Our poster displayed at the 223rd AAS Meeting in Washington, DC on January 7, 2013.

1. A fast, intuitive, online data visualization system for large astronomy datasets
Keivan Stassun, Dan Burger, and Rachel-Chloe Gibbs, Vanderbilt University
http://filtergraph.vanderbilt.edu/
You can’t do this in Excel.
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Easy to share.
Instead of sending out large
attachments, send out a
simple URL that others can
use right away to see your
visualizations and begin
making their own. The “Save
and share” button lets you
capture your current
settings easily.
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There are no limits.
Filtergraph’s powerful web
interface lets you create all
kinds of scatter plots,
histograms and tables using
your data.
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To: My colleagues
Easy to get started.
In just a few minutes, you
can create a portal with a
simple URL where you and
your colleagues can visualize
your data.
Intuitive.
Designed to be easy to use,
Filtergraph lets you start
working with your data right
away.
Look what I found!
filtergraph.vanderbilt.edu/mydata
Fast.
Whether you have a few
rows or a few million,
Filtergraph is designed to
handle your data quickly.
Interactive.
As you change the settings
on the left side, it will affect
the graph on the right side.
In addition, you can click and
drag to zoom in, or retrieve
information about a point
with a single click.
Filtergraph has been used to unlock the secrets of the universe.
A Vanderbilt graduate student has used Filtergraph with Kepler data to discover a
correlation between stellar 'flicker' and surface gravity to aid discovery of exoplanets.
What discoveries are waiting to be made in your datasets?
Flexible.
Developed by astronomers
at Vanderbilt University to
handle large-scale projects
ranging from the KELT
ground-based telescopes to
Kepler, Spitzer and TESS,
Filtergraph can be adapted
for all kinds of data
visualization needs.
Bastien, Fabienne A. et al. "An Observational Correlation between Stellar Brightness Variations and Surface Gravity." Nature 500.7463 (2013): 427-30. Top image from the Hipparcos catalogue (http://filtergraph.vanderbilt.edu/hiptest). Center image
from Kepler data (http://filtergraph.vanderbilt.edu/kepstars). Filtergraph is a trademark of the Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-intensive Astrophysics (VIDA). Excel is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.