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[Link] Statistics with Python

by Jessica September 30, 2011

Astronomers rely on statistical analysis all the time. The Python programming language has some excellent add-on packages for statistics. But sometimes the documentation isn’t as helpful in “real-world” scenarios. Prasanth Nair has posted a very nice tutorial on Simple Statistics with Python over at his blog. I highly recommend it for new users of python [...]

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Category: programming, python, Uncategorized

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Python 2 to 3 transition

by Jessica August 31, 2011

You can hardly be an astronomer today without knowing how to write code. As with programmers in all disciplines, we are at the mercy of the language we code with. Computer science is still a rapidly evolving field and new programming languages come along, existing programming languages get updated, and your favorite packages/routines might get [...]

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Rumor Mill 2011–2012 is now open

by Jessica August 23, 2011

Astronomers are still social human creatures despite all stereotypes to the contrary. Thus the Astrophysics Job Rumor Mill is one of our most frequented pages on the AstroBetter wiki. We have started the new rumor mill for 2011–2012 and relegated the 2010–2011 page to archives. You shouldn’t need to update links as the page titled [...]

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OS X Lion Install

by Jessica July 26, 2011

Mac OS X Lion has been released and can be downloaded and installed on existing Snow Leopard machines. I have a Mac laptop for communication, travel, etc. and a Mac desktop which is my primary data reduction/analysis machine. I have chosen to upgrade my laptop immediately and test some of the software I use everyday [...]

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Visualizing Simulated Data

by Jessica June 9, 2011

More and more astronomers are writing, running, and using massive computer simulations. The complexity of these simulations (often 3D space + time) means that visualization can be challenging. Over at Astropython, they have posted about the - yt - toolkit that allows you to analyze and visualize the results of adaptive mesh refinement simulation codes (AMR). AMR [...]

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Wiki Restored!

by Jessica April 28, 2011

The wiki and rumor mill have been restored after several performance enhancements. If you have issues with accessing the wiki, logging in, etc., please email us or comment below. Thanks for your patience!

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Wiki Update

by Jessica April 21, 2011

As many of you have noticed, the wiki (including the Rumor Mill) have been inaccessible. Unfortunately, this was a necessary step in order for us to troubleshoot some performance issues we are experiencing. We still have all the content and fully plan to bring back up the wiki as soon as possible. We understand that [...]

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Wiki Upgrade and New Page on Stellar Evolution and Atmosphere Models

by Jessica April 1, 2011

Wiki Upgrade Some of you may have noticed that the wiki appearance has changed. This is because we have upgraded the wiki to the latest and greatest version of TikiWiki (6.2). Some of the functionality, especially wiki editing, should be greatly improved. We are still in the process of importing all of our stylistic customizations [...]

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Keeping Women in Science on a Tenure Track

by Jessica January 11, 2011

Keeping Women in Science on a Tenure Track | NY Times Some shocking numbers regarding the impact of having children as a graduate student or a postdoc on chances of getting a faculty position and tenure. I like the quantitative nature of the study and they recommend specific actions. … women who are married with [...]

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Recent AstroStatistics Papers

by Jessica December 27, 2010

For many astronomers, statistics is an integral part of our analysis procedure; yet, we typically get very little formal training in this area. Recently, several astro-statistics papers have been posted on astro-ph that specifically address some of the unique attributes of astronomical data (small numbers of data points, frequent systematic errors or outliers, non-linear models, [...]

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