Motivation for DEAP
- DEAP is a modular package for the interactive display and
editing of scientific data with the goal of producing
publication quality plots.
- Radio astronomers at the National Radio Astronomy
Observatory (NRAO) need a generic data display and analysis
toolkit that provides a versatile mechanism for viewing and
interpreting their observation data.
- The process of turning raw data into publishable science
is an interactive, highly iterative process of viewing the
data in detail, editing it (data flagging), and analyzing it
(data fitting).
- There are no existing tools that accommodate data viewing,
data flagging, data fitting, and interative graphical data
editing within the same application. However, there are many
tools that perform a subset of these functions very well.
- All assumptions regarding the nature of the data entered
into the program were kept at a minimum. This means that DEAP
is intended to be useful for viewing, flagging, and fitting
many types of data, not just astronomical data.
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PyCon 2004, Amy L. Shelton (ashelton@nrao.edu)