The wikience: community data science. Concept and implementation.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it describes the new approach for doing data science collaboratively. Second, we coin the word “wikience” to mark the new concept. Lastly, for the first time we publicly present the results of our almost yearly research: the cloud system and its client software partially implementing the Wikience concept. The software allows real-time access to all available climate reanalysis data, 3D visualization of isopleths based on it and 3D visualization of cyclone tracks. To our best knowledge, our system is the first in the word capable to perform this kind of data delivery and visualization.