[Esip-earthcollaboratory] Another User Story for ESC

[Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)]

On Jun 21, 2013, at 7:12 PM, "Fox, Peter" <pfox at cs.rpi.edu> wrote:

> Quick response.
> 1. AGU session this year: Data Scientists Come of Age - sign people up!!!!
> 2. Jay is a newbie, meaning these are some newer data science modes. (oh, to have been "Liked" ;-( )
> 3. Key needs: bullets 2 and 3 are dream states meaning that most data science does start with the problem and not hey, there is this clean dataset and I am going to explore it - though this is  a mode that could become more prevalent. E.g. Earlyt career, grad students, LEDC researchers, informed public, etc.

This is an interesting area to explore:  how do cross-disciplinary collaborations come about?  At least in some cases, it is a matter of a technique expert describing a new technique, and a domain expert seeing/hearing/reading that and saying "Hey, maybe I could use that technique for my problem."  But this can be pretty hit-or-miss for fields that are widely separated.  

Is there a use case for data scientists demonstrating their techniques and capabilities, not so much to generate a new domain-science result, but rather as an audition of sorts?  And how would a collaboratory facilitate that process?

> 4. Key attributes: bullet 1 essential, 2 may not be the case, i.e. could have ES expertise though varied/ broad, or general, I have however programmed in 33 "languages", but i think there are lots more attributes possible here.
> 5. Do you want other tales? I could add mine circa 1991-3..

Uh-oh, you mean we haven't solved it yet?  Sure, send it on over!
> 
> ---Peter.
> 
> On 21/06/2013, at 14:32 , Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102) wrote:
> 
>> This is the "Data Scientist's Tale":  http://wiki.esipfed.org/images/6/65/DataScientistStory.pdf
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>> Please take a look at it, especially you folks out there that are *actual* Data Scientists (albeit in a different area).
>> 
>> Peter Fox, Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa, Mark Parsons: this means you...
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