bi from space: powerpivot with nasa data

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BI from space: PowerPivot with NASA data

PowerPivot, while being an Excel add-in, was built by the SQL team, and is one of the most powerful data integration tools in the Microsoft stack. In this session, you will learn how to combine data from web services, tables and cubes to build a powerful model, and visualise it in Excel. An introduction to Time Intelligence using DAX will lead us on to the new features in version 2, and we will move from the Date table to relationships, perspectives and KPIs.You will also see the difference between developing in the Excel addin vs Visual Studio.

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Agenda

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What data is out there?

Introduction to the tools

Sloane Digital Sky Survey

Excel and PowerPivot practical

Finding a planet


Space Science

– National Space Science Data Center http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/

– All Space missions– Includes non US space

missions

The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) provides multidiscipline data and information services, including a large digital data archive from past NASA space science missions along with directories, catalogs, and access to widely distributed science data resources.


Earth Observing System

• http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov• Global Change Master

directory• 25 000 datasets• http://gcmd.nasa.gov/

The Earth Observing System (EOS) is a coordinated series of polar-orbiting and low inclination satellites for long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans.

http://gcmd.nasa.gov/



http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/description.php


Earth Based Telescopes

• Optical• Radio, Gamma Ray, UV,

Infrared, Microwave, Particle

• Difficult to get time (think Mainframes)

• How to find specific data?

Datasets from space based telescopes also fall into this general class of datasets.

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Keck in Hawaii

Largest ground based optical telescope

10m mirrors

Kepler

NASA's first mission capable of finding Earth-size planets around other stars0.95m mirror

WMAP

Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe – used to measure temperature differences in Cosmic Microwave background

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Finding Data

• Sloane Digital Sky Surveyhttp://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/

• Index for finding objects• Can issue SQL Queries• Bigger queries scheduled to

run as batch• 500 MB limit

Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) consists of a series of three interlocking imaging and spectroscopic surveys, carried out over an eight-year period with a dedicated 2.5m telescope located at Apache Point Observatory in Southern New Mexico. This seventh data release (DR7) from the SDSS represents the completion of this project.

http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/





Practical

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bi from space: powerpivot with nasa data

Documents

multidiscipline data

specific data

data release dr7

large digital data archive

space based telescopes

govall space missionsincludes

nasa datapowerpivot

solid earth