Python in Astronomy 2015: Day 4 Tweets
23 Apr 2015Day 4 of the Python in Astronomy 2015 and I had very little chance to watch the tweeting in real-time. (I was being covered in glue, scraps of paper, and fluorescent feathers while helping 50 or so 4-6 year olds make Chilean Macaroni Penguin headbands on their ‘field trip’ to South America. At the end I was super impressed with the 3 minute non-stop flight time from Lima to Flagstaff on Montessori Airways. I’ve made a note to look in to this airline for my next trip south. With flight times that fast I won’t care about their upgrade policies.) Here’s my scraping of today’s #pyastro15 tweets, which may be a little shorter because of lower tweeting rates and I’ve only a few minutes before I have to go:
CCDproc: nice python tools for CCD data reduction. #pyastro15 https://t.co/tcj00yn0ln by @astrocrawford and @astromatty
— Edward Gomez (@zemogle) April 23, 2015I'm sure we'll give a go to #specreduc next time at the telescope. Thanks @astrocrawford for packaging it up. #pyastro15
— Brigitta Sipocz (@AstroBrigi) April 23, 2015“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing that it doesn’t go in a fruit salad” @astrocrawford @ #pyastro15
— Erik Tollerud (@eteq) April 23, 2015@astrocrawford presents specreduce - started on Monday! where was this last summer! my student could have used it! #pyastro15
— BenneHolwerda (@BenneHolwerda) April 23, 2015Check http://t.co/3Z74Frnjom to read about parallel ipython notebooks & the H-test by @aarchiba #pyastro15
— Antonio M. Carrillo (@antmarcarr) April 23, 2015Day after conf dinner (& ALMA deadline), we are all here for #pyastro15 talks but the tweeting has slowed down. Unsurprising I guess.
— Pauline Barmby (@PBarmby) April 23, 2015Bootcamps and workshops are crucial for teaching junior scientists about *all* new tools, not just Python. #pyastro15
— Kelle Cruz (@kellecruz) April 23, 2015We need to make bootcamps, workshops, pair/group coding, hack days a regular part of grad & undergrad science education. #pyastro15
— Kelle Cruz (@kellecruz) April 23, 2015@abigailStev That reminds me, in case we don't get a chance to sit down my OOP in Python notes live here https://t.co/U2BYd7SWUq #pyastro15
— Erik Bray (@Iguananaut) April 23, 2015you can view it online here http://t.co/llo2hZ6Eyi Unfortunately it covers more of the "how" & not as much the "why" and "when" #pyastro15
— Erik Bray (@Iguananaut) April 23, 2015Here's an example of a spectrograph class @keflavich https://t.co/prnO29L7Ub #pyastro15
— Steven Crawford (@astrocrawford) April 23, 2015Link to ccdproc repository:
https://t.co/Qx8Xf6VlK9
#pyastro15
— Steven Crawford (@astrocrawford) April 23, 2015I'm having a short rant on Moore's law at #pyastro15. Here are the graphs and data points: https://t.co/THsQIY8dxI https://t.co/GOLXlbihzu
— Geert Barentsen (@GeertHub) April 23, 2015specreduce -- a very early/in development but working code for wavelength calibration #pyastro15 https://t.co/1c0MDWQmC4
— Steven Crawford (@astrocrawford) April 23, 2015Ride the deluge of computing power! https://t.co/8hqRmRSl9P @GeertHub #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 23, 2015@GeertHub ...but what about astronomers' crappy org. skills? Sensible archiving is key not necessarily computing power, I think #pyastro15
— Alexa Villaume (@AlexaVillaume) April 23, 2015Star population synthesis made simpler with starpy https://t.co/VIImf6uRZ6 @becky1505 #pyastro15
— Antonio M. Carrillo (@antmarcarr) April 23, 2015Some information on #dotastro 7:
http://t.co/eVPdWSutZi
#pyastro15
— Ricarda Beckmann (@RicardaBeckmann) April 23, 2015Two @dotastronomy conferences! One in Sidney this november and one in Oxford in June 2016. Check http://t.co/2jecWtxxrB #pyastro15
— Antonio M. Carrillo (@antmarcarr) April 23, 2015For those interested in collaborating on workshop materials for astro computing, pls request to join: https://t.co/vALbkhkt52 #pyastro15
— Kelle Cruz (@kellecruz) April 23, 2015ToyZ looks awesome for teaching data analysis: very versatile and easy to use. http://t.co/kPiEyz62hB #pyastro15
— Ricarda Beckmann (@RicardaBeckmann) April 23, 2015ipython notebook from my lightning talk a few minutes ago is at http://t.co/ODrSjkXNyR #pyastro15
— Matt Craig (@astronomatty) April 23, 2015Cosmic ray rejection code idea: cosmic rays have sharp edges, stars do not. https://t.co/1KnXQUgu2T Super fast code! #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 23, 2015Lightning fast Laplacian cosmic-ray image clean up on optical images by @curtis_mccully https://t.co/0roVz3YErl #pyastro15
— Edward Gomez (@zemogle) April 23, 2015. @astrofrog shows APLpy a really cool way of plotting with python https://t.co/ogW7zuCSR5 #pyastro15
— Antonio M. Carrillo (@antmarcarr) April 23, 2015All my images in papers will now have these beautiful WCS lines across them as well. Fancy. #pyastro15 https://t.co/hSvT7KckNt
— Becky Smethurst (@becky1505) April 23, 2015Colleagues for whom “Python in Astronomy” is not your kind of conference: what could we produce that would be useful to you? #pyastro15
— Pauline Barmby (@PBarmby) April 23, 2015(I just want to be there…)
@curtis_mccully's version of LA Comic cosmic ray detection works 90 times faster than the IRAF version. https://t.co/4mEmuoaDK8 #pyastro15
— Brigitta Sipocz (@AstroBrigi) April 23, 2015Slides from @Iguananaut's python packaging session yesterday: http://t.co/h1tfwrjVI5; For today, http://t.co/DRhpYwg96E #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 23, 2015@biphenyl @magnusvp Here are the few notes I took during the @pycharm session yesterday: https://t.co/UHUBFWJzpi #pyastro15
— Abigail Stevens (@abigailStev) April 23, 2015Quick tip: Use __init__.py to only expose your public-facing API (so your pkg namespace isn’t polluted with pkg.np, pkg.os, etc.) #pyastro15
— Matt Mechtley (@biphenyl) April 23, 2015Just learned you can update a forked GitHub repo from the web interface. Here’s how: http://t.co/LQd4KZKjLB #pyastro15
— Pauline Barmby (@PBarmby) April 23, 2015Some cool resources and tutorials linked at @astrobetter http://t.co/MPK3cc7Quj #pyastro15
— Haley Gomez (@astrofairy) April 23, 2015I've put up the example code for specreduce with a link to the data here:
https://t.co/6H2HRZ9G99 #pyastro15
— Steven Crawford (@astrocrawford) April 23, 2015203 astronomy packages on PyPI: https://t.co/ZVli0JVihT #pyastro15 #pyastrocred
— Kyle Barbary (@kylebarbary) April 23, 2015(hmm… I need to figure out tagging correctly as some of mine are there and some are not. Task added to OmniFocus…)
Want to learn about git branching? http://t.co/ozZnq2Is4t looks excellent. Thanks @Iguananaut for showing it to us. #pyastro15
— Ricarda Beckmann (@RicardaBeckmann) April 23, 2015.@exoplaneteer Yeah... PSA for #pyastro15: add "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy" to classifiers in your package's setup.py!
— Kyle Barbary (@kylebarbary) April 23, 2015Repo for #pyastro15 slides:
https://t.co/ntSjh7lqno
— Pauline Barmby (@PBarmby) April 23, 2015The unconference board at the end of today at #pyastro15 - lots of great stuff happening! pic.twitter.com/jykQShjfct
— Erik Tollerud (@eteq) April 23, 2015New blog post: #pyastro15 day 4. A bit long but today was quite busy & interesting. Check the links for more info! http://t.co/q7BxrebBA1
— Antonio M. Carrillo (@antmarcarr) April 23, 2015Ok, folks, you’re stress-testing Safari with the number of tabs you’ve gotten me to open of things I want to check out. Thanks again & have another great day tomorrow.