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Software Use in Astronomy: an Informal Survey — HN submission

Sat, 02 Mar 2019 20:31:01 GMT

Software Use in Astronomy: An Informal Survey (2015)

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Software Use in Astronomy: an Informal Survey — mentioned by stargazer-3

Sat, 05 Sep 2015 23:18:21 GMT

According to a recent study on the current usage of programming languages in astronomy -http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03989 - Fortran, quite popular in the old days, is still used by a quarter of scientists in the field. Python has been growing very fast in the last five years, eating away at the IDL share of astronomers.

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Software Use in Astronomy: an Informal Survey — mentioned by todd8

Sat, 18 Jul 2015 15:14:09 GMT

I just noticed http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.03989v1.pdf (it's on todays HN). It claims that in Astronomy Python is used over twice as much as FORTRAN and even C/C++ is used more.

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Software Use in Astronomy: an Informal Survey — HN submission

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:34:51 GMT

Software Use in Astronomy: An Informal Study [pdf]

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Software Use in Astronomy: an Informal Survey — mentioned by jwuphysics

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 03:33:37 GMT

I've never seen this venn diagram before--thanks for bringing it up. I find that, as an academic (pursuing a Ph.D. in astrophysics) that plenty of traditional researchers are able to hack together code (many haven't ever taken a formal programming course; http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03989) but many also misuse or can't interpret statistics (from personal experience). That puts us in the danger zone! I think the key is to find the mathematics and statistics interesting because you want the [data] science to be meaningful. If that's a driving force, then you can learn math and statistics on your…

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