How good is your model? Comparison with Observations

Having created a synthetic population of exoplanets, we would like to evaluate whether our model is a reasonable representation of reality. In the followingwewill use some simple tools to compare our model against exoplanet observations. While the exercises considered here will not produce publishable results, parts of the code may be directly useful for your future work (e.g. the data archive access and plotting tools). The overall goal, however, is not for you to simply run the code, but to understand its strengths and limitations. Throughout the exercises, we encourage you to think about what the code is doing, what it is saying about the model, and what modi ications you might want to make in order to improve the general analysis or to address a speci ic science question.