To set up an enviroment for this tutorial use
$ conda create -n mpl-tutorial -c conda-forge -c conda-forge/label/rc 'matplotlib>1.6' pandas pytables ipython python=3
for *nix
$ source activate mpl-tutorial
for windows
$ activate mpl-tutorial
$ conda install -c conda-forge cartopy proj4
All of the examples should be run from IPython as
%run -i NN-FILE.py
and should each be self-contained.