STFC School on Data Intensive Science 2020

Session

Parallel Session: Distributed programming

14 Oct 2020, 10:30

Zoom Meeting

19. Git Demystified

Mark Dawson

14/10/2020, 10:30

Familiar with basic git commands, but not sure where to go next? Have you been copying mysterious git snippets from stackoverflow? This workshop is a deep dive into the surprisingly elegant underlying mechanisms that git uses to represent your code. We'll use this mental model to understand how to git works and what it can do for us. The workshop only assumes basic knowledge of git, but some...

18. Virtual universes vs. the real thing

Andreea Font, Ian McCarthy

14/10/2020, 10:30

In this session we will run a series of exercises aimed at familiarizing the attendees with large, publicly-available data sets derived from both cosmological simulations ("virtual universes") and astrophysical observations from two of ESA's most recent satellite missions: Gaia and Planck. We will show how the data sets can be retrieved in an efficient way and analysed using a variety of...