Updates for February 28

[bfhealy]

General announcements

• A feature generation script is now available in tools/generate_features.py. This code is continuing to be updated to generate all current Scope features.

Pull requests

• Add dmdt feature code to lcstats #262
• Return organized list of ccd/quadrant ids #264
• Add util to remove high-cadence data #265
• Add option to get each object's geojson coordinates along with ID #266
• Add bright star exclusion radius utils #267
• Rename gloria to kowalski_instance #268
• Add Kowalski timeout to config, update collections #269
• Allow single ccd/quad to be passed into get_ids_loop #270
• Add feature generation script #271
• Add tools/featureGeneration subdirectory #272
• Get ZTF alert stats #273
• Add basic light curve stats to feature generation #274
• Fix failing doc tests #275
• Add period-finding and Fourier stats to feature generation #276
• Add feature generation test #277

Issues

• Incorporate n_ztf_alerts and mean_ztf_alert_braai feature generation into scope #263

Going forward

We will continue to build the feature generation script and test it on ACCESS. This process includes:

• Migrating dmdt-generating code to scope (Add dmdt feature code to lcstats #262)
• Installing Scope on ACCESS and testing GPU period-finding code
• Parallelizing the process on ACCESS, referencing https://github.com/mcoughlin/ztfperiodic/blob/master/bin/ztfperiodic_period_search_slurm.py