What We Covered

We kicked off the meetup with some short, friendly presentations to set the stage:

• Exploring CIOOS: We took a look at the public ocean datasets available through the Canadian Integrated Ocean Observing System (CIOOS) catalogue.

  • Data Catalogue: https://catalogue.cioos.ca/

  • Data Explorer: https://explore.cioos.ca/?lang=en

  • Catalogue Map: https://cataloguemap.cioos.ca/

• AI Agent Prompt Design: We discussed basic prompting techniques—how to talk to an AI agent in plain language to get reliable code and avoid common pitfalls.

• ML & Deep Learning 101: We shared a jargon-free overview of how AI learns from data and why it has become such a useful tool for ocean science.

  • Check slides here to see the AI agent prompt design and ML & DL 101:
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  • Check the Vibe-Coding-Kit developed for the participants here: Event GitHub Repo

What Was Built

Participants followed Kedar’s live demonstration including getting access to the AI coding agent, choosing a dataset from the CIOOS catalogue and beginning guiding the agent to build and train the ML model. Some of the practical pipelines and tools built during the session included:

• Automated Data Fetchers: Systems designed to automatically download, clean, and organize raw ocean data.

• Predictive ML Models: Basic machine learning models set up to find patterns and learn from the selected datasets.

Here is the chat log with the prompts and responses from the session. Here is the chat log of an example of an ideal chat for this session. The final deliverable from the example chat is loaded into this GitHub repository. 

If you’d like to try the AI Coding Agent or revisit what we covered in the session, please review the log and fill out the form to receive an API key (we cover the token cost). You may also want to review the AI Coding Agent’s GitHub page for setup instructions.

We’re planning a follow‑up session so more participants can try the AI Coding Agent themselves. If you weren’t able to attend on August 13 and would like to join the next session, please add your name to the waitlist.

🏥 The AI Clinic is Now Open!

The live session may be over, but the learning and troubleshooting continue in our AI Clinic!

If you’re continuing your project, tackling a new dataset, or encountering issues with your AI Coding Agent, feel free to stop by the AI Clinic page and share your questions.

Here are some ways you might use the Clinic thread (not an exhaustive list):

• Share your progress: Post screenshots of the charts or models you built.

• Get troubleshooting help: If your AI agent is giving you errors or you are stuck on a specific prompt, paste the details below.

• Ask our experts: Kedar, Hao, and the community will be checking in on this thread periodically to help you unstick your code and chat about ocean data.

If you missed our live session, or simply want to revisit the insights shared, you can now watch the full recording.

youtube.com/watch?v=6robnyc7FZ8&feature=youtu.be

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