Let's Make Open Data Awesome! (SXSW 2016 Proposal)

Let’s Make Open Data Awesome!

Matthew R HanlonSXSW 2016#opendata

Who am I?

I am a software engineer and manager of the Web and Mobile Apps group at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). I have been building data intensive applications for nearly 10 years in an array of fields from telecom to plant genomics to petroleum engineering.

Isn’t Open Data Already Awesome?

YES!

Opening data for peer review and public scrutiny helps to prevent messes like this:

Source:http://www.buzzfeed.com/bengoldacre/deworming-trials

So, I say again…Isn’t Open Data Already

Awesome?

It is becoming common practice to open research data because agencies like the National Science Foundation and publishers like PLOS are requiring it.

So, I say again…Isn’t Open Data Already

Awesome?

But so many of these data deposits are simply uploaded to a public repository only to be lost or forgotten.

So, I say again…Isn’t Open Data Already

Awesome?

But if to use your data I first have to download hundreds of megabytes, gigabytes, or more, just to look if the data is even useful to me,is that data really open?

How To Make It Really Awesome

A number of repositories have efforts underway to take open data beyond the FTP server. The iPlant Data Commons is one such example. By gathering metadata while data is produced as well as at the time of publication, data becomes searchable, linkable, standardized, and most importantly…

REPRODUCIBLE!

Meet up!

This meet up will be an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers, curators, and developers to exchange ideas on what open data could be and what it should be.

What would take to create the ultimate data repository?

For more information:www.tacc.utexas.edu

Matthew R Hanlonmrhanlon@tacc.utexas.edu

@mattorantimatt