Applying Data Science to the War on Potholes | Data Science Institute

New York City set a new record for potholes last year, and if Lou Riccio’s forecast is right, New Yorkers could be in for a bumpy ride this year, too. But it's not all bad news. Thanks in part to Riccio's research, New York's pothole problem may be turning around soon. An operations researcher at Columbia University, Riccio analyzed nearly 20 years of pothole and street-resurfacing data to figure out whether bad weather or bad management is behind the large number of potholes the city patches up each year.