Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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Following a Jupyter Notebook, this video will teach you the fundamentals of PyROOT concepts and syntax as well as briefly explaining the Physics behind the example data analysis.

What you'll learn in this video:
- Understanding the basics behind the Standard Model and Feynman diagrams
- Manipulating the partitions of a ROOT file
- Plotting charts and populating histograms with PyROOT

Resources for this tutorial:
- Jupyter Notebook GitHub repository: github.com/atlas-outreach-data-tools/notebooks-collection-opendata
- Introduction to Histograms: khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/cc-6th-data-statistics/histograms/v/histograms-intro

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Table of Contents:
00:34 - Underlying Physics
03:06 - ROOT Concepts
04:56 - ROOT Coding

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