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Dr. Gale Allen: Closer look at NASA’s new data portal

Last month, NASA launched a web portal that lets anyone look over data and findings for the research it funds. The goal is to promote the open sharing of data, ...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

October 5, 2016 1:22 pm

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Dr. Gale Allen, deputy chief scientist, NASA

Last month, NASA launched a web portal that lets anyone look over data and findings for the research it funds. The goal is to promote the open sharing of data, something the science agency sees as part of its mission statement. Dr. Gale Allen, deputy chief scientist at NASA, tells Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the access portal and what NASA hopes it will accomplish.