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

Seeing the Milky Way from the Inside Out, in 3DPresentation Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024Location: Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland (FHNW Campus)Abstract: 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).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.Using LIVE, a developer or user:selects a layout adds visualization tools as-neededaccesses online and local datalinks data sets' shared attributesexplores data sets using "linked views" where selecting points or regions in a plot highlights the related data in other open viewsshares what they learn in interactive outputs ranging from interactive figures in a publication to augmented reality environmentsIn 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.Files included are the Keynore slides in .pdf formats.