• Observational astrophysics
    • Michael Blanton
    • David W. Hogg
    • 3 postdocs, 4 grad students
    • partnership with Sam Roweis (Toronto CS and Google)
  • We use lots of data.
    • The sky is big.
  • We serve lots of data.
    • flat files
    • SQL web stuff is coming
    • absolutely public data
  • We are now aggregating data.
    • non-text queries
    • demo image
    • web form
    • wide-field example
    • We can also solve images that are less than 10-6 of the sky.
    • automatic generation of meta-data
    • interoperability of data
    • bringing amateur data out of the dark
  • We are a software shop.
    • open source
    • many contributors around the world
    • Web 2.0 stuff
  • Partnership with Google
    • code.google.com
    • palimpsest