[Esip-esda] Notes from ESIP ESDA Telecon on-line

[Kempler, Steven J. (GSFC-5860)]

Hi All,
Notes from last Thursday’s ESDA telecon are posted.  We have some actions to discuss at our next telecon, March 19, 3:00 EST.

Until then, stay well (and warm), Steve

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Notes from 2/26 telecon:

Thank you all for attending. Making 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.
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