Workshop - RockMagPy and MagIC
Thursday, June 12th
Tate Hall, Room 401-20
The IRM team is developing a new rock magnetic software package called RockmagPy. RockmagPy is based upon analysis methods and algorithms developed at the IRM over several years, however, these tools are not widely accessible as their use was restricted to data collected at the IRM, stored in the IRM’s database, and processed using internal software. To date we have developed software for the processing and analysis of hysteresis loops, backfield curves, low-temperature data, high temperature susceptibility data, and anisotropy data. This workshop will attendees hands-on experience with workflows for the open archiving of rock magnetic experimental data in MagIC and will highlight the benefits of working directly with data from MagIC using RockmagPy functions both in terms of the state-of-the-art algorithms that are available as well as the ability to conduct open and reproducible data analysis. The workshop is broken down into five parts
- How to use IRM instrumentation and collecting rock magnetic data that will be used in the following steps (will occur throughout the conference – split into smaller groups).
- How to efficiently upload to and download this data from the MagIC database (1 hr).
- Hands-on data analysis of data using RockmagPy within Jupyter notebooks developed by IRM staff (2 hr).
- A discussion with participants on developing specialized instrument data exports to MagIC and the most beneficial way of designing such workflows across the community (45 mins).
- Participant feedback on the analysis software, with suggestions for improvements, and for further tools the community envision as being useful (1 hr).