Colorado DOT Partners with Data Scientists to Work on Traffic Congestion

The Denver Post reports that the Colorado Department of Transportation is “teaming up with the data scientists at Denver-based Galvanize, a tech educator and startup space for entrepreneurs. [Link added.] In a unique partnership announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on [January 3], CDOT employees are expected to gain data-science skills while Galvanize professors and students pour through state transportation data to figure out better ways to attack Colorado traffic congestion — at no cost to taxpayers.”