A Dark Side to Data-Centric Geography? Where are the Reward Systems?
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The document discusses a symposium on human dynamics research and a potential dark side to data-centric geography. It questions where reward systems are for data scientists in geography and what institutional barriers need to be removed to better prepare graduates for success in both academia and industry. The document considers what drivers could shift academia to better recognize and reward data scientists and where data science fits within the university structure.
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- 1. “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yodaquotes.net Ease Leads to Exposure. Exposure Leads to Adoption. 4403 Symposium on Human Dynamics Research A Dark Side to Data-Centric Geography? Where are the Reward Systems? Image courtesy of Wookieepedia, under fair use provision of US copyright law
- 2. “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yodaquotes.net Waldo Tobler, Duane Marble, Art Getis, Jerry Dobson dusk.geo.orst.edu/aag16-darkside.html
- 3. Data Science and Data-Centric Geography Jake VanderPlas, University of Washington eScience Institute
- 4. What changes in academic culture should we strive toward? What institutional barriers need to be removed? Recognizing that graduates will go on to work in both academia and industry, how best to prepare them for success in both worlds? What drivers might shift academia toward recognizing & rewarding “data scientists” in geography? Whither “data science?” Where does it fit within the structure of the university?
- 5. Thank You Dawn Wright | Esri Chief Scientist Email: dwright@esri.com Twitter: @deepseadawn dusk.geo.orst.edu/aag16-darkside.html
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- 4403 Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: A Dark Side to Data-Centric Geography? Where are the Reward Systems? Panel AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 1, 2016 - http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/aag16-darkside.html Main Sponsors: AAG GIScience & Systems, Cyberinfrastructure, and Remote Sensing Speciality Groups Related Sponsor: AAG Public/Private Affinity Group Note that you can rate this session in the AAG meeting app by clicking on the clipboard icon to the left of the session description Panel will discuss an apparent disconnect in academia where skills in research computing and programming are still not properly rewarded, and what we can do about it. By not properly rewarding computing and coding, publishing of data, etc. in the same way that we reward traditional research, teaching and service, are we unwittingly driving a host of promising researchers away from the academic community? Dan Goldberg, TAMU: “As someone coming to a love of geography following 3 degrees in computer science (bs, ms, and phd) this is my daily struggle toward tenure in a dept of geography. I routinely need to explain to my colleagues why computng is part of geography and how what I do is not simply widgetology.” Similar themes touched on in opening plenary panel on Disruption in Higher Education and NRC Report on Transformative Research On career advancement: make the process more rewarding of transformaIve research
- These “Yodas” wrote to me before the AAG to express their interest in the topic and encourage its discussion. Jerry Dobson was actually in the audience with us.
- Diversity on the panel Karen Kemp – part of a spatial sciences institute and not a formal department – equivalent to full professor Renee Sieber – associate (mid-career) professor with joint appointment in the School of Environment & Department of Geography, McGill Serge – full professor, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning at ASU but offering separate degrees in those fields Werner – full professor, Dept of Geography, UCSB, Dangermond Chair, but running the spatial@UCSB institute that serves the entire campus Forrest – a doctoral student at Texas A&M, student of AAG president Sarah Bednarz, soon to defend and take up a tenure-track post at UMass-Amherst; dissertation deals in part with the topics of this panel Matt – associate (mid-career) in Dept of geography at U. of Kentucky, visiting scholar at Harvard but in 2 impt units there: center for geographical analysis and visiting prof in Graduate School of Design From AAG Editorial board meeting of Monday: “A lot to be said for publishing to be part of the conversation in compelling topic rather than just ticking box toward tenure.”