{"id":970,"date":"2012-03-02T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T03:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talyarkoni.org\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2012-03-02T21:50:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T04:50:21","slug":"bio-chemo-neuro-eco-informatics-why-no-psycho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/bio-chemo-neuro-eco-informatics-why-no-psycho\/","title":{"rendered":"bio-, chemo-, neuro-, eco-informatics… why no psycho-?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest issue<\/a> of the APS Observer features a special section on methods<\/a>. I contributed a piece<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0discussing the need for a full-fledged discipline of psychoinformatics:<\/p>\n

Scientific progress depends on our ability to harness and apply modern information technology. Many advances in the biological and social sciences now emerge directly from advances in the large-scale acquisition, management, and synthesis of scientific data. The application of information technology to science isn’t just a happy accident; it’s also a field in its own right \u2014 one commonly referred to as informatics. Prefix that term with a Greek root or two and you get other terms like bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, and ecoinformatics \u2014 all well-established fields responsible for many of the most exciting recent discoveries in their parent disciplines.<\/p>\n

Curiously, following the same convention also gives us a field called psychoinformatics \u2014 which, if you believe Google, doesn’t exist at all (a search for the term returns only 500 hits as of this writing; Figure 1). The discrepancy is surprising, because labels aside, it’s clear that psychological scientists are already harnessing information technology in powerful and creative ways \u2014 often reshaping the very way we collect, organize, and synthesize our data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the picture that’s worth, oh, at least ten or fifteen words:<\/p>\n

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Figure 1. Number of Google search hits for informatics-related terms, by prefix.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can read the rest of the piece here<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0if you’re so inclined. Check out some of the other articles too; I particularly like Denny Borsboom’s piece on network analysis<\/a>. EDIT: and Anna Mikulak’s piece on optogenetics<\/a>! I forgot the piece on optogenetics! How can you not love optogenetics<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest issue of the APS Observer features a special section on methods. I contributed a piece\u00c2\u00a0discussing the need for a full-fledged discipline of psychoinformatics: Scientific progress depends on our ability to harness and apply modern information technology. Many advances in the biological and social sciences now emerge directly from advances in the large-scale acquisition, … Continue reading bio-, chemo-, neuro-, eco-informatics… why no psycho-?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,77],"tags":[582,694,583,727],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEZxN-fE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}