Using Jupyter in the neutron scattering field.

[Andrew Nelson]

i'm currently developing a Python package, refnx, for analysis (least squares and MCMC) and processing of neutron and X-ray reflectometry data, although it can be used as a generic curvefitting package as well.

I'm using Jupyter for data processing so that users of our neutron scattering beamline can go away with a notebook and repeat the data processing at a later stage.

On the data analysis side I'm using notebooks for reproducible analysis of this kind of scattering data. I've also developed a GUI interface using ipywidgets to reduce the learning curve as much as possible. I've also got a binder repository working so that people can use that for online analysis. I'm interested in developing the binder aspect; at the moment it's hosted on 3rd party servers, and it would be nice to get dedicated hosting because these kinds of analysis (esp. MCMC) can be computationally heavy. I wonder if it's a possibility for a facility to put their hand up to host something like this?

Relevant links:

https://github.com/refnx/refnx

https://pypi.org/project/refnx/

Binder:

https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/refnx/refnx-binder.git/master