For my second week of the internship at the DataONE, I continued meta-analysis by calibrating a sample Excel worksheet for the analysis and reading papers. By communicating through threads of emails, our team shared a variety of ideas to improve the worksheet. As for me, I have read 25 papers Continue reading Citizen Science Data Gathering : Blog Week #02
Last summer, I worked a lot on building the Semantic Annotator for DataONE, and this summer, I was granted the opportunity to continue to improve upon it. I made some small changes over the course of the last year, mostly fixing bugs that came up, but now I have nine Continue reading Week 1 – Returning to the Annotator
Before we officially start the internship, Rob, Heejun, Todd and me had a productive one-day face-to-face meeting on the beautiful campus of University of Massachusetts Boston last week. We reviewed the project background and goals together, then discussed the working plan for achieving the goals. Our work focuses on conducting a meta-analysis Continue reading Start the journey of exploration – Week 1
After a successful face-to-face meeting in Santa Barbara between mentor and intern, we have a nine week project timeline. A major goal for this project this summer is to develop a workflow and templates for making screencasts as a product, so the beginning weeks will be spent researching tools (Week Continue reading Choosing screencast software – Screencast Tutorials, Week #1
This week we spent a lot of time discussing our work plan and expected outcomes, as well as how we collaborate with each other since project 1 and 2 are closely related and are both extension to the semantic annotator in Tetherless World. For project 2 mainly we need to Continue reading Week 1 – Kicking off & constructing the knowledge base
Did you know you can use Moby’s music for your no-budget, non-profit type projects? You can! Here’s a link: http://www.mobygratis.com A track or two might end up in a DataONE video too. On a positive note : it looks like the graphic packages are going to spice up the projects Continue reading Moby Music & Scripts: Internship Week #02
We’re targeting to study provenance in digital notebooks, i.e. iPython. IPython notebook is an a web-based interactive computational environment for Python programming. One of our group members along with other collaborators has created a tool called “NoWorkflow”, which intends to capture script provenance of a Python script. During the joint section of Continue reading Week 1 Report – Getting started
With regard to the summer internship at the DataONE, the general goal of the project 4 is to document citizen participation, data collection procedures, and analysis tasks undertaken by citizens through literature review process. Our team, especially, has more interests in tuning data quality. To make the review and synthesis Continue reading Citizen Science Data Gathering : Blog Week #01 (by Heejun)
I find that every great story is derived from detailed interviews and research. I’ve started out my piece of the project with a handful of great stories about DATA collection and a great amount of freedom to research content to support these stories. For those who don’t know, it’s my Continue reading Creative & Common : Blog Week #01
This summer project is an extension of the existing project at https://github.com/tetherless-world/opendap/wiki. We’ll be updating materials there, and discussing them as appropriate on this DataONE notebook.