Alyssa Goodman: Seamless Astronomy
Alyssa Goodman gave one of the keynote talks at .Astronomy 4 in Heidelberg. Her talk about ‘Seamless Astronomy’ is now online at http://dotastronomy.com/events/four/seamless-astronomy-alyssa-goodman/.
Monthly: August 2012
Thomas Kitching: Astrocrowdsourcing
Thomas Kitching’s talk on Astrocrowdsourcing, from Heidlelberg, is now online in the .Astronomy 4 archive at http://dotastronomy.com/events/four/astro-crowdsourcing-thomas-kitching/.
August Muench: Astronomy Dataverse
August Muench’s talk: Astronomy Dataverse is now online in the .Astronomy 4 archive at http://dotastronomy.com/events/four/astronomy-dataverse-august-muench/. Go take a look at how linked data could work.
Amit Kapadia: Javascript for Astronomy
Amit Kapadia’s talk from Heidelberg about javascript for astronomy is now online at http://dotastronomy.com/events/four/javascript-for-astronomy-amit-kapadia/ – enjoy!
Astroworld, mapping astronomical facilities worldwide
I am not sure this deserves the title of a hack, but it was originally meant to be. Since the last Citizen Cyberscience Hackfest in South Africa last November, I have wanted to try EpiCollect, a tool for crowdsourced data collection/citizen science. The interesting thing with EpiCollect is that it automatically generates an Android and [...]
Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky: How to be a Data Visualisation Star
Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky gave one of the keynote talks at .Astronomy 4 in Heidelberg. It is now available to enjoy on the site at http://dotastronomy.com/events/four/how-to-be-a-data-visualization-star-julie-steele-and-noah-iliinsky/.
.AstroPlayer
Following our experiences in Leiden and Oxford, we took the decision to put the talks from .Astronomy 4 online afterwards rather than stream them live. This was partly for technical/logistical reasons but also because I knew we could provide a better, curated, experience. During the talks I recorded audio directly from the planetarium sound system [...]
Word Matrices from the Literature
Following on from my previous post about Astronomy Data Mining, I’ve been doing more work on the project. By correlating words that appear together in the literature, you can see relationships between different terms in astronomical research. Read more on Orbiting Frog.
Unproceedings
Part of the aim of this site is that we build up an archive of all .Astronomy talks and hacks for reference. For the first .Astronomy conference in Cardiff proceedings were produced (I still have some if you want a copy!). For the second and third events no proceedings were produced: they take a very [...]
Cosmology Calculator OS X Widget
As an extragalactic astronomer, I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve needed a cosmological calculator. Usually I use the routines built into (or that I’ve written for) the analysis packages I use. Obviously those are best for large calculations; for a more casual query with just a few redshifts, online web-based calculators are [...]