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Minimalist Data Wrangling with Python is envisaged as a student's first introduction to data science, providing a high-level overview as well as discussing key concepts in detail. We explore methods for cleaning data gathered from different…

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Within the last years, Python became more prominent in the scientific community and is now used for simulations, machine learning, and data analysis. All these tasks profit from additional compute power offered by parallelism and…

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{\mu}Manager, an open-source microscopy acquisition software, has been an essential tool for many microscopy experiments over the past 15 years, but is not easy to use for experiments in which image acquisition and analysis are closely…

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Numerical stability is a crucial requirement of reliable scientific computing. However, despite the pervasiveness of Python in data science, analyzing large Python programs remains challenging due to the lack of scalable numerical analysis…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yohan Chatelain , Nigel Yong , Gregory Kiar , Tristan Glatard

\textsc{Pykat} is a Python package which extends the popular optical interferometer modelling software \textsc{Finesse}. It provides a more modern and efficient user interface for conducting complex numerical simulations, as well as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-16 Daniel D. Brown , Philip Jones , Samuel Rowlinson , Andreas Freise , Sean Leavey , Anna C. Green , Daniel Toyra

Process mining, i.e., a sub-field of data science focusing on the analysis of event data generated during the execution of (business) processes, has seen a tremendous change over the past two decades. Starting off in the early 2000's, with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Alessandro Berti , Sebastiaan J. van Zelst , Wil van der Aalst

Software is crucial for the advancement of astronomy especially in the context of rapidly growing datasets that increasingly require algorithm and pipeline development to process the data and produce results. However, software has not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-19 Tom Wagg , Floor S. Broekgaarden

Computation, the use of a computer to solve, simulate, or visualize a physical problem, has revolutionized how physics research is done. Computation is used widely to model systems, to simulate experiments, and to analyze data. Yet, in most…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-11-18 Marcos D. Caballero

Currently it is widely accepted that the language of science is mathematics. This book explores an alternative idea where the future of science is based on the language of algorithms and programs. How such a language can actually be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Garry Pantelis

We present an algorithm implemented in the astroalign Python module for image registration in astronomy. Our module does not rely on WCS information and instead matches 3-point asterisms (triangles) on the images to find the most accurate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-25 Martin Beroiz , Juan B. Cabral , Bruno Sanchez

We create a Python GUI scripting interface working under Windows in addition to (UNIX/Linux). The GUI has been built around the Python open-source programming language. We use the Python's GUI library that so called Python Mega Widgets…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2011-06-07 Amani Tahat , Mofleh Tahat

`scores` is a Python package containing mathematical functions for the verification, evaluation and optimisation of forecasts, predictions or models. It supports labelled n-dimensional (multidimensional) data, which is used in many…

astroquery is a collection of tools for requesting data from databases hosted on remote servers with interfaces exposed on the internet, including those with web pages but without formal application program interfaces (APIs). These tools…

Written in Python and utilising ParselTongue to interface with the Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS), the e-MERLIN data reduction pipeline is intended to automate the procedures required in processing and calibrating radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-18 Megan Argo

In this article, we give a brief overview of the current state and future potential of symbolic computation within the Python statistical modeling and machine learning community. We detail the use of miniKanren as an underlying framework…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Brandon T. Willard

Large language models (LLMs) have been touted to enable increased productivity in many areas of today's work life. Scientific research as an area of work is no exception: the potential of LLM-based tools to assist in the daily work of…

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With the advent of the Large Array Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi satellite, a new window on the Universe has been opened. Publicly available, the Fermi-LAT data come together with an analysis software named ScienceTools (ST,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 D. A. Sanchez , C. Deil

All widely used and useful programming languages have a common problem. They restrict entry on the basis of knowledge of the English language. The lack of knowledge of English poses a major hurdle to many newcomers who do not have the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Saad Ahmed Bazaz , Mirza Omer Beg

Common analysis techniques in multi-messenger astronomy involve hypothesis tests with unbinned log-likelihood (LLH) functions using data recorded in celestial coordinates to identify sources of high-energy cosmic particles in the Universe.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 Martin Wolf

$\textit{Pymc-learn}$ is a Python package providing a variety of state-of-the-art probabilistic models for supervised and unsupervised machine learning. It is inspired by $\textit{scikit-learn}$ and focuses on bringing probabilistic machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-05 Daniel Emaasit