Contacts
During beamtime:
Ask your Local Contact
IT support and data access queries:
[email protected]
Urgent queries: Ext. 8271
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Data analysis at Diamond is primarily performed through DAWN, an eclipse-based workbench. It is a high quality generic tool for scientific data analysis which implements sophisticated support for:
1. Visualisation of data in 1D, 2D and 3D
2. Python script development, debugging and execution
3. Workflows for analysing scientific data calling Python and binary codes
| The DAWN website has full detailed documentation, user videos, and information about the project. |
DAWN is free to download, and is available from all beamline machines during your session.
It is recommended that you download DAWN and familiarise yourself with the training documentaion before your beamtime as it shares many components with the GDA.
The OpenGDA website hosts the complete user guides for DAWN software.
1. Diamond SciSoft Analysis user guide
2. Diamond SciSoft Python guide
On any Linux machine at Diamond you can access DAWN using the following commands:
| module load dawn |
The key user videos are featured below:
Introduction to DAWN
Using Python
Peakfitting Multidimensional Data
Download DAWN to process your data after your session.
Full data reduction process, box profile, stack processing and expressions:
The DAWN website has a full list of data reduction videos
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