2026-11-05
09:00 to 17:00
Instructors: Dr Frances Turner, Dr Jannetta Steyn
Helpers: Carol Booth
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This is a pilot workshop, testing out a lesson that is still under development. The lesson authors would appreciate any feedback you can give them about the lesson content and suggestions for how it could be further improved.
Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
This lesson assumes you have a working knowledge of Python and some previous exposure to the Bash shell. These requirements can be fulfilled by: a) completing a Software Carpentry Python workshop or b) completing a Data Carpentry Ecology workshop (with Python) and a Data Carpentry Genomics workshop or c) independent exposure to both Python and the Bash shell. If you're unsure whether you have enough experience to participate in this workshop, please read over this detailed list, which gives all of the functions, operators, and other concepts you will need to be familiar with. In addition, this lesson assumes that learners have some familiarity with astronomical concepts, including reference frames, proper motion, color-magnitude diagrams, globular clusters, and isochrones. Participants should bring their own laptops and plan to participate actively.
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Newcastle University Managed Windows Laptops: The University provides 'packaged' software, which can be installed without admin rights on your managed laptop or workstation.
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Glosario is a multilingual glossary for computing and data science terms. The glossary helps learners attend workshops and use our lessons to make sense of computational and programming jargon written in English by offering it in their native language. Translating data science terms also provides a teaching tool for Carpentries Instructors to reduce barriers for their learners.
Carpentries workshops are designed to be interactive rather than lecture-based, with lessons that build upon one another. To foster a positive online learning environment, we strongly recommend that participants join in real time. As a result, workshop recordings are not recommended and may not be available to learners.
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We will use this collaborative document for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.
Please fill out this survey before you leave the workshop.
Post-workshop Survey| Before starting | Pre-workshop survey |
| Morning | Introduction |
| Image Basics | |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| Working with skimage | |
| Afternoon | Drawing and Bitwise Operations |
| 2:30 pm | Break |
| Creating Histograms |
| Morning | Blurring Images |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| Thresholding | |
| Afternoon | Connected Component Analysis |
| 2:30 pm | Break |
| Capstone Challenge | |
| After finishing | Post-workshop survey |
| END |
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We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.
The setup instructions for this Incubator workshop can be found at the curriculum site.