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An education and training hub for the geoscientific Python community
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- Project Pythia is hosting a Cookbook Cook-Off June 20-23, 2023.
- Learn more here.
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[Project Pythia](about) is the education working group for [Pangeo](https://pangeo.io)
and is an educational resource for the entire geoscience community.
Together these initiatives are helping geoscientists make sense of huge volumes of