I previously posted about using Project Gemini as a tool for scientific analysis – as a quick way to learn about them and see them in action, take a look at the one minute Gemini videos by Donald Farmer. One of the latest videos is about using Reports as data sources and highlights the orange button for getting data sets. This is a perfect way for scientists to publish data and easily make the feeds available for others to consume. It could even be included in papers to easily enable research reproducibility.
Thanks to Robert Bruckner's Advanced Reporting Services Blog : Reports As Data Feeds for Gemini
TIME magazine has the WorldWide Telescope WebClient (Silverlight) on their list of 50 Best Websites for 2009. That puts WWT in with sites like Flickr, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, Amazon, and even PhotoSynth – not bad for the very small team we have on it :-)
WorldWideTelescope Like Google Earth for the heavens, WWT aggregates terabytes of astronomical data from the world's biggest telescopes to create a single virtual scope that anyone can look through. WWT is not a model of the known universe, but rather a centralized repository for just about everything known about the universe. The idea is to democratize the science of astronomy with a single tool that can be used by students and scientists. Who knows, when everyone has access to the same data, maybe the next big discovery in astronomy will be made by an amateur? There are hundreds of terabytes of digitized sky — enough data for everyone
WorldWideTelescope - 50 Best Websites 2009 - TIME
When I first saw and heard details about Project “Gemini”, I was blown away by the technology and innovation created by SQL and Excel teams and that held up when I was able to test it out on my own. It will be especially useful for scientists that want to not only analyze large amounts of data in Excel, but also aggregate different datasets. This upcoming Excel 2010 add-in removes the storage limits of Excel by adding the in-memory database and brings the power of SQL Server and SQL Analysis Services into the hands of mere mortals. Scientists that utilize Excel for viewing/analyzing data will find this add-in extremely helpful.
Project Gemini Blog – Check out the videos -
Project "Gemini": Build powerful analytical applications Need to make timely business decisions without having to use complicated and sluggish analytical applications? Love to use Excel? Project Gemini is an Excel 2010 add-in that allows you to create powerful analyses by quickly manipulating millions of rows of data into a single Excel workbook and utilize Microsoft Office 2010 to share and collaborate on your insights with your team. You can combine native Excel 2010 functionality with Gemini’s in-memory engine to allow users to interactively explore and perform calculations on large data sets. In addition, you can easily streamline the process of integrating data from multiple sources – including corporate databases, spreadsheets, reports, and data feeds. Share and collaborate with confidence by easily publishing your analysis to SharePoint 2010 and have other users enjoy the same slicer and fast-query capabilities when working on your Excel Services reports. Are you part of Office 2010 Tech Preview? Register and then Download and learn about Project Gemini now! (Note: You need to have Office 2010 before you can use Gemini.)
You can combine native Excel 2010 functionality with Gemini’s in-memory engine to allow users to interactively explore and perform calculations on large data sets. In addition, you can easily streamline the process of integrating data from multiple sources – including corporate databases, spreadsheets, reports, and data feeds.
Share and collaborate with confidence by easily publishing your analysis to SharePoint 2010 and have other users enjoy the same slicer and fast-query capabilities when working on your Excel Services reports.
Are you part of Office 2010 Tech Preview? Register and then Download and learn about Project Gemini now! (Note: You need to have Office 2010 before you can use Gemini.)
Introducing Microsoft Office 2010 for Business
Deep in one of the garages on campus – I ran across this project being built…a modern Stonehenge? maybe the spinal tap version of Stonehenge?
If you’d like to see instant results while you’re typing in your search query try out “The Real Live Search” from Long Zheng from istartedsomething – it uses the fast Bing AJAX APIs and the JSON results to give you information as you type. It’s really neat to see – here’s an example doing a WorldWide Telescope search The image doesn’t do it justice – try it out yourself.
I wonder if it could be integrated with the Windows 7 via the Federated Search support – much like Long was able to do with the Flickr Search Connector for Windows 7
The Real Live Search – Bing API experiment - istartedsomething