Interoperability and Technology/Tech Dive Webinar Series
Tech Dive Webinars
14 September 2017: "JupyterHub and JupyterLab Developments": Brian Granger, Cal Poly
Summary: The latest developments in JupyterHub and JupyterLab will be discussed as well as the roadmap for the future.
Time: Thursday, September 14, 2017, (Time: 3PM Eastern, 2PM Central, 1PM Mountain, 12PM Pacific)
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Speaker(s): Brian Granger is an Associate Professor of Physics at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. He has a background in theoretical atomic, molecular and optical physics, with a PhD from the University of Colorado. His current research interests include quantum computing, parallel and distributed computing and interactive computing environments for scientific and technical computing. He is a core developer of the Jupyter project and is an active contributor to a number of other open source projects focused on scientific computing in Python.
Links:
- https://jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab
- https://jupyter.org
10 August 2017: "ERDDAP: Easier access to scientific data": Bob Simons, NOAA
Summary: ERDDAP is a free, open source data server that gives you a simple, consistent way to download subsets of gridded and tabular scientific datasets in common file formats and make graphs and maps.
Time: Thursday, August 10, 2017, (Time: 3PM Eastern, 2PM Central, 1PM Mountain, 12PM Pacific)
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Speaker(s): Bob Simons is an IT Specialist with NOAA's Environmental Research Division.
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13 July 2017: "GeoServer Developments": Jody Garnett and Kevin Smith, Boundless
Summary: The latest developments in GeoServer will be discussed as well as plans for the future.
Time: Thursday, July 13, 2017, (Time: 3PM Eastern, 2PM Central, 1PM Mountain, 12PM Pacific)
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Speaker(s): Jody Garnett is the Community Lead and Kevin Smith is the GeoWebCache Lead at Boundless.
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6 June 2017: "Installing JupyterHub in the Cloud using Kubernetes Helm": Yuvi Panda
Summary: Yuvi Panda will show how to deploy JupyterHub in the Cloud using Kubernetes Helm.
Time: Tuesday, June 6, 2017, (Time: 3PM Eastern, 2PM Central, 1PM Mountain, 12PM Pacific)
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Speaker(s): Yuvi Panda is a developer with 15 years of experience and 400+ followers on GitHub. He worked formerly with Wikimedia, and is currently working with the Data Science Education Program at UC Berkeley to make it easier for people who don't consider themselves programmers to write code. He has been very involved with creating the Helm Chart for JupyterHub.
Recording
Links:
- https://github.com/yuvipanda
- https://jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- https://gitter.im/jupyterhub/jupyterhub
- https://daemonza.github.io/2017/02/20/using-helm-to-deploy-to-kubernetes/
- https://github.com/kubernetes/helm
11 May 2017: "TerriaJS: A Free, Open-Source Library for Building Web-based Geospatial Data Explorers": Kevin Ring, CSIRO/Data61, Australia
Summary: The library behind the Australian National Map. 3D and 2D geospatial visualization based on Cesium and Leaflet. Visualise WMS, WMTS, WFS, KML, GeoJSON, CSV, CZML, GPX, and many more spatial formats out of the box, or easily add your own. Present a dynamic catalog from your existing WMS, ArcGIS, CKAN, CSW, Socrata, WMTS or WFS server, curate your catalog by hand, or use any combination thereof. Explore time-varying WMS layers, watch vehicles move smoothly across the map, and observe your CSV data change over time.
Time: Thursday, May 11, 2017, (5:00pm ET | 4:00pm CT | 3:00pm MT | 2:00pm PT | 07:00am Sydney Time)
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Speaker(s):
Kevin Ring is a Principal Software Engineer at CSIRO's Data61, and is the lead developer for TerriaJS. Previously, he helped found the Cesium project while working at Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) and developed its streaming terrain and imagery engine.
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13 April 2017: "Processing Planetary-Scale Data in the Cloud": Drew Bollinger, Development Seed
Summary: Modern cloud-based infrastructure has had a huge effect on our ability to process, manipulate, and publish satellite imagery at scale. We'll discuss current methods of making imagery available across different platforms and how this is supported by the efforts of groups like AWS to publish open satellite data including MODIS, Landsat and more.
Time: Thursday, April 13, 2017, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)
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Presenter:
Drew Bollinger is a data analyst and software developer, with experience running advanced statistical and spatial analysis on large and small data sets, as well as building visualizations for data storytelling.
Links:
- https://github.com/sat-utils/sat-api
- https://github.com/sat-utils
- https://github.com/developmentseed/landsat-util
- https://libra.developmentseed.org/
Slides
http://drewbo.com/talks/esip-2017/#0
Recording
9 March 2017: "Introduction to Esri Story Maps": Christine White, Esri
Summary: Today, multi-media communication plays a pivotal role in how an audience experiences, understands, and shares your message. Story Maps bring a narrative to life by weaving maps, text, images, video, and other content into a creative and memorable story. Christine will share several examples of effective Story Maps and then walk through how you can create and configure your own.
Time: Thursday, March 9, 2017, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)
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Speaker(s):
Christine is a Technical Advisor and science team member at Esri. She loves using art and technology to communicate about the challenges and opportunities for our future. Christine also serves as the Vice President of ESIP. One of her favorite things about ESIP is how its members offer their unique perspectives (stories) and shared knowledge to collaborate.
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Christine gave her presentation as a live StoryMap, available here:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=5a99a82a19c84dbab641a22ddd3d329b
9 February 2017: "Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS": Derek Law, ESRI
Summary: Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS is a pure HTML5/JavaScript-based application that allows you to create your own intuitive, fast, and beautiful web apps without writing a single line of code. The app uses new ArcGIS platform features and modern browser technology to provide both flexible and powerful capabilities such as 3D visualization of data. In addition, developers have an opportunity to create custom tools and themes through the extensibility framework.
Time: Thursday, February 9, 2017, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)
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Speaker(s):
Derek Law is an Product Manager at ESRI. He has over 15 years experience with geospatial software and web application development.
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https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/esri-webapp-builder-derek-law-esri
19 January 2017: "Introduction to Google Earth Engine": Jess Walker, USGS
Summary: Google Earth Engine is a cloud-based geospatial processing platform that unites multiple petabytes of publicly accessible imagery and a massive computational infrastructure with a web-based integrated development environment (IDE). Users can harness the unprecedented combination of data and computing resources to conduct complex geospatial analyses on planetary scales.
Time: Thursday, January 19, 2017, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)
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Speaker(s):
Jessica Walker is a postdoctoral researcher with the USGS Western Geographic Science Center in Tucson, AZ. Her research investigates the recovery of post-wildfire landscapes in Alaska and across the southwestern US using time series of remote sensing imagery.
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https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/introduction-to-google-earth-engine-jessica-walker-usgs
8 December 2016: "Vector Tile Maps": Sam Matthews, Mapbox
Summary: Vector tiles make huge maps fast while offering full design flexibility. They are the vector data equivalent of image tiles for web mapping, applying the strengths of tiling – developed for caching, scaling and serving map imagery rapidly – to vector data. A general overview of vector tiles will be presented.
Speaker(s):
Sam Matthews is a Mapbox engineer focused on improving the speed and reliability of maps. He works with the Mapnik team to generate vector tiles and maintains the upload pipeline behind Mapbox Studio. He is passionate about making open source tools as welcoming as possible through clear docs and zero assumptions.
Time: Thursday, December 8, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN2-ms2PwBs
Slides
https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/vector-tile-maps-sam-matthews-mapbox
10 November 2016: "Introducing 3D Tiles": Todd Smith, AGI
Summary: 3D Tiles are an open specification for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets. To expand on Cesium’s terrain and imagery streaming, 3D Tiles will be used to stream 3D content, including buildings, trees, point clouds, and vector data.
Speaker(s):
Todd Smith is the Cesium Product Manager, and helps define and manage the Cesium product line. Todd has been with the AGI team from the beginning and has been in the web mapping world for over 15 years. He is a Penn State GIS graduate.
Time: Thursday, November 10, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0upb4E12CPE
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https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed
13 October 2016: "EarthCube Integration and Test Environment (ECITE)": Phil Yang, GMU
Summary: An outgrowth of activities of the EarthCube Technology Architecture Committee (TAC)'s Testbed Working Group (TWG), ECITE provides an integration test-bed for technology and science projects for both EarthCube funded projects and community technology demonstrations. ECITE consists of a seamless federated system of scalable and location independent distributed computational resources (nodes) across the US. The hybrid federated system provides a robust set of distributed resources utilizing including both public and private cloud capabilities.
Speaker(s): Chaowei Phil Yang is a Professor at George Mason University where he founded the NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center with colleagues from Harvard and UC-Santa Barbara. He advised over 30 graduate students and has placed over 20 geoinformatics professors around the world. His research interest are utilizing spatiotemporal principles to optimize computing infrastructure for geospatial science applications of national and international significance. (http://cpgis.gmu.edu/homepage/)
Time: Thursday, October 13, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYi-22hXY6k
Slides
https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed
8 September 2016: "Apache Open Climate Workbench": Lewis McGibbney and Kyo Lee, NASA JPL/Apache OCW
Summary: Apache Open Climate Workbench (OCW) is an effort to develop software that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of different sources the Earth System Grid Federation, the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program and temporal/spatial scales with remote sensing data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The toolkit includes capabilities for rebinning, metrics computation and visualization.
Speaker(s): Lewis McGibbney, NASA JPL/Apache OCW; currently a Data Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Lewis works in the Computer Science and Data Intensive Applications Group (398M). He enjoys floating up and down the tide of technologies at the Apache Software Foundation having a real enthusiasm for Web Search and Information Retrieval in particular. You'll find him on community mailing lists including Nutch, Gora, Any23, OODT, Open Climate Workbench, Tika, Usergrid and a number of incubating mailing lists including CommonsRDF, HTrace and Joshua. Lewis is currently a Project Management Committee member and Committer on OCW.
Speaker(s): Huikyo Lee, NASA JPL/Apache OCW; currently a Climate Data Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Huikyo has lead development of Regional Climate Model Evaluation System (http://rcmes.jpl.nasa.gov), an open-source software toolkit based on Open Climate Workbench to facilitate systematic evaluation of climate models using observational datasets from a variety of sources.
Time: Thursday, September 8, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA8SZiG9JZk
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https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/apache-ocw
11 August 2016: "Community Data Analysis Tools (CDAT)": Charles Doutriaux, LLNL
Summary: CDAT is a rich set of visual-data exploration and analysis capabilities well-suited for earth science data analysis problems. It integrates many tools and technology to offer scientist a start-to-finish environment for their work. From reading in various data format, to publication-quality output of their analysis.
Speaker: Charles Doutriaux is a senior Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory research computer scientist, where he is known for his work in climate analytics, informatics, and management systems supporting model intercomparison projects. He works closely with many international climate scientists and shares in the recognition of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He has co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed articles. He presented his work to many scientific conferences. Aside from everything Python-related, his research interests include climate attribution and detection, visualization, and data analysis. Doutriaux has a master's degree in "Climate and Physico-Chemistry of the Atmosphere" from the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. He’s a member of the AGU and AMS. You can contact him at doutriaux1@llnl.gov.
Time: Thursday, August 11, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh2dqAHt5jY
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13 July 2016: "The NOAA OneStop Data Discovery and Access Framework Project": Ken Casey, NOAA/NCEI
Summary: The OneStop Project is designed to improve NOAA's data discovery and access framework. Focusing on all layers of the framework and not just the user interface, OneStop is addressing data format and metadata best practices, ensuring more data are available through modern web services, working to improve the relevance of dataset searches, and improving both collection-level metadata management and granule level metadata systems to accommodate the wide variety and vast scale of NOAA's data.
Speaker: Ken Casey is the Deputy Director of the Data Stewardship Division in the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). He leads the OneStop project, is active within NOAA's Big Earth Data Initiative and Big Data Project. Ken serves on a variety of national and international science and data management panels including the US Group on Earth Observations Data Management Working Group and the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Science Team. He co-chairs the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites SST Virtual Constellation and represents NCEI in the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP). He holds a PhD in Physical Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island.
Time: Wednesday, July 13, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)
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https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/noaa-one-stop-ken-casey-ncei
9 June 2016: "Dive into Docker": Kyle Wilcox, Dave Foster and Shane StClair: Axiom Data Science
Summary: Docker is an open platform for distributed applications that has taken the world by storm, making it easy to deploy services with complicated dependencies. In this presentation you will learn what Docker is, why it will make your life easier, how to build a container, and how to install containers.
Speaker: Kyle Wilcox, Dave Foster and Shane StClair are developers at Axiom Data Science. Axiom Data Science works with organizations to improve the long term management, reuse and impact of their scientific data resources. They have built Docker containers for many of the key services used by the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (US-IOOS).
Time: June 9, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)
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12 May 2016: "Leaflet Time Dimension": Biel Frontera, SOCIB
Summary: Leaflet.TimeDimension is a free, open-source Leaflet.js plugin that enables visualization of spatial data with a temporal dimension. It can manage different types of layers (WMS, GeoJSON, Overlay) and it can be easily extended. It meet some common needs, enabling web maps using observational and forecasting layers generated by a THREDDS server (via ncWMS), animating trajectories of drifters, gliders, follow a simulated oil spill, and other time dependent mapping applications.
Speaker: Biel Frontera was trained as a mathematician, and has spent most of his career developing software. He is a free software enthusiast and has worked for the last 3 years on data visualization and geospatial software issues for SOCIB, the Baleric Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System.
Time: May 12, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)
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- https://github.com/socib/Leaflet.TimeDimension
- http://apps.socib.es/Leaflet.TimeDimension/examples/
- http://www.socib.eu/
GoToMeeting Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US5FUUPqlww
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https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/leatlet-time-dimension-biel-frontera-socib
21 Apr 2016: "The New Geoplatform.gov": Tod Dabolt, DOI
Summary: Geoplatform.gov was recently rebuilt from the ground up. Tod will talk about new features of the platform and plans for the future.
Speaker: Tod Dabolt is the acting Geographic Information Officer for the Department of Interior, and the technical lead on Geoplatform.gov.
Time: April 21, 2016, (2:00pm ET | 1:00pm CT | 12:00pm MT | 11:00am PT)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ABUpy4Qvk
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https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/the-new-geoplatform-tod-dabolt-doi
13 Oct 2015: Raj Pandya on AGU's Thriving Earth Exchange and Sharing Solutions
The Thriving Earth Exchange is a network and platform that connects community leaders, sponsors, and scientists and helps them combine science and local knowledge to solve on-the-ground challenges related to natural hazards, natural resources, and climate change. I’ll talk about the general principles on which we are building TEX and describe the basic modules that are part of the TEX. Drawing on the lessons learned from our pilots, I'll talk about how we are developing modules and launching new projects with several partners. I’ll describe a range of projects – from a community monitoring effort in Denver to a Pamiri Mountain project to integrate climate projections into traditional calendars. I’ll introduce our nascent “share” module, and describe our partnership with Amazon Web Services to move prototype community-based solutions to the cloud to enhance their adaptability. And, just to live up to the name, I’ll frame it all around a small rant about the loading-dock model of science and a rave about more participatory approaches.
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13 Aug 2015: Rich Signell on Catalog-driven Workflows for Science
"Catalog-driven, reproducible workflows for ocean science: Comparing sea level forecasts along the US Coastline"
Rich Signell
Filipe Fernandes
The USGS Integrated Ocean Observing System (US-IOOS) requires that data providers use standard web services (OPeNDAP+CF, OGC WMS, OGC SOS) for distributing model products and insitu observations. The services are captured in ISO metadata records and searchable via standard catalog services (OGC CSW).
This presentation will demonstrate how to use this system in a reproducible Jupyter Notebook, discovering, accessing and using model and observed water levels along the US Coastline, using a free python environment that can be installed on Mac, Windows and Linux in less than 10 minutes.
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11 June 2015: NDS Labs, Matt Turk
Matt is a member of the NDS Labs technical advisory committee and will present NDS Labs as a platform for exploring data services -- enabling the separation of data and its representation, and how NDS Labs is functioning as an emerging platform for such separation.
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