Silicon Valley VC: Wow you guys are getting a lot of revenue traction. Wait so why is ARGO a nonprofit?
Me: Public data is a public resource that should be managed in the public interest, much like how water is serviced by…
Perhaps unsurprising with the historic drought, California is currently working on several major initiatives to upgrade its water data systems. The state launched a water “data innovation…
Tony Castalletto has worked over a decade in library science and IT management leadership roles. He is helping our big California water data project as a “System Architecture” research fellow looking…
“Projects begun in the enthusiasm of boom years have collapsed with the particular boom or have been abandoned like a wagon wheel in the desert…
I met today with one of the authors of the excellent California Council on Science and Technology 2014 Report on opportunities for technology to improve California’s water management. A key recommendation:
Since the summer of 2014, the State of California has required its major urban water retailers to submit monthly total and residential water usage requirements.
ARGO has been upto a lot this past month. Patrick & Drew Atwater were selected to present at the Climate panel for Bloomberg’s Data for Good Exchange which brought folks from across the globe demonstrating how data science can…
Amidst the California’s first ever statewide water rationing and an internet culture of drought shaming, rich Californian’s are striking back against rationing and asking to be able to pay for as much water as they…
TLDR: this post documents how to parse water usage data and integrate it with tax assessor and census data. The examples are water specific but the approach in cleaning and integrating messy…
