There’s a world of lonely data, waiting for you

There is a deluge of lonely data. Data being collected, chilled data napping in server stacks, in carefully curated, ice cold cells around the country. These sad and often ignored data are waiting to be thawed and awoken to answer some of the most pressing grand challenge questions in science, at unprecedented temporal and spatial scales. However, using these data require special skills, tools and workflows. Learn how hackers have united, not to pilfer credit card numbers and IDs but to develop resources that support learning and the awakening of these data by ecologists all over the world.