A Novel Geospatial-First Machine Learning Approach to Modeling Heating Loads in Alaska: When Perfect (Data) are the Enemy of Good (Data)

Shamsi Soltani1, Vidisha Chowdhury2, Philippe Schicker2, Madelyn Gaumer3, Nicholas Bolten4 and Erin Trochim5, (1)Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States, (3)Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (4)Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States