for each student. It can be helpful to learn some disk management so you can use this space effectively.

For example, pip install uses a temporary folder when downloading packages. Periodically, deleting this folder can significantly free up space …

A few weeks ago I was asked by Terence O'Neill to give a talk to the VR/AR seminar group being held at the library. He wanted me to talk about our "Mobile beast" and show how we are using VR equipment in CMSE.

The VR equipment had a bug …

Example Makefile

A former student recently emailed me asking for a good reference about makefiles. To be honest, I teach a lot about makefiles but I am not sure I have a go-to source. I could have googled something but instead I just tapped out this quick description. I thought …

This quick tutorial shows provides basic instructions for generating the above graph using Graphviz.

If you already have Anaconda installed on your system, you can quickly install graphviz using the following command:

conda install graphviz

Once graphviz is installed you need to create a text file with the connections. This …

There are two light switches in our mudroom that control the garage lights and the lights on the front of the house. Unfortunately I can not see these lights when standing next to the switches and sense there are multiple switches for each light you can not know if the …

I have an example program that came with BCCD called Pandemic which I wanted to run on our local HPCC. Unfortunately Pandemic requires X11 to run and I would get a segmentation fault every time I ran it in the batch system.

This blog post shows how I used the …