We talked about:

Daynan’s background
Astronomy vs cosmology
Applications of data science and machine learning in astronomy
Determining signal vs noise
What the data looks like in astronomy
Determining the features of an object in space
Ground truth for space objects
Why water is an important resource in the space economy
Other useful resources that can be found in asteroids
Sources of asteroids
The data team at an asteroid mining company
Open datasets for hobbyists
Mission and hardware design for asteroid mining
Partnerships and hires


Links: 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daynan/
We're looking for a Sr Data Engineer: https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/karmanplus/jobs/4027128101?gh_jid=4027128101
Minor Planet Center: https://minorplanetcenter.net/- JPL Horizons has a nice set of APIs for accessing data related to small bodies (including asteroids): https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/api.html
ESA has NEODyS: https://newton.spacedys.com/neodys  
IRSA catalog that contains image and catalog data related to the WISE/NEOWISE data (and other infrared platforms): https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/frontpage/
NASA also has an archive of data collected from their various missions, including a node related to small bodies: https://pds-smallbodies.astro.umd.edu/
Sub-node directly related to asteroids: https://sbn.psi.edu/pds/
Size, Mass, and Density of Asteroids (SiMDA) is a nice catalog of observed asteroid attributes (and an indication of how small our sample size is!): https://astro.kretlow.de/?SiMDA
The source survey data, several are useful for asteroids: Pan-STARRS (https://outerspace.stsci.edu/display/PANSTARRS)


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