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Harvard launches data science initiative

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A statistician and a computer scientist have been named co-leaders of Harvard’s new Data Science Initiative, the Harvard University Office of the Vice Provost for Research announced today. Alyssa Goodman is on the Data Science Steering Committee. Read...

What does "data science" mean to me, and to you?

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Files: (key, 133 MB), (pdf, 20 MB), (Student Survey, Google Doc)

Dataverse link to all materials, including Keynote slides

Reference with doi for this work:  Goodman, Alyssa, 2020, "What does "data science" mean to me, and to you?", https://doi.org/10...

National Science Foundation endorses "Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data"

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We're excited to learn that the National Science Foundation is including our PLOS article " Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data" in their official Research Data Management guide! This article offers a short guide to the steps...

The Future of Data in Science (*postponed*)

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Once upon a time, I was an astrophysicist.  Then, about fifteen years ago, I started using medical imaging tools on high-dimensional astronomical data sets, and caring more than was normal about sharing and re-using data and software, and making online...

Why “Big Data” Is a Big Deal Information science promises to change the world

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Goodman uses visualization as an exploratory technique in her efforts to understand interstellar gas—the stuff of which stars are born. “The data volume is not a concern,” she says; even though a big telescope can capture a petabyte of data in a night...

The Value of High-Dimensional Data Visualization in Science

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IAU Symposium 325: Astroinformatics

Files: (key, 810 MB), (pdf, 31 MB)

 

Beyond the Telescope: How Stars Shape Galaxies

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Join astrophysicists Dr. Scott Lucchini and Dr. Alyssa Goodman on an expedition through the lives of stars and how they shape their galaxies, featuring real data from the revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and the immersive data visualization...

Linked-View Visualization of High-Dimensional Data in glue

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MSDE 2016 Data Science Summit

Files: (key, 416 MB), (pdf, 13 MB)

Next in Data Visualization (Introduction and Handouts)

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These are host Alyssa Goodman's introductory slides for the Next in Data Visualization event held at the Radcliffe Insitute for Advanced Study in April 2019. (#RadDataViz)

Event abstract: Innovative data visualization reveals patterns and trends...

A Peek at How we See the Universe with glue

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A short overview by Alyssa Goodman of how the glue data exploration and visualization software works as a "Science Platform." An "iCloud" version of the slides is online here, and a PDF is downloadable on this page.  Note that links (e.g. to other...

Historical data: Hidden in the past

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Attitudes towards archived data have changed in other fields, too. Astronomers used to look down on colleagues who analysed old data, says Alyssa Goodman, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They...

Blog Feature: Dr. Alyssa Goodman talks with the The Harvard College Program in Science and Engineering (PRISE)

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Dr. Alyssa Goodman talks with Felicia Ho, PRISE, Harvard College '23 about Jacques Cousteau, data visualization, climate change, prediction science, and the wide arc of influences that have shaped her multifaceted career as the Robert Wheeler Wilson...