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Web Scale Collaborations

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December 10, 2013
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Web Scale Collaborations

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Transcript

  1. Web Scale Collaborations Arfon Smith @arfon

  2. Citizen Science

  3. Distributed Computing

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  5. Distributed Data Collection

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  8. Distributed Analysis

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  13. http://www.novacelestia.com

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  19. 0 250,000 500,000 750,000 1,000,000 Professor Paper PhD SDSS

  20. Classifications per hour 0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000

    70,000 Hours 0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 1 Kevin months Fukugita et al. 2007
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  30. SDSS HST Starforming pea Narrow-line Seyfert pea

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  38. Motivations

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  42. 1,000,000,000,000 hours / year

  43. Spectrum of cognitive surplus

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  46. Begins with open data

  47. Open Source

  48. Not treating code and data as first class research objects

  49. GitHub

  50. What is a GitHub?

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  55. Easier to work together than alone

  56. Open Source collaboration

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  73. Open Public ≠

  74. Open (within your team, department or institution)

  75. Electronic

  76. Available

  77. Asynchronous

  78. Lock-free

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  82. Low friction collaboration

  83. “open source is… reproducible by necessity” Fernando Perez http://blog.fperez.org/2013/11/an-ambitious-experiment-in-data-science.html

  84. Better at collaborating because they have to be

  85. Towards Collaborative Versioned Science

  86. How do we make this behaviour the norm?

  87. Incentive model (it’s broken)

  88. Credit

  89. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.828487

  90. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.828487

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  93. Derive meaningful metrics from open contributions

  94. “Academic environments of today do not reward tool builders” Ed

    Lazowska, OSTP event http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/MS/MS.OSTP.pdf

  95. A VISION AND STRATEGY FOR SOFTWARE FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, AND

    EDUCATION

  96. What can we do today?

  97. Take data management plans seriously

  98. Try versioning your research

  99. Share more than just data

  100. If you’re going to share it then you better put

    a licence on it

  101. Thanks. [email protected] @arfon "