IN51B:
Identifying and Better Understanding Data Science Activities, Experiences, Challenges, and Gaps Posters

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  John S Hughes, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Steven J Kempler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Emily Law, CalTech JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  John S Hughes, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Steven J Kempler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Emily Law, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Smarter Instruments, Smarter Archives: Machine Learning for Tactical Science
David R Thompson, Ravi Kiran, Abigail Allwood, Alphan Altinok, Tara Estlin and David Flannery, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Data-Intensive Science Meets Inquiry-Driven Pedagogy:  Interactive Big Data Exploration, Threshold Concepts, and Liminality
Rahul Ramachandran1, Udaysankar S Nair2 and Andrea Word2, (1)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Experiences from Virtual Observatory and Astroinformatics, and Some General Methodological Challenges
S. George Djorgovski, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Analytics to Better Interpret and Use Large Amounts of Heterogeneous Data
Tiffany Joi Mathews1, Walter E Baskin1 and Pamela Livingstone Rinsland2, (1)NASA ASDC (SSAI Contractor), Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Taking Another Look at the Data Management Life Cycle: Deconstruction, Agile, and Community
Joshua Wellzie Young, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Unidata, Boulder, CO, United States, W. Christopher Lenhardt, Renaissance Computing Institute, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Mark A Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States and Karl K Benedict, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Why Data Citation Currently Misses the Point
Mark A Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States and Peter Arthur Fox, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY, United States
 
Lessons Learned in over Two Decades of GPS/GNSS Data Center Support
Frances M Boler, Louis H Estey, Charles M Meertens and David Maggert, UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
ISO, FGDC, DIF and Dublin Core - Making Sense of Metadata Standards for Earth Science Data
Philip R Jones1, Nancy A Ritchey1, Ge Peng2, Valerie A Toner1 and Heather Brown1, (1)National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, United States, (2)NC State University, Asheville, NC, United States
 
Enabling Data Discovery and Reuse by Improving Software Usability:Data Science Experiences, Lessons, and Gaps
Antonia Rosati and Lynn Yarmey, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
 
My snowflake is so unique … Experiences of a reluctant Data Scientist
Edward Joseph Kearns and Nancy A Ritchey, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, United States