Astronomical Data and Information Visualization Alyssa A. Goodman Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard WGBH Scholar-in-Residence Alyssa A. Goodman Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard WGBH Scholar-in-Residence

Calculations Relative Strengths Pattern Recognition Creativity

Fiction Truth

Data Reduction Data Display Context (e.g. journals + online data) Simulation Design Statistics Design Data Exploration (Visualization) Yellow Arrow

What about data visualization......is easier now than before? fast computation, animation, 3D...was easier before than now? craftsmanship...should be easier in the future? modular craftsmanship

Seamless Astronomy Modular Craftsmanship e.g. SAMP Astronomical Medicine/3D

“Seamless Astronomy” is collaboration amongst many researchers at CfA, MSR, Princeton, STScI, NYU, RPI, and UCLA, and it is supported by NASA, NSF and Microsoft External Research.

User Group Markup Tool Use Cases Chandra, TSC, Gen. by User Group (incl. AG’s shells project), MAST-oriented Discourse Ontology Workflow Ontology (e.g. myepxeriment) AA Astronomy Ontologies data (pragmatic, obsv. -oriented) concepts (astrophysical) math/statisti cs ADS PDFs astrometry.net GSky & WWT E1E1 Astronavigator (primarily a mechanism for linking tools, also ultimately a limited “workbench” providing provenenance) FF Bibliographic Ontology (enables relationships between holdings as in a library; e.g. Dublin Core) BB 1 2 “Semantic” Search (using ontologies via facets and/or other semantic approaches) 4 DD CC graph of interconnections3E2E2 5 Early Science Demonstrations Existing “VO” Tools The guts of “Seamless Astronomy”

Seamless Astronomy Mockup based on work of Eli Bressert, excerpted from NASA AISRP proposal by Goodman, Muench, Christian, Conti, Kurtz, Burke, Accomazzi, McGuinness, Hendler & Wong, 2008 Semantic Search Data Viewer (e.g. WWT) Literature Viewer Archive Browser Info Viz for Search Results 3D Viewer... Sim-based Analytics

“WorldWide Telescope”: a UIS from Microsoft Research [UIS=Universe Information System] Created by Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay at MSR; AG is “Academic Partner” on the WWT Project Seamless Data/Literature Connections (e.g. ADS) “Modular Craftsmanship” (e.g. flickr) Collections, Communities & Guided Tours Seamless Data/Literature Connections (e.g. ADS) “Modular Craftsmanship” (e.g. flickr) Collections, Communities & Guided Tours

“alpha” Faceted Topic Search in ADS (courtesy of Michael Kurtz & Alberto Accomazzi)

list of objects with links to WWT browser (thanks to ADS team & Jonathan Fay)

And now we got to NGC 7023 by using the literature as a filter.

Seamlessness through... flickr + astrometry.net + WWT !? Seamlessness through... flickr + astrometry.net + WWT !?

Astronomical Medicine with Michael Halle, Michelle Borkin, Jens Kauffmann, Douglas Alan, Erik Rosolowsky & Nick Holliman

mm peak (Enoch et al. 2006) sub-mm peak (Hatchell et al. 2005, Kirk et al. 2006) 13 CO (Ridge et al. 2006) mid-IR IRAC composite from c2d data (Foster, Laakso, Ridge, et al. in prep.) Optical image (Barnard 1927) Perseus

3D Viz made with VolView Perseus

26 Some of What We’ve Learned... Cores nest in coccoons (Kauffmann et al. 2009) Gravity Matters (Goodman et al. 2009) Tripled Outflows (Borkin et al. 2008,9) Shells Rule (Arce et al. 2009)

3D PDF (demo) Goodman et al. Nature, 2009

Fiction (for now) Fact (right now)

Astronomical Data and Information Visualization Alyssa A. Goodman Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard WGBH Scholar-in-Residence Alyssa A. Goodman Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard WGBH Scholar-in-Residence

Astronomical Data and Information Visualization Organization, Anarchy, or Organized Anarchy?