The Emerging Role of Data Science in Astronomy
Imagine what data science can do for highly complex fields like astronomy if it can help businesses in traditional industries like technology, manufacturing, and retail improve their operations. There are countless amazing celestial objects out there waiting to be seen and discovered in infinite space. Now that they have the right technological tools and blazing-fast data science tools (many powered by AI and machine learning), astronomers can finally perfect their ability to make sense of astronomical events, both close to home and far away, that is extremely complex. Advances in Data Science in Astronomy Data-driven Astronomy (DDA) does what it says on the tin: it creates astronomical knowledge based on archived data sets, which may or may not be directly related to the research at hand. Astrophysicists were tasked with classifying 900,000 images obtained from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey over the course of seven years to determine whether galaxies were elliptical or spiral and wheth...