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Last active March 13, 2021 17:46
CERN GSOD BLOG

project: ROOT title: RNTuple climate data tutorial and Reference Specfications author: John Yoon date: 03.11.2020 year: 2021 layout: blog_post logo: ROOT-logo.png.jpg intro: | Google's Season of Docs offers an opportunity for technical writers and open source organizations to collaborate on projects that would improve through documentation. Following the program's application process, I was fortunate enough to match up with CERN, specifically with its software framework team, ROOT. Per ROOT's own website, "ROOT is a software framework for data analysis and I/O: a powerful tool to cope with the demanding tasks typical of state of the art scientific data analysis." Due to the nature of CERN, ROOT's primary use cases revolve around particle physics analysis. This fact catalyzed the inspiration for my proposal, which heavily focused on creating a tutorial that would use datasets beyond the physics realm, in order