Welcome to Foundations of Astronomical Data Science

A Data Carpentry Curriculum

Mission

Prepare researchers for the next generation of data products and teach them best practices and practical tools to efficiently work with them

What you can do:

  • Become an instructor
  • Contribute to course materials on GitHub
  • Organize a workshop
  • Become a lesson maintainer
  • Join the Curriculum advisory committee

Why?

  • Current and Future Astronomy:
    • Individual observing programs -->Large surveys
    • Individual images --> databases
    • Key skillset:
      • working with and visualizing data from databases

This workshop: A real life example

  • Reconstruct Fig. 1 from Price-Whelan & Bonaca (2018)
    • Identify the GD-1 Stellar Stream using:
      • Gaia dataset (positions and proper motions)
      • PanSTARRS dataset (photometry)

Workshop Mechanics

  • post-its
    • questions
    • help
    • done
  • Slack (workhops-foundations-of-astronomical-data-science-2-day-workshop): 
    • notes
    • questions
  • course website: https://abostroem.github.io/2024-01-06-aas/
  • repository: https://github.com/abostroem/2024-01-06-aas/
  • more info on DC: https://datacarpentry.org
  • Post to Slack
  • Say hi to your neighbor and then put up your green post-it

Who we are:

  • Volunteer organization
  • Scientists teaching scientists
  • 3,842 Instructors have taught a workshop
  • 3,520 Workshops for over 88,000 learners

DC Introduction

By abostroem

DC Introduction

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