Open Data for Open Science

Behind the WorldWide Telescope Theater at SXSW

This past weekend at SXSW, Microsoft and the WorldWide Telescope team worked with NASA, Northrop...

Author: Dan_eScience Date: 03/13/2013

More Excel 2013 Goodies - Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office

After posting about Data Explorer yesterday – I thought about other add-ins for Excel that make hard...

Author: Dan_eScience Date: 02/28/2013

A tool for Data Science - Microsoft "Data Explorer" Preview for Excel now available

Functionality and features for Excel 2013 just keeps getting better, especially when you realize...

Author: Dan_eScience Date: 02/28/2013

AGU 2012–Environment and large displays are fun

This week many of us from the Microsoft Research Earth, Energy and Science team are down at AGU2012...

Author: Dan_eScience Date: 12/04/2012

Weather forecast on Windows Azure

Wenming Ye is another all-time favorite speakers at our Open Data for Open Science events. His...

Author: Yan Xu at Microsoft Research Date: 11/30/2012

Who is not talking about big data today

The São Paulo School of Advanced Science on e-Science for Bioenergy Research, SPSAS...

Author: Yan Xu at Microsoft Research Date: 11/13/2012

A Game-Changing Mindset in the Field of Sensor Networks

Microsoft Research paper on low energy GPS sensing (called Cloud-Offloaded GPS or CO-GPS) received...

Author: Yan Xu at Microsoft Research Date: 11/13/2012

StreamInsight Demos

Microsoft StreamInsight™ is a powerful platform that you can use to develop and deploy complex...

Author: Yan Xu at Microsoft Research Date: 10/20/2012

Big Data Requires Big Bandwidth - more demos

I mean, big data requires big internet bandwidth to present. Started in one of our own computer labs...

Author: Yan Xu at Microsoft Research Date: 10/15/2012

OData Overview and Sample

Andy Conrad of Microsoft SQL did wonderful presentations on OData at the recent Microsoft Research...

Author: Yan Xu at Microsoft Research Date: 10/07/2012

An Example of the 4th Paradigm in Teaching & Learning Practice

As appraised by many leading astronomical researchers, WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is one of the best...

Author: Yan Xu at Microsoft Research Date: 10/05/2012

Making a simple WWT tour - The Southern Cross and the Australia Flag

In the WorldWide Telescope, WWT, follow the following steps: Find and show the Southern Cross...

Author: Yan Xu at Microsoft Research Date: 09/26/2012

Italian WWT

The Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope, WWT was introduced to the Italian astronomical research...

Author: Yan Xu at Microsoft Research Date: 09/19/2012

20 educational scenarios of AstroInformatics

Inspired by Jim Gray's famous "20 queries" method, the AstroInformatics2012 is set forth to come up...

Author: Yan Xu at Microsoft Research Date: 09/09/2012

The Aspiration of ODOS

The ODOS here is pronounced oh-dee-oh-es, not oh-dos. If you search “Open Data for Open...

Author: Yan Xu at Microsoft Research Date: 09/09/2012

Open Data for Open Science 2012, Australia

Learn what the latest technologies from Microsoft can do for data-intensive sciences - join us in...

Author: Yan Xu at Microsoft Research Date: 08/29/2012