Nick Lucius

1. CITY OF CHICAGO
CLEAR WATER

5. Lab Culture Testing
18+ hours
Traditional Method

6. DNA Testing
3-4 hours
High Cost

7. Immediate Results
Low Cost
Predictive Analytics

8. Accurate predictions can prevent people from getting sick,
and save governments millions of dollars.

10. Civic Collaboration
Chi Hack Night
DePaul University
Students

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13. Beach Clustering
Second Try

15. Each Chicago beach is different, yet all face the same body of
water.
Our model combines these two facts to predict water quality
every day.

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17. THANK YOU
Contact Info:
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This presentation uses several images licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licenses from: Janko Ferlic, Marcus Daniel, Carl Mikoy (Lakeshore Beach, Chicago), NIAID (E. coli
Bacteria), Nathan Meijer (Staphylococcus aureus), Geoff Hutchison (DNA), ron_n_beths pics (Tiny weather station), and Mike Desisto (Chicago River Locks). This presentation also includes images
licensed as follows: Copyright (c) 2017 Renel Chesak and the City of Chicago and Copyright (c) 2015 Open City and Chi Hack Night: Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,
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Nick Lucius
Data Scientist
City of Chicago
nicholas.lucius2@cityofchicago.org
www.cityofchicago.org
techplan.cityofchicago.org
digital.cityofchicago.org
data.cityofchicago.org