| Title: |
Using Physics Analysis Toolkit (PAT) in your analysis |
| Internet address of the learning environment: |
http://cern.ch/learncms |
| Last update: |
25 November, 2008 |
| Responsible teacher: |
Frédéric Ronga (e-mail: frederic.ronga@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch) |
| Tutors: |
Salvatore Rappoccio, Sudhir Malik, Roger Wolf, Benedikt Mura, Christophe Saout (tbc) |
| Local organization & technical support: |
Kati Lassila-Perini (CERN), Sudhir Malik (FNAL) |
| Teaching level: |
post-graduate, further education |
| Discipline: |
software development, data analysis |
| Estimated number of participants: |
10-20 |
| Main goal of the training: |
| - participants: develop the software needed in his/her analysis using the common tools provided by the toolkit, and learn the computing tools and procedures for the output data handling |
| - project team: train future experts, get feedback to improve the product and the documentation |
| Pedagogical approach of the training: |
| Every participant will have an analysis project and the outcome of the training should be a valid and usable analysis code. |
| Contents: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Sandbox/CMSUserSupportELearningProjectContents |
| Brief description of the scenario - tasks and expected results: |
| Phase 1 - Introduction to the basic tools: |
| - presentation of the working environment for the course |
| - presentation of the projects- discussion, finding common areas |
| - get familiar with the software environment and the data formats |
| - learn the basic functionalities provided by the toolkit and understand why it is convenient to use them |
| - write the first prototype of the data analysis using the toolkit |
| - keep logbook of the progress and difficulties encountered |
| Phase 2 - Understanding the details: |
| - learn the principles of the different components of the toolkit and understand their functioning through exercises |
| - understand what the toolkit provides for the project |
| - improve and complete the prototype of the data analysis using the toolkit |
| - keep logbook of the progress and difficulties |
| Phase 3 - Data analysis in practice: |
| - learn how to access and analyze the data provided by the prototype |
| - get familiar with the final working environment (data accessed through grid, storing and re-accessing the output data) |
| Phase 4 - Evaluation: |
| - summary of the logbooks and the difficulties encountered |
| - evaluation of the projects by the tutors |
| Ratio: |
Presence/remote 30%/70% |
| Brief description of the management of the training - tasks and roles: |
| Responsible teacher: |
present the learning material, guarantee the coherence |
| Tutors: |
help with the exercises, reply to questions |
| Content providers: |
plan a learning module and provide contents |
| Participants: |
prepare a project use-case, complete the exercises, prepare the project, keep logbook |
| Tools: |
web area for links to contents, discussions and logbooks, code repository for exercises, videoconferencing fro transmission and recording |
| Management tools: |
Web site, discussion forum, code repository, e-mail (project team) |
| People |
Role |
Task |
| Responsible teacher: |
Responsible of the pedagogical content and coherence |
during planning: intervene in the planning of the learning material by the content providers |
| |
Teacher |
Give lectures |
| Content providers: |
Expert on separate learning modules |
Provide learning material |
| Tutors: |
Guide the participant in their exercises and in their project |
Lead hands-on sessions |
| |
Reply to questions in discussion forum |
| |
Private tutoring |
| Technical support: |
Practical arrangements |
Organize the rooms and EVO connections and recordings |
| |
Course-related technical support |
Help with technical issues connected to the course (availability of the material, accessibility) |
| Project management: |
Take care of the timely execution of the plan |
Plan and manage the project |
| Participants: |
Complete the analysis project integrating the issues learnt |
| |
Give feedback |
| Interaction between the protagonists: |
| - project team: direct contact, e-mail discussion |
| - discussion sessions and questions during the lectures |
| - discussion forum and logbooks |
| Tools for interaction: |
| - project description and organization documents (wiki), meetings, e-mail for the project team |
| - discussion forum, wiki logbooks for the participants |
| Constraints and limits: |
| - availability of tutors |
| Evaluation criteria of the different activities: |
- simple, illustrative exercises evaluated by the result obtained (e.g. histogram) |
| |
- progress followed in the logbook |
| |
- final project evaluated by by tutors by analyzing the structure of the software |
| Date of the final evaluation: |
two months from the start of the training |
| Feedback: |
- on training: discussion and feedback form in the end of the course |
| |
- on the toolkit: discussion, logbook keeping track on the difficulties encountered. |
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