Data Analysis Specialist

The Data Analysis Specialist implements the Pipeline. Part of the realisation may be contracted out.

He/she writes the following documents:

• Data Reduction Detailed Design
• Data Reduction Documentation: maintenance guide, user guide, test procedures.

The data analysis specialist is answerable to the the instrument responsible. S/he implements and tests:

• instrument description files for the ETCs
• the different pipelines (calibration, reduction, quality control and observatory).
• final version of all reduction recipes, including the ones provided by consortia. For internal instruments, provides all reduction recipes.
• develops pipeline reduction recipes and algorithms, constructs the database and programs the reduction rules. Pipelines will be developed in a framework independent from any particular data reduction system (based in particular on Frame and Recipe Signature classes described in the Data Flow design document [3]). A clear separation between the DFS and the actual data reduction system will facilitate the migration to a new system. The implementation of the Recipes will be based on a data reduction system providing base functionalities (see Section 6.3).
• Test pipelines robustness and speed, develops imaging simulation. Imaging simulations and other physical models will be based on extensions of the framework developed for the creation of ETCs.