Episode 06: Chris Mattmann - NASA's data scientist

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)