Python in Astronomy 2015: Day 2 Tweets
21 Apr 2015Python in Astronomy 2015 is going on this week and I’m not there. Here’s my scraping of what caught my eye in the #pyastro15 twitter stream today:
Another helpful git resource: Choose Your Own Adventure http://t.co/PxqXJc3HgX great for fixing errors #pyastro15
— Matt Craig (@astronomatty) April 21, 2015Finally! New entry on my blog about what we are doing in the #pyastro15 workshop. Not edit fully yet http://t.co/RTckq9Z0e8
— Antonio M. Carrillo (@antmarcarr) April 21, 2015Python software for all sky camera by @lcogt @zemogle https://t.co/EHVXBd4ed8 #pyastro15
— Steven Crawford (@astrocrawford) April 21, 2015If you have an SBIG all-sky camera, you can now control it directly from Python! https://t.co/7Ayr1XT8tG #pyastro15
— Geert Barentsen (@GeertHub) April 21, 2015Great talk about @lcogt by @zemogle, love the citizen science portal 'Agent Exoplanet' http://t.co/m9vUyWEVOW #pyastro15 #outreach
— Laura Hayes (@laura_hayess) April 21, 2015Use arXiver as a convenient parser/reader for astroph, figures included! http://t.co/0mQCEpWxAp #pyastro15
— OmegaSpaces (@OmegaSpaces) April 21, 2015.@orbitingfrog mentioned in @cosmicpudding's #pyastro15 talk on arXiver https://t.co/wnBbDoyYIm
— Haley Gomez (@astrofairy) April 21, 2015(definitely added to me task list to check out)
At #pyastro15 and I'm over the moon. They literally made me into a @github sticker. Right down to the red shoes. pic.twitter.com/C4ruCpuA9X
— Becky Smethurst (@becky1505) April 21, 2015. @eteq has contributed 141,000 lines of code to #astropy! 62,000 of which have been removed. #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 21, 2015(I think I’ve said it before, but some of my most satisfying code days are when I reduce my code-base by 100s of lines.)
@eteq's freudian slip about astropy.modeling: "fitting data to models" :) #pyastro15
— Brigitta Sipocz (@AstroBrigi) April 21, 2015. @astropy merch available at http://t.co/6lJziRp3qx including lab coats! #pyastro15
— Edward Gomez (@zemogle) April 21, 2015(hmm, guess I’m not ordering a shirt as I don’t see Tall sizes. I’m used to that. The labcoat is tempting.)
. @eteq: key tools for @astropy: GitHub, Travis, Sphinx, Read the Docs. Lower barrier to entry, ensures documentation happens. #pyastro15
— Pauline Barmby (@PBarmby) April 21, 2015Practical fact of astronomers: they will never go back to document old code. Ever. - @eteq #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 21, 2015(What never? No never? What never? Well, hardly ever! and I never ever sink at sea)
I've written code that took an order of magnitude less time to write than the docs. But what good is code if no one can use it? #pyastro15
— Erik (@Iguananaut) April 21, 2015Document your code. If nothing else, for the sake of the poor sap who inherits it after you. #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 21, 2015(and 99% of the time, that poor sap is yourself, at least if you’re me.)
Want your code to be affiliated with @astropy ? Here is a handy guide. #pyastro15 https://t.co/Nl9cOXQxsM
— Edward Gomez (@zemogle) April 21, 2015(I need to look into that for a few side projects…)
My favourite thing about this workshop so far is how nice everybody is! It's fine to be a relative novice! 😊 #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 21, 2015Status of the #pyastro15 unconference/sprints board. Don't forget to add votes and proposals before lunch! pic.twitter.com/LP1928CA7K
— Geert Barentsen (@GeertHub) April 21, 2015. @kellecruz introduces @ScienceBetter consulting. #pyastro15
— Pauline Barmby (@PBarmby) April 21, 2015. @kylebarbary's Source Extraction and Photometry (SEP) cython packaging is super duper fast, and available on @github! #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 21, 2015Source Extraction and Photometry (SEP) cython packaging see also this ipython notebook
The excellent idea behind @kellecruz's @ScienceBetter: ask an expert (and compensate them). #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 21, 2015Here is the global distribution of #pyastro15 participants, based on the code used to run @AstroJobVis : http://t.co/uWIjA53mr4 @astrofrog
— Vanessa Moss (@cosmicpudding) April 21, 2015Here’s the link to the blog post I mentioned, on semantic variable names in equations. http://t.co/HVSeNvdGSh #pyastro15
— Matt Mechtley (@biphenyl) April 21, 2015google doc for astropy.stats unconference session https://t.co/dSaVmLSUNP #pyastro15
— Matt Craig (@astronomatty) April 21, 2015If anybody at #pyastro15 wants these stickers (put them on anything), I have a bunch pic.twitter.com/g9Gmn3VSTw
— Matt Mechtley (@biphenyl) April 21, 2015(yes, I want…)
You can print-your-own stickers if you aren’t at #pyastro15, The psd file is here: http://t.co/EhSxRPCYGf
I will also entertain mailing them
— Matt Mechtley (@biphenyl) April 21, 2015Here's space telescope Scientific Python course #pyastro15 https://t.co/xVBKHdLlUB
— Steven Crawford (@astrocrawford) April 21, 2015Organizing astro-Python educational resources doc: https://t.co/f3XUagwoO7 #pyastro15
— Pauline Barmby (@PBarmby) April 21, 2015New blog post: Python in Astronomy, day 2
http://t.co/EfLUfJWCQR
#pyastro15 people in need of PR practice: the blog would be a great place!
— Pauline Barmby (@PBarmby) April 21, 2015New post on my blog about day 2 of #pyastro15 http://t.co/fy2fHPyCXU. Link to @PBarmby’s blog and some other webs mentioned during the day.
— Antonio M. Carrillo (@antmarcarr) April 21, 2015Thanks again everybody who’s tweeting #pyastro15, it’s fun and hugely informative to keep up from afar.