Innovation Data Center Presentation: Innovation Through Open Data

Beth Beck, NASA Open Innovation Program ManagerNASA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer

Data Innovation Center Talk: June 24, 2015

Innovation through Open Data

Innovation through Open DataSpace Apps = NASA’s Innovation Incubator

Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Women in Data• Data Bootcamp• Datanauts• Data Fellows

Innovation Acceleration• Acceleration Toolkit• Accelerator Pilots:

• Dakar• Nairobi• Guatamala

Innovation Pipeline• Infuse citizen-generated innovative

thinking back into NASA’s missions and processes

• Leveraging Global Best Use of Data NYSpaceTag solution for NASA Data

Data Exploration• Open.NASA.gov• Data.NASA.gov• Code.NASA.gov• API.NASA.gov• Open Source

Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer


NASA’s open data convenes global citizensthrough Space Apps to solve mission-relevant challenges.

Space Apps teaches us what we do well and where we need to add, refine, or upgrade capabilities and capacity.

Space Apps is NASA’s incubator innovation program to fulfill federal open data mandates to spur innovation.

International Space Apps Challenge


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Innovation through Open DataSpace Apps 2015 Participants: Self-Identified Skills

Developer/Software: 5449Designer/Artist: 1978Game Design: 859Hardware: 1884Maker: 1367Story Teller: 1236Student: 7237Subject Matter Expert: 844Entrepreneur: 1940Other: 2156




Innovation through Open DataSpace Apps 2015: Winners

Best Use of Data: NY Space Tag from New York City, New York offers a data tagging system that extracts keywords and core concepts to more easily query NASA data.

Best Use of Hardware: Valkyrie from Sofia, Bulgaria is a “smart” glove and mobile device that enables gesture and voice recognition to ease automation tasks for work or play.

Best Mission Concept: ArachnoBeeA from Limassol, Cyprus designed a spider-bee drone for small cargo transport with a grab and capture capability and the ability to dock and release.


Innovation through Open DataSpace Apps 2015: Winners

Galactic Impact: CROPP from Rome, Italy is a bottle-bot with sensors to gather in-situ data applied to optical and radar satellite imaging to provide real-time crop risk assessment.

Most Inspirational: Tracking/ Sensing Phone-bot from Kathmandu, Nepal enables users to explore and extract data from nearby objects using a mobile robot platform with smartphone sensors.

People’s Choice Award: NatEv Explorer from Pristina, Kosovo uses real-time earth observation data to populate an interactive 3D globe for crowdsourced tagging and discovery of potential natural hazards and threats.




Women in Data

Women in Data

Women in Data•Data Bootcamp•Datanauts•Data Fellows

Space Apps: NASA Innovation Incubator

Innovation through Open DataWomen in Data


@SpaceApps Social media demographics

Fact: More men than women participate in Space Apps.Yet ratio of girls to boys at Space Apps student events is high.

WHY?

Innovation through Open DataWomen in Data


“Men engage in their spare time.Women have to MAKE TIME.”Vanessa Hurst, Founder and CEO, Code Montage


New concepts to signal NASA = safe space!#1 Data Bootcamp: Space Apps pre-event to introduce code/robotics concepts [signals safety, welcome, and belonging]#2 Datanaut Corps: Female founding class [signals safety, belonging]#3 Data Fellows: Female data scientists for 6 month assignments [signals safety, belonging]


Space Apps Cairo

Women in Data

Innovation through Open Data#1 Data Bootcamp

Inaugural event @ Space Apps NYC: Community leaders shared intro content on coding, making, dataset retrieval/manipulation, problem solving, and storytelling.

• 70 attended, 75% women, 30% under 21, 30% under 35.• Event live-streamed, babysitting services on site.

Lagos, Nigeria and Cairo, Egypt also hosted live bootcamps.Rome and San Salvador convened virtual live-streamed events.


Innovation through Open DataData Bootcamp

. NYC Data Bootcampers participated in Space Apps hackathon – formed teams, collaborated, and won awards.

Bootcampers in front row at Space Apps NYC.


Women in Data

Innovation through Open Data#2 NASA Datanauts: all female founding class (4 PIFS!)

• Signals a safe space for women to engage with us and innovate around NASA data and tools; and

• Brings in leaders in the field help us learn how to speak their language and engage others in their community around NASA’s data and tools.


Women in Data



Women in Data

Datanauts making news…

Innovation through Open Data#3 Data Fellows Program Concept:• Recruit strong candidates to meet complex data requirements. Attract data science

and engineering expertise for mission support. • Leverage existing partnerships with academia, non-profits, industry.

Competitive program with criteria for leadership and experience . • 6-12 month tours to focus on addressing critical data challenges.

Space Apps Cleveland


Women in Data



Naming “Women in Data” as a focussparked increased participation at Space Apps 2015

Space Apps 2015 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Space Apps 2015: Women in Data

Women in Data

Innovation through Open DataWomen in Data: Space Apps 2015 stats

• 1 in 4 participants are women• 47% of 60 top global award finalists had one or more women on

the project team• Largest event (Cairo) led by women• 49% of NYC Mainstage participants were women


Space Apps 2015 NYC – Data Bootcampers



Space Apps Cotonou

Women in Data



Innovation Acceleration

Innovation Acceleration•Acceleration Toolkit•Accelerator Pilots:•Dakar•Nairobi•Guatemala




Innovation Acceleration: Toolkit

Space Apps Progress



Innovation Acceleration: Toolkit


Space Apps WeekendBeth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program Manager

Office of the Chief Information Officer

Innovation Acceleration2015 Pilots: Dakar + Guatemala + Nairobi



Space Apps Round Rock

Space Apps Cairo

Innovation Acceleration



Innovation Pipeline

Innovation Pipeline• Infuse citizen-generated

innovative thinking back into NASA’s missions and processes

• Leveraging Global Best Use of Data NYSpaceTag solution for NASA Data




Innovation Pipeline

Post-Space Apps analysis:• Open Innovation team works with Space Apps

Challenge Owners to review EVERY project to determine next steps.

• Challenge owners who see value and express interest in moving forward are connected with project team members.

• Our team tracks progress.

Issues: • Space Apps solutions are rarely fully-baked

after a weekend hackathon. • Merging open source code from multiple

projects to create a NASA app is difficult.• Culture inside organizations isn’t always open.

Infuse citizen-generated innovative thinking into NASA missions/ processes.

NASA Subject Matter experts identified a dozen Space Apps 2015 projects as potential candidates for further consideration within NASA missions.

The process to infuse new thinking back into NASA takes time.

Best Use of Data: NYSpaceTag



Innovation Pipeline

Global Best Use of Data Award Winning Team NYSpaceTag with NASA’s Open Innovation Team

NASA is collaborating with NYSpaceTag Global Winner for use within Open Data.



Data Exploration

Data Exploration• Open.NASA.gov• Data.NASA.gov• Code.NASA.gov• API.NASA.gov• Open Source




Data ExplorationOpen.NASA.gov Redesign

DRAFT

DRAFT



Data ExplorationData.NASA.gov Reboot



Data ExplorationCode.NASA.gov



Data ExplorationAPI.NASA.gov



And, we’ve only just begun….

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Innovation Data Center Presentation: Innovation Through Open Data