I was offline for the past two weeks, and it was glorious. I highly recommend it!
Monday is meetings day.
Shrainik, Bill, and I discussed our efforts (with Dominik) to define and quantify the extent of variety in different datasets and understand how data management and integration systems help combat ...
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I spent today in the Data Science Incubator working with Andy Becker on KBMOD. We are trying to port the key components of the moving object detection into PostgreSQL using PostGIS.
On his own, Andy designed a schema for the various data, including spatial columns and indexes. Side by side ...
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The majority activity today was reviewing the proposals we received for the Fall 2014 edition of our Data Science Incubator. We received 26 fantastic proposals ranging from Astronomy to Statistics (sadly, no Zoology), and we are probably going to have to cut it down to 5 or 6. Lots of ...
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Tomorrow I will work more on the scaling issues!
We had a great Myria meeting this afternoon. We discussed Andrew Whitaker‘s user-defined aggregate (UDA) extensions to MyriaL, which provide a very nice way to get scalable, distributed partial aggregation to implement many complicated aggregations in a single scan rather ...
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Today I met with UW CSE undergrad York Wei and Brandon Myers for demos and code review of York’s summer Project. York and Brandon have adapted our Myria Web frontend to extend the current support for Myria with the ability to issue queries to two new backends:
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We had our monthly SeaFlow/eScience group meeting meeting. For this grant the oceanographers have been doing lots of new science using tools like SQLShare, Myria, and popcycle, our software for storing indexing and analyzing SeaFlow data. We discussed needed improvements to popcycle and to the seaflow-viz web dashboard (see ...
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Today we met with UW-IT to talk about the future of SQLShare. We will be starting some sprints in the fall to prepare it to be transitioned to them as an on-campus service.
Spent a fair bit of time reading and discussing Brandon Myers’ paper using Raco to compile ...
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