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davidwhogg commented 8 years ago

We want various kinds of homework

problems with DR1 data products -- gotchas
short introductions to other public data sets
reading of existing papers on the arXiv and preparation for 5-minute summaries
interfaces to the data, including by xyz, uvw, and so on
preparation to make a 2-minute pitch on day 1.

adrn commented 8 years ago

Cool data visualizations of DR1

davidwhogg commented 8 years ago

@andycasey @wilmatrick do you two have ideas for things we should be giving as homework?

Also @adrn and everyone: Who should get which homework assignment?

andycasey commented 8 years ago

No additional ideas. But everyone should be prepared to make a 2 minute pitch on day 1.

davidwhogg commented 8 years ago

@wilmatrick can you bring to the Sprint an API or code such that people at the Sprint can have / use actions?

wilmatrick commented 8 years ago

Hi David,

Yes, of course. I can prepare a little code snippet for everyone using Jo's galpy to calculate actions. However, people would need to install galpy beforehand. That could be some additional homework task for those interested. Also, it would be good to specify what exactly a pitch is in the email. I'm for example not 100% sure what this is. With slides or without?

Are you planning to have short breakout sessions? I'm thinking of 15min presentations for those interested about technical stuff, e.g. how to use galpy, how to cross match surveys with topcat, if people have some code they are willing to share and introduce (the Binney group has also action estimation codes on github, I believe) etc.

Sorry That I did not answer earlier. I'm currently traveling and typing this on my phone...

Cheers, Wilma

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davidwhogg commented 8 years ago

Oh good point -- we should give advice on installations...

davidwhogg commented 8 years ago

Other ideas:

[ ] code / api for projecting stellar spectra onto bandpasses (Fouesneau)
[ ] distance priors as a function of ra, dec
[ ] metallicity priors / MDF (Kordopatis)

davidwhogg commented 8 years ago

[ ] code / api for querying a good 3-d dust map
[ ] matches to all spectroscopy and spectroscopic labels
[ ] matches to all asteroseismology
[ ] matches to all known exoplanets and binary stars

davidwhogg commented 8 years ago

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