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title: VRE Webinar Plan
tags: vre-webinar
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## Old Plans

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## From 06 October 2020

1. Hosted on BB Collab (via Univ Edinburgh)
- Klaus Nielsen will help as moderator during the call
2. These pages:
- Update with notices to audience before/during event
- Reference document during/after event (and support future webinars)
- Live interaction on Discussion page (though guests must refresh page to see updates)

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## Preliminary schedule

(Times are CET)
- `10:00 – 10:40` (Ashley, Martin)
- `10:00 (5m) ` Orientation to webinar
- `10:05 (10m)` Brief VirES GUI walkthrough (feature AEBS)
- `10:15 (5m) ` Moving to VRE, orientation, viresclient intro
- `10:20 (10m)` Running provided notebooks (AEBS + AUX_OBS)
(auroral electrojets and boundaries; ground observatories)
- `10:30 (5m) ` VRE documentation and browsing notebooks
- `10:35 (5m) ` Questions
- `10:40 – 10:55` (Mikkel)
- `(15m)` Case study:
using VirES to get magnetic data + models to use for a core field study
- `10:55 (5m)` (Break + opportunity to look at discussion page)
- `11:00 – 12:00`
- Review of architecture (Server / GUI client / Python client / JLab)
- Future plans / ideas
- Open discussion (refer to discussion page)
- More demos depending on interest
- `12:00` "End" but open for people to stay on over lunch

## Topics to cover

- numpy+matplotlib+pandas+xarray motivation and references
- Explanation of models, reference to [MagneticEarth](https://magneticearth.org)
- demo a few model usages (IGRF, MCO+MLI, Swarm-CI, CHAOS) - compare results
- show `.available_models`
- FACs + AEBS notebooks
- AUX_OBS
- dashboard demo
- data citation discussion
- swarm-vre docs + notebook browsing and launching
- Feedback mechanisms + contribution pathway
- If time:
- "good" patterns + tips for working in notebooks
- available packages and suggested additions
- Swarm_notebooks + CI with Treebeard
- related projects: PyHC; Fatiando... ?