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CompF5: End user analysis

Working Group Co-Conveners

Functional areas
- Making plots and tables
- Statistical tools
- Making it easier for users to analyze data (single namespace, data delivery, … )
Mandate
- Define end user analysis and describe the end user analysis needs of the stakeholders
- What are the end user analysis resource needs and performance needs of the stakeholders?
- Coordinate tightly with “Storage and processing resource access” working group, do we need to integrate data aggregation more tightly into the data layer?
- What are technology solutions (both hardware and software) that are or will be used by the stakeholders?
- What is the evolution of these technologies?
- How are these solutions embedded in industry solutions or solutions used by other science domains?
- <questions about statistical tools, to be filled>
- Ensure balance between ROOT/C++ experts and new technology experts
- version control
- slack and similar tools
- ZOOM, Skype (important for training end users, also helping them troubleshoot)
- What tools are used/needed by the stakeholders to develop code collaboratively, to communicate?
- How is the intra stakeholder communication working, how will it work in the future?
- Proprietary software, licenses
- VMs, containers
- Integration of external packages into experiment software stacks
- What are other science domains using, what is industry using?