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Arfon Smith
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Transcript
Web Scale Collaborations Arfon Smith @arfon
Citizen Science
Distributed Computing
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Distributed Data Collection
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Distributed Analysis
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http://www.novacelestia.com
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0 250,000 500,000 750,000 1,000,000 Professor Paper PhD SDSS
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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SDSS HST Starforming pea Narrow-line Seyfert pea
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Motivations
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1,000,000,000,000 hours / year
Spectrum of cognitive surplus
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Begins with open data
Open Source
Not treating code and data as first class research objects
GitHub
What is a GitHub?
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Easier to work together than alone
Open Source collaboration
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Open Public ≠
Open (within your team, department or institution)
Electronic
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Asynchronous
Lock-free
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Low friction collaboration
“open source is… reproducible by necessity” Fernando Perez http://blog.fperez.org/2013/11/an-ambitious-experiment-in-data-science.html
Better at collaborating because they have to be
Towards Collaborative Versioned Science
How do we make this behaviour the norm?
Incentive model (it’s broken)
Credit
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.828487
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.828487
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Derive meaningful metrics from open contributions
“Academic environments of today do not reward tool builders” Ed
Lazowska, OSTP event http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/MS/MS.OSTP.pdf
A VISION AND STRATEGY FOR SOFTWARE FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, AND
EDUCATION
What can we do today?
Take data management plans seriously
Try versioning your research
Share more than just data
If you’re going to share it then you better put
a licence on it
Thanks.
[email protected]
@arfon "