Astronomical Data and Information

Visualization

Astronomical Data and Information

Visualization

Alyssa A. GoodmanHarvard-Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsInitiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard

WGBH Scholar-in-Residence

Alyssa A. GoodmanHarvard-Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsInitiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard

WGBH Scholar-in-Residence

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Calculations

Relative Strengths

Pattern RecognitionCreativity

Fiction Truth

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Data Reduction

Data Display

Context (e.g. journals + online data)

Simulation Design

Statistics Design

Data Exploration (Visualization)

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“Seamless Astronomy” is collaboration amongst many researchers at CfA, MSR, Princeton, STScI, NYU, RPI, and UCLA, and it is supported by

NASA, NSF and Microsoft External Research.

Seamless Astronomy

Mockup based on work of Eli Bressert, excerpted from NASA AISRP proposal byGoodman, Muench, Christian, Conti, Kurtz, Burke, Accomazzi, McGuinness, Hendler & Wong, 2008

Semantic

Search

Data Viewer

(e.g. WWT)

Literature Viewer

Literature Viewer

Archive Browser

Info Viz for Search

Results

3DViewer...

Sim-based Analytics

“WorldWide Telescope”: a UIS from Microsoft Research[UIS=Universe Information System]

Created by Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay at MSR; AG is “Academic Partner” on the WWT Project

Seamless Data/Literature Connections (e.g. ADS)

“Modular Craftsmanship” (e.g. flickr)

Collections, Communities & Guided Tours

Seamless Data/Literature Connections (e.g. ADS)

“Modular Craftsmanship” (e.g. flickr)

Collections, Communities & Guided Tours

“alpha” Faceted Topic Search in ADS(courtesy of Michael Kurtz & Alberto

Accomazzi)

“alpha” Faceted Topic Search in ADS(courtesy of Michael Kurtz & Alberto

Accomazzi)

list of objects with links to WWT browser(thanks to ADS team & Jonathan Fay)

And now we got to NGC 7023 by using the literature as a filter.

Seamlessness through...

flickr+

astrometry.net+

WWT !?

Seamlessness through...

flickr+

astrometry.net+

WWT !?

Astronomical Medicine

with Michael Halle, Michelle Borkin, Jens Kauffmann, Douglas Alan, Erik

Rosolowsky & Nick Holliman

mm peak (Enoch et al. 2006)

sub-mm peak (Hatchellet al. 2005, Kirk et al. 2006)

13CO (Ridge et al. 2006)

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QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressorare needed to see this picture.Optical image (Barnard 1927)

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Perseus

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3D Viz made with VolView

Perseus

3D PDF (demo)

Goodman et al. Nature, 2009

Fiction (for now)

Fact (right now)

Astronomical Data and Information

Visualization

Astronomical Data and Information

Visualization

Alyssa A. GoodmanHarvard-Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsInitiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard

WGBH Scholar-in-Residence

Alyssa A. GoodmanHarvard-Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsInitiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard

WGBH Scholar-in-Residence

Astronomical Data and Information

Visualization

Astronomical Data and Information

Visualization

Organization, Anarchy, or Organized Anarchy?

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