Heat Ahead NYC
Forecasting heating-failure risk so inspectors can prioritize NYC buildings before cold weather arrives.
The Challenge
Formed and led a six-person IBM Z Datathon team, recruiting members including graduate students, to predict heating-failure risks across NYC during extreme weather.
My Contribution
My contribution focused on LinuxONE setup and benchmarking, the interactive building-risk map, and improvements to website functionality and usability. The team combined building records and weather data to rank inspection priorities.
Benchmark
The project reports 481,356 building scores/sec for a 172,485-row batch on a three-core LinuxONE guest. Timing covers model inference; application processing is excluded.