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Musings on astrophysics and code.
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My thesis: tl;dr
In June of this year, I submitted the final corrections to my PhD thesis, Multiscale modelling of neutron star oceans. Now that I have put a few months between me and this date, I thought it would be nice to write a short outline of my thesis for those who might be interested but are too busy/have better things to do than read the full 200+ page pdf. This summary will contain no equations, a few pictures and hopefully not require a physics degree to understand.
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Visualising music data
Last year, I helped give an introductory python course to some MSc maths students here at the University of Southampton. As part of this course, we introduced them to some basic data analysis with
pandasand machine learning withscikit-learn. For this, we needed some data to analyse. In many learning materials, the Iris flower dataset is used. However, I didn’t think that comparing the lengths and widths of flower petals would be particularly inspiring so decided to see if I could find something else. -
Plotting my thesis with Jupyter
A few weeks ago, I attended the Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop 2018. The workshop was a great opportunity to meet fellow research scientists and discuss best practice for scientific software development. During the workshop, I attended an impromptu mini-workshop on the newly-released JupyterLab.