Download Data

Downloaded some simple time series data.

How do I keep the data, the source, and crap together?

Metadata

What Metadata do I need?

I don't know.

Starting with

• source / url
• units
• location
• type
• startDate
• endDate
• increment

Going to save a matlab struct per time series. 

This is not going to be an optimal solution, but better than nothings, and better than doing nothing.

Python

I need to work with netCDF files

Currently I know Java, am familiar  with MATLAB

Java is clunking with numbers.

I have found MATLAB difficult to produce reusable code with.

R sounds appealing, but python has more support in the college, for netCDF and GIS applications

--> Introducing myself to python, 

1. Download and install iPython
2. Watch intro to iPython 
3. Download zip from Unidata Training Workshop from GitHub
   https://github.com/Unidata/tds-python-workshop
4. Unzip in directory
5. Start ipython in this directory
   ipython notebook --pylab inline

This went nowhere.

Talked with my supervisors going elsewhere at the moment