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”.

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Podcast Video Playlist:Youtube playlist of interview videos

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Mentioned in the episode:

NASA.gov

MS Access

Neutral Buoyancy Lab

civil servant

NASA Knowledge (@NASAKnowledge on twitter)

Engineering ManagementKnowledge ManagementOrganizational LearningKnowledge EngineeringInformation ArchitectureData Analysis

graph database

Neo4jElasticsearchIHS GoldfireMongoDB

JSC – Johnson Space Center

topic modeling

@davidmeza1 on TwitterDavid Meza on LinkedIN

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