BluCo Blog
Bringing games to life at Blue CoLab
Every game begins with an idea. For we, the Game Dev Team of Blue CoLab, inspiration struck when we were challenged to make learning about water and technology fun and interactive. The journey from a simple idea to a fully functional game kiosk is complex and challenging, but immensely rewarding.
What can machine learning teach us about water that we don’t already know?
Traditional analyses cannot handle vast amounts of water data. Machine learning can uncover vital information about water that would otherwise go undetected.
What Everyone Deserves: Real-Time Water Data
The Flint, Michigan water crisis alerted the public to how little we know about our drinking water and how late we learn.
The Dark Waters of Parkersburg, WV: A Warning to Us All
Advanced warning systems about drinking water contamination could save millions of people from exposure to dangerous contaminants.
Congress: Guarantee the Right-to-Know Drinking Water
Technology-based alerts are commonplace in daily life: storm alerts; car collisions; even asteroid near-misses. But not for water.
Let Tech Spring in the Environment!
Advance technology to benefit human and environmental health.The Blue Xylem team is a group of Blue CoLab students and...
Cybersecurity Done Right
We must assure Blue CoLab's data and infrastructure cannot be compromised.When I first started at Blue CoLab, I was not...
Teaching Ada’s Data to Sing!
Sonified data can enable those with challenged vision a new way to understand data.When I stepped into Blue CoLab, I...
Creating a Water Quality Index
A WQI is a universal language for understanding the quality of a water body.Water quality is a global concern -- not only...
Choate Pond is Like Narragansett Bay?
With full pond instrumentation students will use IoT and AI for learning and research.Comparing the 93,888-acre...
Taming iOS and Android
Though remote is the new norm, we converted our spoken ideas into prototype apps over ZoomIn case you missed it, the App...
The Power of Invisible Design
Every design choice influences a user in subtle, often unnoticeable ways.Things that are well designed tend to be...
Dr. Frank Parisi & the Data Analytics Team
Data mangling is the extraction, manipulation and cleaning of data for public useThe Blue Colab Data Analytics team was...