The tutorial pages have a wide range of Python notebooks, example SQL queries, and advice on handling FITS files for all of your data handling needs. Both MWM-focused tutorials and the survey-wide tutorials have useful information.
The MWM survey is focused on stars in the Milky Way. For many science cases, the most useful SDSS outputs are summary files containing stellar parameters for each star in the data release. For more information about the MWM Stellar Parameters, please consult this page
An inexhaustive list of relevant tutorials are listed below
- HR diagram tutorials
- Galactic cartography
- Selecting good Galactic Genesis targets
- Galactic chemical trends for [Fe/H] and Galactic position and [Fe/H] vs [Mg/Fe] and Galactic position
- Predicting ages for red giants
- Plotting MWM spectra
- Target selection
- Checking whether SDSS has an observation of a specific object
- Using SDSS-V targeting flags with semaphore
- Identifying which targets used offset pointings
- Working with parquet target files, including information on all targets, not just observed ones
SQL
More information on querying SDSS data via a SQL database can be found on the SQL Examples page.