Gaia Data Workshop

Tutorial for the Gaia Data Workshop, Heidelberg, November 21-24

Requirements:

• python 2 with virtualenv package
• git
• some python and MySQL knowledge

Steps to take to get things going:

1. Install virtualenv package

pip install virtualenv

2. Clone git repository

git clone https://github.com/mtjvc/gaia-data-workshop.git

3. Create virtual environment (make sure python 2 is being used) inside the gaia-data-workshop directory.

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2.7 venv

4. Activate virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate

5. Install required packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

6. Start the notebook server and open the notebook

jupyter notebook

Acknowledgements

Galaxy image credit: R. Hurt (SSC), JPL-Caltech, NASA