I’m the Innovation Scientist of the Center for Astrophysics and formerly the American Astronomical Society. I help other astronomers do research better and faster. You can find out more on my About Me page, and you can find me on Mastodon as @pkgw@mastodon.world or over email at peter@newton.cx.

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Latest post:

Beta-Testing DASCH “DRnext”

The work on DASCH continues to move forward! Yesterday, I posted a first draft of a new set of resources for astronomers. These are collected under the DASCH DRnext moniker and are now ready to be checked out.

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Recently:

Digital Documents have APIs
Sneak Peek: daschlab
Digital Documents are Web Applications
A Fun Python API Pattern for Filtering