Minds Behind Maps

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Ep 1 - Ian Schuler - Building an impact driven geospatial company Apr 17, 2021

Show notes

Welcome to the First Episode of Minds behind Maps!
I hope you enjoy this conversation with Ian Schuler. I'm going to try to keep track of most of the things we talked about in this episode if you want to go check them out yourself.

Keep track of what Ian & Development Seed are doing:

https://twitter.com/ianschuler
https://twitter.com/developmentseed

Links to materials discussed in the episode:

Development Seed school mapping: https://developmentseed.org/blog/2021-03-18-ai-enabling-school-mapping
Joe Morrison's blog: https://joemorrison.substack.com/welcome
Early days of Development Seed: https://www.linkedin.com/in/egundersen/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianshward/,
Signal's founder, Moxie Marlinspike: https://twitter.com/moxie

I'm going to try to provide a basic version of time-stamps if you want to skip by some sections:

00:00 : Intro

1:25 : Beginning of episode; Ian presenting himself

7:55 : Why open source?

19:00 : Trust in a world of AI models

26:25 : How to communicate the limitations of machine learning solutions

36:45 : Which data to use for which problem?

42:25 : What is important in satellite imagery?

55:00 : Data fusion

1:00:25 : Deciding who to work with

1:07:10 : Origins of Development Seed

1:11:00 : Ian's previous work