Gain familiarity with JupyterLab

[tjcrone]

JupyterLab will likely be where most of our work is done on this project. We will eventually build a JupyterLab/Pangeo space on Azure, but for now let's use the Pangeo that is currently installed on the Google Cloud:

http://pangeo.pydata.org/hub/home

We will also be using GitHub to organize the code that we write for this project. Managing Jupyter notebooks using Git is a bit of a pain because of how results are embedded in the files which we don't normally want to track. I recommend that we all take the steps detailed in this post:

http://timstaley.co.uk/posts/making-git-and-jupyter-notebooks-play-nice/

to make things easier for everyone on Github. The steps are:

• install jq
• add the jq filter to ~/.gitconfig
• add a reference to the filter in ~/.gitattributes_global