AIBS Bioinformatics Workforce Needs Workshop, Dec 2015
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The document discusses foundation support for data science tools and skills training. It notes that while career tracks and barriers to interdisciplinary work remain unchanged, computational and data analysis skills are increasingly important for researchers. The Data-Driven Discovery Initiative aims to catalyze shifts that encourage and reward data-intensive research. This includes making data science resources more accessible and ensuring students understand data analysis by 2020. The initiative promotes tools for data-driven research and funds environments welcoming data scientists to biology.
AIBS Bioinformatics Workforce Needs Workshop, Dec 2015
- 1. Foundation Support for Data Science Tools & Skills Carly Strasser Data-Driven Discovery Initiative AIBS: Bio-informatics Workforce Needs 8 Dec 2015
- 2. Patient Care Marine Microbes Practices EnvironmentScience Bay Area Data-Driven Discovery EPiQS TMT … People Institutions …in the natural sciences
- 4. What hasn’t changed: Career tracks Barriers to interdisciplinary work Credit & incentives Training Leaky pipeline for computationally-savvy researchers From Flickr by Willie Angus
- 5. DDD Goal: Catalyze shifts towards new norms Academic institutions nurture/reward data- intensive research(ers) Tools & practices are available, disseminated, and used
- 6. Patient Care Marine Microbes Practices EnvironmentScience Bay Area Data-Driven Discovery EPiQS TMT … People Institutions
- 8. Careers Space Tools Training Open Science Data Science Studies Themes “…the aim is to make data science technology and expertise far more accessible both within universities and beyond.”
- 9. “In 2020, every college student should be prepared to understand and develop points of view based on the analysis of data as well as evaluate arguments made by others” Formal Informal
- 10. Patient Care Marine Microbes Practices EnvironmentScience Bay Area Data-Driven Discovery EPiQS TMT … People Institutions
- 11. Metagenomics StatisticsMathematics Computer science Gene expressionAstrophysics Imaging EcologyEvolution Gene expression Computer science EnvironmentalComputer science visualization Astrophysics
- 12. tl;dr: We are organizing an event where trainees launch collaborative projects. …Our goal is to host an event that will generate projects that integrate the skills and expertise of at least two (ideally more) DDD-I labs… Barnraising Gene expression Computer science Astrophysics …DDD Training Club
- 13. Patient Care Marine Microbes Practices EnvironmentScience Bay Area Data-Driven Discovery EPiQS TMT … People Institutions
- 14. Promote innovative tools and techniques for data driven research Formerly Interactive lab notebook for sharing workflows
- 15. Promote innovative tools and techniques for data driven research Formerly Interactive lab notebook for sharing workflows From www.davelunt.net
- 16. Promote innovative tools and techniques for data driven research Formerly
- 17. What we ARE doing: • Funding data science environments that welcome biologists • Supporting investigators in biology and life sciences who demonstrate the skills needed • Funding projects that enable and promote training the biology workforce • Getting involved in discussions about training data scientists What we ARE NOT doing: • Directly funding Biology-focused projects/tools • Directly funding formal data science education