Seeing, Exploring, Explaining, and Sharing our Universe,
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American Museum of Natural History, New York City,
Monday, December 2, 2019:
Data Science
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...
These are Alyssa Goodman's slides from her presentation at the
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 "...
Teasing Out the True Milky Way,
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Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ,
Tuesday, September 10, 2019:
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...
Thoughts on High-Dimensional Data Visualization, with glue,
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Steward Observatory, Arizona,
Friday, March 23, 2018:
A synopsis of how and why astronomers should and (easily) can adopt a more high-dimensional view of their data, followed by live demos of glue (http://glueviz.org) and WorldWide Telescope (http://worldwidetelescope.org).
"glue-ing together the Universe from Galileo to Gaia" (March 2 talk and March 1 demo),
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Visual Communication Symposium, Rice University, Houston, TX,
Friday, March 1, 2019:
March 2 Talk abstract (March 1 demo information is below): Astronomy has long been a field reliant on visualization. First, it was literal visualization—looking at the Sky. Today, though, astronomers are faced with the daunting task of understanding gigantic digital...
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...Data
Visualization in 20 Minutes,
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Harvard Datafest 2019, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
Tuesday, January 22, 2019:
An overview of core concepts in the visualization of scientific data, with an emphasis on the value of thinking in terms of the interaction of "Data, Dimensions, and Display."
glue (for Star Formation Research),
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2019 New England Regional Star Formation Meeting, UMASS Amherst, Amherst, MA,
Friday, January 25, 2019:
Climbing the Cosmic Distance Ladder "in" a WorldWide Telescope,
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA,
Tuesday, November 27, 2018:
Visualization & the Universe: How and why astronomers, doctors, and you need to work together to understand the world around us...,
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University of Texas at Austin,
Thursday, November 15, 2018:
glueing together the (Gaia-revealed) Universe ,
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Université du Paris, Sud (Orsay), France,
Wednesday, October 17, 2018:
A customized version of "glueing together the Universe," highlighting how the