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Bruce Berriman is an astronomer and computer scientist at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology.-
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Tag Archives: SDSS
SciPy 2013 From A Distance
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
Posted in Astronomy, computer videos, computing videos, cyberinfrastructure, Data mining, High performance computing, informatics, information sharing, Machine learning, Open Access, programming, Python, social media, social networking, software engineering, software maintenance, software sustainability, statistical analysis, Uncategorized, visualization
Tagged astroinformatics, astronomy, computer videos, computing, cyberinfrastructure, high-performance computing, information sharing, parallelization, Python, scientific computing, SDSS, social media, social networking, software, software maintenance, software sustainability, visualization
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Citizen Science: Contributions to Astronomy Research
This is the title of an interesting paper by Carol Christian et al., in which they discuss the role of citizen science in modern astronomical research. The authors adopt the definition of citizen science as ” active involvement of a … Continue reading
Posted in archives, astroinformatics, Astronomy, astronomy surveys, Cloud computing, cosmology, cyberinfrastructure, data archives, Data Management, exoplanets, galaxies, galaxy formation, High performance computing, information sharing, Kepler, Milky Way, time series data, Transiting exoplanets
Tagged astroinformatics, astronomy, astronomy surveys, citizen science, cloud computing, computing, cyberinfrastructure, data archives, education, exoplanet, galaxies, information sharing, SDSS, social media, social networking, time domain astronomy, transiting exoplanets, Web 2.0
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Flying across Galaxy Clusters with Google Earth: Deep Color Images from SDSS
Color images of distant, faint galaxies interesting to astronomers because the color enables them to estimate the redshift, a key astrophysical parameter in understanding how galaxies are organized in the Universe. Recently, Jiangang Hao and Jim Annis of Fermilab co-added … Continue reading
