Tag Archives: social media

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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Why Sustain Scientific Software?

Posted on October 16, 2015 by astrocompute

This is the title of the keynote address given by Matt Turk (University of Illinois) at the 3rd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE3), held in Boulder, CO, on September 28-29, 2015. This annual workshop aims to … Continue reading →

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Just How Should We Cite Astronomy Software?

Posted on August 7, 2015 by astrocompute

The central importance of software in astronomy is generating debates on issues such as how software should be cited, how credit should be accorded to software practitioners, and how software should be preserved and created. The American Astronomical Society (AAS) publishing … Continue reading →

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“Software Use in Astronomy: An Informal Survey” by Momcheva and Tollerud

Posted on July 27, 2015 by astrocompute

This the title of a paper by Ivelina Momcheva and Erik Tollerud that was recently posted on astro-ph at http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03989.  Between December 2014 and February 2015, they carried out an informal survey about software use in astronomy,  marketed mainly through social … 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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Toward a Framework for Evaluating Software Success

Posted on July 1, 2015 by astrocompute

Many of us in the astronomical software business have been debating the best way to evaluate the quality of software and its success within its user community. Here is one proposal submitted by a group of us to the Computational Science … Continue reading →

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Get Credit For Your Code: The Growth and Impact of the Astrophysics Source Code Library (Annual Report 2014)

Posted on March 28, 2015 by astrocompute

The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) recently published its 2014 report, and you can find it on-line at http://ascl.net/wordpress/?page_id=1337, along with reports from the previous two years. The 2014 report highlights the growth and impact of the ASCL on the … Continue reading →

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Why developing research software is like a startup

Posted on March 20, 2015 by astrocompute

This is the title of a keynote presentation by Neil Chue Hong (Director of the UK’s Software Sustainability Institute) at the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds 2015 in Taipei, Taiwan (March 15-20, 2015). Neil emphasizes the crucial point that … Continue reading →

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Tools For Astronomical Big Data

Posted on March 12, 2015 by astrocompute

This week, I attended the Tools for Astronomical Big Data Workshop, held in Tucson from March 9 -11 and sponsored by NOAO. Over 100 practitioners gathered to “survey the present state of the art in addressing the challenges of conducting … Continue reading →

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A new blog on computational and software matters

Posted on March 5, 2015 by astrocompute

My colleague Dan Katz has started a new blog, called Daniel S. Katz’s Blog and I wanted to take advantage of Astronomy Computing Today to recommend it to you. Dan is one of the team that built the Montage software. He … Continue reading →

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