Great Data Products
Episodes
Demographic Data and the Perfect Census
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jed talks with Christopher Dick, founder of Demographic Analytics Advisors and former Census Bureau population estimates researcher, about counting pe...
The Storm Events Database Explorer
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jed talks with Kwin Keuter and Brad Andrick, geospatial software engineers at Earth Genome, about the Storm Events Database Explorer. This collaborati...
Turning Federal Data Into Action
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jed talks with Denice Ross, Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists and former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, about federal data's role i...
How Standards Emerge: Lessons from STAC
27 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
[Jed's audio in this sounds terrible because of a hardware setting that Marshall Moutenot very kindly helped us identify. Will sound better in future ...
Inside Harvard's data.gov Archive
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jed talks with Jack Cushman from the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab about their project to archive and preserve more than 311,000 datasets ...
Protomaps and PMTiles
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jed talks with Brandon Liu about building maps for the web with Protomaps and PMTiles. We cover why new formats won't work without a compelling applic...
Why LLM Progress is Getting Harder
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jed Sundwall and Drew Breunig explore why LLM progress is getting harder by examining the foundational data products that powered AI breakthroughs. Th...