Message from the NASA Administrator: 2008 National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service (NAOMS)
“Some have said that the initial release date of 31 December was chosen because it was a “slow news day”. That is not the case. It was the earliest date we could achieve.”
Editor’s note: Perhaps if you had not dragged your feet for a month you could have issued this information earlier.
“Finally, we have been criticized for releasing the data in PDF. This is the standard form in which we release data publicly when no particular format has been specified or requested. However, it is true that the sheer volume of NAOMS survey data makes the use of PDF data somewhat cumbersome. Accordingly, I have made an exception to our standard practice in this case, and both the initially redacted data, and all subsequent data, will be published on our website in Excel format.”
Editor’s note: When is the last time NASA issued 16,000 pages of data in PDF format? You may be a super brain, Mike, but the rest of us can’t just ingest all of that data and analyze it in the format it was provided in.
