Who are we?

The Data Analysis Working Group @ IRyA, UNAM is a group of researchers and students interested in data analysis in astronomy. The group was formed in 2019 and is led by Prof. Sundar Srinivasan. The group is open to all researchers and students at IRyA interested in data analysis, and holds monthly meetings to discuss topics such as data visualisation, statistics, open science, and reproducible research.

Past DAWGI meetings

DAWGI holds monthly meetings during each semester. Here are details of some previous meetings.
Presentations and code snippets are also available from the DAWGI GitHub repository.

June 2019
Will Henney -- "Tetrablocks - an algorithm for multi-resolution mapping of inhomogeneous data". Presentation and code available on Github.

August 2019
Sundar Srinivasan -- "Likelihood and the chi-squared statistic". Presentation and code available on Github.

September 2019
Will Henney -- "How to choose color maps for figures". Presentation and code available on Github.
Sundar Srinivasan -- "Fitting a line to data with large intrinsic spread". Presentation and code available on Github.

October 2019
Will Henney -- "On the optimal slopes of graphs (and why you should compensate your power spectra)". Presentation and code available on Github.
Sundar Srinivasan -- "Estimating the density distributions of data using histograms and KDEs: some caveats and tips". Presentation and code available on Github.

2020: Fall of Trantor and the First Galactic Empire
2021: The Mule visits the Great Library at Trantor
2022: The Second Foundation defeats the Mule


March 2023
Will Henney -- "How to display an image with scientifically meaningful axes in Python"
Presentation and code available on Github.
Sundar Srinivasan -- "A brief introduction to Github Copilot"
Presentation and code available on Github.

The DAWGI Guest Lectures

The DAWGI Guest Lectures are a series of lectures on topics related to data analysis by experts in the field. The first series of lectures took place on 28th and 29th January, 2021. More information on these can be found here.