Earth Science Data Analytics/2016-8-18 Telecon

ESDA Telecon notes – 8/18/16

Known Attendees:

ESIP Hosts (Annie Burgess), Steve Kempler, Emily Northup, Beth Huffer, Byron Peters, Lindsay Barbieri, Chung-Lin Shie, Shea Caspersen, Annie Burgess, Tiffany Mathews, Angela Li, Robert Downs, Joan Aron, Tripp Corbett

Agenda:

Agenda

1. Next steps for ESDA Cluster

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

Presentations:

None

Notes:

Thank you all for attending and participating in our telecon

For the topic, where can ESDA Cluster go from here, the following ideas were floated, consistent with our goals:

- Validate our work

- Prototype

Have a sandbox for using the tools

List DA projects that people are working on

List potential problems that DA could be applied to

List challenges to doing more DA

List potential solutions to the challenges

Move from tabular data to data visualization

We can also become more involved with interagency work:

Intro/background related to Earth system science

Current EPA/ORD/Earth science related work - Infrastructure, Analytics

Intra-agency work/potential collaborations: EPA/CDC ecological niche modeling of vector borne diseases potential project; NASA/NOAA/USGS/EPA CyAN project; EPA/Chesbay Conservancy automated visual recognition projects

Tools/techniques discussion/update

Other moving forward thoughts:

- What tools /techniques can we address first? What problem to solve

- Invite and drill into projects already utilizing data analytics (e.g.,EPA Projects)

1. Tiffany: Focus on what individuals are working on that use particular ESDA techniques. Should be Use Case driven. Bring light to tool/technique via use case. Would need to choose candidates

2. Protoype: Utilize a ESDA tool to solve a data problem. Could have breakout groups to look at different tools/technique

2A. Joan: Look at what other ESIP Clusters are doing that can be helpful. For example, talk to Dave Jones, Disaster Cluster, about the data analytics he is utilizing.

     Shea: Brought up Chris Mattman’s SciSpark talk.

     Can we be the conduit between ESIP ESDA tool interests (e.g., SciSPark) and heterogeneous data innsue (e.g., Disaster Data).  This may be a good prototype that might experimentally benefit both groups, and be exemplary for further such prototyping.

Also, let’s take the opportunity to entice others interested in ESDA technologies

Also, let’s provde a activity slide for Annie for SciDataCon (Steve can do this)

Next Meeting:

September 15, 2016

Agenda:

1. Next Steps

2. 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.