DOC: add README

Author: tacaswell

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+# Time series exploration with matplotlib
+
+## setup
+
+To set up an enviroment for this tutorial use
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+  $ conda create -n mpl-tutorial -c conda-forge -c conda-forge/label/rc 'matplotlib>1.6' pandas pytables ipython
+
+for *nix
+
+  $ source activate mpl-tutorial
+
+for windows
+
+  $ activate mpl-tutorial
+
+### for 99-get_data
+
+  $ conda install -c cartopy proj4
+
+## Running
+
+All of the examples should be run from IPython as
+
+ %run -i NN-FILE.py