Presentations

    Alberto Pepe: Astroinformatics: Linking scientific data and publications, at University of California, Los Angeles, Thursday, March 3, 2011:
    pepe-talk.pdf
    pepe-talk.ppt

    Presented by Alberto Pepe at the University of California, Los Angeles.

    Abstract: Astronomers produce and peruse vast amounts of scientific data. Making these data publicly available is important to enable both reproducible research and long term data curation and preservation. While an infrastructure is in place to make astronomical data available online, the linkages between these data and related scholarly publications are rarely published, due to the lack of a widely adopted standard mechanism for scientific data citation. Yet, many scientists currently cite data by...

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    Alyssa Goodman: Seamless Astronomy: 
How astronomers share, explore & discover, at Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress, Saturday, April 16, 2011:
    Keynote format (includes animations & links)
    PDF format (links only, no animation)
    LOW RESOLUTION PDF format (links only, no animation, 3.7 MB file)

    This talk was delivered to the Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress by Alyssa Goodman in April, 2011.  The goal was to very briefly explain the "Seamless Astronomy" approach to the group building up the "Sage" Commons.  The Sage Commons will be a "revolutionary accessible information platform to define the molecular basis of disease and guide the development of effective human therapeutics and diagnostics."

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    Alyssa Goodman: To Tech or Not to Tech? (Solutions for Scientists: Modern Software Tools that Facilitate Research), at Oxford University, Tuesday, September 13, 2011:
    totechornottotech.pdf
    totechornottotech.key

    tumblr post about this talk: I’m off to Oxford for a meeting on “Future Science Leadership.”  I’ve been asked to give a talk there called “Solutions for scientists: modern software tools that facilitate research.” To put my money where my mouth is, I thought I should not leave only my presentation slides online, but instead create a web site where the helpful software listing I...

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    Alyssa Goodman: Seeing Science: Data Visualization in Modern Research and Teaching, at Paris, France , Wednesday, November 9, 2011:
    PDF version (no animations; Keynote version coming soon!)

    This talk was delivered at the Harvard Business School's European Research Centre, to the members of the Harvard Club of France, and their guests.

    ABSTRACT: Long ago, data visualization was  niche art, practiced only by those deeply committed to the power of visual communication.  Today, though, with the increasing volumes of data available not only to scientists, but to all, there is  rapidly increasing interest--and capability--in the visual exploration and explanation of data.  In this talk, Goodman will bring some of what she teaches...

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    August Muench: Introducing The Astronomy Dataverse (theastrodata.org), at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Monday, April 2, 2012:
    theastrodata_cfa_4april2012-1.key
    theastrodata_cfa_4april2012-1.key_.pdf
    astro_datatypes.pdf
    These are the files associated with the "Astronomy Dataverse" presentation (by Gus Muench, Alyssa Goodman, and Alicia Soderberg) and panel discussion featuring Mercé Crosas, Christopher Erdmann, and Alberto Pepe, held in Phillips Auditorium on 4/2/2012.  Please contact Gus Muench (gmuench@cfa.harvard.edu) for more information.
    Alyssa Goodman: 21-st Century Research: Tools, Trends, and Transformation, at Eliot House, Harvard University, Tuesday, April 10, 2012:
    PDF with pointers to the links followed and explained

    Abstract: 

    By highlighting some new technologies and trends (such as WorldWide Telescope, the sharing of visualization and analysis techniques between seemingly disparate fields like Astronomy and Medicine, and new online research, data-mining and collaboration tools), I will speculate on the transformation in the participation in and pace of research to come.
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    Alyssa Goodman: Seamless Astronomy, at LIDA 2012, Zadar, Croatia, Wednesday, June 20, 2012:
    PDF version of slides
    Keynote version of slides (slightly degraded resolution)

    Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) is a biennial international conference that focuses on the challenging and rapidly transforming nature of libraries and information systems and services.

    Alyssa Goodman gave this keynote talk describing the overall vision, plans, and ongoing work of the "Seamless Astronomy" group based at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

    Alyssa Goodman: Seamless Astronomy (+the Loch Ness Monster), at .Astronomy4, Heidelberg, Germany, Wednesday, July 11, 2012:
    Slides in PDF format
    Keynote version of slides (slightly degraded resolution)

    Presentation Files:

    Alyssa Goodman's Keynote talk from the .Astronomy4 meeting held July 2012 at the Haus der Astronomie  and the IWH Centerin Heidelberg.

    The talk begins with a quick overview of the Seamless Astronomy group's work, much of which was discussed (by Tom Robitaille, Michelle Borkin, Gus Muench, Alberto Pepe & Christopher Beaumont) during talks and unconferences at the meeting.

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