· .Astronomy
.Astronomy Hack Day NYC
On Saturday, New York astronomy geeks will convene at the offices of bit.ly for the first .Astronomy Hack Day! We do hack days as part of the main .Astronomyâ¦
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Blog
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· Oxford
The Andromeda Project
Last week we launched a brand new Zooniverse site: The Andromeda Project. We’re asking people to spot star clusters in the Andromeda galaxy in data from the…
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#citizen science
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· News
All Hail Sir Patrick Moore
New Recycled Electrons episode up now: All Hail Sir Patrick Moore . All Hail Sir Patrick Moore
· Research
New direct image of a massive planet around another star
New direct image of a massive planet around another star (arXiv 1211.3744)
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· Literature Hacking
Mapping Collaboration in Astronomy
A couple of weeks ago I began to geocode the database of astronomical research I scraped from NASA ADS during .Astronomy 4. This database consists of all theâ¦
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#data mining
#geocode
#maps
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#R
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· Literature Hacking
Visualising Collaboration in Astronomy
Over on this link, you’ll find a data-driven document (D3 FTW!) showing collaboration between the most authorship-intensive institutions in astronomy. The…
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#data
#data mining
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#visualization
· Literature Hacking
Geocoding the Literature
I (or rather my computer) spent most of this morning geocoding the database of astronomical papers that I scraped from NASA ADS a while back. Iâve got about aâ¦
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#hack
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· Fun
Ig Nobel Awards 2012
Highlights from this yearsâ Ig Nobel Awards for achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think: MEDICINE PRIZE: Emmanuel Ben-Soussan andâ¦
· News
Amazingly immersive panorama from Mars Curiosity images
Mars Panorama - Curiosity rover in New Mexico You really have to go fullscreen!
· News
Neil Armstrong has Died, Aged 82
I always feel very strange when the death of a person I never met deeply affects me. The times this has happened are few, and the people in question are oftenâ¦