[cameronperot]

During my master's, I took a job in a physics group that works with high pressure time projection chambers for neutrino detection. They have a bunch of simulation and experimental data they wanted to organize and share with colleagues.

I first worked on improving the database (adding indexes, reducing redundancy, etc.). Next, I wrote a Python package to make it easier to interact with the database from the command line and Python, and act as a backend package for a frontend Flask API I wrote to serve the data. Finally, I made a simple website [1] where users can query the data.

It was great because I not only got to help out the people working in the group, but I also contributed to making the data available to other physicists around the world.

[1] https://rwth-aachen.de/gasdb