1. 1 Peter Fox Data Science – ITEC/CSCI/ERTH-6961-01 Week 3, September 16, 2009 Class exercise - collecting data - individual

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3. Admin info (keep/ print this slide) Class: ITEC/CSCI/ERTH-6961-01 Hours: 9am-11:50am Wednesdays Location: LOW 4040 Instructor: Peter Fox Instructor contact: pfox@cs.rpi.edu, x4862pfox@cs.rpi.edu Contact hours: Tuesdays 10am-11am (or by appt) Contact location: Winslow 2120 Wiki: http://tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Data_Science_%282009_Fall% 29 –Schedule, syllabus, reading, assignments, etc. 3

4. Modes of collecting data, information Observation Measurement Generation Driven by –Questions –Research idea –Exploration 4

5. Management Creation of logical collections Physical data handling Interoperability support Security support Data ownership Metadata collection, management and access. Persistence Knowledge and information discovery Data dissemination and publication 5

6. Practical details for week 3 The preparation for collection was Assignment 1 (due today) This week is the practical part of data collecting – scope your effort so that you can complete it within class hours (or less) Ground rules –Come with two data collection options, others will be available/ offered –No one off collections, i.e. must be something you could repeat –This is an individual exercise 6

7. Practical details for week 3 (ctd) A write up will be required, details in Assignment 2 (handed out next week, 4) and presented in week 5 (i.e. keep detailed notes) No analysis is required What are you planning to do? 7

8. What is next Next week (Data formats, metadata standards, conventions, reading and writing data and information) Reading –Data formats: netCDF –Metadata resources –METS –OAI-PMH Protocol for Metadata Harvesting –Climate and Forecast (CF) conventions 8