EVA Working Group Teleconference Toll Free Number: 866-703-9626 Pass Code: 767574 Participants: Anna Michalak (first 20 minutes), Colin Talbert, Arthur, Aritra, Jorge, Bill Hargrove, Dan Ricciuto, Yaxing Wei, Bob Cook, Forrest Hoffman Not able to Participate: Claudio, Steve Aulenbach Agenda 1. NSF Review 2. UV-CDAT activities 3. Critical evaluation of common figures / maps for terrestrial biosphere modeling results 4. Machine Learning 5. Summer Interns 6. Other topics? Background: January Workshop: http://epad.dataone.org/2013-01-22-EVA-Wkshp Notes 1. NSF review - Bob presentation on EVA given at the NSF Reverse Site Visit (February 28) will be added to the Wiki includes several short screen casts of the functionality 2. UV-CDAT * Review of featues in current UV-CDAT binary release - Yaxing and Jorge * Version 1.2: currently available from LLNL * selected features are available: Parallel Coordinates, Multi-Dimensional Scaling, Linked Views, dendrograms, Interactive time series. * Missing features: Selecting Ecoregions, import dataset by HTTP protocol. * tutorials: http://uv-cdat.llnl.gov/wiki/VideoTutorials View especially the General Tutorials * Installing UV-CDAT UV-CDAT binary releases can be found at http://uv-cdat.llnl.gov/install/. c-make installation Having questions about installation? Please contact: - Jorge Poco: jpocom@gmail.com - Ben Burnett: benjam.arlyn@gmail.com * April release of UV-CDAT (no earlier than April 10) * Jorge working with Ben to add functions * will have all the features that Jorge added (demo'd) 3. Critical evaluation of common figures / maps for terrestrial biosphere modeling results -- Aritra Evaluation based on three criteria: * visualization approaches that are typically used for carbon model visualizations * five different images --mixtures of data types (numerical, spatial, temporal, categorical) * design problems that are generalizable, and * sufficient level of visualization complexity for them to be redone March 31 deadline for conference paper will have a draft in the next few days; will need to have some domain specific text for context would like to have more papers and visualizations aligned with the current scope? Scope: static visualizations for terrestrial biosphere models (flux, biomass), multiple models?? Send request to a bigger community, for example the North American Carbon Program (NACP), to seek more figures/maps/plots, -maps, scatterplots, line plots, general types of figures under two different schemes: climate change science and visualization science. Bill Hargrove: current categories are general maybe generate some specific categories (difference maps; comparisons; time series) strengths / weaknesses turn to interactive figures (from static) 4. Machine learning and visualization interactions - Forrest, Bill, and Jorge (briefly) Forrest has provided some data; perhaps looking at clustering / visualization 5. Summer Interns -- Bob and Yaxing * DataONE Intern: Build Fundamental Components for Provenance-aware Model Exploration, Evaluation, and Benchmarking Cyber-infrastructure Prototype See http://www.dataone.org/internships, project 8). This is an activity related to the "working group 5" we discussed at New York EVA workshop (http://epad.dataone.org/2013-01-22-EVA-Wkshp). You're very welcome to provide suggestions on what "core" functionalities that you want UV-CDAT/VisTrails to provide to help model data exploration, analysis, and evaluation. * ORNL Interns 6. Other topics?