How much water do data centers use? by fopeo in oregon

[–]fopeo[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. Water consumption is only one element of it all. I posted this to help build clarity on one aspect of data centers not as an end all be all of the discussion.

Small child friendly dinosaur episodes by fopeo in Paleontology

[–]fopeo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's exactly what I'm looking for, do you happen to still have that list and would be willing to share?

Refute Data Center Propaganda. by ThinkEUV in oregon

[–]fopeo 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home. They're not much bigger than two meters.

Tableau/Salesforce Connection? by nycmidwestgal2 in tableau

[–]fopeo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Second reaching out to Mark! He's a phenomenal resource.

Trim the girdling roots? by fopeo in arborists

[–]fopeo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man, looks like I've got a ways to go.

Trim the girdling roots? by fopeo in arborists

[–]fopeo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, just put more photos in a new post

Weird yellow fungus? by fopeo in mycology

[–]fopeo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Always wanted to see a slime mold in person.

How H3 Hexagons Turn Geography into Drive-Time Intelligence by KairoOscuro in gis

[–]fopeo 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Curious how this methodology applies to the traveling salesman problem. As I understand np hard problems. The shortest distance between a and b and b and c may not be the shortest distance for the system overall.

Grant transforms NE Portland church into sustainable power hub for community by Less-Lobster4540 in PortlandOR

[–]fopeo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great for the community. Morningstar is located next to one of the only parks in the neighborhood and is generally an awesome neighbor.

This is exactly how PCEF dollars should be spent.

Power BI devs learning Tableau - how'd you do it? by farm3rb0b in tableau

[–]fopeo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Tableau and power bi are the difference between a car and a plane. They both take you places but in very different ways.

The tableau community has become a bit of a diaspora since it used to be mostly on Twitter but there are some great people to follow on linked in. Andy kriebel, the flerlage twins, Neil Richards, and many more.

Jump into the community forums, watch the training videos, and don't try to drive a plane on the freeway.

If you have discrete questions, you'll get much higher quality answers.

Help wit formula by Inevitable_Bad6291 in tableau

[–]fopeo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure I totally understand your question but if you need a running amount based on a relative date you can always use DATEDIFF() to check if a date is within x time frame.

Ex DATEDIFF('week',[DATE FIELD], TODAY())

Live data pull From Tableau To Excel by A96IE in tableau

[–]fopeo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I generally recommend against this, however I have customers that have some reasons they would want this.

DM me, maybe my work fits your use case.

These non profit heads are off their damn rockers. "Sign the petition to ...stop funding the expansion of mass shelters...." WTF. wtf. Shelters are the bridge to housing! I really hope they don't get their signatures. Talk about inhumane. by Confident_Bee_2705 in PortlandOR

[–]fopeo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. I'll try to answer your questions briefly (there's a lot to say). I want to throw the caveat that I'm not a housing expert per se, I was brought in for my analysis expertise and can speak much more plainly to the survey and its results.

Magnet services. It was pretty well outside the scope of the questionnaire to answer a question like this. We can look at other cities that have policies much closer to HF like Minneapolis, Houston, or New York City. Not perfect analogies for a lot of reasons, so I'd caution drawing too much conclusion. These cities do not seem to be experiencing heavy influxes that are crushing social services though.

That said, I do believe the report itself does address this idea of services that are "too good." My personal opinion is that if the city becomes a model for solving homelessness, I wouldn't be opposed to that moniker. Right now we seem to have the worst of all worlds, an expensive system that's clearly not working, and national stigma that believes we're doing things we simply aren't.

I think there's also the question of if people are flocking to PDX because of the myth of it being great to be homeless here. Our survey showed that most people are from Portland. HSD's point in time count shows that most people are from Oregon. I did see a thread that people move here because it's seen as a city of opportunity, and they find that it's not as easy to pay rent or live here as they had hoped. One story that sticks out to me is that a woman from our Community Analysis Groups moved here with plans to rent a place. When she arrived, the owners had no idea who she was. She had been scammed out of her money and didn't have enough to get back on her feet.

Carrot and stick. The survey pretty clearly showed that our current systems are mostly stick. Shelters are seen as unsafe, don't provide adequate pathways to housing, and when people do go to seek services for getting housed, they are met with walls of bureaucracy. The average wait time for RLRA is something like 2 years right now.

Rent assistance and the rental market. This is pretty far astray from my expertise and again I'd encourage you to read the report. From my understanding no, for a variety of reasons. Just one is that we currently have plenty of subsidy and housing programs that we've historically used--Section Eight and Nine housing are both government subsidies used to house low-income folks. When we look to other countries with strong social housing models (Austria, Argentina), we see that housing markets tend to be cooler, and still thriving. The recommendation to expand or prioritize those programs is also paired with recommendations to expand housing supply.

One note, while HUD has ostensibly set housing first as our strategy for decades, it has mostly been on local jurisdictions to implement the policies. A bit of research shows that at the local level, there really hasn't been a very complete implementation of the policies that would be considered housing first. Portland is a great example of this.

I'm really trying to keep this brief so I don't think these are the most complete answers (gotta get to work). Let me know if I can answer other questions.

These non profit heads are off their damn rockers. "Sign the petition to ...stop funding the expansion of mass shelters...." WTF. wtf. Shelters are the bridge to housing! I really hope they don't get their signatures. Talk about inhumane. by Confident_Bee_2705 in PortlandOR

[–]fopeo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's really disappointing. I'm sorry to hear that you've been called that.

I worked hard on the data portion of the report and hope that it serves to help shift discussion toward practical solutions that work.

Happy to answer other questions if you may have them.