Thursday, February 27, 2014

data analysis with python (links)


 plotting

https://wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific/Plotting 

statistics

statpy - many links to python statistics things



least-squares fitting

lmfit is built upon scipy.optimize, and can perform least squares fitting in python.

uncertainty


uncertainties






Saturday, February 22, 2014

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

do I know this person?

Charles Steinhardt- http://db.ipmu.jp/member/personal/1268en.html

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Sunday, December 22, 2013

where to find latest emulateapj and apj.bst

http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~alexey/emulateapj/

http://ads.harvard.edu/pubs/bibtex/astronat/

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

python astronomy and science links


 basic packages

-numpy and scipy

for OS X, install the  scipy superpack-  contains "Recent builds of fundamental Python scientific computing packages for OS X" including numpy and scipy

-matplotlib

-visual python- for making 3d graphics

astronomy packages

-astropy

-ureka- space telescope science institute package that includes iraf and pyraf

astronomy guides

- Python switchers guide - has IDL commands with similar python commands


interesting looking, untried

 -Glue, "explore relationships within and among related datasets"