Steve Sain
Jupiter Intelligence, Boulder CO
Data Science @ Jupiter
In 2017, the US faced over $300 billion in loses from hurricanes, severe weather, flooding, drought, fire, etc. These national catastrophes are placing an increasing burden on the public and are projected to worsen in the future. Jupiter Intelligence provides facility-level, probabilisitic information about how these risks are evolving with climate change to aid companies in operational and long-term asset planning. To accomplish this, Jupiter has brought together a team of experts on climate, weather, ocean dynamics, hydrology, fire, and data science along with software engineering to integrate cutting-edge computational models, machine learning, and applied statistics in a cloud-based platform. In this talk, I'll give a brief overview of Jupiter, our platform and approach to geophysical modeling, and how data science plays a crucial role. I'll also dive deeper into some of our data science projects, including how we use extreme value methods at scale in a big-data environment.