Lunchtime Analytics: Municipal Data Edition
September’s edition of Lunchtime Analytics dives into how municipalities are using data to solve complex, real-world problems. Whether you’re a civic tech nerd, policy wonk, data wrangler, or just municipal-curious, come hungry (for both lunch and learning). Lunch is provided—brain fuel included.
Frognition: Frog Recognition & Re-ID for Conservation
Speaker: Taher Abbasi, Senior Data Scientist, City of Edmonton
Meet Frognition—an AI-powered application that identifies and tracks endangered Northern leopard frogs using computer vision. Taher Abbasi will walk us through how this tool replaces thousands of hours of manual work by automating the recognition of individual frogs from image datasets, helping advance vital conservation efforts.
About the speaker: Taher Abbasi specializes in machine learning applications for civic innovation and biological monitoring, with a focus on real-world impact.
Talk #2: Coming soon…
Almas Danish from Edmonton Global will also be joining us—more details to be revealed shortly!