bluesky / bluesky-slides

a reveal.js slide presentation about bluesky/ophyd/databroker

Bluesky — An Experiment Specification & Orchestration Engine

Source	https://github.com/bluesky/bluesky
PyPI	pip install bluesky
Documentation	https://bluesky.github.io/bluesky
Releases	https://github.com/bluesky/bluesky/releases

Bluesky is a library for experiment control and collection of scientific data and metadata. It emphasizes the following virtues:

• Live, Streaming Data: Available for inline visualization and processing.
• Rich Metadata: Captured and organized to facilitate reproducibility and searchability.
• Experiment Generality: Seamlessly reuse a procedure on completely different hardware.
• Interruption Recovery: Experiments are "rewindable," recovering cleanly from interruptions.
• Automated Suspend/Resume: Experiments can be run unattended, automatically suspending and resuming if needed.
• Pluggable I/O: Export data (live) into any desired format or database.
• Customizability: Integrate custom experimental procedures and commands, and get the I/O and interruption features for free.
• Integration with Scientific Python: Interface naturally with numpy and Python scientific stack.

Bluesky Documentation.

The Bluesky Project enables experimental science at the lab-bench or facility scale. It is a collection of Python libraries that are co-developed but independently useful and may be adopted a la carte.

Bluesky Project Documentation.

See https://bluesky.github.io/bluesky for more detailed documentation.

bluesky-slides's Issues

Add a column of "Parable of RE"

That is, build up the RunEngine for scratch. This can be based on my SciPy talk from a couple years back.

Migrate from Travis-CI to GitHub Actions

See bluesky/bluesky-enhancement-proposals#21 for details.

Add more illustrations of plans

The "snaked" demo, the spiral plots, etc.

Add a column on “Ophyd verbs”

A high-level rundown of the “Blursky interface” and other ophyd methods and their intent.

This is what we covered at the Chicago EPICS meeting. Unfortunately there is no record of it whatsoever.

Add the full “parable of databroker” content

I think this is basically done but I would like to check the content we have now against Tom’s original slides to be sure.