The AstroStat Slog

All of a sudden, partially owing to a thought provoking talk about visualization by 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 ‘[Book] The Grammar of Graphics’ »

For people in the Boston area, a cornucopia of talks on Google Sky in the near future.

1. Hunting for Needles in Massive Astronomical Data Streams
   Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 4pm
   Room 330, 60 Oxford St.
   Ryan Scranton, Google Sky Team
2. Inside Google Sky
   Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 8pm
   Room 105, Emerson Hall
   Andrew Connolly, Google Sky Team
3. Sky in Google Earth
   Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 1pm
   Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden
   Alberto Conti & Carol Christian, STScI

John Rice is visiting IIC. The meeting and his talk is scheduled on Friday, June 8, at 11:30am (room 403 at 60 Oxford St.).

Title: Event Weighted Tests for Periodicity in a Sequence of Photon Arrival Times:
Detecting Gamma-ray Pulsars.

[Added] Another meeting is scheduled at the stat dept. located in Science Center, 4-6pm, Wednesday (June 6th).