Coming up at 1:30 Eastern at #AGU20 @sagelatina will be presenting on the #AUL SA007-02 - Quantifying Useful Wrongness: The Crucial Role of Model #Metrics & #Validation in Bringing Heliophysics Models from Creation to Application https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/665218

@sagelatina's talk is an amazing discussion about how validation is a part of science that is often overlooked. And Katie uses the #AUL framework to help ensure good validation practices. https://www.swsc-journal.org/articles/swsc/abs/2019/01/swsc190028/swsc190028.html

Validation is like giving your research a big hug after you have confirmed that it is "solving the right equations" or in other words, that you are asking the right questions to address your application, or solving the equations, doing the research which will answer your question

Validation can give you confidence in your results and in your interpretation and understanding of your research and your tool. Publishing your validation lets the whole community also have confidence in your research.

Validating our models also shows where we don't quite get it right. But this is a very good thing - perhaps even once might say a useful wrongness!

Knowing where your model or research is wrong tells you where you need to make improvements or what new research questions are the really interesting ones :). Some of our greatest advancements have started with "But why doesn't that work?" or a "huh - I didn't expect that".

This may mean that you may have to loop back around a few times in your project but that's okay! That is a part of research! Eventually, you will end up with a product that is validated, people have confidence in, and people will use.

But of course, this is never the end. Basic research often has multiple applications. Even as you are working towards applications new ones are found! Before you know it, you have a whole aspen grove of applications all stemming from your initial research and validation efforts!

So thanks @sagelatina for such a great #AGU20 presentation and looking forward to the discussion later this afternoon!