Tag Archives: computer videos

The Berkeley Python Boot Camp Fall 2013

Posted on September 2, 2013 by astrocompute

One of the best ways to learn a programming language is to take an intensive class for a few days and immerse yourself in it: as one example, you may be familiar with the Sci Coder classes. UC Berkeley has … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Astronomical Data with Blender

Posted on August 10, 2013 by astrocompute

Mining the science content of modern, complex astronomy data sets requires the development of new approaches to visualization, and accordingly many groups have begun to investigate new visualization tool and technologies. Brian Kent of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) … Continue reading →

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Why you should write buggy software with as few features as possible (no, really!)

Posted on July 11, 2013 by astrocompute

This is the title of a presentation by Brian Granger at last month’s SciPy2013 meeting (see also last week’s post). Now, I certainly concur that software should not be feature rich, but the idea that it should be buggy as … Continue reading →

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SciPy 2013 From A Distance

Posted on July 2, 2013 by astrocompute

SciPy 2013 was the twelfth annual Scientific Computing with Python conference, held this year in Austin, TX, from June 24 to June 29. I was unable to attend, so I am giving this report from a distance based on the … Continue reading →

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Choosing The Right Database: A Webcast

Posted on May 20, 2013 by astrocompute

Picking a database these days can be bewildering, and at the same time it can be a crucial business or project decision.  This webcast, by Robin Bloor, Ph.D. Chief Analyst of the Bloor Group, and Mark Madsen of Third Nature, … Continue reading →

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Videos On Planck’s Recent Findings

Posted on April 19, 2013 by astrocompute

This is a little off my usual beat, but like so many people, I was excited by Planck’s extraordinary map of the Cosmic Background Radiation, the most detailed look yet at the Universe soon after the Big Bang. I have … Continue reading →

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The Keck Observatory Celebrates 20 Years Of Operation

Posted on April 11, 2013 by astrocompute

The W. M. Keck Observatory went into operation twenty years ago, and at the time its twin 10m-telescopes made it the largest observatory in the world. It has been a phenomenally successful observatory, and has made important discoveries in 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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Knowledge Discovery from Mining Big Data – Presentation by Kirk Borne

Posted on March 18, 2013 by astrocompute

My friend and colleague Kirk Borne, of George Mason University, is a specialist in the modern field of data mining and astroinformatics.  I was delighted to learn that he was giving a talk on an introduction to this topic as … Continue reading →

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Journey to the Limits of Spacetime: Black Hole Simulations

Posted on February 25, 2013 by astrocompute

In a powerful demonstration of the value of computation to modern astronomy, McKinney et al. (2013) used the resources of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) to perform 3D simulations of the behavior of black holes. These simulations … Continue reading →

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