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 […]

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 […]

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 […]