April 2010
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
7h 57m
English
Data Mining: How to Analyze Online Scientific Data
The internet holds a treasure trove of scientific data. Never before has it been so easy for students, amateur scientists, retired professionals, and anyone with reasonable analytical and computing skills to do serious science. Even people without field or bench experience who have never used, much less built, an instrument can now make discoveries, possibly significant ones.
No matter what interests you most in science, you can probably find data that meets your interest somewhere on the web. Considerable online data is in the form of time series, collected at intervals ranging from seconds to years.
Here are a few sources:
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