ESAC DATA analysis and Statistics Workshop 2014

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Table of contents

• Tutors
• Notes
• Reading Material
• Agenda
• Attendees
• Post-workshop survey
• Organizing Committee
• Pictures
• Get notifications
• Funding

Tutors

• Guillaume Belanger (ESAC)
• Andy Pollock (ESAC)
• Luis Sarro
• Jake VanderPlas

notes AND Notebooks

• Jake VanderPlas (Monday, Thursday, Friday): Notebooks (on github)
• Luis Sarro (Tuesday & Wednesday): Notebooks (on github)
• Andy Pollock (Wednesday): Slides (PDF)
• Guillaume Belanger (Thursday): Notes (PDF)

READING MATERIAL

• Frequentism and Bayesianism: blog
• Fitting a model to data: http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4686 
• Bayes in the sky: http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.4089 
• On detecting transient phenomena: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.7408

VIDEO TUTORIALS AND LECTURES

MODEL FITTING

ipython notebooks (on github) with the codes from the video tutorials

Blog discussing the frequentist vs bayesian approaches here

MODEL FITTING AND MODEL SELECTION

ipython notebooks (on github) with the codes from the video tutorials

POISSONIAN STATISTICS

Slides (PDF)

TIME DOMAIN ASTRONOMY

Time-domain astronomy lecture transcript (PDF)

DATA MINING AND MACHINE LEARNING

ipython notebooks (on github) with the codes from the video tutorials

Attendees

The list of the 72 registered attendees to this workshop are here. Attendance was good overall: between 37 and 55 people.

post-workshop survey

You can read here what the attendees said about the workshop.

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Organizing committee

• Guillaume Belanger
• Hervé Bouy
• Carlos Gabriel
• Matteo Guainazzi
• Jean-Christophe Leyder
• Bruno Merín (chair) contact
• William O'Mullane
• Andy Pollock
• Elena Puga
• Álvaro Ribas
• Celia Sánchez
• Roland Vavrek

FUNDING

The SOC warmly thanks the ESAC Science Faculty for fully funding this workshop.