MeterSure.netM. Sohaib Alam

Product for Valor Water Analytics

Problem Statement

● Faulty water meters lead to annual revenue loss of ~$8.7 billion

● Given monthly billing data (~1GB) from a North Carolina facility (2009-2014), identify anomalous meters

Four different types of anomalies.Unlabelled data.Search for indicators.

Label “obviously” anomalous meters meeting strict indicator criteria.

Identify more meters using Gaussian anomaly detection.Calculate associated revenue loss.

Transform to Gaussian

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About Me● PhD, Theoretical Physics

from UT Austin● Discovering mathematical

relationships between black holes and nuclear matter

● Very excited about machine learning and data science!