Category Archives: visualization

The “Innovations in Data Intensive Astronomy” Workshop

This week, I attended the “Innovations in Data Intensive Astronomy” Workshop, hosted by NRAO at Green Bank, West Virginia.  The workshop aimed to “.. encourage new ideas for the effective processing, analysis, and interpretation of Tera- to Peta-scale data sets … Continue reading

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Scientific Visualization in Astronomy: Towards the Petascale Astronomy Era

This week’s post is about a fascinating paper by Amr Hassan and Christopher J. Fluke of Swinburne University of Technology in Australia on “Scientific Visualization in Astronomy: Towards the Petascale Astronomy Era” They provide a thorough review of visualization applications … Continue reading

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