Near Earth Objects

Data Portrait

Goals of this Project

The goal for this project is to search Near Earth Object asteroid data from NASA and show how many were potentially dangerous on the US Election Day. This datd uses entered year to highlight other Earthly bodies potentially hazardous to the world.

Design Process

The api I used is from NASA (https://api.nasa.gov/#main-content). NASA offers pretty up to data for app develoopers to use for free. Jst register for a API Key and you can get access to their data. I chose to use the Near Earth Object data. I needed to embed my api key into the url in order to get a response from the website. (https://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/feed?start_date=2015-09-07&end_date=2015-09-08&api_key=DEMO_KEY)

The projram uses a input box and a search button to allow the user to enter the year they would like to search. The input data then passes that year into the url being used to contact the NASA API. The NASA API then returns the data of near earth objects from November 3rd - November 4th for the entered year.

Reflection

I struggled to find a API that I could work with that and also allow my work to reflect feminist data. I search API that had interest in like Fortnite API and Apple Music API, they either were very limited in scope or had huge requirements in order to get access to the data. Using NASA's data allowed me to find a middle ground of data with potential.

My biggest struggle with the project was actually working with the data from NASA. I could get responses from the website but I could not easily search the arrays of data without running into errors.

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