About this podcast
Maps Are Everywhere.
These are conversations with those building them.
Episodes
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- My Favourite Books of 2024 - MBM79 · 40 min · Episode 79On every Minds Behind Maps episode I ask guests for books they've read they think are worth sharing. This time I'm sharing with you the books I read & recommend from my 2024…
- How Bloomberg's Data Scientists use Satellite Images for Reporting: Krishna Karra - MBM78 · 57 min · Episode 78Krishna Karra is a data scientist & report for Bloomberg, having used machine learning & satellite images for reporting. Recent stories from him & his team include mapping…
- How Ex-Vox Video Producer Phil Edwards thinks about Maps to tell stories - MBM77 · 1 h 36 min · Episode 77Phil Edwards is a video producer who worked at Vox for nearly 10 years, and now runs his own Youtube channel exploring the history of businesses, and lately has been using more…
- What Hyperspectral constellations have to offer: Pixxel’s example - Awais Ahmed #MBM76 · 1 h 20 min · Episode 76Awais Ahmed is the co-founder & CEO of Pixxel, a company building a constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites. Unlike “traditional” cameras, these satellites can see…
- The Ex-Uber Data Scientist Who wants to simplify Data Science with Serverless Computing: Sina Kashuk · 1 h 8 min · Episode 75Sina Kashuk is the co-founder & CEO of Fused, who wants to make iterating & deploying in Python faster with serverless computing. We break down what that actually means, why it…
- Meet the man trying to build a 20cm 3D map of the world: Andrew Peterson - #MBM74 · 1 h 55 min · Episode 74Andrew Peterson is the Co-Founder & CEO of Array Labs, with a simple mission: Mapping the whole world in 3D, at 20cm in near real time. We peel the layers as to what it takes to…
- Jamie McMichael-Phillips: How We're Planning to Map All our Oceans by 2030 - #MBM73 · 57 min · Episode 73Jamie McMichael-Phillips is the Director of the Seabed 2030 Project, which aims to map all of the world's oceans, by 2030. For context, in 2024, we’re at 26.1%. This is…
- [Bonus] Books, Tech & Life: A Long conversation with Jed Sundwall · 2 h 4 minThis is a bous episode: For once, I’m the guest! This is a cross-post of Jed Sundwall’s Techs on Texts podcast. We talk about some of the books that have influenced me, “Night…
- Jean-Martin Bauer: How the World Food Program tackles Hunger - #MBM72 · 1 h 32 min · Episode 72Jean-Martin Bauer has been working at the World Food Program for over 20years, and the author of the “The New Breadline”. Most recently he was the Country Director for Haiti, in…
- Ashlee Vance: The Man telling us the Stories of the New Space Industry - #MBM71 · 1 h 21 min · Episode 71Ashlee Vance is a Tech Journalist, the author of Elon Musk's 1st biography in 2015, the host of "Hello World" on Youtube and the author of "When the Heavens Went on Sale" as well…
- Luke Fischer: Who would want to start a Satellite Image Marketplace? SkyFi - #MBM70 · 1 h 34 min · Episode 70Luke Fischer is the Co-Founder & CEO of SkyFi, a company that we'll describe in a few ways in this episode, but boils down to an Earth Observation marketplace. We talk about…
- Ben Strong: We have Foundation Models of Earth, now What? Earth Index - MBM#69 · 1 h 5 min · Episode 69Ben Strong is the Science & Machine Learning Lead at Earth Genome, an NGO working on the intersection of data, science & digital design. Most recently they've been working on…
- Ib Green: Browser based visualisation rendering - MBM#68 · 52 min · Episode 68Ib Green led the development of 3D visualisation tools like for example Uber’s deck.gl and is now working at Foursquare, after having started Unfolded, which Foursquare acquired…
- What does a Foundational Model of Earth look like? Clay Foundation: Bruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuño - MBM#67 · 1 h 25 min · Episode 67Bruno Sanchez is the Executive Director of the Clay Foundation, which just released their v1 of a “Foundational Model of Earth”. We talk about what that means, building open…
- How to Map Mars (to Land Rovers) - Fred Calef III - MBM#66 · 1 h 15 min · Episode 66Dr Fred Calef III has the unofficial title of "Keeper of Maps" at NASA JPL, he's the Lead Mapping Specialist for most of JPL's Mars Rover missions, most recently that being…
- Creating the most used map animation tool: GEOLayers - Markus Bergelt - MBM#65 · 1 h 25 min · Episode 65Markus Bergelt is a motion designer and the person behind GEOLayers, a video editing plug-in simplifying the creation of map animations in Adobe After Effects. Most map…
- Volodymyr Agafonkin: The Story of Leaflet, Building the Simplest Mapping Library & Life in Ukraine · 1 h 11 min · Episode 64Volodymyr Agafonkin is the creator of Leaflet, an open-source JS mapping library started in 2008 that is used pretty much everywhere on the Internet today. We end up nerding out…
- Qiusheng Wu: Building & Sharing Open Source Software - MBM#63 · 1 h 0 min · Episode 63Qiusheng Wu is an Associate Professor in Geography, an active open source contributor behind projects like geemap, leafmap or segment-geospatial also sharing tutorials on his…
- Ryan Abernathey: Taking Scientific Computing to the next level - MBM#62 · 1 h 7 min · Episode 62Ryan Abernathey is a Climate Scientist, open-source software developer and the CEO & co-founder of Earthmover, a company trying to simplify how scientific computing is done. Ryan…
- Gilberto Camara - Brazil's Fight Against Deforestation; Politics & Open Data - MBM#61 · 2 h 19 min · Episode 61Gilberto Camara was the director of INPE, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research from 2005 to 2012, working there 35y in total and leading the use of satellite imagery to…
