Hackathon Topic 3: Applications that search, query, discover or generally mine biodiversity data through Lifemapper APIs

Possible projects:

  • New visualizations to summarize the contents of a Lifemapper datastore (archive) by species and time. The visualization will display the contents (species) and computation status (initialized, computed, error) of species archive. The search API allows aggregations and statistics to be searched and retrieved efficiently, which could be displayed in graphs, trees, maps, videos or any other visual method.

  • New visualizations to provide related information to decide if new compute nodes are needed to calculate jobs for a Lifemapper Server instance. This visualization will query the archive to determine the speed of species additions, and job creation, in relationship to the speed of job computations. The search API allows aggregations and statistics to be computed efficiently, which could be displayed in graphs, trees, maps, videos or any other visual method.

Resources:

Lifemapper Documentation

Pragma Hackathon documentation