Category Archives: R

My Favorite Computing Videos on YouTube

Posted on March 31, 2017 by astrocompute

I have often been asked what are my favorite computing videos on YouTube. There are so many, it’s hard to give a definitive answer and I keep discovering more, some posted several years ago. As of today only, here are … Continue reading →

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How Does An Astronomer Become A Data Scientist?

Posted on January 29, 2016 by astrocompute

I have been asked this question by several junior colleagues, so I thought my answer might be valuable to a broader audience. In particular, these young scientists were keen to learn how their skills might be transferable to another field. … Continue reading →

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The 8th Extremely Large Databases Conference and Workshop

Posted on July 17, 2015 by astrocompute

These annual workshops that discuss ” …the real-world challenges, practical considerations, and nuts-and-bolts solutions in the realm of managing and analyzing extreme scale data sets.”  The attendees include Big Data users from industry and science, developers, researchers, and providers. This year’s … Continue reading →

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It’s impossible to conduct research without software, say 7 out of 10 UK researchers

Posted on January 16, 2015 by astrocompute

This is the the title of a blog post at the UK’s Software Sustainability Institute, which reports the results of a survey conducted amongst 417 UK researchers across many disciplines. This is the most extensive survey of its type conducted … Continue reading →

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Resources and Conferences for Astronomical Statistics

Posted on December 8, 2014 by astrocompute

With the permission of Eric Feigelson, I am reproducing here this very useful post from the Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics Portal (ASAIP) blog on the many conferences on the discipline of Astrostatistics, and the growing number of powerful statistical software tools … Continue reading →

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Software Carpentry Lessons Learned – A Talk at Sci Py2014

Posted on August 22, 2014 by astrocompute

This is a video of a highly entertaining presentation by Greg Wilson, the founder of Software Carpentry, which teaches lab skills for scientific computing through intensive “boot camps” and on-line resources. The story of how Software Carpentry came about alone … Continue reading →

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Licensing Your Code: GPL, BSD and Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”

Posted on January 17, 2014 by astrocompute

I have for some time considered changing to a more permissive license (with Caltech’s approval) for the Montage image mosaic engine, as the the current license forbids modification and redistribution of the code. My first attempt at navigating the many … Continue reading →

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Using R For Statistical Analysis – Two Useful Videos

Posted on March 29, 2013 by astrocompute

Many people use R, an extensible, community-maintained language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a powerful system, but one of the complaints I have heard is that getting started can be a little difficult. So this week, … Continue reading →

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