Lesson 1: Exploring Data
Goals for this session:
- Familiarize ourselves with 3 types of astronomical data: images, object catalogs, and reported measurements
- Remember some summary statistics (and maybe learn some new ones) and put them into practice
- Build a generative model, and simulate some data with it
Ivezic Chapter 1, sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, and Chapter 3, section 3.2.