Posted on May 27, 2015 in visualization • 1 min read
The past three years, the UT College of Natural Sciences has sponsored a science visualization contest. Cosmological simulations appear to be quite popular, having been featured in both previous contests. Here's my entry for this year's contest:
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This image shows the formation of the first ...
Posted on January 23, 2015 in misc • 1 min read
I made a map! I recently found a great tutorial on Beneath Data on how to visualize your location history from Google. I've been wanting to do something like this for a while, so I downloaded my location history for the past few years using Takeout, and made a ...
Posted on October 09, 2014 in misc • 13 min read
The following is a brief tutorial written for my students on grabbing FITS images from the Sloan Digitial Sky Survey then loading and displaying them in python using tools from the Astropy Project. It should make for a good test case.
Everything below this point is an IPython notebook and ...
Posted on October 04, 2014 in misc • 1 min read