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5/26/2006 A Paradigm for Space Science Informatics Kirk D. Borne What is Informatics? Informatics is the discipline of structuring, storing, accessing, and distributing information describing complex systems. Examples: Bioinformatics Geographic Information Systems (= Geoinformatics) New! Space Science Informatics Common features of X-informatics: Basic data unit is defined Common community tools operate on data units Data-centric and Information-centric approaches Data-driven science X-informatics is key enabler of scientific discovery in the era of large data science X-Informatics Compared Discipline X Bioinformatics Geoinformatics Space Sc. Informatics Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom T.S. Eliot (1934): “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” Key Role of Data Mining Data Mining = an information extraction activity whose goal is to discover hidden knowledge contained in large databases Data Mining is used to find patterns and relationships in the data Data Mining is also called KDD KDD = Knowledge Discovery in Databases Data Mining is the killer app for scientific databases Examples: Clustering Analysis = group together similar items and separate dissimilar items Classification Prediction = predict the class label Regression = predict a numeric attribute value Association Analysis = detect attribute-value conditions that occur frequently together Space Science Knowledge Discovery Space Weather Example Space Science Informatics Key enabler for new science discovery in large databases Large data science is here to stay Common data browse and discovery tools, and common data structures, will enable exponential knowledge discovery within exponentially growing data collections X-informatics represents the 3rd leg of scientific research: experiment, theory, and data-driven exploration Space Science Informatics should parallel Bioinformatics and Geoinformatics: become a stand-alone research sub-discipli