Climate zones

[Stephen Haddad (stevehadd)]

This pull request ports some notebooks from the AI4Climate hackathon repo in preparation for a tutorial. It contains

• notebooks for data exploration, training, inference and evaluation
• A readme
• A data prep notebook

Could you please review the following:

• check that the notebooks run on JupyterHub on spice
• Check that you understand the explanatory text and that the instruction on how to run the notebooks are clear.
• Any suggestion for improvement to the notebooks, including additional ideas for extenstion actvities or additional things to demo to improve the learning journey.

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Pull request overview

This PR adds a “Climate Zones” tutorial as a set of Jupyter notebooks (EDA → training → inference/visualisation → evaluation) plus a data-prep notebook and a README to guide running the tutorial (intended for JupyterHub on Spice).

Changes:

• Added tutorial README with a notebook “pathway” and environment setup notes.
• Added 4 core tutorial notebooks (exploration, training, inference/visualisation, evaluation) and 1 supporting data-prep notebook.
• Introduced a shared configuration dependency (config.json) across all notebooks.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
ml_examples/climate_zones/README.md	Tutorial entry point and run instructions; contains several typos and one broken link.
ml_examples/climate_zones/ClimateZones_DataExploration.ipynb	EDA notebook; depends on missing config.json.
ml_examples/climate_zones/ClimateZones_TrainingPipeline.ipynb	Training notebook; depends on missing config.json, contains a future-year copyright and template placeholder text.
ml_examples/climate_zones/ClimateZones_InferenceVisualisation.ipynb	Inference/visualisation notebook; depends on missing config.json, contains template placeholder text.
ml_examples/climate_zones/ClimateZones_Evaluation.ipynb	Evaluation notebook; depends on missing config.json.
ml_examples/climate_zones/ClimateZones_DataPrep.ipynb	Data-prep notebook; depends on missing config.json and contains several concrete run-breaking/logic issues (path handling, subgroup mapping, multiprocessing, hard-coded paths).

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[Stephen Haddad (stevehadd)]

mo-BrandonBirch could you approve this PR when yopu are happy so I can merge?

[mo-BrandonBirch]

Changes made based on feedback provided, everything runs