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Summer Meeting Check-In System Friday, June 24, 2016 - 10:15 ESIP has designed a new web application that combines online attendance tracking for telecons and meeting sessions, with a highly personalized collaboration recommendations engine. The system is called “ImHere” and we are incorporating it into the suite of services offered to ESIP members and ESIP...
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The Julia Language – perspectives from a bad programmer Thursday, June 23, 2016 - 16:23 I should confess, I don't have the best programming etiquette. I treat programming languages as a tool to help me do science, a tool that I sometimes abuse. I’d link my GitHub as proof, but I haven’t updated it in forever because I forget to use it. My variable names are often non-descriptive, and I’ve been known to use for loops when I should vectorize. When real programmers complain about “scientists trying to code,” they’re complaining about me.
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ESIP Data Stewardship Committee Student Fellow Summer Updates Wednesday, June 22, 2016 - 15:42 On Wednesday, June 15th, I got an opportunity to attend the Data Science Credentialing Editorial Board meeting at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) headquarter in Washington, D.C., and it was a wonderful opportunity for me to meet the Board members (http://sites.agu.org/leadership/data-science-advisory-group/) in person as well as to learn about the data science/management training/education program that the Board is designing and creating. In addition to participating in the discussions and...
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Documentation Cluster Blog: ESIP Summer Meeting Metadata Improvement Lab Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - 15:07 Complete documentation of scientific data is the surest way to facilitate discovery and reuse, particularly if you use a metadata dialect that has been standardized. What is complete metadata though? How can you be sure that what you include in the metadata is not only relevant to your organization’s work, but understandable to your scientific community and beyond? At the 2016 ESIP Summer Meeting, I will be demonstrating a process to analyze the content of metadata in many standard dialects with respect to over 10 different recommendations of particular interest to the earth, space...
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