Presentation for middle school and above about how data works in the space exploration world. This version focuses on Italian astronauts.

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”

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

26. WHAT IS OPEN DATA?
And why do we want this?

27. OPEN DATA
Available and Accessible
Re-usable and Redistributable
Universal participation
https://okfn.org/en/library/what-is-
open/

28. OPEN DATA SAMPLES

29. EXTRA VEHICULAR ACTIVITY (US AND RUSSIA)
HTTPS://DATA.NASA.GOV/RAW-DATA/EXTRA-VEHICULAR-ACTIVITY-EVA-US-AND-RUSSIA/9KCY-ZWVN

30. SATELLITE SAR ALTIMETER PRODUCT_SEA FLOOR
MAPPING_OCEANIA_CRYOSAT
https://opensciencedata.esa.int/products/satellite-sar-altimeter-sea-floor-
cp4o/collection

31. DATA.NASA.GOV
ALL NASA OPEN DATASETS

33. Data Careers

34. Data Management
Body of Knowledge
From https://www.dama.org

35. Data Quality
Ensuring that data is:
• Accurate
• Current
• Used for the right purpose
• Complete
• Consistent with other data
• Compliant

36. Data
Modeling
and Design

37. Data
Architecture

38. Data Storage
and
Operations

39. Data Security

40. Data Integration and
Operability
How data flows from one
system to another
How data is transformed
How data is used

41. Document Management

42. Reference and Master Data

43. Data Warehouse
and Business
Intelligence
Bringing data
together to make
better decisions

44. Metadata
All the data about data!

45. Data Science
Using Artificial Intelligence to get more out of data