Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Episode 06: Chris Mattmann - NASA's data scientist


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Show Notes

  • Apache Open Source Software Foundation (4:00) 
    • Apache projects: Tika (26:30), Nutch (15:10), Hadoop (36:05) 
  • Chris’ resume and the ‘web of activities’ (7:15)
  • “It’s all got to relate to one another”-Chris (7:15) 
    • Tim Ferriss’ scratch your own itch
  • “JPL” (8:05) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • USC ’systems perspective’ (8:25) 
  • Architect software’ (8:35) 
  • ‘Big software systems’ (8:53) 
  • Search engines (9:43) 
  • Similarities between web search and science data search (11:56) Google’s take
  • (12:15) Big changes in data and compute in Earth Science missions: Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO, and OCO-2) vs Quick Scatterometer (QuickSCAT). ‘Drawing inspiration from the grid’ section of this article
  • open source (17:58) 
  • Ellis Horowitz (19:44) 
  • Really Simple Syndication (RSS) (19:50) 
  • What is a developer? (21:10) 
  • Jérôme Charron (22:11)
  • Information deluge (24:55) 
  • Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy babel fish (27:10) 
  • Apache Tika software (28:00 - 30:00) 
  • Number of file types on internet (28:09) 
  • Panama Papers (30:05) 
  • Python and Java (31:03) 
  • Data science (31:31) 
    • DJ Patil, Jeff Hammerbacher, Hillary Mason
    • Data science Venn diagram
  • Do the ‘hard work’ and pay attention to weaknesses (38:45) 
    • Seth Godin thoughts
  • Nenad Medvidovic (41:02) 
  • Lightning round (44:08):  
    • One Minute Manager
  • Chris’ Five-Cut Fridays playlist (50:20) 
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