AIDA brought a transformational innovation to the analysis of heliophysics data in four steps.
First, AIDA developed a new open source software called AIDApy written in Python (a free language) and capable of collecting, combining and correlating data from different space missions. AIDApy wanted to replace mission-specific tools written for costly languages (such as IDL) that excludes many scientists, students and amateur space enthusiasts from exploring the data, with a much-needed single platform where methods are shared and continuously improved by the whole community.