Hacking the Cosmos: Event Hopes to Solve Complex Data Challenges

Last week, astronomers, astrophysicists, data scientists and programmers came together at New York University to try to solve some of astronomy's toughest problems — in just five days. To deal with the huge complexity of data and simulation in astronomy today, many researchers are turning to data scientists and programmers for inspiration — or becoming programmers themselves. "Many of the projects [that] people are working on didn't exist before, let's say, a week ago," said Phil Mar