Eric Roche
@datacrunch.bsky.social
Chart enthusiast and city data wonk.
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Nothing I say, do, think, or am represents nor endorses any idea, organization, human, or human-adjacent anything, anywhere, ever.
DM me your graphs.
Ex "That's not just X, That's Y" statements at the end of a paragraph.
August 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Ex "That's not just X, That's Y" statements at the end of a paragraph.
Hey, did you use AI for the script? I noticed some of the summary statements sounded a bit like ChatGPT.
August 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Hey, did you use AI for the script? I noticed some of the summary statements sounded a bit like ChatGPT.
Understood. But then work on communicating those limitations to residents and managing expectations. Don't wait for overnight deployment to cause a crisis. Figure out how you will monitor and report the facts around 911 incidents, road usage, etc.
August 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Understood. But then work on communicating those limitations to residents and managing expectations. Don't wait for overnight deployment to cause a crisis. Figure out how you will monitor and report the facts around 911 incidents, road usage, etc.
It was really easy and added several positive hits to the list that we would have otherwise missed.
I could have been more thorough by promoting things like "which words or phrases are government officials from Puerto Rico (or Tribal Governments) likely to use instead of my terms."
I could have been more thorough by promoting things like "which words or phrases are government officials from Puerto Rico (or Tribal Governments) likely to use instead of my terms."
June 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
It was really easy and added several positive hits to the list that we would have otherwise missed.
I could have been more thorough by promoting things like "which words or phrases are government officials from Puerto Rico (or Tribal Governments) likely to use instead of my terms."
I could have been more thorough by promoting things like "which words or phrases are government officials from Puerto Rico (or Tribal Governments) likely to use instead of my terms."
I had about 50 search terms manually drafted. The LLM took that list generated about 150 common misspellings of these words. I reviewed each and thought they were pretty reasonable typos/errors that people were likely to make.
Then used python/excel to search the reports and flag the results.
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Then used python/excel to search the reports and flag the results.
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June 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I had about 50 search terms manually drafted. The LLM took that list generated about 150 common misspellings of these words. I reviewed each and thought they were pretty reasonable typos/errors that people were likely to make.
Then used python/excel to search the reports and flag the results.
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Then used python/excel to search the reports and flag the results.
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To find out who may have this issue I generated a list of terms to search their report for. Terms like "General Fund, Budget, Revenue Replacement, etc."
Then had an LLM generate a list of misspellings of these words. Things like "Generall fund" or "General Funs" is what it would come up with.
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Then had an LLM generate a list of misspellings of these words. Things like "Generall fund" or "General Funs" is what it would come up with.
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June 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
To find out who may have this issue I generated a list of terms to search their report for. Terms like "General Fund, Budget, Revenue Replacement, etc."
Then had an LLM generate a list of misspellings of these words. Things like "Generall fund" or "General Funs" is what it would come up with.
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Then had an LLM generate a list of misspellings of these words. Things like "Generall fund" or "General Funs" is what it would come up with.
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Sure! I had 30k reports filed by government officials. We knew many of them used our funds for government services, but may have not reported it correctly.
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June 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Sure! I had 30k reports filed by government officials. We knew many of them used our funds for government services, but may have not reported it correctly.
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Reposted by Eric Roche
To anybody in leadership at the state or municipal level: 18F’s destruction makes this *the perfect time* to hire experienced technologists, which you all need very badly. Most 18Fers would love to stay in public service. They are spread throughout the country.
Go go go!
Go go go!
March 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
To anybody in leadership at the state or municipal level: 18F’s destruction makes this *the perfect time* to hire experienced technologists, which you all need very badly. Most 18Fers would love to stay in public service. They are spread throughout the country.
Go go go!
Go go go!