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How to Play with Deep Space Data

Lisa Ballard
September 22, 2016

How to Play with Deep Space Data

Data and imagery from deep space probes is abundant on the web. I’ll talk about ways you can find space mission data to use in your personal web or hardware projects and show some of the things I’ve made and worked on with space mission data.

40 minute talk at the Dent:Space Maker Stage, September 2016

Lisa Ballard

September 22, 2016
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  1. Cosmic Journey by Sean McNaughton, Samuel Velasco, 5W Infographics, Matthew

    Twombly and Jane Vessels, NGM staff, Amanda Hobbs.
  2. APIs Web Scraping Search Tools NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Image -

    Image ID PIA12708 Finding Space Mission Data:
  3. APIs Web Scraping Search Tools NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Image -

    Image ID PIA12708 Finding Space Mission Data:
  4. APIs Web Scraping Search Tools NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Image -

    Image ID PIA12708 Finding Space Mission Data:
  5. APIs Web Scraping Search Tools NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Image -

    Image ID PIA12708 Finding Space Mission Data:
  6. APIs Web Scraping Search Tools NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Image -

    Image ID PIA12708 Finding Space Mission Data:
  7. Beautiful Soup “You didn't write that awful page. You're just

    trying to get some data out of it. Beautiful Soup is here to help” Since 2004, it's been saving programmers hours or days of work on quick-turnaround screen scraping projects.
  8. APIs Web Scraping Search Tools NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Image -

    Image ID PIA12708 Finding Space Mission Data: Resources