Update module 10: Scientific file formats

[jemrobinson]

These changes will be coordinated by @nbarlowATI

General (applicable to every module)

• Make each module independent of earlier ones (ie. do not rely on examples/specific code from earlier modules)
• Ensure that each module has some small exercises (say 1x 5 min exercise per 45 mins or teaching); add a larger (optional) exercise per course for attendees to complete in their own time
• Update to use more modern libraries and tools (eg. pandas/scipy/numba/poetry)
• Add instructions to the notebooks that you should "Take 5 minutes to do this exercise"
• Add estimated timing information at the top of each notebook
• Switch to a colourblind-friendly colour scheme throughout
• What do you wish people had told you about Python/coding in general?

Module 10: Scientific file formats

• There were some good questions and good discussion about other binary file formats (parquet, arrow, feather) - this could be a good thing for us to cover.
• The last two notebooks on Ontologies, and Semantic Web, are very difficult for a non-expert to teach - the Turtle syntax is very hard to read, and there isn't a huge amount of explanatory text. I would be in favour of downsizing these sections considerably, and devoting the time to something else - possibly other file formats as mentioned above, or perhaps something about streaming or distributed data.
  • We also found these difficult to teach last year! James H (who wrote the course) argued strongly for leaving them in, but maybe we can add additional material as noted about and make these optional reading?
• We also had a question about Docker - this could be a good thing to mention at some point in the course (not necessarily this module).