Introductory Tutorials

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Welcome to the Workspace tutorials! These tutorials are here to help get you up and running with Workspace as quickly as possible. There's a lot to get through, so let's get started!

Getting Started with Workspace

• Hello Workspace!
• Reading and displaying data
• Modifying and writing data
• Abstracting complexity
• Performing calculations (with QtScript)
• Making choices
• Looping
• Converting between data types
• Batch execution
• Connecting a workflow to a user interface
• Saving and restoring workflow settings
• Visualising data with charts
• External workflows
• Recording provenance

Incorporating Scripts

• Embedding a Python script into a workflow
• Leveraging the power of Python modules within Workspace workflows
• Utilising the power of R within Workspace workflows
• Calling external scripts via the RunExternalScript operation

3D Rendering and Visualisation

• Basic 3D Visualization
• Changing a model's appearance
• Glyphing
• Linear Transforms
• Off-screen Rendering
• Visualising volume datasets

SQL Databases

• Basic SQL Database

Parallel and distributed execution

• Workspace parallelism - an overview and some caveats
• Running workflows in parallel on a local machine
• Distributing work to a compute cluster
• Distributing workload to other (non-cluster) remote machines with the Workspace-Server service
• Directing the execution of parallel loops to specific machines
• Running nested workflows in parallel on a local machine
• Performing SSH operations in your workflows

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