Date: Wednesday 5th of March 2025, 13:30 (GMT).
Location: INB3305 (Isaac Newton Building) and Online MS Teams meeting

‘Linking, Visualizing, and Analyzing Data: An Introduction to Glue and Astropy’

by Dr Thomas Robitaille, Aperio Software Ltd, Essex, UK.

Abstract:

In this seminar, I will give an overview of two open-source scientific Python projects. I will first present Glue, which is a multidisciplinary Python package (https://glueviz.org) that allows users to explore relationships within and across related datasets. The aim is to make it easy for users to create multi-dimensional, linked visualizations of datasets, select subsets of data interactively or programmatically in one, two, or three dimensions, and see those selections propagate live across all open visualizations of the data (e.g., graphs, maps, diagnostic charts, etc.). I will then give an introduction to the Astropy Project, which is a community effort to develop core packages for astronomy in Python and foster interoperability between Python astronomy packages.

Image made using the glue package