Hack Ideas - OttoStruve/UTAstroHackDay2015 GitHub Wiki

Ideas for the hack day

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  • Experimenting with interactive visualization in the Browser with MPLD3 and Bokeh plot library (gully). The Bokeh Plot Library for Python is in version 0.7. It is being actively developed in Austin, and is rapidly gaining neat features for interactive visualization in the browser.

  • Experimenting with StarFish and IGRINS data for robust stellar properties measurement (gully) Recently Ian Czekala released Starfish, a package for robust inference of stellar spectra. Kevin seconds this one. Perhaps we could even try to get something together for IGRINS users to easily use.

  • Starting a curated list of awesome-astronomy-tools (stefano) Create a curated/opinionated list of useful libraries, tools, configurations files that might be useful to the modern astronomer. See this awesome list of awesome awesomeness. In the long term, get it out and ask other people to PR to add to it.

  • Gaussian process breakout session (gully) The Starfish code discussed above employs Gaussian Process regression. Gully has now used this in his research and can host a breakout session tutorial if desired.

  • Tools for interactive paper writing/presentation (sarah) Maybe Andrew wants in on this too? I'm going to be a little late. This could go two ways - there are a bunch of tools out there to enhance collaborative paper writing, but I'm particularly interested in ways we can take advantage of the new online-only journal formats. It seems like rather than writing an old fashioned "print" style paper, we should design it in from the get-go. This could be as straight forward as how we link data directly, interactive plots, etc.

  • Troubleshoot and Document Systemic 2 (greg) Greg has IGRINS radial velocities and V-band photometry for a binary system that he is trying to process with Systemic 2. This tool was developed by Stefano and needs some additional documentation for user cases.

  • Test and document q2 (ivan) I'll be working on extending the Tutorial and documentation of my q2 code, which wraps around MOOG to determine stellar parameters and chemical abundances. It can also be used to manipulate isochrones and estimate other stellar parameters like mass and age. I could use help from MOOG users and people who know isochrones to test the code and help with the Tutorial.