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The Art of Visualization

Presentation Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 Location: Online for the Eleventh Parker Heliophysics Scholars Meeting In this talk, I’ll discuss the value and practice of data visualization. The best visualizations are clear and deep at the same time—and in...
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Beyond the Telescope: How Stars Shape Galaxies

Presentation Date: Monday, May 4, 2026 - 7:00 - 8:00PM. Location: Charles Hayden Planetarium. Museum of Science, Boston. Join astrophysicists Dr. Scott Lucchini and Dr. Alyssa Goodman on an expedition through the lives of stars and how they shape their...
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Way, Way Out There?

Presentation Date: February 2026. Location: Renaissance Weekend in Amelia Island, FL. A talk given at Renaissance Weekend in Amelia Island, FL in February 2026. Files included on Alyssa Goodman's Dataverse are Keynote slides (in .key and .pdf formats).
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Talk: Seeing the Milky Way from the Inside Out, in 3D

January 11, 2024 | The new "LIVE" collaboration (see live-env.org) is creating open-source software environments that let anyone build "Linkable Interactive Visualization and Exploration" Environments. LIVE has a suite of demonstration projects across...

The New Story of the Milky Way’s Surprisingly Turbulent Past (Scientific American)

Talk: Seamless linkages for visualization and analysis

January 11, 2024 | An early invited presentation of LIVE Environments. The focus was on the origins of LIVE Astro, and on how it can be used to connect "data, language, and pictures," in line with the mission layed out by Goodman et al.

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Exploring & Explaining Science, with Pictures

2022 | An introduction to data visualization concepts, using key concepts from the "10 Questions to Ask when Creating a Visulization" (10QViz.org) website.  Presented at "Data Viz for Society." Featured software includes glue (see glueviz.org and...

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