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6Adler Planetarium - Chicago

8th-10th Dec 2014 Arna Karick - Swinburne Research

@drarnakarick

Blog summary, project URLs + GitHub repositories: http://chasingtelescopes.wordpress.com

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60 participants (~50% new): a good mix of PhDs, post-docs, Team Zooniverse (Oxford), Adler researchers & Astros/Data Scientists/Developers

(GitHub, Authorea, NYU Data Science, Microsoft Research - WWT)

6The value of GitHub for Science

Great talk by Arfon Smith: https://speakerdeck.com/arfon/github-for-science

• Open/collaborative coding, community learning and improving/testing code. • Version control for research and software citation. • Building up your research profile to include ‘software developer’. • Citing other people’s code – building a community based on trust. • Requesting to review code/methodology when reviewing a paper

– enforces better research practices… perhaps/tricky? • Forking code. GitHub makes forking the norm (don’t ask me about forking ;)

2012 2014 ———————————————————- Repositories ~4 million ~20 million Python ~300K 1.4 million C++ ~140K ~615K Latex ~5000 50,000 Fortran ~1400 7000 IDL ~50 2000

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Three very intense days: Mornings - formal talks. Afternoons - unconference sessions organised on the fly. + Hack Day 9am to midnight (last man standing ~3am)

6Unconference Sessions

Hacking the Journal Article (Authorea, arXiv, Latex) Dissemintating #dotastro culture & practises (multidisciplinary)

Astropy tutorials & updates Changing academic culture: datascience/software/research roles

Alternative careers in academia? & tech industry Future of open worldwide telescope (WWT)

Improving credit (+citation) for software Making data & software discoverable

New software skills: Javascript, D3js, Python, APIs, SQL, MLA, Django Museum ideas: astronomy, tech and people

New avenues for outreach (social issues in the US) Repositories for software and teaching materials

Twitter Robots etc. Open access data, stellar and exoplanet archives.

6Hack Day Projects

Blog summary, project URLs + GitHub repositories: http://chasingtelescopes.wordpress.com

6Stay tuned for .Astronomy 7 in 2015…

Amanda Bauer, Andrew Hopkins, Robert Simpson and I are keen to organise .Astronomy Australia.

Twitter: #dotastro & @dotastronomy (GitHub or Atlassian? are potential sponsors)

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http://thehackerwithin.github.io/swinburne Twitter: @hackerwithin

The Hacker Within - Swinburne

Alberto Pepe @albertopepe

ex-CfA co-founder

(in Melbourne next week)

Matteo Cantiello @kantyellow Astrophysicist Kavli - UCSB

Eli Bressert @astrobiased Data Scientist

Stitch Fix

Alyssa Goodman @aagie

Astrophysicist CfA Harvard