Category Archives: visualization

Cosmology, Computers and the VisIVO package.

Posted on March 23, 2014 by astrocompute

We all know how massively parallel programming is assuming ever greater importance in astronomy. This week, I  describe the Visual Interface for the Virtual Observatory (VisIVO) package and describe how it was used to visualize the results of a cosmological … Continue reading →

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Citizen Science and the Modern Web – Talk by Amit Kapadia.

Posted on March 17, 2014 by astrocompute

Amit Kapadia gave this excellent talk at CERN on Citizen Science and The Modern Web.  From Amit’s abstract: “Beginning as a research project to help scientists communicate, the Web has transformed into a ubiquitous medium. As the sciences continue to … Continue reading →

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Bringing the VO to Astronomers: Command Line Access To VO Services

Posted on February 7, 2014 by astrocompute

One of the goals of the Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) is to bring the Virtual Observatory to astronomers; that is, provide access to worldwide data sets through tools and environments that astronomers use everyday. A poster paper, reproduced below, presented … Continue reading →

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Astroinformatics 2013 – The Denouement

Posted on December 18, 2013 by astrocompute

The  Astroinformatics 2013 meeting, hosted  by CSIRO, is now over. This successful conference discussed advances in data processing, manipulation and management – crucial topics in modern astronomy. The agenda is here, along with a nearly complete list of  presentations, and … Continue reading →

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Astroinformatics 2013 – Day Three, December 11 2013

Posted on December 10, 2013 by astrocompute

Day Three  of Astroinformatics 2013, hosted  by CSIRO, is well underway. We are discussing advances in data processing, manipulation and management – crucial topics in modern astronomy. You can see the agenda here, along with a growing list of presentations, … Continue reading →

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Astroinformatics 2013 – Day One Morning, December 9

Posted on December 8, 2013 by astrocompute

I am in Marsfield, near Sydney, Australia for the Astroinformatics 2013 meeting, hosted  by CSIRO. This annual meeting discusses advances in data processing, manipulation and management – crucial topics in modern astronomy given the acceleration in the growth of data … Continue reading →

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From The Front Lines of ADASS XXIII – Day Two Morning

Posted on October 1, 2013 by astrocompute

Yesterday evening, there was a BOF on FITS, and much of the discussion centered on whether FITS is nearing the end of its useful lifetime. There was some discussion on whether, e.g., the IAU Commission on FITS should evolve into … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Astronomical Data with Blender

Posted on August 10, 2013 by astrocompute

Mining the science content of modern, complex astronomy data sets requires the development of new approaches to visualization, and accordingly many groups have begun to investigate new visualization tool and technologies. Brian Kent of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) … Continue reading →

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SciPy 2013 From A Distance

Posted on July 2, 2013 by astrocompute

SciPy 2013 was the twelfth annual Scientific Computing with Python conference, held this year in Austin, TX, from June 24 to June 29. I was unable to attend, so I am giving this report from a distance based on the … Continue reading →

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Data Visualization from Data to Discovery: A One Day Symposium

Posted on June 28, 2013 by astrocompute

On May 23, 2o13, Caltech, JPL and the Art Center College of Design held a one-day symposium on Data Visualization from Data to Discovery, and the talks  have recently been posted on YouTube. The thrust of this multidisciplinary conference was … Continue reading →

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