cupido/notebooks/getting_started/README.md
Giorgio Gilestro ec56e51bf9 Add beginner tutorial notebooks for incoming students
Four guided notebooks under notebooks/getting_started/ aimed at someone
new to Python and data science. The series progresses: project orientation
→ Python/pandas crash course → exploring one tracking DB → first
trained-vs-naive comparison using load_roi_data + Mann-Whitney U.

Each notebook leans heavily on markdown explanations, includes exercises
with empty cells, and links out to canonical references (JupyterLab,
official Python tutorial, pandas 10-min guide, Wikipedia for stats
concepts).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-30 18:14:17 +01:00

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Tutorial notebooks

Read these in order:

  1. 00_welcome.ipynb — what's the project, where the data lives, how to use a Jupyter notebook.
  2. 01_python_pandas_basics.ipynb — minimum Python and pandas you need to read project code.
  3. 02_explore_one_database.ipynb — open one tracking DB, plot a trajectory, compute a single distance.
  4. 03_compare_trained_vs_naive.ipynb — first real analysis, comparing groups.

After these, the notebooks one level up (flies_analysis*.ipynb) walk through the full analysis pipeline that the previous student built.