raptop (π’€― π’„· π’„ˆπ’€­π’‡)

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Astronomy diapsid and number cruncher, other skills as required. Primary focus is exoplanets, but relatively up on other aspects of space/astronomy/spaceflight. Not indebted to π’€­π’Œ“. Trying not to be just a stabby bird lost in the Outer Dark (p ≀ 0.05).

'blog is about what you'd expect (pdn4kd.github.io)

(Also on esper and libera IRC servers)

π“…ƒnihilopteryx, π’€­π’‰Žπ’ˆͺπ’„·, and/or shantak
Professional Nounshe/him (p-value == ???)
Amateur Nounsthey/them
githubhttps://github.com/pdn4kd/
raptop (π’€― π’„· π’„ˆπ’€­π’‡)1h ago
raptop (π’€― π’„· π’„ˆπ’€­π’‡)1d ago

In which I mess around with graphs (including plotly) but for a transit system instead of anything space-related: https://pdn4kd.github.io/2026/04/02/dashboards.html

Anyway, is there something related to eg: astronomy/space/exoplanets that people would want a dashboard for?

Example Data Products (or Something) using WMATA Ridership in Matplotlib and Plotly

This is some example data analysis/graphing stuff I threw together as an example of building out skills. WMATA has an extensive repository of ridership data though you’ll often get it in a somewhat annoying format. (The β€œCSV” is really a UTF-16 TSV, and has an extra row with titles that could have been incorporated into the main set of headers) I also added a β€˜location’ based on the route names.

Wandering the Outer Dark
raptop (π’€― π’„· π’„ˆπ’€­π’‡)14h ago
Datagraver.com5d ago
Today the full bloom of the Cherry Blossom was announced for Kyoto (Japan).
With data on the full bloom day stretching back to the year 812, a nice colorful graph can be made on the trend.
https://datagraver.com/kyoto-full-flowering-day-cherry-blossom-since-year-812/
#climate
raptop (π’€― π’„· π’„ˆπ’€­π’‡)21h ago

I've mentioned in the past you should document well, lest you be mauled by a ネコバス, but it's far more likely whatever projects you're working on perish with you from no one else having any interest.

Documenting for yourself is still worth doing at least.

raptop (π’€― π’„· π’„ˆπ’€­π’‡)22h ago

Why are there so many bespoke platforms that require registration? And then each company also has their own website which requires the same?

And why do the majority of data science jobs require that you already have a security clearance?

raptop (π’€― π’„· π’„ˆπ’€­π’‡)1d ago

RE: https://deadinsi.de/@wolfie/116339569923683663

Edo period samurai (even though there's a risk of genteel poverty in a kinda medieval society). If it's Sengoku period, then ask if the pirate option is the corporate charter kind, or one of the nastier kinds.

edit: though if the Pirate option is "be a coder in modern Sweden..."

raptop (π’€― π’„· π’„ˆπ’€­π’‡)1d ago
Butterfly meme, but it's a camera pointing at a focal ratio and asking "is this aperture?"
raptop (π’€― π’„· π’„ˆπ’€­π’‡)1d ago
Mike McCaffrey 5d ago
#SilentSunday
raptop (π’€― π’„· π’„ˆπ’€­π’‡)1d ago

It was pointed out elsewhere, but this is one of the better wikipedia edits (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_spaceflight_records&diff=prev&oldid=1346668999)

#wikifinds

raptop (π’€― π’„· π’„ˆπ’€­π’‡)1d ago
Michael Busch2d ago

Find all the asteroids.

"Early Data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Reveals Over 11,000 New Asteroids"

https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2608/

Early Data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Reveals Over 11,000 New Asteroids - Rubin’s largest asteroid haul yet, gathered before the Legacy Survey of Space and Time even begins, is just the β€œtip of the iceberg”

Scientists at NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, have submitted an unprecedented set of asteroid detections to the IAU Minor Planet Center, including hundreds of distant worlds beyond Neptune and 33 previously unknown near-Earth asteroids.

www.noirlab.edu
raptop (π’€― π’„· π’„ˆπ’€­π’‡)1d ago

In which I mess around with graphs (including plotly) but for a transit system instead of anything space-related: https://pdn4kd.github.io/2026/04/02/dashboards.html

Anyway, is there something related to eg: astronomy/space/exoplanets that people would want a dashboard for?

Example Data Products (or Something) using WMATA Ridership in Matplotlib and Plotly

This is some example data analysis/graphing stuff I threw together as an example of building out skills. WMATA has an extensive repository of ridership data though you’ll often get it in a somewhat annoying format. (The β€œCSV” is really a UTF-16 TSV, and has an extra row with titles that could have been incorporated into the main set of headers) I also added a β€˜location’ based on the route names.

Wandering the Outer Dark