Hydraulic Modeling Vs. Machine Learning: Using The Right Tool For The Job

By Tom Walski, Ph.D., Senior Product Manager, Bentley Systems

If you receive any water-oriented professional magazines or go through the innumerable marketing material that fills your inbox every day, you’ll see that Artificial Intelligence and its subset machine learning (ML) are going to solve all of our problems. Just import a bunch of data, hit GO and your computer does the thinking for you while you sit back with your feet up on the desk.

In this article, explore the differences between machine learning and hydraulic modeling and what that means for water utilities.