Earth Science Data Analytics/2016-6-16 Telecon

ESDA Telecon notes – 6/16/16

Known Attendees:

ESIP Hosts (Annie Burgess), Steve Kempler, Chung-Lin Shie, Robert Downs, Beth Huffer, Shea Caspersen, Tiffany Mathews, Byron Peters, Ethan McMahon, Sudhir Shrestha

Agenda:

Agenda

1. Tools and Techniques – Status

2. How can we best validate our work with ESDA users?

3. ESIP Summer Meeting Planning. Session Title: Earth Science Data Analytics Tools, Techniques and More (http://commons.esipfed.org/node/9140)

4. Open Mic – What else should we be addressing?

Presentations:

Reviewed tools/techniques matrix

Notes:

Thank you all for attending and participating in our telecon

Announcement: Bar will be giving a very valuable presentation at the July ESIP ESDA Cluster session on her experiences, as a student of Data Science. This will be very interesting to hear first hand experience from someone is going through the paces of 'what it takes to be a Data Scientist'

We spent this hour strategizing how we can validate the work we have done thus far. That is we have a lot of information recorded, but how do we know we are creating the correct ESDA types to ESDA goals to ESDA tools/techniques, relationships. Possible solutions:

To Do List:

Done:

1. Finalize ESDA Definition and Goal categories

2. Write letter to ESIP Executive Committee proposing that the ESDA Definitions and Goal categories be ESIP approved

3. Characterize use cases by Goal categories and other analytics driving considerations

4. Derive requirements from #3

Underway:

5. Further validate requirements with (many) more additional use cases

6. Survey existing data analytics tools/techniques

7. Write our paper describing ... all the above

Next Meeting:

June 16, 2016 in Durham

Agenda:

1. Observations in learning to be a Data Scientist - Bar

2. Techniques mapped to ESDA types and goals – Status

3. Tools mapped to techniques, and gaps - Status

4. How can we best validate our work with ESDA users?

5. Next Steps

6. Open Mic – What else should we be addressing?

Actions:

1. All: From the Techniques/Goals/Types matrix (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xg4zYqAqrfu6NMdQtTYJn50J8kXpjpQBC0exX3XYOVQ/edit#gid=0)...

Go down ESDA Type columns entitled: Data Preparation, Data Reduction, and Data Analysis, and delete the techniques (starting on row 16) that can NOT be applied to that column ESDA type. Thus, the techniques that remain, are those that CAN be applied to that column ESDA type. If you are not sure what the technique is, please see technique descriptions at the Google Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xv8qySG4k6p8Y3rOYLonWlahwKPT86MCuJoIT3wske8/edit#gid=0 starting on line 33.

Please ask for permission to edit. So that we don't edit over each other, please download a copy to edit, and send back to Steve, or ask Steve to send you a copy to edit.

Please spend a little time and provide back by Friday, June 24. That would be great.

Step 2 would be mapping techniques to goals. More to come on this.

2. All - For our Cluster face to face in Durham: Please identify one or two multi-data researchers who would be willing to provide insights into their experiences and needs for accessing and preparing data for co-analysis of heterogeneous data.