2020 Workshop: Data Science in CEDAR

Characterizing the geospace environment requires measurements from several regions within the geospace. Fortunately, data to advance the scientific understanding of the geospace environment are growing across the four V’s of ‘big data’: 1) Volume; 2) Variety; 3) Veracity (i.e., uncertainty); and 4) Velocity. This growth represents both a challenge, to efficiently and comprehensively utilize these data, and an opportunity for new discovery by embracing new technologies and analysis capabilities that scale well to the geospace environment. These developments have revolutionized the creation of new scientific insights from data through the union of statistics, computer science, applied mathematics, and visualization, i.e., data science.

Numerous previous efforts to identify, understand, and progress data science in the CEDAR community set the stage for a new session that will not only share the latest progress, but will also create a more firm and lasting structure on which CEDAR data science will flourish.

The proposed workshop is a timely effort to sustain and amplify momentum from several previous workshops with a data science focus (see a list here).

Our specific objectives will be to:

1. Identify problems and challenges that can immediately be addressed using data science tools (i.e., the compelling and transformational ‘use cases’);
2. Promote interaction and collaboration between the CEDAR community and related disciplines (e.g., Earth Science);
3. Improve agility and capability within CEDAR science through embracing newer technologies and sound digital data scholarship; and
4. Grow methodology transfer to enhance CEDAR science.