Seeing, Exploring, Explaining, and Sharing our Universe,
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American Museum of Natural History, New York City,
Monday, December 2, 2019:
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...
Enhancing Astronomers’ Appreciation for High-Dimensional Data (Visualization),
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Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto,
Tuesday, October 22, 2019:
These are Alyssa Goodman's slides from her presentation at the 11th edition of 
An invited retrospective on how Alyssa Goodman's many seemingly-unrelated research pursuits and interests evolved, and are actually related.
These are Alyssa Goodman's slides from her presentation at the
Teasing Out the True Milky Way,
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Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ,
Tuesday, September 10, 2019:
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...
Introduction to Visualization for Teachers,
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Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Tuesday, July 9, 2019:
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...
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...
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...