Software

Daiquiri⁽¹⁾ is a web-based interface (UI) framework for control, monitoring and data acquisition. At ID21 we use Daiquiri to acquire multiple XRF maps, XANES and stacks of XRF maps at multiple energies. The use of Daiquiri aims to simplify data acquisition and ease live visualization of the results for an efficient and interative beamtime.

Here an introduction on how to use Daiquiri at ID21

PyMCA⁽²⁾ started as a program for X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis developed here at the ESRF. Today, PyMCA is not only a user-friendly software but also the workhorse behind many analytical workflows including now, XRF, XANES, EXAFS and tomography. For XRF the program allows interactive as well as batch processing of datasets and accepts most of the file extensions used by the community. The software is free for download here.

Following a short tutorial on the use of PyMCA to analyze data from ID21

Orange Data Mining is an open-source data visualization, data mining and machine learning toolkit. It features a visual programming front-end for exploratory qualitative data analysis and interactive data visualization. At ID21 we develop Orange  workflows for different purposes: statistical analysis of thousands of individual XANES spectra, or from multi-energy maps, comparison of unknown spectra with reference spectra, etc.

Here an introduction on how to use Orange at ID21 for opening, selecting and running PCA analyses on multiple XANES spectra.