Seeing the Milky Way from the Inside Out, in 3D

<b>Seeing the Milky Way from the Inside Out, in 3D</b><p><b>Presentation Date</b>: Thursday, July 11, 2024<p><b>Location</b>: Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland (FHNW Campus)<p><b>Abstract</b>: 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 Astronomy, Biology, and Geographic Information Science (GIS).<P>The collaboration creating LIVE includes the groups who create glue, Jupyter, and the Vega-Lite. The project is making it possible to intermix tools, typically in a browser, to create interfaces that range from fully-interactive "no interface" websites to command-line driven notebooks.<P>Using LIVE, a developer or user:<ol><li>selects a layout</li> <li>adds visualization tools as-needed</li><li>accesses online and local data</li><li>links data sets' shared attributes</li><li>explores data sets using "linked views" where selecting points or regions in a plot highlights the related data in other open views</li><li>shares what they learn in interactive outputs ranging from interactive figures in a publication to augmented reality environments</li></ol><P>In this talk, I explain LIVE's history and goals. I highlight "MilkyWay3D.org," which is creating an open-science resource for studying the 3-dimensional structure of our Milky Way galaxy using LIVE-Astro. I also demonstrate the transferability of LIVE's components with views of additional applications in Biology and GIS.<P>Files included are the Keynore slides in .pdf formats.<p>