scratchpad

Using Google Colab:

0. Fork this repo, so you can save changes across class sessions.
1. In Google Colab, create a new notebook.
2. Paste the following commands in a code chunk, and run it:

! git clone https://github.com/<your GitHub username>/scratchpad
%run ./scratchpad/get_data.py

This will download and extract the course data for you.

3. When you're done, use Save a Copy in GitHub to save your notebook back to your scratchpad repo as nb_2026_mm_dd.ipynb.

Using Rivanna HPC, or locally:

0. Fork this repo, so can clone and push easily
1. Start a VS Code Server session on Rivanna
2. Clone this repo:

   git clone https://github.com/<your GitHub username>/scratchpad

3. Open the scratchpad folder in your Code Server session
4. At the command line, run

   bash build.sh

5. This will build a virtual environment and download/extract your data
6. To save your work locally,

   git commit -am '<Describe your changes>'

7. To get your work back to Github, at the command line, run

   git push origin main

8. To get new changes to the repo, at the command line, run

   git pull --rebase