Dear readers Of interest to some folks might be the Feb.11th issue of Science magazine http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/data/
One article specifically addresses the use of open data in ecology: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6018/703.short There is also a short article on data visualization. I find this issue of particular interest since I now employ visualization as one of the integral steps in my analysis of ecological data. Whereas in the past this article makes the statement that visualization was regarded as the final step in analysis. I see an exciting transformation happening in the field of eco-informatics. This is a merger between data science, informatics and computing, mathematics, simulation and ecology. It seems obvious to me that visualization should be an important step in EDA and analysis now that we have software to achieve sophisticated analysis to conduct network analysis (eg.GRNs), and time series. Regards, -- Heather Anne ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heather A. Wright / [email protected] Ecology and Evolution of Plankton Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Villa Comunale 80121 - Napoli, Italy Lab: +39 081 583 3224 Cell: +39 366 484 2196 Fax: +39 081 764 1355 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.” Thomas Kuhn ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * *
