IVOA KDD-IG: A user guide for Data Mining in Astronomy

6: Present and future directions

The combination of an abundance of available data mining algorithms, advancing technology, large amounts of new astronomical data continuously opening up new regions of parameter space, and the consequent large number of newly addressable science questions, means that several interesting new directions for data mining in astronomy are opening up in the near-term future.

• The time domain [Markov models, etc.]
• Graphical Processing Units [CUDA, code types amenable to speedup]
• Parallel/distributed data mining [Clock speed -> more cores, code has to be rewritten]
• Visualization [High dimensionality]
• The VO [Standardized data access]
• Semantics [e.g. MG's Semantics and Data Mining IVOA talk]
• Clouds

KDD-IG members: Please volunteer to write one or more of these sections!

-- NickBall - 05 Sep 2010