.Astronomy 10

24 – 27th September 2018

Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Organizers: Sarah Kendrew, Arfon Smith, Erik Tollerud, Joshua Peek, Ivelina Momcheva, Tom Donaldson, Susan Kassin

Hack Day projects

Data Sonification

Experimenting with turning data into sound.

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Bokeh Hacking with FITS Images

Working out how to use FITS images, catalog data, and observation footprints with Bokeh.

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Space, Wow

Can we build something like http://hubblesite.org/video/984/science live, in the browser? Kinda.

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Specreduce: a hack day package

Advance the specreduce package: clean wavelength tables, convince function access to wavelength table, air to vacuum conversion, testing of the trace function

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You Might Also Like These Matplotlib Keywords

This hack reads a training set python file for plt.* matplotlib function calls, reads your file for matplotlib calls, and shows the most commonly used keywords for the functions you used.

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Contributor plots for astropy-affiliated packages

Code that uses GitHub REST API to plot the number of unique contributors over time for astopy-affiliated packages

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Public outreach tool for exploring research interactively

The goal is to build a web-based outreach tool for contextualizing astronomical research for the public community by tagging recent science results to interactive all-sky maps! We used Aladdin Lite which is great.

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Optical Depth in a minute

~60 second educational videos that do a good job and are made with simple tools. We will continue to make such videos.

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Alternatives to transparency in multiwavelength visualization

Exploring other ways to browse overlayed images in different wavelengths

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Developing Social Justice Reading Groups for Astronomical Communities

Collecting resources and texts to generate a syllabus that can be used to lead social justice/equity/diversity/inclusion discussion groups in astronomical institutions.

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