Day 02: MI and data

Welcome to day ✌ of Module 2 where we will take a deeper dive into the field of MI with a particular emphasis on data types, data representation, and data storage. As we discussed yesterday, there will be many hands-on exercises for you in these lessons to build confidence and experience working with programmatic tools.

Goals for today

  • Discuss specific opportunities and challenges for materials informatics.

  • Work with the most common file types for storing materials data.

  • Learn how to use the pandas package for working with tabular data.

  • Introduce the Materials Project database user interface (UI) and its application programming interface (API) with Pymatgen.

  • Learn how to find and read software documentation.

Timing for today

  • We will kick off the day on Zoom at 9:00AM PDT.

  • We will have a mix of synchronous lectures and group exercises, interspersed with several short breaks.

  • We will take a longer break for lunch between 12:00PM and 1:00PM PDT.

  • Enze will hold drop-in OH from 2:00PM to 3:00PM PDT.

  • We will have an afternoon check-in at 3:00PM PDT.