"Seeing More of the Universe" (a series of 9 short videos on YouTube)

The Seeing More of the Universe" series of videos on YouTube, was created by Alyssa Goodman for the Data Science Fellowship Program of the Vera Rubin Observatory, in 2021.

The episodes in the Seeing More of the Universe playlist are listed below, in a suggested viewing order, but please note that episodes should also be useful on their own.  The "Seeing More of the Universe_Master" PDF attached to this entry has a PDF of the slides from all 8 episodes.

1. Introduction
2. The Road from Exploration to Explanation, and Back...
3. Ten Questions to Ask When Creating a Visualization
4. Connecting Data, Language and Pictures
5. Data, Dimensions, Display
6. Big Data vs. Wide Data
7.  Linked Views in glue; (7a) BONUS: 5 steps to a discovery, in glue
8. The Wise Words of Edward Tufte

Handy links:

• All 9 videos in this series are available from the 10QViz video channel: http://tinyurl.com/10QVizVideos
• "Ten Questions to Ask When Creating a Visualization" http://10QViz.org
• Vera C. Rubin Observatory https://www.lsst.org
• glue visualization software: http://glueviz.org
• WorldWide Telescope software: http://worldwidetelescope.org

The student assignment that accompanied these videos is online here, and a PDF version of it is attached, with some supplementary files, below.