Not so good astronaut data analysis code

This repository contains a helper software project with some code to be used for the FAIR research software course.

This repository is an example of "not so good" software that is meant to be improved over the course to show examples of better and more FAIR software practices.

What the code does

The code uses the NASA data on human space walks (Extravehicular activities - EVAs), exported/downloaded in JSON format, does some analysis over this data, plots a few graphs and saves the data in CSV format.

Things to improve

There is a number of things that are wrong or not so good with this code and that can be improved. We maintain that list at issue carpentries-incubator/astronaut-data-analysis-not-so-fair#2.

Better code

An example of better and more FAIR code that participants should strive to achieve when writing their reseach software can be found at the astronout-data-analysis-fair repository, to be used in conjuction with this repository during the course.

Acknowledgements

Data

We used public data on astronauts and spacewalks available from Wikidata.

Software Sustainability Institute and UKRN

This work has been supported by the UK's Software Sustainability Institute via the EPSRC, BBSRC, ESRC, NERC, AHRC, STFC and MRC grant EP/S021779/1 and UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN).