Perspectives in science

This article discusses perspectives in science with a somewhat limited scope. The areas of science included reflect the interest and experience of the author with an interdisciplinary view. Scientific domains, applications and methodologies constitute a unique entity. The three main pillars of the model are psychology, civics and energy production. The psychology here is mainly adapted in work environment. The psychology has two main branches one concentrating on individual behaviour and the other on group behaviour. The latter connected to civics converges towards sociology. The energy production represents the industrial view in the model, and it can be broaden wider in the general model, although here we concentrate mostly on the mentioned application area. From psychology we get assistance in user interfaces and visualizations. One branch in civics is politics. From the energy production and civics we get into production models. From psychology and politics we derive a path to decision making. Also from user interfaces, visualizations and even production models we get into decision making. System technics has a connection to decision making as well as to the other fields mentioned here. Data analysis can be used as a tool in all these fields. In addition scientific visualization is discussed. The use of data analysis in political decision making is presented as an example. For instance in predicting the voting behaviour in a society data from pre-election gallup poll reviews and voting advice applications can be used. This political example shows the opportunity to cross fields in science to derive interesting results.