Tag: Nick Bolten

• 2022: Heating Loads in Alaska and Beyond

  

  Heating Loads in Alaska and Beyond Project leads: Erin Trochim, Research Assistant Professor, Alaska Center for Energy and Power, University of Alaska Fairbanks Data scientist: Nicholas Bolten DSSG fellows: Vidisha Chowdhury, Maddie Gaumer, Philippe Schicker, Shamsi Soltani Alaska– and the wider Arctic region– have experienced accelerated effects of climate change over the past decade. Rapid decarbonization of energy […]

• Applying ‘Geospatial First’ Approach to Estimating Heating Loads in Alaska

  

  By: Emily F. Keller Decarbonization efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change face a unique challenge in Alaska. While about 70 percent of energy use in the state goes to heating, there is a lack of reliable broad-scale data on the portion of energy that is used for heating in buildings. An interdisciplinary team […]

• Data Science for Social Good collaboration nets WSDOT funding

  

  By Robin Brooks A collaboration between two eScience Institute Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) project leads has resulted in a financial award which allows them to continue their work. Mark Hallenbeck, director of the Washington State Transportation Center, and Anat Caspi, director of the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology, both eScience fellows, answered questions submitted […]

• 2016: Shared data & OpenStreetMap for sidewalks

  

  Global Open Sidewalks: Creating a shared open data layer and an OpenStreetMap data standard for sidewalks Project Leads: Anat Caspi & Nick Bolten – CSE, CEE, Taskar Center Data Scientist Leads: Vaughn Iverson (primary) and Bryna Hazelton (secondary) DSSG Fellows: Thomas Disley, Meg Drouhard, Jessica Hamilton & Kaicheng Tan Project Goals: This project aimed to fill a gap we’ve […]

• 2015: Open Sidewalk for Accessible Trip Planning

  

  Open Sidewalk Graph for Accessible Trip Planning Project Leads: Nick Bolten, Anat Caspi DSSG Fellows: Amir Amini, Yun Hao, Vaishnavi Ravichandran, Andre Stephens ALVA Students: Nick Krasnoselsky, Doris Layman eScience Data Scientist Mentors: Anthony Arendt, Jake Vanderplas This project is an extension of the “Hackcessible” project that was awarded top prize in this year’s “HackTheCommute” event in Seattle. Hackcessible […]