Public Outreach
These slides were used by Alyssa Goodman, London Vallery, Elliott Hyman, Simon Levien, and Immaculata De Vivo to showcase the work they did together as a "Radcliffe Research Team" on the...
A discussion of the 
A discussion + set of live demonstrations of Alyssa Goodman's work, for the Harvard Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE) summer research students. (The demonstrations are descried in detail...
Seeing, Exploring, Explaining, and Sharing our Universe,
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American Museum of Natural History, New York City,
Monday, December 2, 2019:
Scientists show each other pictures. Sure, we also show each other equations, and words, but we communicate most rapidly using pictures. In modern science, these “pictures” can be used to understand and explore phenomena in...
An invited retrospective on how Alyssa Goodman's many seemingly-unrelated research pursuits and interests evolved, and are actually related.
Calypso to Calypso (Preview) and Mapping the Milky Way,
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Winthrop House, Harvard University,
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
This was an unscripted presentation/discussion, using the short Google Slides presentation embedded below, about Alyssa Goodman's Milky Way work and career, given to students as part of the "PRISE Distinguished Speaker Series" for 2019. It offered a preview of the "...
Beyond-the-Book-Thinking in Modern (STEM) Education,
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Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Friday, April 12, 2019:
In teaching, I have found that introducing students to new concepts using new media, usually in conjunction with “old media” is an effective way to increase engagement, learning, and, perhaps most importantly, curiosity. In this talk, I will draw...
Next in Data Visualization (Introduction and Handouts),
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Cambridge, MA,
Monday, April 1, 2019:
These are host Alyssa Goodman's introductory slides for the...
A presentation to a crowd of Barnstable High "AstroJunkies," about how we use physics, statistics, and visualizations to turn information from large, public, astronomical data sets, across many...
The Future of Data in Science (*postponed*),
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WiDS, Microsoft New England, Cambridge, MA,
Monday, March 4, 2019
Once upon a time, I was an astrophysicist. Then, about fifteen years ago, I started using medical imaging tools on high-dimensional astronomical data sets, and caring more than was normal about sharing and re-using data and software, and making online documents...