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Characterizing quality for science data products
Characterizing quality for a science data product is hard. We have been working on this issue in our Multi-Sensor Data Synergy Advisor (MDSA) project with Greg Leptoukh and Chris Lynnes from the NASA...
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It was with great sadness that I learned yesterday of the passing of my friend and colleague, Greg Leptoukh. Greg was a physical scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and a coordinator of...
View ArticleMy First AGU Experience
(This post was supposed to be posted a month ago. But I had some trouble accessing the TW weblog website when I was in China, so I have to post it now after I came back to Troy.) AGU 2011 Fall Meeting...
View ArticleGet comments on the Water Quality Portal from AGU 2011
AGU 2011 was the 1st conference I attended after I came to RPI. There were many interesting activities in the conference and I feel this is a very rewarding experience. I had the poster for the...
View ArticleESIP 2012 Summer meeting, Madison, WI
Topic: ESIP 2012 summer meeting Location: Madison, WI Time: July 16 – 20, 2012 Keywords: Patrick, Stephan and Eric; Geo-data projects; Poster presentation; FUNding Friday; Networking ESIP 2012 summer...
View ArticleRevised article posted: Is Data Publication the Right Metaphor
After a few gyrations and reading 70 pages of reviews, Mark (taking the lead) and I have now re-submitted our paper to the Data Science Journal. We’d like the conversation to continue and I’ll be...
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Syntactic Normalization of the BTC2012 Dataset
[UPDATE: There was a bug in the code causing too many exceptions to be thrown for bad UTF-8 encoding. See the comment below for details.] I recently normalized (meaning to be discussed) the 2012-09-02...
View ArticleSurvival and thriving at AGU Fall Meeting 2012
AGU Fall Meeting, if I am correct, is the biggest conference in the field of geosciences. For the year 2012 there were over 22000 people participated in the event. Yet, a conference is more than the...
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Three reasons to attend ESIP winter meeting
Erin Robinson has posted 10 reasons to attend the ESIP winter meeting. I want to provide some feed-backs from the point of view of myself. Interaction: ESIP meetings are different from a normal...
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I presented a poster about how can we use Semantic Web Technology to help building an information model and information system for National Climate Assessment (NCA). NCA is a report which integrates,...
View ArticleFAKE open access publications in now days and my suggestion
Open Access in now days is such a *FAKE* idea. It is the author’s paper, not the publisher’s. Currently what a reader pays is for the typesetting according to the format of a publisher. A author can...
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What is ontology?
The topic of a blog in my mind, after five days at the American Geophysical Union 2013 Fall Meeting discussing Earth and space science informatics, is to give an introduction of ontology to researchers...
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ODIP workshop notes – part 1 – a unique viewpoint of data citation
During the last two weeks I’ve been on this exciting journey to attend ODIP workshop #2 plus AGU fall meeting 2013. I’ve been talking with both researchers and managers (definitions will come in a...
View ArticleMiscellaneous of my AGU meeting
Don’t remember exactly how many times I have been to bay area, especially for summer interns. The foggy and windy San Francisco is nothing new to me, but the AGU meeting is like an adventure that I...
View ArticleAGU fall meeting notes – part 1 – two levels of conversations
I mentioned that I’ve talked with two kinds of people – researchers and managers – during ODIP workshop #2 and AGU fall meeting 2013 in my last post, and here comes the definitions I left out. By...
View ArticleOpen Source Software & Science Reproducibility
This year my contribution to the AGU fall meeting 2013 was all about the development of Open Source Software to enable the reproducibility of scientific products, with both a Poster and an Oral...
View ArticleProduct Focused vs. Customer Focused Marketing
Someone said my work as a poster presenter is like a marketing job, and suggested me to take a course in marketing, so I took the online course on coursera called “An Introduction to Marketing”. To my...
View ArticleData Science Day Blog Post
The events held during the Data Science Day were quite informative to an intern like me who just joined the Deep Carbon Observatory project. The collaboration between scientists and researchers in the...
View ArticleData science day experience
The two day workshop is transient but really impressive, as I learned a lot more about how domain scientist are playing with their data and what their requirements are. The first day starts with a...
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The Day of Data Science
The DCO Data Science team hosted a two-day workshop in RPI to promote the data management and infrastructure we have been working very hard on for DCO. As part of the team, I attended the whole event...
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