WDET: Prof. Schwartz joins Detroit Today to talk about lessons other cities can learn from Flint
Eric Schwartz joined Stephen Henderson on WDET’s Detroit Today to talk about lessons Newark, Pittsburgh, and other cities can learn from the Flint Water Crisis and how to repair faulty water infrastructure before more communities face the same fate.
The Atlantic: How Machine Learning Found Flint’s Lead Pipes
A profile in The Atlantic describes how the algorithm developed by Eric Schwartz and Jacob Abernethy helped the city of Flint’s lead service line replacement program, led by B.G. (ret.) Michael McDaniel, find and efficiently replace the hazardous pipes. The article then details how the city’s replacement costs increased when the a private engineering firm […]
MLive: Webb talks about predictive model as Flint works to reach its goal
MLive’s Zahra Ahmad published an article with an update on the city’s progress toward its goal of removing all of its lead service lines. In the article, BlueConduit chief data scientist Jared Webb explains that a neighborhood with high amounts of predicted lead service lines has seen relatively few replacements. Service pipe work in Flint’s […]
NPR On Point: Prof. Schwartz talks about lessons from Flint for other cities
Eric Schwartz appeared on NPR’s On Point to talk about the lessons from his work in Flint can be applied to other cities.
MLive: Flint replaces more lead pipes using predictive model, researchers say
MLive’s Zahra Ahmad describes how the city’s rate of finding lead or galvanized service lines increased from 15 to 70 percent when it switched back to using the model developed by Eric Schwartz and Jake Abernethy. The rate of finding lead or galvanized service pipes in Flint has increased 15 to 70 percent while using […]
Gen. McDaniel talks leadership in Flint service line replacement
Retired National Guard Brigadier General Michael McDaniel spoke to the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security about his role in addressing the Flint water crisis. McDaniel emphasizes the importance of understanding risk when making public decisions, the importance of communication and building partnerships when staff and resources are thin, how communicating with […]
KDD 2018 Announces Best Paper & Other Awards
The 24th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) in August 2018 awarded Jacob Abernethy, Alex Chojnacki, Arya Farahi, Eric Schwartz, and Jared Webb the prize for best student paper in the Applied Data Sciences track for their work in ActiveRemediation: The Search for Lead Pipes in Flint, Michigan. KDD is one […]
University of Michigan: Using data science to manage the Flint Water Crisis
To assist in the Flint Water Crisis, University of Michigan’s Data Science team partnered with Flint and Google to design digital tools to help manage the ongoing water crisis.
The New Scientist: How AI is finding thousands of hazardous pipes
The New Scientist: Jacob Abernethy at Georgia Tech and his colleagues built an AI to predict which homes are likely to be connected to a lead pipe. They drew on work by a separate team that digitised old city plans and more than 140,000 handwritten records of building work in the city. The system catalogues […]
BlueConduit at OmniSci 2019
BlueConduit spoke at OmniSci 2019 and was included in the launch of OmniSci for Good. OmniSci for Good OmniSci, a leader in accelerated analytics, highlighted its collaboration with BlueConduit’s team as part of launching its OmniSci for Good, program as part of its Converge 2019 event. The goal of OmniSci for Good is to support […]
