What Snowstorms Can Teach Us About Contextual Access and Data Interoperability
As Winter Storm Fern made its way across the US this weekend, children across the country were glued to phones, computers, or televisions as they tried to guess how long they would be out of school this week. Little do they know, however, the data, science, and lack thereof, that goes into that decision. School closures are the very public end of a complex and fast-changing dataset that is highly dependent on locality and can be wildly different on either side of a district line.
