GOV TECH PRIORITIES   ⤅  PIF PRIOJECTS 

1. Climate change
2. Jobs and the economy
3. Education
4. Government effectiveness
5. Health and patient care

Data Science (noun) 

1. an emerging field in applied science with the explicit objective to parse signal from statistical noise for actionable insights.

• "A data scientist is a programmer that knows statistics better than other programmers; and a statistician that knows programming better than other statisticians.  A data scientist is not necessarily a good statistician or a good programmer.

API  (ABBR.)  Application Programming Interface:

1. a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications;  structure for the interaction between raw data and the final application.

• "A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing building blocks.  A programmer then puts the blocks together."

Data

APPLICATIONS

EARTH

Given an earth-bound coordinate and a date range, return all available NASA imagery of that point.

MARS

Given an instrument and date range, return all available Mars imagery along with a tag that describes whether the image is of the Martian landscape or of instrumentation.

APOD

Return the Astronomy Picture of the Day and all associated metadata for a given date, along with concept tags derived from natural language processing, cross-referenced with the INTERNET.

PATENTS

Given a search query, return all publicly available NASA patents that contain the search term along with concept tags from the official patent text, structured in a way to match the DOE and NIH patents.

ARE There MOre?  How Many?

And why should we care?

There Are Hundreds, maybe Thousands, of UNDOCUMENTED and Hidden APIS at NASA.

Search    ⤅   Document/redesign    ⤅   api.NASA.gov

MicroServices for data science

small, compact, and on-demand components to support actionable insight

Analytics Cloud + Data Lake