I was raised watching old black and white movies. Honestly, this is likely because my parents were shown these films by their parents in...

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Have you ever said something at a party that resulted in immediate and deafening silence? The comment need not be inappropriate. I could...

Last week I attended the League of Oregon Cities’ annual conference in Bend, Oregon. Hundreds of elected officials and city staff from...

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Although my background is in government data, I’m often asked to do research in very disparate fields. Sometimes these requests are so...

With surveying platforms such as Qualtrics and Survey Monkey so easily available and (relatively) cheap, there is an ability more than...

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I love me some data. As a result, I have a penchant for metrics and measurements of everything regardless of the need or if its easily...

Most recently, I was able to survey cities and analyze their emergency water preparedness infrastructure. This is a way for cities to...

There are many ways to think about a city from a scientific perspective. You can think about it like an engineer; as a set of water...

“About me” sections are never very interesting or personal. I have however, connected this blog post to the “about me” page on this...