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Clare Shanahan

Contributed to the spacetelescope/hst_notebooks repository by developing and refining Jupyter notebooks for astrophysical data analysis, with a focus on improving reproducibility, usability, and deployment readiness. Delivered features such as automated data acquisition, environment setup with requirements.txt, and cross-instrument spectral analysis workflows using Python and shell scripting. Enhanced scientific computing workflows by addressing LaTeX rendering issues, standardizing metadata, and clarifying documentation across COS, ACS, STIS, DrizzlePac, and WFC3 notebooks. Applied code refactoring and PEP 8 compliance to improve maintainability, while targeted bug fixes and environment compatibility updates reduced onboarding friction and ensured reliable execution for research teams.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

70%Features

Repository Contributions

27Total
Bugs
3
Commits
27
Features
7
Lines of code
2,980
Activity Months5

Work History

September 2025

5 Commits • 1 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 focused on improving documentation quality and reproducibility in spacetelescope/hst_notebooks. Delivered comprehensive documentation cleanup and readability improvements across COS, STIS, DrizzlePac, and WFC3 notebooks, standardized style, clarified units, and removed visual clutter such as unnecessary horizontal rules. Updated notebook environment notes, including Python version, to ensure consistent execution and smoother onboarding. Initiated HTML build readiness with incremental style fixes and commits. No major defect fixes were identified this month; efforts centered on maintainability and build hygiene, laying groundwork for more rapid iteration and fewer user support issues.

August 2025

10 Commits • 1 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 monthly summary for spacetelescope/hst_notebooks. Focused on delivering a cohesive UX and metadata improvements across ACS notebooks, plus targeted fixes to improve reliability and reproducibility. Highlights include unified notebook UX enhancements, environment metadata updates, and a bug fix that eliminates a ModuleNotFoundError in the ACS SBC dark analysis notebook.

June 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 monthly summary for spacetelescope/hst_notebooks: Focused on reliability, clarity, and deployment readiness of notebooks. Key outcomes include fixing a script termination issue in pre-requisites, improving user clarity and Python environment compatibility in the ACS Reduction notebook, and implementing a controlled revert to maintain deploy stability. These changes reduce environment-specific failures, streamline onboarding, and strengthen notebook deployment workflows, enabling smoother adoption and reuse across teams.

May 2025

8 Commits • 3 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 performance summary for spacetelescope/hst_notebooks: Key features delivered include automated LSF data acquisition and configuration fetch; reproducible environment setup with a requirements.txt and extended dependencies; and notebook code quality improvements for readability and maintainability. Major bugs fixed include LaTeX rendering in COSLifetimePositions plots by correcting escape characters and resetting notebook state to ensure proper rendering. Overall impact: streamlined COSLifetimePositions workflows, faster onboarding and reproducible environments, reduced maintenance overhead, and more reliable notebook execution. Technologies demonstrated: Python notebook refactoring, environment and dependency management, automation, build reproducibility, and LaTeX rendering handling in plots.

March 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 monthly summary for spacetelescope/hst_notebooks focusing on delivering the COS LSF-aware Spectral Analysis Notebook that educates users on handling COS spectra with varying line-spread functions and instrumental effects, with clear impact on research reproducibility and data quality.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness93.4%
Maintainability94.0%
Architecture88.2%
Performance89.0%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

JSONJupyter NotebookMarkdownPythonShellText

Technical Skills

AstrophysicsCode RefactoringData AnalysisData Download AutomationData VisualizationDependency ManagementDocumentationFile ManagementJupyter NotebookJupyter Notebook DevelopmentJupyter NotebooksLaTeXPEP 8 CompliancePackage ManagementPython

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

spacetelescope/hst_notebooks

Mar 2025 Sep 2025
5 Months active

Languages Used

Jupyter NotebookPythonJSONShellTextMarkdown

Technical Skills

AstrophysicsData AnalysisData VisualizationJupyter NotebooksPythonSpectroscopy