Welcome back to another episode of Minds behind Maps!

In this episode I sit down with Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño, the Program Director of the Planetary Computer at Microsoft as well as the author of "Impact Science: The science of getting to radical social and environmental breakthroughs".

About Bruno:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/brunosan • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nasonurb/ • Website: https://brunosan.eu/ • Bruno's book "Impact Science, The science of getting to radical social and environmental breakthroughs": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46137268-impact-science?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=jvKJBnRM5k&rank=1 • "Impact Science" on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SN1L4L2/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

Timestamps:

• 4:20 : Conversation starts, Bruno presents himself • 10:30 : How Bruno entered Academia • 14:20 : Science / Engineering duality • 18:05 : Skills over Knowledge • 21:15 : How education could be more skill centered • 29:05 : How Bruno entered geospatial • 31:51 : At the edge of human knowledge of the Sun • 36:07 : Leaving NASA to focus on more applied projects • 40:04 : Trying to work for an NGO: “Bruno we don’t need a rocket scientist” • 47:53 : Cheap Data Science • 51:20 : Limitations & Playfulness for clever ideas • 55:18 : Writing “Impact Science” • 1:05:01 : From outputs to outcomes: a missing layer in Data Science • 1:11:08 : Data Informed instead of Data Driven • 1:17:44: Bruno's work at Microsoft as Program Director of the Planetary Computer • 1:33:18: Partnerships within the Planetary Computer project • 1:38:25 : Books & media recommendations

Show notes:

• OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.orgFast.ai • : Applicable Machine Learning framework & lessons Kaggle.com • : Data Science competition platform • Origin of the term data science (under 'Etymology'): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science • Bruno’s Medium blog post “In Defense of Cheap Data Science”: https://towardsdatascience.com/in-defense-of-cheap-data-science-f630f248d400 • Chai time data science interview of Jeremy Howard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=205j37G1cxw • India’s night light mapping project: http://india.nightlights.io/ • Microsoft's Planetary Computer: https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/ • Book recommendations: • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson • The Martian by Andy Weir • Humankind by Rutger Bregman • Factfulness by Hans Rosling • Bruno's Goodread: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19228134.Bruno_S_nchez_Andrade_Nu_o I'm sorry I couldn't find the story related to Youtube's video loading times!

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