FIELDGUIDE.md

Hello and welcome to the field guide for the Climate Tech Handbook

Feel free to make contributions, suggestions, or comments on the suggested stack so far.

I have included an extensive list of additional relative technologies to look into that we may find useful.

This guide is still a "work in progress" and this is meant to be a starting point, so please stay tuned for updates!

My suggested starting stack

1. Social:

   • Slack (https://slack.com/)

2. Project Management:

   • GitHub (https://github.com/)
     • GitHub Projects
     • GitHub Actions
     • GitHub Issues
     • GitHub Wiki

3. Frontend:

   • Material for MkDocs (https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/)

4. Backend:

   • Python (https://www.python.org/)
     • Flask (suggested web framework) (https://flask.palletsprojects.com/)

5. Database:

   • PostgreSQL (https://www.postgresql.org/)
     • SQLAlchemy (ORM) (https://www.sqlalchemy.org/)

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Additional Technologies

1. Social:

   • Slack (https://slack.com/)
   • Discord (https://discord.com/)
   • Microsoft Teams (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software)
   • Mattermost (https://mattermost.com/)

2. Project Management:

   • GitHub (https://github.com/)
     • GitHub Projects
     • GitHub Actions
     • GitHub Issues
     • GitHub Wiki
   • Trello (https://trello.com/)
   • Asana (https://asana.com/)
   • Jira (https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira)

3. Frontend:

   • Material for MkDocs (https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/)
   • Custom theme using Bootstrap (https://getbootstrap.com/) or Tailwind CSS (https://tailwindcss.com/)
   • React.js (https://reactjs.org/) or Vue.js (https://vuejs.org/) for more dynamic frontend components

4. Backend:

   • Python (https://www.python.org/)
     • Flask (suggested web framework) (https://flask.palletsprojects.com/)
     • Django (https://www.djangoproject.com/)
       • Django REST framework (https://www.django-rest-framework.org/)
     • FastAPI (https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/)

5. Database:

   • PostgreSQL (https://www.postgresql.org/)
     • SQLAlchemy (ORM) (https://www.sqlalchemy.org/)
   • MySQL (https://www.mysql.com/)
     • Django ORM (for Django)
   • SQLite (https://www.sqlite.org/index.html)
     • Peewee ORM (http://docs.peewee-orm.com/en/latest/)

6. Natural Language Processing (NLP):

   • OpenAI API (https://beta.openai.com/docs/)
   • spaCy (https://spacy.io/)
   • NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) (https://www.nltk.org/)
   • Gensim (https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/)

7. Machine Learning:

   • TensorFlow (https://www.tensorflow.org/)
   • PyTorch (https://pytorch.org/)
   • scikit-learn (https://scikit-learn.org/)

8. Data Visualization and Analytics:

   • D3.js (https://d3js.org/)
   • Plotly (https://plotly.com/)
   • Google Analytics (https://analytics.google.com/)

9. Web Scraping:

   • Beautiful Soup (https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/)
   • Scrapy (https://scrapy.org/)

10. Data Cleaning and Processing:

    • Pandas (https://pandas.pydata.org/)
    • NumPy (https://numpy.org/)

11. Environmental Data APIs:

    • Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) API (https://www.gbif.org/developer/summary)
    • Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/)

12. Geospatial Data Visualization:

    • Leaflet (https://leafletjs.com/)
    • Mapbox (https://www.mapbox.com/)

13. Accessibility:

    • WAI-ARIA (https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/)
    • Axe (https://www.deque.com/axe/)

14. CI/CD & DevOps (continued):

    • Jenkins (https://www.jenkins.io/)
    • Travis CI (https://travis-ci.com/)
    • CircleCI (https://circleci.com/)
    • GitLab CI/CD (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/README.html)
    • Docker (https://www.docker.com/)
    • Kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io/)

15. AI and Machine Learning (continued):

    • Hugging Face Transformers (https://huggingface.co/transformers/)
    • Keras (https://keras.io/)
    • XGBoost (https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/)
    • LightGBM (https://lightgbm.readthedocs.io/)
    • CatBoost (https://catboost.ai/)
    • OpenCV (https://opencv.org/) One of my personal favorites
    • Tesseract OCR (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)

16. AI-Assisted Writing and Text Generation:

    • OpenAI Codex (https://www.openai.com/research/codex/)
    • OpenAI GPT-3 (https://www.openai.com/gpt-3/)
    • Hugging Face DialoGPT (https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/dialogpt.html)

17. RSS Technologies:

    • RSS-Bridge (https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge)
    • Feedparser (Python library) (https://feedparser.readthedocs.io/)
    • Tiny Tiny RSS (https://tt-rss.org/)
    • Miniflux (https://miniflux.app/)
    • FreshRSS (https://freshrss.org/)

18. News APIs and Datasets:

    • NewsAPI (https://newsapi.org/)
    • Event Registry (https://eventregistry.org/)
    • GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/)
    • The Guardian API (https://open-platform.theguardian.com/)
    • New York Times API (https://developer.nytimes.com/)
    • Bing News Search API (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-news-search-api-v7)
    • ContextualWeb News API (https://contextualweb.io/news-api/)

19. Climate and Environmental APIs:

    • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) APIs (https://www.noaa.gov/organization/information-technology/list-of-apis)
    • Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) (https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/)
    • NASA Earth Data (https://earthdata.nasa.gov/)
    • OpenAQ (https://openaq.org/)
    • Global Forest Watch API (https://www.globalforestwatch.org/)
    • AirVisual API (https://www.iqair.com/air-pollution-data-api)

20. Data Storage and Hosting:

    • Amazon Web Services (AWS) (https://aws.amazon.com/)
    • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (https://cloud.google.com/)
    • Microsoft Azure (https://azure.microsoft.com/)
    • Heroku (https://www.heroku.com/)
    • DigitalOcean (https://www.digitalocean.com/)

21. Authentication and Authorization:

    • OAuth 2.0 (https://oauth.net/2/)
    • OpenID Connect (https://openid.net/connect/)
    • JSON Web Tokens (JWT) (https://jwt.io/)
    • Auth0 (https://auth0.com/)
    • Okta (https://www.okta.com/)

22. Real-time Communication:

    • WebSockets (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSockets_API)
    • Socket.IO (https://socket.io/)
    • Pusher (https://pusher.com/)
    • Firebase Realtime Database (https://firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database)

23. Content Management Systems (CMS):

    • Strapi (https://strapi.io/)
    • Netlify CMS (https://www.netlifycms.org/)
    • Contentful (https://www.contentful.com/)
    • Sanity.io (https://www.sanity.io/)
    • Ghost (https://ghost.org/)

24. Static Site Generators:

    • Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/)
    • Hugo (https://gohugo.io/)
    • Next.js (https://nextjs.org/)
    • Gatsby (https://www.gatsbyjs.com/)
    • Nuxt.js (https://nuxtjs.org/)

25. Geospatial Analysis and GIS:

    • QGIS (https://qgis.org/)
    • GDAL (https://gdal.org/)
    • GeoPandas (https://geopandas.org/)
    • ArcGIS (https://www.arcgis.com/)
    • MapServer (https://mapserver.org/)
    • Geoserver (https://geoserver.org/)
    • CARTO (https://carto.com/)

26. Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis:

    • TextBlob (https://textblob.readthedocs.io/)
    • VaderSentiment (https://github.com/cjhutto/vaderSentiment)
    • AYLIEN Text Analysis API (https://aylien.com/text-api/)
    • IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding (https://www.ibm.com/cloud/watson-natural-language-understanding)

27. Climate and Environmental Data Repositories:

    • Climate Data Store (https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/)
    • Berkeley Earth (http://berkeleyearth.org/)
    • Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/global-historical-climatology-network-daily/)
    • WorldClim (https://www.worldclim.org/)

28. Email Services and APIs:

    • SendGrid (https://sendgrid.com/)
    • Mailgun (https://www.mailgun.com/)
    • Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) (https://aws.amazon.com/ses/)
    • Mailchimp (https://mailchimp.com/)

29. Payment Processing:

    • Stripe (https://stripe.com/)
    • PayPal (https://www.paypal.com/)
    • Square (https://squareup.com/)
    • Braintree (https://www.braintreepayments.com/)

30. Automated Testing and Quality Assurance:

    • Selenium (https://www.selenium.dev/)
    • Pytest (https://docs.pytest.org/)
    • JUnit (https://junit.org/junit5/)
    • TestCafe (https://devexpress.github.io/testcafe/)
    • Jest (https://jestjs.io/)
    • Cypress (https://www.cypress.io/)

31. API Development and Testing:

    • Postman (https://www.postman.com/)
    • Swagger (https://swagger.io/)
    • Insomnia (https://insomnia.rest/)
    • REST Assured (http://rest-assured.io/)

32. Monitoring and Logging (continued):

    • Grafana (https://grafana.com/)
    • Prometheus (https://prometheus.io/)
    • ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) (https://www.elastic.co/what-is/elk-stack)
    • Datadog (https://www.datadoghq.com/)
    • New Relic (https://newrelic.com/)
    • Sentry (https://sentry.io/)

33. Code Review and Collaboration:

    • Git (https://git-scm.com/)
    • GitLab (https://about.gitlab.com/)
    • Bitbucket (https://bitbucket.org/)
    • Gerrit (https://www.gerritcodereview.com/)
    • Phabricator (https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/)

34. Version Control Systems (VCS):

    • Git (https://git-scm.com/)
    • Mercurial (https://www.mercurial-scm.org/)
    • Subversion (https://subversion.apache.org/)
    • Perforce (https://www.perforce.com/)

35. Code Coverage and Static Analysis:

    • Codecov (https://codecov.io/)
    • Coveralls (https://coveralls.io/)
    • SonarQube (https://www.sonarqube.org/)
    • PyLint (https://www.pylint.org/)
    • Flake8 (https://flake8.pycqa.org/)

36. Documentation:

    • Sphinx (https://www.sphinx-doc.org/)
    • Read the Docs (https://readthedocs.org/)
    • JSDoc (https://jsdoc.app/)
    • Doxygen (https://www.doxygen.nl/)
    • DocFX (https://dotnet.github.io/docfx/)

37. Climate Models and Simulations:

    • Community Earth System Model (CESM) (https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/)
    • Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model (https://www.mmm.ucar.edu/weather-research-and-forecasting-model)
    • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Climate Models (https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/climate-models/)
    • NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) Models (https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/)

38. Weather APIs:

    • OpenWeatherMap API (https://openweathermap.org/api)
    • Weatherbit API (https://www.weatherbit.io/)
    • Dark Sky API (https://darksky.net/dev)
    • Weather Underground API (https://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/)
    • Meteomatics Weather API (https://www.meteomatics.com/en/weather-api/)

39. Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Optimization:

    • Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com/)
    • Fastly (https://www.fastly.com/)
    • AWS CloudFront (https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/)
    • Google Cloud CDN (https://cloud.google.com/cdn)
    • Akamai (https://www.akamai.com/)

40. 3D Graphics Libraries and Frameworks:

    • THREE.js (https://threejs.org/)
    • Babylon.js (https://www.babylonjs.com/)
    • A-Frame (https://aframe.io/)
    • PlayCanvas (https://playcanvas.com/)

41. General Tools and Utilities for Python:

    • Requests (https://docs.python-requests.org/)
    • SciPy (https://www.scipy.org/)
    • Matplotlib (https://matplotlib.org/)
    • Jupyter Notebook (https://jupyter.org/)
    • IPython (https://ipython.org/)
    • virtualenv (https://virtualenv.pypa.io/)
    • Pipenv (https://pipenv.pypa.io/)
    • Black (https://black.readthedocs.io/)

42. General Tools and Utilities for Node.js:

    • npm (https://www.npmjs.com/)
    • Yarn (https://yarnpkg.com/)
    • Express.js (https://expressjs.com/)
    • Axios (https://github.com/axios/axios)
    • Lodash (https://lodash.com/)
    • Moment.js (https://momentjs.com/)
    • Passport.js (http://www.passportjs.org/)
    • Babel (https://babeljs.io/)
    • Webpack (https://webpack.js.org/)
    • ESLint (https://eslint.org/)

43. General Tools and Utilities for Bash and Shell Scripting:

    • GNU Core Utilities (https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html)
    • GNU Bash (https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/)
    • Zsh (https://www.zsh.org/)
    • Fish (https://fishshell.com/)
    • tmux (https://github.com/tmux/tmux)
    • Screen (https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/)
    • GNU Parallel (https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/)
    • grep, sed, awk (https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/, https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/, https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/)
    • jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)
    • ShellCheck (https://www.shellcheck.net/)

44. Learning Resources and Tutorials:

    • Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) (https://developer.mozilla.org/)
    • W3Schools (https://www.w3schools.com/)
    • FreeCodeCamp (https://www.freecodecamp.org/)
    • Codecademy (https://www.codecademy.com/)
    • Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/)
    • edX (https://www.edx.org/)
    • Real Python (https://realpython.com/)
    • The Odin Project (https://www.theodinproject.com/)