Class Journal Week 5 - Revision history

Nanguiano: re-added my answers. ._.

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re-added my answers. ._.

Jkuroda: josh kuroda

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josh kuroda

Kzebrows: Shared Journal Assignment 5 submission.

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Shared Journal Assignment 5 submission.

Lenaolufson: added my shared journal assignment

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added my shared journal assignment

Bklein7: Added Responses to the Shared Journal Questions

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Added Responses to the Shared Journal Questions

Troque: /* Trixie Roque */ Bolded the core competencies

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‎Trixie Roque: Bolded the core competencies

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		+	== Nicole Anguiano ==
		+	Note: My assignment was completed on time, as can be viewed in the history. However, it appears it was deleted sometime after I posted it.
		+	#Which of these core competencies (if any) were you familiar with before taking this class? How did you become familiar with them?
		+	#* I was familiar with databases and data form, discovery and acquisition of data, data management and organization, quality assurance, data analysis, data visualization, and ethics. I knew about most of these from my study of databases and the research projects I've done in the past.
		+	#Which of these core competencies (if any) did you gain a deeper understanding of by doing this exercise? What about the exercise taught you about them?
		+	#* I personally don't feel that I gained a deeper understanding of any of the core competencies by doing this exercise. If I had to choose one, I learned a bit more about data curation. It was interesting to see that the database was evolving and removing out-of-date databases (or so was assumed, as there was no available changelog).
		+	#Which of these core competencies (if any) do you want to know more about? Why?
		+	#* I want to learn more about cultures of practice. I know primarily about how data is analyzed and displayed from the perspective of the computer scientist. However, I would be interested to see how data is handled by the users, and the norms established by those in bioinformatics who deal routinely with data.
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		+	==Josh Kuroda==
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		+	#Which of these core competencies (if any) were you familiar with before taking this class? How did you become familiar with them?
		+	#* Because of the various computer science classes I have taken so far, I was a little familiar with the data management and organization competency, as well as the data visualization competency. I feel that my Data Structures class in particular helped me to further my understanding of these concepts, and I could make connections between what I had learned to this assignment.
		+	#Which of these core competencies (if any) did you gain a deeper understanding of by doing this exercise? What about the exercise taught you about them?
		+	#* The two competencies about which I learned the most were data analysis and quality assurance. I think that analyzing the database assigned to my group really forced me to learn about how a consistent and clear analysis of data is an important aspect to any medium used for research. In addition, I found that making sure each and every result is legitimate and of a certain quality is paramount when aiming for a good user interface and experience.
		+	#Which of these core competencies (if any) do you want to know more about? Why?
		+	#* I think I would like to learn more about the cultures of practice so that I can be more familiar with the overall data sharing environment and ecosystem. From what I have learned, it seems like a very open and forward-thinking community, and it would be great to learn more about the intricacies of database management and collection.
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	[[User:Lenaolufson\|Lenaolufson]] ([[User talk:Lenaolufson\|talk]]) 11:14, 8 October 2015 (PDT)		[[User:Lenaolufson\|Lenaolufson]] ([[User talk:Lenaolufson\|talk]]) 11:14, 8 October 2015 (PDT)
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		+	==Kristin Zebrowski==
		+	# Which of these core competencies (if any) were you familiar with ''before'' taking this class? How did you become familiar with them?
		+	#* I was familiar with Data Preservation, Analysis, and Visualization as well as Ethics. In many of my biology courses we have had to use scientific articles and either cite them appropriately or use them in presentations. I don't think I have had a single biology class where I haven't had to analyze different data sources and attempt to understand and interpret them, which gave me exposure to Discovery and Acquisition of Data. Furthermore, I've had a lot of exposure to ethics in my entire academic career at LMU and in high school. I have always been taught to give credit to those where credit is due.
		+	# Which of these core competencies (if any) did you gain a deeper understanding of by doing this exercise? What about the exercise taught you about them?
		+	#* I definitely have gained more insight into the Ethics core competency through this exercise and even through this course even though I already felt I had a thorough understanding of what it means. I have also gained significant insight in the areas of Databases and Data Formats as well as Data Conversion and Interoperability--the only previous experience I had were with BLAST in Gen Bio lab. The experience taught me that not only is it useful to understand how to search relational databases and be familiar with them but it makes it much easier to find tools and resources if the formats are standardized. Furthermore, this assignment taught me about Quality Assurance as we checked over our groups' given databases and looked for errors/gave critiques relating to other areas of discipline such as Data Preservation. This is the first experience I've had with official peer reviewing in an academic journal setting and I feel like it really showed me how meticulous, but also how essential, the process is.
		+	# Which of these core competencies (if any) do you want to know more about? Why?
		+	#*I want to know more about Metadata. I really don't know very much about metadata at this point, so I would like to be able to annotate my own data so that it can be used by other users. I would also like to learn more about Cultures of Practice as I haven't really curated my own data and the field of bioinformatics is still very new to me. I would like to become more competent in these areas because I think it will ultimately help me to understand the field better and be more productive with my contributions to it through this course.
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	# Which of these core competencies (if any) do you want to know more about? Why?		# Which of these core competencies (if any) do you want to know more about? Why?
	#*I would like to learn more about all of the core competencies that I am not already familiar with to build up my foundational knowledge for work with biological databases. Particularly though, I am interested in acquiring specific knowledge in a few of these topics. One of these areas is metadata. I have limited experience with metadata but am very interested in the way it is handled as well as the implications of metadata studies. In addition to this, I feel as though I could always benefit from brushing up my understanding of modern data analysis and visualization techniques, as these are crucial to understanding the concepts conveyed by a database (or a great deal of research in general). Finally, I am interested in how quality assurance functions. I feel as though this core competency is one that I take for granted, but that must be very important in the creation of databases. In addition to this, I find it interesting to think about what kinds of data may be removed form a database and whether or not this could accidentally weed out important information if the process is automated.		#*I would like to learn more about all of the core competencies that I am not already familiar with to build up my foundational knowledge for work with biological databases. Particularly though, I am interested in acquiring specific knowledge in a few of these topics. One of these areas is metadata. I have limited experience with metadata but am very interested in the way it is handled as well as the implications of metadata studies. In addition to this, I feel as though I could always benefit from brushing up my understanding of modern data analysis and visualization techniques, as these are crucial to understanding the concepts conveyed by a database (or a great deal of research in general). Finally, I am interested in how quality assurance functions. I feel as though this core competency is one that I take for granted, but that must be very important in the creation of databases. In addition to this, I find it interesting to think about what kinds of data may be removed form a database and whether or not this could accidentally weed out important information if the process is automated.
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		+	==Lena Olufson==
		+	#Which of these core competencies (if any) were you familiar with "before" taking this class? How did you become familiar with them?
		+	#*I think that I was familiar with the core competencies of Cultures and Practice and Ethics, including citation of data before taking this class. Throughout my schooling I have been taught that citation of your data and work is the most important thing you should check before submitting or turning any paper or project in. Citation is very significant in the real world as people can get fined and discredited if it is determined that their work is not their own. I think that the rules of citation for a paper are the same as for a citation of data in the sense that you must give the source and where the data came from otherwise it is considered plagiarism. I think that ethics is also a key part of the citation and sharing of data because sometimes people can be protective of their individual genome sequences and so they maybe do not want their information shared with the public. This ties into the cultures of practice as the values and norms of separate persons should be respected when using data that is not your own.
		+	#Which of these core competencies (if any) did you gain a deeper understanding of by doing this exercise? What about the exercise taught you about them?
		+	#*I learned more about a lot of the core competencies by doing this exercise because I have never really explored or interacted in depth with a database before online. A couple of the main competencies I thought I got a better grasp of are Databases and Data Formats, Metadata, and Data Management and Organization. For Databases and Data Formats, I think that just exploring the home page of the database was very helpful to me as I was able to search for various things using the search tool, as well as navigate through other links that were provided by the database. The formatting of the data was also a new learning experience for me and I was able to see how it ties into the discipline and the layout of the database as a whole. Metadata was also a big aspect of the database I analyzed because it was used to limit the amount of time and effort users had to expend to search the database. The Metadata was very helpful in clarifying the data presented and without it I think that I would have been very lost trying to locate certain things within the database. Data Management and Organization became more apparent to me during this assignment because I was able to see how the database was designed in order to be user-friendly, aesthetically pleasing, and provide the necessary information. By exploring the database, I saw how important the management and organization of data is in order to be an effective and appealing database to all users.
		+	#Which of these core competencies (if any) do you want to learn more about? Why?
		+	#*I would like to know more about the Data Conversion and Interoperability as well as the Data Analysis and Data Visualization competencies. I do not know anything currently about converting data and I am unsure of what the word interoperability means, so I think that I would further my knowledge greatly of databases if I learned more about this subject and how it can benefit me when developing my own database in the future. I also think that Data Analysis and Data Visualization would be very useful to me because I would be able to feel more comfortable manipulating and working with a particular set of data. I am not confident or comfortable with editing and using tools to analyze the data right now, but I would like to gain more experience and practice working with these competencies so that I can learn their significances and benefits.
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		+	==Brandon Klein==
		+	# Which of these core competencies (if any) were you familiar with ''before'' taking this class? How did you become familiar with them?
		+	#*Before taking this class, I would consider myself to have been familiar with the following listed core competencies: discovery and acquisition of data; databases and data formats; data analysis; data visualization; and ethics. In the past academic year, I completed coursework involving cladistics that used the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) offered by the National Center for Biotechnology Information that familiarized me with the discovery and acquisition of data as well as databases and data formats. Over summer during the advancement of my biomathematics research project, I did further work with a database of biological data that advanced my understanding of data analysis and visualization. Finally, I feel as though my coursework thus far has imparted a good understanding of ethics to me.
		+	# Which of these core competencies (if any) did you gain a deeper understanding of by doing this exercise? What about the exercise taught you about them?
		+	#*During the execution of this week's project, I gained a deeper understanding of several of the core competencies. In working with the assigned database, I greatly advanced my existing knowledge of databases and data formats as well as the discovery and acquisition of data. In addition to this, I learned about new core competencies while exploring the database including data management and organization; data curation and re-use; and data preservation. During my investigations of the database, I found myself reading in detail about the manner in which the data was curated and maintained in the database over a long period of time. I thought the details I read regarding the lifecycle of data were particularly interesting, as we tend to consider data as relatively static.
		+	# Which of these core competencies (if any) do you want to know more about? Why?
		+	#*I would like to learn more about all of the core competencies that I am not already familiar with to build up my foundational knowledge for work with biological databases. Particularly though, I am interested in acquiring specific knowledge in a few of these topics. One of these areas is metadata. I have limited experience with metadata but am very interested in the way it is handled as well as the implications of metadata studies. In addition to this, I feel as though I could always benefit from brushing up my understanding of modern data analysis and visualization techniques, as these are crucial to understanding the concepts conveyed by a database (or a great deal of research in general). Finally, I am interested in how quality assurance functions. I feel as though this core competency is one that I take for granted, but that must be very important in the creation of databases. In addition to this, I find it interesting to think about what kinds of data may be removed form a database and whether or not this could accidentally weed out important information if the process is automated.

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 == Trixie Roque ==
 # Which of these core competencies (if any) were you familiar with before taking this class? How did you become familiar with them?
-#* I’ve been familiar with Discovery and Acquisition of Data,  Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Ethics, including citation of data before taking this class. Because there is a need for internet usage for research purposes in academia (starting from when I was in high school, I believe), I’ve learned/been taught how to query for certain journal articles, analyze and visualize the data they provide, and credit their owner/author. Since the internet is scattered with all kinds of information, learning to use proper databases with reputable information was necessary; my high school classes wouldn’t allow citation of just wikipedia pages. Analyzing the information and presenting them in a neat format was also necessary for my classes since high school; since the information was never mine, I also had to remember the sources where I got them from.
+#* I’ve been familiar with '''Discovery and Acquisition of Data,  Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Ethics, including citation of data''' before taking this class. Because there is a need for internet usage for research purposes in academia (starting from when I was in high school, I believe), I’ve learned/been taught how to query for certain journal articles, analyze and visualize the data they provide, and credit their owner/author. Since the internet is scattered with all kinds of information, learning to use proper databases with reputable information was necessary; my high school classes wouldn’t allow citation of just wikipedia pages. Analyzing the information and presenting them in a neat format was also necessary for my classes since high school; since the information was never mine, I also had to remember the sources where I got them from.
 # Which of these core competencies (if any) did you gain a deeper understanding of by doing this exercise? What about the exercise taught you about them?
-#* Aside from the ones I am already familiar with (see question 1 for those core competencies), from doing the assignment, I also gained a better understanding of Databases and Data Formats. Even though I’ve used databases frequently when creating a research report, I never really tried to understand the types and formats for the files in them. I had to apply the ones I’m already familiar with in making the review and the presentation since I still had to research some terms from databases, analyze the results, make them into visually appealing images, and credit the owners. However, I’ve also gained a better understanding of databases querying since we actually had to do a demo/take screenshots of the databases themselves in order to properly and clearly show our peers how the databases we are assigned work.
+#* Aside from the ones I am already familiar with (see question 1 for those core competencies), from doing the assignment, I also gained a better understanding of '''Databases and Data Formats'''. Even though I’ve used databases frequently when creating a research report, I never really tried to understand the types and formats for the files in them. I had to apply the ones I’m already familiar with in making the review and the presentation since I still had to research some terms from databases, analyze the results, make them into visually appealing images, and credit the owners. However, I’ve also gained a better understanding of databases querying since we actually had to do a demo/take screenshots of the databases themselves in order to properly and clearly show our peers how the databases we are assigned work.
 # Which of these core competencies (if any) do you want to know more about? Why?
-#* Data curation/cultures of practice (both contain an element of curation) has piqued my interest since the first time I encountered the term “curation” when dong the manuscript so I would like to know more about it. In making the review, we touched upon what it means, but I would like to know exactly the process the database undergoes when someone curates it (both electronically and manually). Since the article we reviewed is one of the biggest databases for containing important scientific research, I’m curious as to how the staff manages the large sets of data (not to mention that they update the database regularly, which is an amazing feat in itself).
+#* '''Data curation/cultures of practice''' (both contain an element of curation) has piqued my interest since the first time I encountered the term “curation” when dong the manuscript so I would like to know more about it. In making the review, we touched upon what it means, but I would like to know exactly the process the database undergoes when someone curates it (both electronically and manually). Since the article we reviewed is one of the biggest databases for containing important scientific research, I’m curious as to how the staff manages the large sets of data (not to mention that they update the database regularly, which is an amazing feat in itself).
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	#*I want to know more about data conversion and interoperability and quality assurance. These are the core competencies I have the least experience with and am curious of how each can be accomplished when it comes to such a large database. I am interested in further understanding how data can be converted and still serve the same purpose.		#*I want to know more about data conversion and interoperability and quality assurance. These are the core competencies I have the least experience with and am curious of how each can be accomplished when it comes to such a large database. I am interested in further understanding how data can be converted and still serve the same purpose.
	[[User:Msaeedi23\|Msaeedi23]] ([[User talk:Msaeedi23\|talk]]) 23:19, 7 October 2015 (PDT)		[[User:Msaeedi23\|Msaeedi23]] ([[User talk:Msaeedi23\|talk]]) 23:19, 7 October 2015 (PDT)
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		+	== Trixie Roque ==
		+	# Which of these core competencies (if any) were you familiar with before taking this class? How did you become familiar with them?
		+	#* I’ve been familiar with Discovery and Acquisition of Data, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Ethics, including citation of data before taking this class. Because there is a need for internet usage for research purposes in academia (starting from when I was in high school, I believe), I’ve learned/been taught how to query for certain journal articles, analyze and visualize the data they provide, and credit their owner/author. Since the internet is scattered with all kinds of information, learning to use proper databases with reputable information was necessary; my high school classes wouldn’t allow citation of just wikipedia pages. Analyzing the information and presenting them in a neat format was also necessary for my classes since high school; since the information was never mine, I also had to remember the sources where I got them from.
		+	# Which of these core competencies (if any) did you gain a deeper understanding of by doing this exercise? What about the exercise taught you about them?
		+	#* Aside from the ones I am already familiar with (see question 1 for those core competencies), from doing the assignment, I also gained a better understanding of Databases and Data Formats. Even though I’ve used databases frequently when creating a research report, I never really tried to understand the types and formats for the files in them. I had to apply the ones I’m already familiar with in making the review and the presentation since I still had to research some terms from databases, analyze the results, make them into visually appealing images, and credit the owners. However, I’ve also gained a better understanding of databases querying since we actually had to do a demo/take screenshots of the databases themselves in order to properly and clearly show our peers how the databases we are assigned work.
		+	# Which of these core competencies (if any) do you want to know more about? Why?
		+	#* Data curation/cultures of practice (both contain an element of curation) has piqued my interest since the first time I encountered the term “curation” when dong the manuscript so I would like to know more about it. In making the review, we touched upon what it means, but I would like to know exactly the process the database undergoes when someone curates it (both electronically and manually). Since the article we reviewed is one of the biggest databases for containing important scientific research, I’m curious as to how the staff manages the large sets of data (not to mention that they update the database regularly, which is an amazing feat in itself).
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