Python in Astronomy 2015: Day 3 Tweets
22 Apr 2015Day 3 of the Python in Astronomy 2015 and I continue to watch longingly from afar. Today was much busier here, so I didn’t keep up as much during the day. But, it also seems like the attendees tweeted a little less as they are more heads-down into coding and workshops. Here’s my scraping of what caught my eye in the #pyastro15 twitter stream today:
Buddy outside the hotel rooms (yes, one outside every room) at #pyastro15 pic.twitter.com/U0QgZFgdaF
— Matt Mechtley (@biphenyl) April 22, 2015(He’s Shaun the sheep, He’s Shaun the sheep, He even mucks about with those who cannot bleat….Cannot bleat!)
OMG wait is there NASA HEASARC functionality for @astroquerypy?? If not, I smell a hack project!! #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 22, 2015. @keflavich: have to be careful about astroquery tests: don't want to spam remote services. #pyastro15
— Pauline Barmby (@PBarmby) April 22, 2015Good idea: don't accidentally DDOS remote services when downloading data. Need to pass flags. - @keflavich @astroquerypy #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 22, 2015(ahem, um, yes. Having gotten my org blocked for a few hours by [redacted] a few years ago. I don’t think anyone at my org ever found out as I was able to grovel apologetically quickly enough.)
. @BenneHolwerda talks are being videoed (w/consent); will get them put somewhere at some point. #pyastro15
— Pauline Barmby (@PBarmby) April 22, 2015(Yes, yes, YES, please!! especially if I can download them and watch them on airplanes.)
Firefox/chrome web developer plug-in lets you look at the forms menu, as demo'd by @keflavich #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 22, 2015(Need to check this out. My old standby for figuring out how to automate website interactions isOmniWeb, but it hasn’t been under active development for some years.)
.@PBarmby @keflavich and for the VO you can use astropy.vo (for cone search) and PyVO (for imags/spectra) #pyastro15
— Thomas Robitaille (@astrofrog) April 22, 2015good conversation about should/how/where to write a paper for module. perhaps think of us as "electronic instrumentalists?" #pyastro15
— Alex Hagen (@astrophysicalex) April 22, 2015#pyastro15 participants: please help add entries to the acknowledgment generator! http://t.co/yRKFQxMFD7 (good practice for pull requests)
— Thomas Robitaille (@astrofrog) April 22, 2015(planning to do that a little later today myself)
This is what the #pyastro15 unconference/sprints board looks like this morning. Keep adding votes and proposals! pic.twitter.com/iwPoV9sxY1
— Geert Barentsen (@GeertHub) April 22, 2015LEMON start to sound really interesting for fast differential photometry and http://t.co/Z7jIbUqqrT #pyastro15 @jaaaaam
— Antonio M. Carrillo (@antmarcarr) April 22, 2015Very interested to look more into V. Gomez package for differential photometry https://t.co/hOfB3BECPG #pyastro15
— Steven Crawford (@astrocrawford) April 22, 2015#pyastro15 my talk: https://t.co/c3Sr5aPuK1
— astroquery (@astroquerypy) April 22, 2015.@aBrittonSmith telling us about the awesome yt project (http://t.co/0W9wV1Ra17) at #pyastro15
— Thomas Robitaille (@astrofrog) April 22, 2015.@aBrittonSmith featured a 3D visualization of @keflavich's data. Beautiful 3D plot done in yt with 2 lines of code! #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 22, 2015Very good talk by B. Smith on the yt-project. I didn't realize it was applicable to so many other non-astronomy fields! #pyastro15
— Alexa Villaume (@AlexaVillaume) April 22, 2015. @neilcrighton high resolution absorption line spectral analysis https://t.co/oLlsQ73Jau #pyastro15
— Steven Crawford (@astrocrawford) April 22, 2015. @becky1505 makes everyone's Python figures better with prefig. http://t.co/QYBOQbsTxM #pyastro15
— Pauline Barmby (@PBarmby) April 22, 2015Download ginga to get the reference viewer for free! https://t.co/aY8CLKsitY #pyastro15
— Stuart Mumford (@StuartMumford) April 22, 2015I really need to start over with my python installation with Anaconda #pyastro15
— Alexa Villaume (@AlexaVillaume) April 22, 2015(I keep hearing about anaconda…need to look into one of these days.)
Conclusion from looking at the whiteboard, "We need another week." #pyastro15
— Alexa Villaume (@AlexaVillaume) April 22, 2015(oh, that would just double my jealousy!)
#pyastro15 discussion on how to credit software development document: #pyastrocred notes: https://t.co/AwSSWDbcGr
— Pauline Barmby (@PBarmby) April 22, 2015Blog post! http://t.co/3pvzgzm3Fy #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 22, 2015Document for http://t.co/ISoLBo14vT reboot : http://t.co/lKL1L0XMbf #pyastro15
— Tom Aldcroft (@taldcroft) April 22, 2015Holy smokes, taking notes and trying to tweet a #pyastro15 discussion simultaneously is exhausting.
— Pauline Barmby (@PBarmby) April 22, 2015why package your python code? mindless installation of your software for your users -- @Iguananaut #pyastro15
— Alex Hagen (@astrophysicalex) April 22, 2015photometry session #pyastro15 https://t.co/4WnzcPtoXF
— Matt Craig (@astronomatty) April 22, 2015#pyastro15 software packaging slides -- http://t.co/c0f7Ower2L @Iguananaut
— Alex Hagen (@astrophysicalex) April 22, 2015Learning how to test your code and know what has been called/run on your code or not with coverage.py http://t.co/DyHKd1uCnm #pyastro15
— Antonio M. Carrillo (@antmarcarr) April 22, 2015Just found out about psrecord for high-level profiling by @astrofrog http://t.co/RHuHFE1tL5 #pyastro15
— Antonio M. Carrillo (@antmarcarr) April 22, 2015doc for Sphinx session in #pyastro15 https://t.co/06Ubn5onru
— Haley Gomez (@astrofairy) April 22, 2015@astropy How to write documentation http://t.co/uGz9aFXGqQ. Is applicable to way more projects than just Astropy! #whatthesphinx #pyastro15
— Stuart Mumford (@StuartMumford) April 22, 2015Useful tidbit: the @astropy package template can be used for non-affiliated packages! It gives step-by-step instructions. @eteq #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 22, 2015#pyastro15: a great way to learn git and github is http://t.co/Fehho8W74W ; also seaborn is good for setting context of paper/talk figures.
— gully_ (@gully_) April 22, 2015New blog post: summary of day 3 at #pyastro15. Loads of links to the software shown during the day http://t.co/Tt2ZIkxanv
— Antonio M. Carrillo (@antmarcarr) April 22, 2015New blog post: Python in Astronomy, day 3 #pyastro15 http://t.co/t3Hd8lKDjw
— Pauline Barmby (@PBarmby) April 23, 2015Thanks everyone and keep it up tomorrow!