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Extracting insights from massive datasets in order to answer questions and make decisions — this is the primary objective of data science. Deriving clarity from noise. The resulting communication of these insights often involves the production of data visualizations – shifting our focus from numerical values to graphical elements in order to facilitate understanding. However, not everyone has access to these data visualizations, and this barrier impedes Blind students who seek to pursue the field of data science. 

In a decade or less, an instrument now being developed by a University of Maryland research team might just motor over to a rock on the moon, extend a sensor and get a real-time chemical analysis that could one day assist humans in exploring the lunar landscape for the first time since 1972. The project aims to create a miniaturized mass spectrometer and is supported by a new $3.2 million grant from NASA’s Development and Advancement of Lunar Instrumentation program.

The U.S. House and Senate are working to pass major science and innovation legislation that would authorize significant funding increases and create new research programs and research center opportunities through federal science agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, the Department of Defense (DOD), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), among others.  The Senate passed the U.S.