The future of data is open | NCEAS

It’s no secret that big data drives the modern world. It advances the security of our bank accounts, dictates the timing of traffic lights and tracks weather patterns.

Ecologists generate their own big data by sharing and combining datasets from different sources to analyze trends across time, space and disciplines, but this process is not always simple. They can encounter three steps of challenges: finding the right data, using the data and easily reproducing the whole process.