→ Episode 6: The Storm Events Database Explorer

Jed talks with Kwin Keuter and Brad Andrick from Earth Genome about transforming NOAA’s Storm Events Database – 70+ years of severe weather records—into an accessible data product with multiple modes of access for emergency managers, researchers, planners, and the public.

→ Episode 5: Turning Federal Data Into Action

Jed talks with Denice Ross about the critical role of federal data in American life, what happens when government data tools disappear, and why building a healthier ecosystem requires both stable federal data and external innovation.

→ Episode 4: How Standards Emerge: Lessons from STAC

Jed talks with Matt Hanson about the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) specification, why adoption is the only metric that matters for standards, and what the ‘guerrilla standards’ approach teaches us about building data ecosystems.

→ Episode 3: Inside Harvard's data.gov Archive

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 from Data.gov. We explore how they use BagIt for long-term preservation, built a serverless search interface that makes 17.9 TB of data discoverable in the browser, and what this means for the future of online archives.

→ Episode 2: Protomaps and PMTiles

Jed talks with Brandon Liu about Protomaps, PMTiles, and why a compelling base map as a data product matters. We cover open-source, customizable alternatives to Google Maps, how PMTiles enables single-file, static hosting, and practical ergonomics that help developers put maps on the web.