Sven Schade

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Hypothetically, if the European Commission (EC) came up with a Citizen Science Platform, what would you expect, hope for, and like to see avoided?

The EC is mainly known for high-level policy making and for funding scientific research. However, the processes that facilitate this work use and produce a rich set of data, information and...

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What are the ‘must-haves’ in a Data Scientist’s tool box?

Big Data has become one of the framing slogans of this year, data has been defined as the new oil, and e-Researchers and (digital native) Data Scientists are requested all over the globe. While...

10 October 2013 6,640 13 View

What integrated (environmental) modeling or workflow tool, and when to use it?

Over the years, integrated (environmental) modeling, i.e. the combination of models and simulations of interlinked environmental phenomena, appeared on multiple national and cross-national...

11 November 2012 3,425 3 View

Is Big Data a burden, a trap or an opportunity?

Big Data is one of the buzzwords of the year, and we heard arguments along the full spectrum – from having so beautifully many data available that we can solve huge societal challenges, over...

10 October 2012 4,928 20 View

Should we really talk about ‘people as sensors’?

In the geospatial sciences, the consideration of ‘people as sensors’ continuously gained popularity. Hundreds of research papers jumped in and examined the use of cameras and successive uploading...

10 October 2012 8,821 9 View

Should we really consider ‘people as sensors’?

At least since Mike Goodchild promoted the concept of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) five years ago, the consideration of people as sensors continuously gained popularity. Hundreds of...

10 October 2012 1,985 43 View

Will/Should things like the research score substitute publication indexes, i.e. value of publications in highly ranked journals?

The research score on this site is a typical example of a (in this case public) performance measure of researchers. It might be compared to classical measures of scientific impact, such as the...

10 October 2012 5,058 10 View

Will you refer to a discussion thread on research gate, linkedin etc. in your next publication?

Voices on Science 2.0, the end of the big publishers era, and alternate ways of promoting research are getting louder and louder. We certainly entered a transition phase, in which scientists...

10 October 2012 8,298 29 View

How important is storytelling and visualization for your science?

Two weeks ago, I attended two interesting presentations, one of a British SME (shoothill) on visualizing scientific data for the public (for example applying a technique known as Deep Zoom), the...

10 October 2012 2,510 44 View