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)
- Identify the GD-1 Stellar Stream using:
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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