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- Title
Reproducibility Starts at the Source: R, Python, and Julia Packages for Retrieving USGS Hydrologic Data.
- Authors
Hodson, Timothy O.; DeCicco, Laura A.; Hariharan, Jayaram A.; Stanish, Lee F.; Black, Scott; Horsburgh, Jeffery S.
- Abstract
Much of modern science takes place in a computational environment, and, increasingly, that environment is programmed using R, Python, or Julia. Furthermore, most scientific data now live on the cloud, so the first step in many workflows is to query a cloud database and load the response into a computational environment for further analysis. Thus, tools that facilitate programmatic data retrieval represent a critical component in reproducible scientific workflows. Earth science is no different in this regard. To fulfill that basic need, we developed R, Python, and Julia packages providing programmatic access to the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Information System database and the multi-agency Water Quality Portal. Together, these packages create a common interface for retrieving hydrologic data in the Jupyter ecosystem, which is widely used in water research, operations, and teaching. Source code, documentation, and tutorials for the packages are available on GitHub. Users can go there to learn, raise issues, or contribute improvements within a single platform, which helps foster better engagement and collaboration between data providers and their users.
- Subjects
GEOLOGICAL Survey (U.S.); DATABASES; PYTHONS; PYTHON programming language; INFORMATION retrieval; WATER quality; SOURCE code
- Publication
Water (20734441), 2023, Vol 15, Issue 24, p4236
- ISSN
2073-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/w15244236