Suite of Tools to Disseminate Information Derived from Multiple Domains
Science Results
Abstract
We present here a set of tools to curate, analyze, visualize and
disseminate datasets, as well as communicate scientific findings,
through easy-to-use web interfaces. PRISM uses the IRI Data Library (DL)
to aggregate data from climate, agriculture, hydrology, ecology,
finance, power outage and space weather domains of science, as well as
the datasets resulting from their interdisciplinary research. These
datasets vary in their spatial and temporal (and other) representations
that the DL allows however to consistently represent in a
multi-dimensional data framework. Proper curation facilitates
interoperability and dissemination via other tools. We thus use popular
python libraries (e.g. xarray, numpy, pandas) to query, manipulate and
visualize the data and then build web applications to facilitate their
exploration. The content and the interface of those applications, which
we call Maprooms, are co-developed with the PRISM scientists in order to
design the most relevant way to communicate their results.