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-NB. The final codeblock in both notebooks creates an animated gif; the result will not be displayed in the notebook, but will be available for viewing or downloading from a new folder, 'export', that gets created.
+NB. The final codeblock in both notebooks creates an animated gif from the data. That final codeblock is computationally intensive; it will take some time to run. The results will be written to a new folder called 'export'; you can open that folder by clicking on the jupyter logo at top and then clicking on the 'export' folder.
 
-Start with the Montreal demo notebook.
+You will know the code is finished when the `[*]` at the left of the code block changes to a number.
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+Start with the Montreal demo notebook. It contains some code that the Avebury notebook depends on.