Using Jupyter at Jefferson Lab (OUTDATED): Glossary

Key Points

Introduction	Access Jefferson Lab’s Jupyter server at jupyter.jlab.org.
Basic Operations	Use the uproot library to read ROOT data files in Python. Use arrays() to access fields in ROOT data files as numpy arrays. Use the pyplot library from matplotlib for creating simple visualizations.
Advanced Operations: TensorFlow on Jefferson Lab data	Use the tensorflow library for machine learning in Python.

Glossary

JLab: Jefferson Lab

Jupyter: web-based interface to the interactive IPython environment

Jupyter Hub: Jupyter interface that allows internet-facing Jupyter notebook servers

Jupyter Lab: Jupyter interface based on common Integrated Development Environment (IDE) layouts as found in R Studio and Matlab.

ROOT: CERN-based analysis framework commonly used in nuclear, hadronic, and particle physics