HackCS19
Team Gender:
Now with colors!
The new form now tracks comments vs questions.
https://aasgender.wwu.edu/form_new2.html
female questions askers increased slightly from 21% to 24%
Overall women attendees: 31% at CS18, 37% at CS19
no difference in number of questions asked by gender at cs19, one more question for women at cs18.
male chairs allowed on average one more questions than female session chairs.


Second part of project: new set of best practice recommendations for CS20
Document covers how LOC chooses SOC, how SOC accepts splinters, etc.
Session chairs have the most recommendations - 15 things they need to do! Therefore, boiled down to key items: leave time for 4+ concise questions; ask for Qs, not comments; ask for name/affiliation; wait for several hands to go up; give priority to underrepresented groups and earlier career attendees. Also video video video.


Team Attendee Map:
Two approaches - one Java based didn’t make it to the final map, but has parsed out the database. Python approach made maps and went live. http://astro-alexis.github.io/csmapper/
World map, Europe, North America sorted by the number of attendees, then US and Europe confusograms showing also color coded research topics.
http://astro-alexis.github.io/csmapper/


Open Source ZDI:
http://matthewmengel.github.io/documentation.html


Databases:
An attempt on a common schema for astronomy databases.
https://github.com/ivh/AstroObjectSchema


Starfish framework for spectral inference:
NOW WITH MORE BINARIES WHOAAA
Turns out, all you needed were a bunch of 2s.
It’s on github, check it out, have fun!
https://github.com/gully/Starfish/tree/mix_model_omega2/scripts


Recommendations for Reporting Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo Analyses in Academic Literature. 
Result is a document, highlighting, among others, reproducibility and usability.
https://github.com/pkgw/mcmc-reporting


Confusograms
ellipses are a pretty way to represent multi-dimensional data.
Clearogram https://github.com/jradavenport/clearogram


iSpec
http://www.blancocuaresma.com/s/
Nicole code added as a way to synthesize spectra.