Toward an Open Analytics Environment

Опубликовано 6 сентября 2016, 17:23

(Joint work with Svetlozar Nestorov, Steve Tuecke, and others) Research and development are becoming increasingly data driven and collaborative. However, taking a systems-level view of the knowledge production process, we find that progress is often hindered by logistical difficulties relating to data access, analysis, discovery, interpretation, and sharing. I argue that many of these difficulties can be overcome by creating an open analytics environment, a hardware +software cloud into which teams can load data, programs, and the like, with analysis driven by both stored procedures and explicit user requests. I review requirements that such an environment should satisfy, and discuss work being performed in the Computation Institute and elsewhere towards this goal.