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Alex Chen
Data Scientist
Long Island Traffic
About
Alex builds and maintains the data pipelines that power Long Island Traffic. She normalizes feeds from 511NY, the National Weather Service, SCPD, and NCPD into structured incident records — and builds the statistical models that surface trends in the weekly digest.
Credentials
- ✓ 5+ years in data engineering and pipeline development
- ✓ Specialization in geospatial and transportation data
- ✓ Master of Science, Applied Data Science — Stony Brook University
Role at Long Island Traffic
As Data Scientist, Alex Chen designs and maintains the data pipelines that ingest, normalize, and publish traffic incident data from public sources. Her work powers the real-time incident feed, the weekly statistics digest, and the underlying data quality checks that make the site's reporting reliable.