Add an interactive example with Binder

[matthewfeickert]

It would be very cool if there was an interactive example of how to use neonUtilities with NEON's open data using the IRkernel and Binder.

Binder is incredible, so I highly recommend learning more about it on their docs (and maybe watching @betatim's JupyterCon 2018 talk on it).

If you like the idea but need some help getting started you can checkout my R in Jupyter with Binder example repo and I am willing to answer questions and help out on the PR.

[cklunch]

Agreed, this would be great! At the moment we're primarily limited by staff time, but we hope to start making interactive notebooks eventually. Thanks for the helpful links.

In the meantime, we do have non-interactive instructions and examples here: https://www.neonscience.org/neonDataStackR

[matthewfeickert]

... we hope to start making interactive notebooks eventually

I'm assuming you'd take contributed PRs though?

[cklunch]

We're working on writing up contribution guidelines, but of course, it's great if the community builds tools for working with/understanding our data!

If you're interested in making an interactive example, we would probably want it to live in a different repo from this one - I'm thinking the Data Skills repo would be best: https://github.com/NEONScience/NEON-Data-Skills

What did you have in mind for the Binder example?

[matthewfeickert]

What did you have in mind for the Binder example?

Just something that demos the API for the library with practical use case examples. So since the "Use the neonUtilities Package to Access NEON Data" example exists just Binderizing that would probably be a good start (and then maybe doing some trivial visualizations and toy analysis).

Given that the tutorial source exists already at https://github.com/NEONScience/NEON-Data-Skills I'll just fork there as you recommended.

[matthewfeickert]

Closing as migrated to NEONScience/NEON-Data-Skills Issue #405.