5 ways I use code as an astrophysicist
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- čas přidán 29. 05. 2024
- The best advice I can give to an aspiring astronomer/astrophysicist is Learn to Code - but how do I use coding in my job as an astrophysicist? Here's 5 ways!
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Hi, I'm Thomas, a first year PhD student at Cardiff University. This is my channel where I share my experiences of academia and pieces of Physics and Astronomy I find interesting.
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As a fellow PhD student I'm really looking forward to your video on how to make a good visualisations!
Honestly the more I read papers, the more I'm convinced that most scientists have never stopped to think about their visualisations
Informative and entertaining video Thomas, thank you. It seems to me (for what it's worth) that this is the type of thing you can do that differentiates you from other content creators - blending something that we might all be familiar with (coding) and how it applies to your particular area of interest. We might not all do simulations of the Inter Galactic Medium but most of us have tried to create a visualisation to communicate information from a bunch of seemingly random data. I don't fully understand what you do but I enjoy trying to wrap my head around it. Thank you.
Thanks so much! And I'm going to make more content explaining from the ground up what I do so stick around!
After years of reading climate science books, and learning more about climate change issues, while changing various jobs in IT I've recently thought of combining the two, and I've started learning Python. Think it will be much easier to transition into anything science related, as long as I'd be able to code well.
Your video is just what I needed!
So glad to hear it! Yes python is such a great tool for getting into anything scientific right now. For many it's a gateway language where you can learn how to structure a program and learn the general language features of programming, without the strict requirements of languages like C or Fortran.
And if you're interested in climate science, then Python is perfect! There's so much data involved in climate science, and the UK Met Office does a lot of their work using Python now too!
Looking forward to more coding videos!
Good to hear it - I'm hoping to do some more about how code is used in science. It really is a vital part of the field
Very interesting video as always. I was wondering if you are ever planning to make a video talking about how you believe AI will change the way we do scientific research and what the impact will be on the job market. Would love to hear your thoughts about this
Stay tuned, I've got something in the works at the minute. Not exactly that topic but along those lines
@@ThomasRintoul looking forward to it
Very interesting video. I am just finishing my GCSEs, looking forward to physics and hopefully later astro. What did you do to make your nice animations? Was it something like Manim for the one with the file size comoparisons at the start?
No it wasn't - I wish I'd known about that because it probably would have made my life a lot easier - I did it in Adobe After Effects and it took way too long!
My original/current background is in software development (Java), teaching myself Python. I'm studying Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, and want to pursue this for my career 2.0. What resources do you recommend for learning the astronomy pieces of Python?
Hmmm... I'm not sure honestly. Most of what I do with python in astronomy is just data science - any course on data analysis with python would cover the sorts of things I use it for.
As for anything more astro specific - there's the astropy package which I don't use personally but has some resources on its website for learning astropy.
But most of what I do just makes use of the common data analysis and visualisation packages such as NumPy, Pandas, MatPlotLib, etc.
Best of luck with career 2.0! Feel free to reach out with any other questions either through comments, email or instagram dm (I'm probably most responsive there at the moment)