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

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)

Why?

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

Who we are:

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

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

Workshop Mechanics

• Stickies
  • questions
  • help
  • done
• Etherpad: https://pad.carpentries.org/2026-01-03-aas
  • notes
  • questions
• Course website: https://abostroem.github.io/2026-01-03-aas/
• Post to the ether pad
• Say hi to your neighbor and then put up your green post-it