Earth Science Data Analytics/2015-6-18 Telecon

ESDA Telecon notes – 6/18/15

Known Attendees:

ESIP Host (Annie Burgess), Steve Kempler, Chung-lin Shie, Tiffany Mathews, Brand Niemann, Joan Aron, Rob Casey, Ward Fleir

Agenda:

1. ESDA Use Cases

2. Summer Meeting Planning – 2 Sessions scheduled:

- Teaching Science Data Analytics Skills, and the Earth Science Data Scientist (http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7999)

- The Need for Earth Science Data Analytics to Facilitate Community Resilience (and other applications) (http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7998)

3. Open Mic

Presentations:

None, this time.

Use Case Information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U1mAt4ZjJqXeNmtRoE4VbI1nBgS1v7DzeHib_7mzOF8/edit

Notes:

Thank you all for attending.

After a short discussion of Data Analytics types we have been addressing, we concluded, based on attempting to associate use cases with types, that: 1. We may need to rethink whether the data analytics types actually apply to Earth science data analytics, and; 2. The types we have been focusing on appear to be at a higher level than what our use cases can associate with. This is an area needing additional study, and with additional use cases, may become clearer.

We then discussed our 2 ESIP ESDA sessions.

1. Teaching Science Data Analytics Skills, and the Earth Science Data Scientist (http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7999)

We will have 4 speakers, who will provide their experiences in being, or needing, a Data Scientist in their work. The goal of this session is to discuss and extract real project data scientist/analytics experience needs, initiated by presentation and discussed by session participants. Of special interest is bringing together people who have needs for data scientists (data analytics) and will be able to articulate those needs by the end of the session, and/or; stir ideas: for the use of data analytics in their research or to build tools/services for others.

Presenters:

Wade Bishop, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee

Peter Fox, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Tetherless World Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Lewis McGibbney, Computer Science for Data Intensive Systems Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Karen Stocks, Director, Geological Data Center, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

2. The Need for Earth Science Data Analytics to Facilitate Community Resilience (and other applications) (http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7998)

This will be an open forum idea sharing discussion session. This cluster session will review our current work (for new participants), followed by discussion on the extent of social, economic, and environmental issues, as well as science research, in which the advancement of Earth science data analytics have had an impact. The goal of this discussion is to gain sufficient information to categorize how Earth science data analytics has come to be used in our society, and identify use cases that exemplify this

Today, we discussed: - What should our summer session goals be and how do we get there?

The following goals were identified:

1. Identify use cases that

FYI:

The following Data Analytics / Big Data related sessions are listed to occur at the AGU next December:

Advanced Information Systems to Support Climate Projection Data Analysis

Gerald L Potter, Tsengdar J Lee, Dean Norman Williams, and Chris A Mattmann

Big Data Analytics for Scientific Data

Emily Law, Michael M Little, Daniel J Crichton, and Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher

Big Data in Earth Science – From Hype to Reality

Kwo-Sen Kuo, Rahul Ramachandran, Ben James Kingston Evans. and Mike M Little

Big Data in the Geosciences: New Analytics Methods and Parallel Algorithms

Jitendra Kumar and Forrest M Hoffman

Computing Big Earth Data

Michael M Little, Darren L. Smith, Piyush Mehrotra, and Daniel Duffy

Geophysical Science Data Analytics Use Case Scenarios

Steven J Kempler, Robert R Downs, Tiffany Joi Mathews, and John S Hughes

Man vs. Machine - Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing in the Earth Sciences

Jens F Klump, Xiaogang Ma, Jess Robertson and Peter A Fox

New approaches for designing Big Data databases

David W Gallaher and Glenn Grant

Partnerships and Big Data Facilities in a Big Data World

Kenneth S Casey and Danie Kinkade

Towards a Career in Data Science: Pathways and Perspectives

Karen I Stocks, Lesley A Wyborn, Ruth Duerr, and Lynn Yarmey

Next Telecon:

Thursday, June 18, 2015, 3:00 EST

Agenda:

1. Summer Cluster Planning - Discuss outline (to soon be provided)

2. Open Mic

Actions:

Active Participants - Review Use Case document and provide feedback. Insert 3 use cases each. Due: By next telecon: May 14.

All - Please e-mail Steve (Steven.J.Kempler@nasa.gov) with comments/suggestions on cluster topics by next telecon

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

BTW, my e-mail is: Steven.J.Kempler@nasa.gov