Techstars Startup Week Seattle 2018

We will examine cities from a civil engineer’s perspective and discuss how design and infrastructure challenges are solved through data analytics and visualization. Examples from the rapidly growing field of public urban data will be discussed to show how new insights can be gained into our cities. From data on airplane traffic noise, building energy use, urban trees, and multimodal traffic counts, there is great promise in developing new tools and applications for understanding and improving our cities. Examples from a wide array of data sources will set the stage for a discussion on how software developers and data scientists can solve urban challenges that are currently out of reach for engineering, planning, and architectural professionals.