Tutorial topics/teachers for AstroHackWeek

[dhuppenkothen]

It's never too early to start thinking, and I had a few ideas, so I'm noting them down before I forget.

• Ruth Angus might be a good person to teach this year
• from last year, I remember that we asked Yusra AlSayyad to teach about databases, but she couldn't make it. We might decide to ask her again?
• Topics: I was wondering whether it might be nice to devote a morning to data visualization? This occurred to me because CDS has a new fellow (Alexander Bock) who has done data visualization for NASA.
• I was also wondering whether we should devote a day to open science and good (coding) practices. Maybe have 5-6 small-ish tutorials, some of which can run in parallel on a range of basic to advanced topics (e.g. Git, profiling, licensing code versus data, data management die open science, packaging, code review, ...) along with a "code clinic" where people can help each other with code review etc.

I'll keep adding to the list as I think of people and topics

[davidwhogg]

Have we had @adrn speak yet?

[kbarbary]

+1 to asking Yusra again. We also asked Debbie Bard (LBL/NERSC) last year but she couldn't make it. We might think about doing a formal morning section on cluster computing and parallelism and asking her to cover that.

[davidwhogg]

+1 on Bard.

[nilesh-patil]

+1 on data viz & open science sections!

Also, is there any way to incorporate analysis of astronomy-images (specifically hyper-spectral imagery) in one of the more code oriented sessions?