Bradley Spatz
Computer Scientist
Program for Resource Efficient Communities
352-273-3688
bspatz@ufl.edu

"I build things that find out how best to use and save drinking water, and share the good ideas through pictures and numbers with people who decide stuff." -- http://splasho.com/upgoer5/

Bradley's focus is on the design, implementation, and application of information systems that characterize residential water use and the efficacy of conservation programs, and discovering and sharing those insights with decision-makers through web-based visual analytics and data. Bradley is the architect and principal implementer of the H₂OSAV system.

Current research questions include:

• data outlier detection and exclusion (water leaks)
• consumption correlations with housing stock characteristics:
• year built; bedrooms, baths, pools; lot size, premise size, irrigable-area
• "before/after" consumption analysis for conservation/outreach programs at the premise, program, and utility level
• targeting accuracy, comparative metrics
• generalization to multi-family and commercial sectors
• US Census data integration/correlation (population, demographics); low-income targeting
• single-meter consumption separation into indoor/outdoor use (estimation)
• spatial/area "intensity" metrics for consumption (e.g. per sqft, inches/month)
• self-service data processing ("data ops"), reproducibility, observability, reliability, scalability
• pattern matching: naive/fuzzy, edit-distance-based; programmatic/batch and interactive
• geospatial analysis: transforms, simplification, point-in-polygon and other joins, concave hulls and minimum bounding polygons
• geospatial feature set characterization, anomaly/outlier detection
• nutrient loading (N, P) from reclaimed water

Bradley's technical experience spans a broad range of areas including data management, business intelligence, data visualization, data warehousing, telecommunications, IP and fiber-optic broadband networking, Unix system administration, and application/system development. Previous roles in the private sector include Vice President of Engineering for Cox Communications, Bioinformatics Lead for Curagen/UF, and Unix/networking consultant. He is a fisherman, backpacker, mariner, and pilot.

Education

• Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Florida