Getting started with Git, Python, and Echopype-related tools

Welcome to this hands-on workshop at the 2025 WGFAST meeting!

In the course of 2 half days, we will work through the basics of Git/GitHub and Python, and wrap up with examples of using Echopype to parse and plot echosounder data.

For remote participation, please use the Teams link you received in email to join the workshop.

Overview & misc

• Agenda
• Introduction
• Discourse forum
• Conda environment file
• Day 1 recap
• Reproducible research best practices

Pre-workshop Setup

• Before the workshop
• GitHub Setup
• GitHub Desktop Setup
• Git Setup
• Minimal install

Git/GitHub tutorials

• GitHub Introduction
• Git Introduction
• Git and GitHub slide deck

Python tutorials

• Python slide deck
• Python - and the machine that goes ping
• Python packages
• Package managers and environments
• Python Editors
• Jupyter
• Notebook Demo
• Python (very basic) Basics
• Data Analysis
• Pandas and Xarray
• Pandas
• Xarray
• Xarray - Examples
• Creating a Python Package uwa

Echopype-related tools

• Overview
• Echopype: A quick exercise
• Echopype: out-of-core computation
• Echoregions: creating region masks
• Echoshader: Interactive visualization
• Interoperate Echopype-generated data