Earth Science Data Analytics/2015-3-19 Telecon

SDA Telecom notes – 3/19/15

Known Attendees:

ESIP Host (Erin Robinson), Steve Kempler, Chung-lin Shie, Thomas Hearty, Jennifer Wei, Joan Aron, Suhung Shen

Agenda:

1. Finalizing template and addressing populating it with use cases.

2. Potential ESIP ESDA workshop.

3. Open Mic

Presentations:

None, this time. Worked off Google Doc: Use Case Information: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/108glVB8Rni8M47e5G1_oZ6g1q5AOxzdTbC_P2WrEt6o/edit#gid=0

Notes:

Thank you all for attending. Making good progress...

After next month's telecon, we should be coming to closure on what information we need to acquire when collecting ESDA use cases, in order to achieve the following objectives:

-- Characterize different types of ESDA: By ESDA usage; By Results of ESDA desired; By type of data user (their primary interests)

-- Determine data analytics tools and techniques utilized per different type of ESDA

-- Determine needs/difficulties, that data analytics is currently not fulfilling

-- And ultimately, recommend where data analytics can best be advanced to support the Earth science community

Thanks to the trial use cases provided by Ethan, Bob, Tiffany, Laura, and I, today we were able to iron out and clarify the information requested in our template. We also determined what information would not be significant to meeting our objectives. We noted, that the template we started with, borrowed from the keenly organized use case template developed within the NIST Big Data Initiative, asks for more information than would be needed for just understanding data analytics: Our focus. (The NIST Big Data Initiative seeks use cases to address Big Data, a superset of what data analytics addresses). Steve will clean-up our Google Doc matrix, ensuring all feedback is taken into account, and will provide a Use Case temple for all to review.

Erin then provided an update on what the next ESIP Federation theme is shaping up to be: 'Data Driven Community Resilience', with an emphasis on 'data --> information--.knowledge-->wisdom'. Discussions continue amongst our ESIP Visioneers, but Erin suggested that a planary speaker to talk about Earth Science Data Analytics would be really desirable. This is on the agenda for next month (an dose action item). Erin also asked us to consider possible data analytics workshops. More to come on this.

With a few minutes left in the telecon, Ethan, addressing his earlier e-mail to the Federation, talked about the EPA initiative stand up a big data analytics service within the agency, to help future projects utilizing data analytics. Please see Ethan's e-mail from February 20 (3:11 PM EST) for additional information.

Next Telecon:

Thursday, April 16, 2015, 3:00 EST

Agenda:

1. Initiate discussion on surveying Data Analytics Tools and Techniques available to Earth science research

2. Follow-up on potential ESIP ESDA workshop at the summer meeting.

3. Discuss potential speakers (to address Data Analytics) for ESIP Summer Meeting

4. Open Mic

Actions:

Steve - Initiate a Use Case document by populating the document with our 'prototype' use cases

Active Participants - Review Use Case document and provide feedback. Insert 3 use cases each. Due: By next telecon: April 16.

All Other Participants - E-mail Steve (Steven.J.Kempler@nasa.gov) so you can be an Active Participant Soon. But don't need to be an Active Participant to review use cases...so please do

All - For next telecon, please provide ideas of potential speakers to discuss ESDA at next ESIP Summer Meeting. Who can we invite as speakers, which other clusters have some relation to the usage of data analytics