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SBE Alumnus David Wasserman on AI in Planning

David Wasserman, AICP, M.A. in Urban and Regional Planning (2014) and B.S. in Sustainability and the Built Environment (2013), has published an article in Planning Magazine on artificial intelligence, “The Art of Learning by Example | Planning for a future when computers can see: Practical intersections of planning practice and AI.” David was a Senior Transportation Planner/Data Scientist at Fehr & Peers at the time of publication, but is now Data Science Practice Leader at Alta Planning & Design. To learn more, or to reach out to David directly, visit his LinkedIn page and read his short bio below.

David Wasserman is a senior transportation planner working at the intersection of urban informatics, 3-D visualization, geospatial analytics, and visual storytelling. His current areas of focus are enabling data-informed scenario planning, incorporating civic data science into planning projects with web-delivery and computer vision derived datasets, and generating accessibility metrics that can identify the possible benefits of projects and who they go to.
– American Planning Association, Planning Magazine