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Realizing the potential of astrostatistics and astroinformatics
Gwendolyn Eadie, Thomas J. Loredo, Ashish A. Mahabal +12
This Astro2020 State of the Profession Consideration White Paper highlights the growth of astrostatistics and astroinformatics in astronomy, identifies key issues hampering the mat…
Supervised Ensemble Classification of Kepler Variable Stars
Gideon Bass, Kirk Borne
Variable star analysis and classification is an important task in the understanding of stellar features and processes. While historically classifications have been done manually by…
New Organizations to Support Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics
Eric D. Feigelson, Željko Ivezić, Joseph Hilbe +1
In the past two years, the environment within which astronomers conduct their data analysis and management has rapidly changed. Working Groups associated with international societi…
Galaxy Zoo: Morphological Classification and Citizen Science
Lucy Fortson, Karen Masters, Robert Nichol +6
We provide a brief overview of the Galaxy Zoo and Zooniverse projects, including a short discussion of the history of, and motivation for, these projects as well as reviewing the s…
LSST Science Book, Version 2.0
LSST Science Collaboration, Paul A. Abell, Julius Allison +245
A survey that can cover the sky in optical bands over wide fields to faint magnitudes with a fast cadence will enable many of the exciting science opportunities of the next decade.…
Scientific Data Mining in Astronomy
Kirk Borne
We describe the application of data mining algorithms to research problems in astronomy. We posit that data mining has always been fundamental to astronomical research, since data…
The Revolution in Astronomy Education: Data Science for the Masses
Kirk D. Borne, Suzanne Jacoby, K. Carney +5
As our capacity to study ever-expanding domains of our science has increased (including the time domain, non-electromagnetic phenomena, magnetized plasmas, and numerous sky surveys…
Astroinformatics: A 21st Century Approach to Astronomy
Kirk D. Borne
Data volumes from multiple sky surveys have grown from gigabytes into terabytes during the past decade, and will grow from terabytes into tens (or hundreds) of petabytes in the nex…
Educating the Next Generation of Leading Scientists: Turning Ideas into Action
Michael Wood-Vasey, Regina Schulte-Ladbeck, William Blair +12
The core of scientific research is turning new ideas into reality. From the school science fair to the search for the secrets of dark energy, high-quality research consists of scie…