Data Analytics Internship at NASA Ames Research Center (PAID)
Objective of the Internship:
- Develop software to analyze publicly available data for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)
- Visualize and present the data analysis to technical and non-technical audience
The intern will conduct manual and programmatic data analysis of various data sets for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) . The intern will analyze, visualize and develop software scripts to analyze and provide metrics of the data. The intern will visualize the results and produce charts, tables, graphs, etc. and present the visual results to the team. The intern will work under the guidance of NAMS software engineer and the NAMS Program Management. The intern will gain experience with research, data analytics, software engineering, and data visualization.
Pre-requisites include enrollment or completion of Python I and Python II.
Desired Skill Set:
- Ability to conduct research with attention to detail
- Programming in Python to conduct data analysis
- Ability to visualize and interpret the data
- Written and oral communication to technical and non-technical audience
Tasks to be accomplished:
- Analyze available data using manual research
- Analyze available data programmatically
- Develop software that can be configured and run periodically to analyze data
- Write software documentation including technical documentation and user guides
- Visualize results of the data analysis
- Demonstrate how the software works
- Present results of the analysis
Project Deliverables:
- Present results to the team from manual and programmatic analysis
- Present demo of software developed to the group: demonstrate how the software works, the inputs it takes and outputs it generates
- Provide working software code: use USRA software version control and code repository
- Provide software documentation including user guides, visualizations and technical specifications
-Final presentation of study results including data analysis and visualizations
- Provide Monthly Status reports
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Foothill College Science Learning Institute (SLI)
Sophia Kim, SLI Director
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