Center for Integrated Data Analytics
- Project Team
- Harry R. House, Chief, Center for Integrated Data Analytics
- Nathaniel L. Booth, IT Specialist (Systems Analysis)
- Morgan A. Schneider, Hydrologist
- Carolyn M. Emmanuelli, Physical Scientist
- Jessica L. Thompson, Hydrologist
- Eric J. Everman, IT Specialist
- Kathryn M. Schoephoester, Physical Scientist
- Daniel Kester, Computer Scientist
- Phethala Thongsavanh, Computer Scientist
- I-Lin Kuo, IT Specialist
- Justin Darby, IT Specialist
- Susan Phillips, IT Specialist
- Matthew Ruiz, IT Specialist
- Alice McCarthy, Physical Scientist
- Steve Kemna, Environmental Engineer
- Ryan Heath, IT Specialist
- John Hollister, Computer Scientist
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About the Center for Integrated Data Analytics
The Center for Integrated Data Analytics (CIDA) provides state-of-the-art information management services to the USGS, as well as other partners in various local, state, and national agencies. CIDA is currently expanding its services scope to include international collaborators.
CIDA emphasizes enterprise database and software development in collaboration with USGS scientists to provide researchers, policy makers, and the general public with environmental monitoring data through interactive web displays including decision support tools.
The Center for Integrated Data Analytics, located in the USGS Wisconsin Water Science Center in Middleton, Wisconsin, is dedicated to the deployment of high-end information technology products to enhance data storage and access methods against natural resources datasets. |
Technical Areas of Expertise
The Center for Integrated Data Analytics (CIDA) is always expanding its areas of technical expertise. Currently, CIDA has seven main areas of expertise.
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Data Warehousing, Centralization and Standardization |
Proper Data Warehousing is essential for the efficient delivery of scientific data. Data from disparate sources needs to be properly aggregated, standardized, checked for errors, and organized for the best query performance.
The CIDA has several projects where a well-designed data warehouse is essential:
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Transactional Systems |
Transactional systems ensure efficient and accurate data entry into the database. A well-designed transactional database will minimize data errors and provide quality data to a data warehouse.
Current CIDA projects that utilize a transactional system for data entry include:
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Spatial Applications |
p>Visual representation of data has become increasingly important. Visualizing trends in water data can easily highlight areas of concern to the public.
The CIDA has several projects where Spatial output has increased the utility of the underlying data set:
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Search capabilities |
Data that is of interest to the public needs to be available in such a way that users can easily find the data they are looking for. Data that is accurate, well-indexed, and can be searched easily can be invaluable to the public.
Current Center for Integrated Data Analytics projects with publicly-searchable data sets include:
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Web Services |
A web service is a computer-to-computer protocol that allows for the direct sharing of information. As the quantity of data increases, efficient sharing of data becomes more critical to decision-making.
The Center for Integrated Data Analytics has partnered with US Environmental Protection Agency to combine data from USGS's NWIS and EPA's STORET systems and make them available as a USGS-USEPA water quality web service. |
Hosting |
The Center for Integrated Data Analytics has assembled a fast and solid network of databases, application servers and storage devices. By utilizing economies of scale, CIDA can host applications on its servers for minimal overhead.
CIDA hosts several projects:
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Real-time Data Dispersal |
Data that supports human health decision-making need to be available in as close to real-time as possible. Continuous water-monitoring equipment can send back data it collects in real time, and can be loaded into a database to be publicly available in a matter of minutes or hours.
CIDA supports the Wisconsin Beach Health project which relies heavily on real-time data collection to assist with determining advisories to be posted regarding human health related to beach water quality in Milwaukee. |
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