Dashboard Week Day 5: NASA

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has a plethora of free API’s available to pull some amazing data from. For instance, you can find the orbits of satellites around the earth, get up to date weather reports from Mars or pull in all the Astronomy Picture of the Day’s.

https://api.nasa.gov/index.html?search=#main-content

Today’s challenge for DS52 is to pick one (or multiple) API’s of your choice to pull your data from and use to build a Tableau, Power BI workbook or Alteryx App that outputs interactive charts and reports. 

Everyone should pick a different API, exceptions are allowed if your projects are focussing on different aspects of the API but this has to be approved by myself. Astronomy Picture of the day API is not allowed as they’ve built on this during training.

That’s it, no other rules apart from the usual Dashboard Week rules we outlined on day 1.

Good luck team, scope your work well given you have to present at 3:30 pm today!

Author:
Robbin Vernooij
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