Dynamic visualisation in the IPython Notebook

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Shows how to embed interactive web maps inside an IPython Notebook by serving gridded data as NetCDF via an OpenDAP server, exposing it as WMS tiles consumed by OpenLayers or Leaflet. Uses a simple genshi HTML template, base64-encodes the page into an iframe to sidestep notebook JS issues, and points out the projection mismatch (EPSG:4326 from OpenDAP vs EPSG:3857 for common basemaps) with practical workarounds like maps.opengeo.org or a cascading WMS. Notes limitations: no alpha on overlays and missing colorbar, and mentions upcoming webagg backend for matplotlib.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:25Limitations of Matplotlib
3. 2:26Data Source and Map Tools
4. 3:41Notebook Setup
5. 5:20Rich Display System
6. 7:00WMS Mapping Services
7. 8:51Introduction to Pydap
8. 11:43Server Configuration
9. 12:50Projections and Layers
10. 15:27Embedding Interactive Maps
11. 19:08Alternative Approaches
12. 21:45Q&A and Demonstration

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