From 698c0ab4af3ff5f47ba28cadba3446ff7cbb8d63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maryanne Wachter Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:55:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update speakers.md Title was still redacted. --- speakers.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/speakers.md b/speakers.md index 61a9de5..8283062 100644 --- a/speakers.md +++ b/speakers.md @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ I set out to build myself a custom keyboard from the ground up. So far, I have f **Riveting Insights! Bridge.watch and the State of America's Infrastructure** -There are over 600,000 bridges in the U.S. with nearly 4 billion daily crossings. While the (fortunately rare) bridge collapse will make national news, what other publicly available information is there that we can dig into the state of U.S. infrastructure? This talk will go over the development of an open source application, [project name], for processing, cleaning, and visualizing bridge infrastructure data from the FHWA and what insights can be gained through simple queries and generating different visuals on the fly. +There are over 600,000 bridges in the U.S. with millions of daily crossings. While the (fortunately rare) bridge collapse will make national news, what other publicly available information is there that we can dig into the state of U.S. infrastructure? This talk will go over the development of an open source application, Bridge.Watch, for processing, cleaning, and visualizing bridge infrastructure data from the FHWA and what insights can be gained through simple queries and generating different visuals on the fly. **Maryanne Wachter** is a software developer and professional engineer. As a structural engineer, she's worked on landmark transit projects, long-span bridges, and various educational/cultural centers in the U.S. and Europe. She currently works as a senior software engineer at Ready.net specializing in geospatial data visualization.