Big data in ecology, and the need for a culture change

Presented at the Ignite session "Hacking Ecology 2.0" at #ESA2016

Transcript

1. I don’t do big data You don’t do big data None of us do big data But that’s not a problem Timothée Poisot // @tpoi Université de Montréal
3. SYNTHESIS INSIGHTS DATA
4. Tim’s three rules of ecological big data 1. There is almost no such thing as ecological “big data” 2. Talking about “big data” won’t make them happen (that’s Beetlejuice) 3. What about doing normal data right first?
5. Ecological data are heterogeneous, small, local and this requires different tools
6. Volume of data Ability to handle data ENORMOUS ENORMOUS RATHER SMALL NOT TOO BIG
7. Volume of data Ability to handle data “Real-life” constraints Cost, time, and effort Culture Training Practices
8. Collection Curation Analysis Sharing Re-use Mark Carnall “The New Biology”
9. Collection Curation Analysis Sharing Re-use Costly Time consuming Difficult to improve
10. Collection Curation Analysis Sharing Re-use
11. Collection Curation Analysis Sharing Re-use
12. Collection Curation Analysis Sharing Re-use
13. Collection Curation Analysis Sharing Re-use
14. How are we doing? What can we do? Does it involves code? Collection Not too bad Not much No Curation Analysis Sharing Re-use
15. How are we doing? What can we do? Does it involves code? Collection Not too bad Not much No Curation Poorly Use the standards Maybe Analysis Sharing Re-use
16. How are we doing? What can we do? Does it involves code? Collection Not too bad Not much No Curation Poorly Use the standards Maybe Analysis OK Make it part of the curriculum before grad school No Sharing Re-use
17. How are we doing? What can we do? Does it involves code? Collection Not too bad Not much No Curation Poorly Use the standards Maybe Analysis OK Make it part of the curriculum before grad school No Sharing ... Advocate No Re-use
18. How are we doing? What can we do? Does it involves code? Collection Not too bad Not much No Curation Poorly Use the standards Maybe Analysis OK Make it part of the curriculum before grad school No Sharing ... Advocate No Re-use Poorly Solve all of the above Not yet
19. The future of “hacking ecology” is turning our computer off and doing advocacy work also join the ESA Open Science section and turn your computer on again, these papers ain’t gonna write themselves