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Information for Beginners and Non-Technical Folks

Data Science Classes

• Intro to Data Analysis - Udacity - Free
• Data Science Fundamentals - University of California Irvine - Week 1 is Free
• Python for applied data science ai coursera
• Every Data Science Class analyzed & ranked using Data Science!

Popular Datasets

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• ASU.edu

  • JMARS - a geospatial information system (GIS) developed by ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility to provide mission planning and data-analysis tools to NASA's orbiters, instrument team members, students of all ages, and the general public.
    • jmars tutorials youtube

• NASA

  • data visualizations
  • open data portal
  • near earth observations (neo)
  • by subject
  • Giovanni - visualize selected geophysical parameters
  • GES DISC - Atmospheric Composition, Water & Energy Cycles and Climate Variability
  • earth observation data
  • life sciences data archive
  • open API
  • prognostic data repository
  • globe protocol bundles
  • gistemp
  • physical oceanography distributed active archive center (podaac)
  • Landsat Science data
    • handbooks and guides
      • ls-8 handbook
      • get-landsat-data-earth-explorer tutorial
  • satellite situation center scc
  • technical reports server curated by the Scientific and Technical Information Program

• Columbia.edu categorizer

  • climate data library
  • list of NASA datasets
    • sub list
  • SEDAC socioeconomic data and applications center

• Kaggle

  • space datasets on Kaggle
  • NASA datasets on Kaggle

• Other

  • space-track.org space situational awareness service
  • globe understand local change at global scales
  • FUEGO Fire Urgency Estimator in Geosynchronous Orbit
  • openplanetary.org basemaps of moon and mars
  • earthengine Google multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities
    • api
    • guides for javascript and python
    • tutorials
      • NASA Climate Data in GEE - Python API 🔗
  • soilgrids.org digital soil mapping based on a global compilation of soil profile data (WoSIS)
  • earthenv.org standardized, 1km resolution layers for monitoring and modeling biodiversity
  • urban-tep.eu providing data, methods and infrastructure to help in creating sustainable urban environments

Code

• NASA
  • open source projects
  • github

Data Formats

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• HDF5 docs

  • python H5PY, , docs
  • HDF Group
  • Chapter 11.05 Python Programming and Numerical Methods - A Guide for Engineers and Scientists
  • Tutorial

• netCDF docs

  • unidata maintainer
    • netcdf4-python , pypi
      • quickstart
  • VAPOR Visualization and Analysis Platform,
    • docs, pdf
    • YouTube channel
  • stackoverflow
  • wikipedia

• CDF docs, home, Common Data Format

  • What are the differences between CDF and netCDF, and CDF and HDF? faq
  • SPEDAS Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software
    • pyspedas python implementation, docs
  • wikipedia

Curated lists

• awesome-space Space-related code, APIs, data, and other resources.
• techport - NASA projects by taxonomy

Tools for Working with Data

• Python and Jupyter with Visual Studio Code

Visualization Tools

• Tableau
• Google Earth
• qgis.org Create, edit, visualize, analyze and publish geospatial information
  • Github
  • YouTube
  • Wikipedia
• observablehq.com

Best Practices / Tips

• 11 Tips for Working with Large Datasets
• to find relevant white papers
  • researchgate
  • google scholar

Project Ideas / Jumpstart Ideas

• NASA SpaceApps Challenge awards archives

  • 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

• NASA-IMPACT phenomena-detection-challenge-resource

• OpenSatKit - A core Flight System (cFS) Platform for Aerospace and STEM Education

• NASADatanauts is an open innovation initiative

Community

• Meetup
• Slack join
• YouTube channel
• Facebook group, page
• Twitter
• spacedatahackers.com
• spaceappsseattle.org