1. DATA IN THE STARS
KAREN LOPEZ, DATA ARCHITECT AND NASA DATANAUT
2. KAREN LOPEZ
Karen has 20+ years of data
and information
architecture experience on
large, multi-project
programs.
She wants you to love your
data.
3. My career over the years
Student
(Information
Systems)
Programmer
Information
Engineer
Methodologist Data Modeler Data Architect
Data Engineer Speaker/Trainer
Data
“Evangelist”
4.
5. NASA Datanauts
NASA Program started in 2015 by the Chief Information
Officer of NASA
Focus was educating “citizen data scientists” on working
with Open Data and Open Science from space agencies.
Paused in 2020 because NASA got busy withArtemis
project
Now we work on the Space Apps Challenge
6. Artemis Program:
NASA Program to send
people back to the Moon
Artemis 1: uncrewed mission
Artemis 2: crewed around the Moon
Artemis 3: crewed to land
Artemis 4: will include ESA Astronaut
Artemis 5: will include ESA Astronaut