Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 15: David Meza


David Meza is Chief Knowledge Architect at NASA, and talks to Renee in this episode about his educational background, his early work at NASA, and examples of his work with multidisciplinary teams. He also describes a project involving a graph database that improved search capabilities so NASA engineers could more easily find “lessons learned”.


Podcast Audio Links:
Link to podcast Episode 15 audio
Podcast’s RSS feed for podcast subscription apps
Podcast on Stitcher
Podcast on iTunes

Podcast Video Playlist:
Youtube playlist of interview videos

More about the Data Science Learning Club:
Data Science Learning Club Welcome Message
Data Science Learning Club Activity 15 – Explain an Analysis (Communication)
Data Science Learning Club Meet & Greet

Mentioned in the episode:

NASA.gov

MS Access

Neutral Buoyancy Lab

civil servant

NASA Knowledge (@NASAKnowledge on twitter)

Engineering Management
Knowledge Management
Organizational Learning
Knowledge Engineering
Information Architecture
Data Analysis

graph database

Neo4j
Elasticsearch
IHS Goldfire
MongoDB

JSC – Johnson Space Center

topic modeling

@davidmeza1 on Twitter
David Meza on LinkedIN

Southern Data Science Conference in Atlanta, GA on April 7, 2017 (Coupon code RENEE takes 15% off ticket price)