Ep 7 - Bruno Sánchez - Microsoft's Planetary Computer, Education & Impact Science
Dr Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño is 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". He has previously worked at the World Bank, Mapbox, Satellogic and holds a Ph.D in Astrophysics. We talk about his journey through academia and the struggles of leaving it, his belief in Impact Science and the book he wrote on the subject as well how Education in general but also applied to Data Science. The end of the conversation is more focused around the work him and his team are doing at the Planetary Computer at Microsoft.
Show Notes
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.org
- Fast.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
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