Recent talks

Measure Greenhouse Gases and Reduce Emissions

Peer-to-peer best practices for growing data science teams

Introducing {streetlightR}, an R package for the StreetLight InSight® API. I highlight two case studies where we used vector processsing to complete thousands of StreetLight analyses and compile the metrics into granular and meaningful results.

Find delight in the mundane

To estimate public adherence to social distancing guidelines during the Coronavirus outbreak, we analyzed departures from “typical” traffic volumes on the metro freeway system of the Twin Cities region.

To address the scarcity of transportation emissions data in Minnesota, the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities has developed greenhouse gas emission estimates for transportation and land for cities, townships, and counties of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Region.

StreetLight Data provides aggregated cell phone location data for transportation research. This talk will examine how the Research Team at the Metropolitan Council is using StreetLight to analyze visitor patterns in regional parks, with particular focus on novel geospatial processing and statisitical methods.

StreetLight Data provides aggregated cell phone location data for transportation research. This talk will examine how the Research Team at the Metropolitan Council is using StreetLight to analyze visitor patterns in regional parks.