Get involved in the CSIRO Data Science Community of Practice in 2019
Have you heard of PANGEO? Are you interested in “big data” geoscience and engaging with others across the Australian research community? Then register your interest below and get updates about upcoming events in 2019. If you are wondering “what?” and “why?”, read on.
The Decadal Climate Forecasting Project (DCFP), part of CSIRO’s Climate Science Centre and Oceans and Atmosphere, is embarking on a “big data” climate science platform to address the opportunities and challenges in the large ensemble datasets generated by our models. Given the explosive growth of these datasets it’s becoming increasingly impossible to interactively explore our climate model results and this can hinder scientific inquiry and discovery. Ultimately this “big data crisis” is not limited to the field of climate science and the solutions we are working toward will be directly applicable to data science challenges across CSIRO and other Australian centres for research.
The vision is borrowed directly from the novel efforts of an existing community of geoscience researchers and centres on an interactive data exploration platform and workflow that scales to meet the current and future challenges of big data geoscience. The workflow must be open and reproducible, containerised and portable, and ultimately, collaborative. Our focus today is learning and leveraging PANGEO – “a community platform for Big Data geoscience” and building on these ideas across CSIRO and Australian research.
The DCFP is, along with the Coasts Program, co-sponsoring a 2019 Community of Practice focused on PANGEO and “big data” geoscience workflows. Our current plans are:
- May 8-10th: Sessions and workshops in Canberra, Australia in concert with the Collaborative Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science, 2019 (C3DIS 2019)
- May 13-15th: A PANGEO-based hackathon at the CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere site in Hobart, Tasmania.
Sign up now to register your interest, get updates on the coming events, and to help shape our agenda.