Getting Started

• Follow these instructions to install pycroscopy

• See the many journal publications made possible by pycroscopy and try out the jupyter notebooks that were used for the paper

• Also see examples to see other scientific applications of pycroscopy

• Python novices are highly recommended to go through Nick Mostovych’s guides and pitfalls for python novices

• We have also compiled a list of handy tutorials on basic / prerequisite topics such as programming in python, data analytics, machine learning, etc.

• See tutorials to get started on using and writing your own pyUSID functions that power pycroscopy

• We already have many translators that transform data from popular microscope data formats to pycroscopy compatible HDF5 files.

  • pyUSID also has a tutorial to get you started on importing your other data to pycroscopy.

• Details regarding the definition and guidelines for the Universal Spectroscopy and Imaging Data (USID) model and implementation in HDF5 are also available in pyUSID’s documentation.

• If you are interested in contributing your code to pycroscopy, please look at our guidelines

• If you need detailed documentation on all our classes, functions, etc., what is where any why, please visit our API

• Have questions? See our FAQ to see if we have already answered them.

• Need help or need to get in touch with us? See our contact information.