Core packages for analysis: IPython, NumPy, and SciPy

Workshop goals:

• Learn the key features of IPython for interactive analysis
• NumPy arrays
  • Define arrays and perform common manipulations
  • Basic array slicing
  • Documentation and tutorials for further work
• Develop a script that extracts a 1-d spectrum from a 2-d longslit image
• Gain familiarity with tools available within the SciPy package

Agenda

• IPython
• NumPy
• NumPy record arrays
• Scipy FFT
• Scipy stats
• Optimization

Author:Tom Aldcroft, Moritz Guenther Copyright:2011 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory