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Spacewalks

Overview

Spacewalks is a Python analysis tool for researchers to generate visualisations and statistical summaries of NASA's extravehicular activity datasets.

Features

Key features of Spacewalks:

  • Generates a CSV table of summary statistics of extravehicular activity crew sizes
  • Generates a line plot to show the cumulative duration of space walks over time

Pre-requisites

Spacewalks was developed using Python version 3.12

To install and run Spacewalks you will need have Python >=3.12 installed. You will also need the following libraries (minimum versions in brackets)

  • NumPy >=2.0.1 - Spacewalk's test suite uses NumPy's statistical functions
  • Matplotlib >=3.9.2 - Spacewalks uses Matplotlib to make plots
  • pytest >=8.2.0 - Spacewalks uses pytest for testing
  • pandas >= 2.2.0 - Spacewalks uses pandas for data frame manipulation

Installation instructions

  • Clone the Spacewalks repository to your local machine using Git. If you don't have Git installed, you can download it from the official Git website.

``` git clone https://github.com/https://github.com/kamwal/spacewalks.git cd spacewalks ```

  • Install the necessary dependencies: ``` python3 -m pip install pandas==2.2.2 matplotlib==3.8.4 numpy==2.0.0 pytest==7.4.2 ```

  • To ensure everything is working correctly, run the tests using pytest.

``` python3 -m pytest ```

Usage Example

To run an analysis using the eva_data_analysis.py script from the command line terminal, launch the script using Python as follows:

```

Usage Examples

python3 eva_data_analysis.py eva-data.json eva-data.csv ```

The first argument is path to the JSON data file. The second argument is the path the CSV output file.