NOAO Data Lab Demo at the June AAS Meeting

As part of its growing data mission, NOAO is developing the NOAO Data Lab to allow for efficient exploration and analysis of the large pixel and catalog datasets being generated by its wide-field telescopes. These data currently include the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS), the Survey of the Magellanic Stellar History (SMASH), and the publicly available data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), with the total volume growing at a rapid rate.

NOAO will be hosting a demo of Data Lab capabilities at its booth at the San Diego AAS meeting. The demo will focus on the science case of the discovery of faint Milky Way dwarf companions, while including forays into the time domain and other science. The demo will show how prototype Data Lab infrastructure allows users to

• Discover the data best suited for specific analyses
• Interact with a subset of the data to develop intuition and
• Automate scripted analyses to operate on large datasets.

The public release of the Data Lab is planned for mid-2017. Drop by the NOAO booth at the AAS meeting to see the demo, and give feedback to our development team!