Writing

Writing on environmental epidemiology, satellite data, public health tools, and building software systems.

Atlanta, by degrees↗ 86 years of Atlanta’s daily heat record, with a nightly-refreshed read on how the current summer compares. A different kind of piece — its own theme, and the city is the subject, not me.

What a heat risk assessment usually costs, and why we built an API instead What normally takes a graduate student the better part of a year, now built in twenty to thirty-five minutes, with a field that reports how much to trust the result.

Correcting the grid, one neighborhood at a time A statistical model that corrects a 9-kilometer reanalysis grid toward one neighborhood at a time, validated zone by zone, including forecast days now, not only history.

Four satellites, one question Testing whether independent satellite instruments agree that real environmental events happened, across 12 sites, including five with no ground truth to check against.