cleanup run selection notebook

rno_g_data_tools/examples/howto_run_selection.ipynb

@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
     "# How to use the run table .csv to select useful runs for analysis\n",
-    "Currently a first overview table of the data from Greenland is available at https://www.zeuthen.desy.de/~shallman/rnog_run_summary.html. Eventually this will be replaced by a run database, but for the time being it can be used to look for useful runs for analysis.
-    
-    This demo shows how to obtain a list of runs without the need to read through the entire (html) run table by eye. Instead python's pandas is used to read the table and apply a run selection."
+    "Currently a first overview table of the data from Greenland is available at https://www.zeuthen.desy.de/~shallman/rnog_run_summary.html.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Eventually this will be replaced by a run database, but for the time being it can be used to look for useful runs for analysis.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "This demo shows how to obtain a list of runs without the need to read through the entire (html) run table by eye. Instead python's pandas is used to read the table and apply a run selection."
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -474,6 +476,14 @@
     "selected_runs.head()"
    ]
   },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "ef26b5a0-ff17-43a4-bb01-c9b293ed154b",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "One can directly use this table of selected runs to **obtain a list of paths to the data files** (relative to the top-level directory of the data on the Zeuthen or Wisconsin clusters)"
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": 5,
@@ -481,20 +491,17 @@
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
     {
-     "data": {
-      "text/plain": [
-       "149"
-      ]
-     },
-     "execution_count": 5,
-     "metadata": {},
-     "output_type": "execute_result"
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "172 ['station11/run133/combined.root', 'station11/run134/combined.root', 'station11/run135/combined.root', 'station11/run136/combined.root', 'station11/run137/combined.root', 'station11/run138/combined.root', 'station11/run139/combined.root', 'station11/run140/combined.root', 'station11/run141/combined.root', 'station11/run142/combined.root']\n"
+     ]
     }
    ],
    "source": [
     "# get a list of all the files corresponding to this selection\n",
     "path_list = list(selected_runs.path)\n",
-    "len(path_list)"
+    "print(len(path_list), path_list[:10])"
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -516,38 +523,38 @@
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        "[nan,\n",
-       " 'on site pulsing, West',\n",
+       " 'MISSING',\n",
+       " 'gps surveying, surface off',\n",
        " 'Pulsing from North',\n",
-       " 'No Surface Trigger / Component for GPS Surveying of stations',\n",
-       " 'snowmobile going out to stations, deep only, surface off',\n",
-       " 'gps surveying, surface amps off',\n",
-       " 'on site pulsing, South',\n",
-       " 'on site pulsing, North',\n",
        " 'in-situ pulsing run',\n",
-       " 'berm top pulser',\n",
-       " 'Pusling from South',\n",
-       " 'Pusling from East',\n",
-       " 'berm top pulser, channel1',\n",
-       " 'Going out on snowmobile, will do surface pulsing, surface channels off',\n",
+       " 'Pusling from south',\n",
+       " 'going out on snowmobile',\n",
        " 'on site pulsing, East',\n",
-       " 'Pusling from North',\n",
-       " 'berm top pulsing, channel1',\n",
        " 'berm top pulsing, testing avtech',\n",
-       " 'gps surveying at station, surface amps off',\n",
+       " 'berm top pulser, channel1',\n",
+       " 'snowmobile going out to stations',\n",
        " 'berm top pulsing, nominal_triggers',\n",
-       " 'Pusling from south',\n",
-       " 'MISSING',\n",
-       " 'going out on snowmobile',\n",
-       " 'snowmobile going out to stations, deep only',\n",
-       " 'testing the pulser again',\n",
-       " 'berm-top pulser, deep trigger',\n",
-       " 'gps surveying, surface off',\n",
        " 'berm-top pulser, first test',\n",
+       " 'Pusling from East',\n",
+       " 'on site pulsing, North',\n",
        " 'berm-top pulser, chn6 trigger',\n",
-       " 'snowmobile going out to stations',\n",
+       " 'berm top pulser',\n",
+       " 'testing the pulser again',\n",
+       " 'Going out on snowmobile, will do surface pulsing, surface channels off',\n",
+       " 'gps surveying at station, surface amps off',\n",
        " 'going out on the snowmobile',\n",
+       " 'berm-top pulser, deep trigger',\n",
+       " 'berm top pulsing',\n",
+       " 'on site pulsing, South',\n",
+       " 'gps surveying, surface amps off',\n",
+       " 'snowmobile going out to stations, deep only',\n",
        " 'Pusling from West',\n",
-       " 'berm top pulsing']"
+       " 'snowmobile going out to stations, deep only, surface off',\n",
+       " 'Pusling from South',\n",
+       " 'Pusling from North',\n",
+       " 'on site pulsing, West',\n",
+       " 'berm top pulsing, channel1',\n",
+       " 'No Surface Trigger / Component for GPS Surveying of stations']"
       ]
      },
      "execution_count": 6,