The Python Path

Congratulations on choosing to work with Python. It’s obviously better than The C++ Path or The RDataframe Path. 1

There are a lot of topics listed below. Don’t let that discourage you. Many of the sections below are quite short. 2 Again, the important thing is for you to learn something from doing what exercises you can in the time we have.

• A brief review
• Walkthrough: Simple analysis using the Draw command
• Walkthrough: Simple analysis using the Draw command, part 2
• Walkthrough: Using Python to analyze a Tree
• Walkthrough: Using the Python Analyze script (10 minutes)
• Exercise 2: Adding error bars to a histogram
• Exercise 3: Two histograms in the same loop
• Exercise 4: Displaying fit parameters
• Exercise 5: Scatterplot
• Walkthrough: Calculating our own variables
• Exercise 6: Plotting a derived variable
• Exercise 7: Trig functions
• Walkthrough: Applying a cut
• Exercise 8: Picking a physics cut
• Exercise 9: A bit more physics
• Exercise 10: Writing histograms to a file
• Exercise 11: Stand-alone program (optional)

Footnotes

1

For one thing, the xkcd cartoons are funnier.

2

Many of the sections don’t have any footnotes or cartoons at all, just to make them shorter.