Mission Statement from the NRDC Homepage:

The Nevada Research Data Center serves in a critical role of science cyberinfrastructure for sensor-based research data management. We facilitate the acquisition, transport, storage, query, and dissemination of observational data created by automated digital sensor systems. The NRDC participates in cutting-edge software and systems development to enhance next-generation science that leverages the Internet of Things (IoT). Our goal is to transform the scale, quality, impact, and bottom-line cost of research projects in Nevada that seek to deploy automated sensor systems as part of their scientific workflow.

NRDC-CHORDS is an open-source interface between the Nevada Research Data Center and CHORDS, a free cloud-hosted data visualization package. The NRDC-CHORDS system allows users to select a set of scientific instruments from the network and stream live data from those instruments to visualize in near-real time in a web browser. A generalized and open-source approach allows wide adaptability and customization of the package, and is offered as a free alternative to existing proprietary data visualization solutions.

Data visualization is an important tool for scientists working with large and constantly updating data sets. However, scientists are usually presented with two options for robust visualization: expensive proprietary solutions, or programming language libraries that require developer-level knowledge to use. Our project will benefit scientists by giving them the full benefits of data visualization as a free and easy-to-use online client. This will save science teams the cost of integrating proprietary solutions and also enable teams with little-to-no technical knowledge to use our product. In addition, our project will also be open source, which will allow teams with the technical skill to fork the source code and build their own custom solution using our platform.

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