Installing Apache Airflow on Ubuntu/AWS

A key component of our Kraken Public Data Infrastructure, to automate ETL workflows for public water and street data, is a cloud hosted instance of Apache Airflow.

Using Plotly’s Dash to deliver public sector decision support dashboards

Self-repairing streets using smart contracts.

Does’t involve laser trucks or magic asphalt.

Measuring the quality of NYC Bike Lanes through street imagery.

Bringing Wall Street technology to bear on public service delivery.

Using Google Street view and Camfind to programmatically detect fire hydrants

TLDR

Google’s street view API was used with an Image recognition API [Camfind] to automatically detect features on a street in NYC. This approach reduces the barriers to…

Introducing ARGO, the world’s first public data utility

“Citizens of the 21st century need public technologists like citizens of the 19th century needed municipal engineers to build the drains and clean water supplies.”

Autonomous Vehicles viewed through a lens of Antifragility

AntiFragility is not the same as Resilience

I recently came across Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s concept of Antifragility. His book is about 5 years old and I have not yet read it earnestly. I encountered…