http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:47:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/the-big-picture/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/the-big-picture/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:07:03 +0000 vlk http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/?p=1044 Boston Globe) runs an occasional series of photo collections that highlight news stories called The Big Picture. This week, they take a look at the Sun: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/the_sun.html The pictures come from space and ground observatories, from SoHO, TRACE, Hinode, STEREO, etc. Goes without saying, the images are stunning, and some are even animated. The real kicker is that images such as these are being acquired by the hundreds, every hour upon the hour, 24/7/365.25 . It is like sipping from a firehose. Nobody can sit there and look at them all, so who knows what we are missing out on. Can statistics help? Can we automate a statistically robust "interestingness" criterion to filter the data stream that… Continue reading]]> http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/the-big-picture/feed/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/off-the-line/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/off-the-line/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:09:40 +0000 hlee http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/?p=1032 Continue reading]]> http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/off-the-line/feed/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/multispectral-imaging-a-case-study/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/multispectral-imaging-a-case-study/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:28:21 +0000 hlee http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/?p=1018 Continue reading]]> http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/multispectral-imaging-a-case-study/feed/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/maintenance-issue/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/maintenance-issue/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:55:30 +0000 hlee http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/?p=1020 Continue reading]]> http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/maintenance-issue/feed/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/book-the-grammar-of-graphics/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/book-the-grammar-of-graphics/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:55:37 +0000 hlee http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/?p=260 Felice Frankel at IIC, I recollected a book, The Grammar of Graphics by Leland Wilkinson (2nd Ed. - I partially read the 1st ed. and felt little of use several years ago because there seemed no link for visualization of data from astronomy.)… Continue reading]]> http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/book-the-grammar-of-graphics/feed/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/a-quote-on-model/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/a-quote-on-model/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:31:46 +0000 hlee http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/?p=984 Continue reading]]> http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/a-quote-on-model/feed/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/survey-and-design-of-experiments/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/survey-and-design-of-experiments/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:16:24 +0000 hlee http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/?p=894 Continue reading]]> http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/survey-and-design-of-experiments/feed/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/thanks-to-henrietta-leavitt/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/thanks-to-henrietta-leavitt/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:56:17 +0000 vlk http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/?p=927 http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2008/leavitt/ for details. [Update 10/03] For a nice introduction to the story of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, listen to this Perimeter Institute talk by George Johnson: http://pirsa.org/06050003/

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