Monthly Archives: November 2009
do not reinvent the wheel
I’m starting to wonder why I was planning to use Java for this project–most of the SolarSoft stuff is already in IDL. And, it seems like writing my stuff in IDL would help it to interface with future additions to … Continue reading
November 15, 2009 reading notes
“The fundamental unit of analysis is the dyad, i.e. a pair of vertices which may be adjacent or not. Dyads are classifies according to various types of adjcanecy, distance, connectivity, and other traits of direct and indirect connectedness” –Brandes, “Social … Continue reading
Solar Dynamics Observatory linkage
scheduled to go up Feb. 3, 2010 Data Avalanche Wikipedia: SDO SDO arrives at Kennedy Space Center
network inference
The more I think of it, the more finding similarities in solar phenomena seems like finding similarities among people in an on-line social network. TODO: find some academic papers on graph theory re: Facebook and the like.
brainstorm: possible OOP hierarchy
abstract class SolarEvent has sub-classes: specific solar events, e.g: Flare AR Sigmoid Sunspot —— Abstract class Values has sub-classes: specific types of values, e.g. location, time, human- or software-tagged, etc. —— the specific events like Flare and Sigmoid will reference … Continue reading
network theory
Network/graph theory is a powerful branch of mathematics that seems to pop up in so many interesting but, on an un-abstracted level, dissimilar systems. I have though somewhat about this project in terms of graph theory, possibly using an object-oriented … Continue reading