City government & research
Studying water-main failures.
In Syracuse, I worked with research partners on using data to help prioritize an aging water network.
Connecting research to a public-works question
Water-main failures disrupt streets and services. The question was how historical and infrastructure records could help the city identify risk before a failure forced the decision.
I helped define the operational problem and connect the people who understood the infrastructure with the researchers building the model.
Read the research paper for the methods and findings.
A separate public-data experiment
My current Water Main Risk Explorer on DataCuse is an independent research prototype using public data. It examines the likelihood of a recorded break at the street-segment level and includes test results and limitations.
It is a separate project from the historical city research described above.