Welcome to KAUST, and as an Ibex user, as you are a first-time user, I will point you to several resources :
First of all, Ibex 101, please go over the slides and demos, so you know all the resources and different commands you can use in the cluster. This is important information that will certainly refer several times
https://www.hpc.kaust.edu.sa/ibex/training
We also have more complete documentation, where you can find several topics like Data science (Chapter 4). Please read this wiki:
https://www.hpc.kaust.edu.sa/ibex/ibex_guide
https://www.hpc.kaust.edu.sa/ibex/data-science
Additionally, we have more documentation about recurrent topics from our users, so there is a lot of "how-to" knowledge here :
https://kaust-supercomputing-lab.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Doc
Then there is the KAUST Visualization Youtube Channel. Here, you will find several tutorials of the Data science workshops and many more. These videos are very helpful because there talk about the best way to install libraries and the best practices when you are going to use Ibex and train in writing code
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR1RFwgvADo5CutK0LnZRrw
Finally, I recommend joining the ibex slack channel ( kaust-ibex.slack.com ). There, you will find a lot of questions already resolved by the ibex team, and you can ask more questions. Moreover, we announce the workshops and training sessions there so that you will know the next dates.
On the topic of Python and software installation on Ibex, we have many users and many projects working and running at the same time, to avoid the problem of dependencies breaking all these works (and avoiding inflicting pain on the users), we recommend managing your python environment and other software yourself. For that, there is documentation (among the links mentioned above), and also we have a video on the channel on how to do that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW9_AXz-G5s
Please review the documentation, and read the interesting/useful parts for you. I hope this information helps, and share it with whoever needs it.
Cheers
Didier