Brice Menard (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy)

Yanif Ahmad (Dept. of Computer Science)

Raman Arora (Dept. of Computer Science)

The astronomical data space has dramatically increased over the past fifteen years, thanks to detector technology and space-based observations opening up new wavelengths channels. Surprisingly, attempts to characterize and represent the data globally have been rather limited. With this project, we propose to: (i) identify a standard set of operations to look globally at datasets; (ii) explore the potential of various techniques used in statistics and Machine Learning; (iii) define and build efficient tools to conducting global data exploration given one dataset or a combination of them. The goal of this project is to develop a preliminary package allowing a user to perform global data exploration and gain knowledge on the content of the data space.