Tutorials

Here is a collection of tutorials for tasks that I had trouble with at some point or another.
Most come from my github gists page. I must admit that many of these have become a bit outdated, for example I now recommend using uv instead of conda for environment management. .

• Making and Using Custom Python Packages
  If you want to write some python functions or classes and have them be easily available on your local machine, without interacting with conda or pip at all (to keep things as simple as possible) see this gist.

• Getting Started With Computing Clusters
  For some general cluster setup information, see this repo (more recent) which was designed for the SubMIT cluster, or this repo (a bit older) for Stampede2. There should be some transferrable information within, when combined with your cluster’s documentation.

• Running a Jupyter Notebook on a Computing Cluster
  See this github gist for information on running jupyter notebooks on a high performance computing cluster. to add a powershell profile function which slightly streamlines a part of that tutorial, see this gist.

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• Downloading GAIA Data via Python
  GAIA is a space telescope providing unparallelled kinematics of stars in the Milky Way. For information on how to start downloading the data through python, see this repo and for preprocessed GAIA 6D kinematics data see this repo. Also worth looking into is the software topcat which allows one to very rapidly obtain, manipulate and cross-match data from many different astronomical surveys.