Accession Number:
AD1100490
Title:
Snakes on a Spaceship -an Overview of Python in Heliophysics
Descriptive Note:
Journal Article - Open Access
Corporate Author:
NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC WASHINGTON United States
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
2018-12-14
Pagination or Media Count:
19.0
Abstract:
Computational analysis has become ubiquitous within the heliophysics community. However, community standards for peer review of codes and analysis have lagged behind these developments. This absence has contributed to the reproducibility crisis, where inadequate analysis descriptions and loss of scientific data have made scientific studies difficult or impossible to replicate. The heliophysics community has responded to this challenge by expressing a desire for a more open, collaborative set of analysis tools. This article summarizes the current state of these efforts and presents an overview of many of the existing Python heliophysics tools. It also outlines the challenges facing community members who are working toward the goal of an open, collaborative, Python heliophysics toolkit and presents guidelines that can ease the transition from individualistic data analysis practices to an accountable, communalistic environment.
Descriptors:
- air force
- data analysis
- data mining
- high latitudes
- magnetic fields
- measurement
- physics laboratories
- satellite orbits
- software development tools
- computers
- debugging
- information science
- meteorological satellites
- space sciences
- coordinate systems
- software development
- computer programs
- artificial satellites
- computer programming
- software testing