By Steve Crouch, Research Software Group Leader, talking with Matt Gerring, Senior Software Developer at Diamond Light Source and Mark Basham, Software Sustainability Institute Fellow and Senior Software Scientist at Diamond Light Source.
This article is part of our series: Breaking Software Barriers, in which we investigate how our Research Software Group has helped projects improve their research software. If you would like help with your software, let us know.
Building a vibrant user and developer community around research software is often a challenge. But…
By Steve Crouch, Devasena Inupakutika, Alun Ashton, Mark Basham and Matthew Gerring
Scientific projects are often created as stand alone applications which use their own definitions for algorithms and visualisation tools. This makes it difficult to benefit from other people's work. The DAWN Science project allowed a large group of scientific developers and software engineers to collaborate by developing a single, general purpose API to allow access and sharing of existing algorithms and visualisation tools. This significantly accelerates the development of new…
By Steve Crouch, Research Software Group Leader, and Mark Basham, SSI Fellow and Senior Software Scientist at Diamond Light Source.
January 30th 2015 saw the latest Institute-sponsored Hackathon at Diamond Light Source, bringing together top coding talent from across the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and beyond.
Participants were able to propose interesting scientific and software development projects related to Python, and work on them in groups. One constraint, however, was that these groups be formed of individuals that don't normally work together, and…
By Mark Basham, Senior Software Scientist, Diamond Light Source and 2014 Institute fellow.
As a scientist, the chance to glimpse inside the world of data analytics in the financial sector was something I was really keen on, and if nothing else, the setting for PyData London did not disappoint. Level 39 is the 39th floor of 1 Canada Square, at the heart of Canary Wharf. Its breath-taking views and modern layout and design made for a really good conference location, and set the mood for the conference well.
PyData is all about using Python to analyse data, and as such the…