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Towards the Awesome - Making Collaborative Versioned Science a Reality

Arfon Smith
April 08, 2014

Towards the Awesome - Making Collaborative Versioned Science a Reality

My talk from 'Open Science: The Transparency Revolution' at NIAID Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB) annual Bioinformatics & Computational Biosciences Festival.

Arfon Smith

April 08, 2014
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  1. Towards the Awesome: Making Collaborative Versioned Science a Reality Arfon

    Smith @arfon Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License http://is.gd/NIAID
  2. 130 130 1 2048 189 189 258 258 480 562

    378 378 493 521 390 397 851 851 247 274 319 319 304 580 493 511 610 636 188 188 228 228 > cat bad_pix_mask.txt
  3. Wasteful 2 days work 3 observing runs/week 52 weeks in

    year 15 year detector lifetime ! 2*3*52*15 = 4680 days (13 years)
  4. Wasteful… but the norm 2 days work 3 observing runs/week

    52 weeks in year 15 year detector lifetime ! 2*3*52*15 = 4680 days (13 years)
  5. !

  6. “publishing a paper about code is basically just advertising” David

    Donoho http://www.stanford.edu/~vcs/Video.html
  7. “Academic environments of today do not reward tool builders” Ed

    Lazowska, OSTP event http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/MS/MS.OSTP.pdf
  8. http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/MS/MS.OSTP.pdf Software Tools, Environments, and Support# •  SoSware%environments%and%tools%are%crucial% •  Organic,#sustainable,#reusable,#extensible#

    •  Easy#to#translate#across#problem#domains# •  The#creaHon#and#usage#of#today’s#tools#and#sojware# environments#are#distracHng#from#the#science# •  Today's%academic%environments%do%not%reward%tool%builders# •  How#can#the#development,#hardening,#sustaining,#sharing,# and#integraHon#of#techniques#into#a#reusable#sojware# infrastructure#be#recognized#and#incenHvized?# 17# Example%approach:%Teams%of%soSware%architects,%engineers,% and%researchers%who%will%produce%data%science%tools%and%will%be% evaluated%on%the%impact%of%these%tools%
  9. 130 130 1 2048 189 189 258 258 480 562

    378 378 493 521 390 397 851 851 247 274 319 319 304 580 493 511 610 636 188 188 228 228 > cat bad_pix_mask.txt > git clone [email protected]:arfon/aat/pixel_masks