Today we had our first opportunity to discuss with the week 2 participants their feelings on some of the products from the previous day's forecasting activities. They didn't have much chance to look at the products in any detail yesterday because they were getting used to the system. But, there was one in depth discussion we had regarding experiment logistics that I thought was an interesting point to raise for future demonstrations.
One of the forecasters mentioned, "There was a bit of challenge with the number of products we had and the number of procedures... it took a long time to get through it all and then we moved to another CWA so we had to start all over again. Even the procedures we were using opened up over TX so we had to reset everything... I ended up just loading everything in the volume browser which took a lot of time."
It may seem like a very small part of these demonstrations for the local coordinators to set up procedures for the forecasters for the experimental products when you also have to worry about data flow, display, IT issues, organizing visiting scientists, etc. Making things as easy to display for the forecasters (or whatever users you have) is very important for an effective demonstration of experimental products.
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