Every model we deploy for an agency ships with a model card
A short, plain-language document that explains what a model does, how it was tested, and where it should not be used.
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Data posts
HQT blog posts on data for public agency technology teams.
Open data as a public records strategy
Publishing what people repeatedly ask for is cheaper than answering each request by hand.
Address data is the hardest data a local government owns
Addresses disagree across permitting, assessment, billing, and dispatch, and reconciling them takes an address layer with a named owner.
Data conversion is the project, not the last two weeks of it
Legacy data resists conversion in ways a schema mapping never shows, so we plan and validate migration as its own project.
Lessons from building a streaming pipeline for sensor data
Real-time data from meters and sensors looks simple until the sensors misbehave. Design notes for utilities and public works.
Why dashboards go unused, and what to do about it
Most dashboards die within months. The fix is less about visualization and more about definitions and ownership.
A digital twin starts with the GIS, not the platform
The most valuable part of a utility digital twin is the part nobody wants to fund: accurate asset data.