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Mike Flowers

Global Head of Data, AI, and Technology, K2 Integrity · 1 appearance on the record.

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Michael Flowers served as New York City's first Chief Analytics Officer under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, founding the Mayor's Office of Data Analytics. He later served as Chief Analytics Officer at Enigma Technologies and joined K2 Integrity as Global Head of Data, AI, and Technology.

10statements → 9claims → 6claims resolved → 33%fully supported → 3.9/5average certainty → 1.6/5average debate potential → 8said about them ↓

2 supported 2 partly supported 2 contradicted 2 not yet assessed 1 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 8 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, 2 are not yet assessed, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Mike argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Mike Flowers predicts future NYC mayors must burn money to rebuild silos
“The data silos thing, that's busted. So somebody's literally going to have to throw money away to reverse that. Reverse the fact that the fire department knows what the buildings department knows, what the finance department knows, et cetera. So I don't see th…”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 30:38 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Mike Flowers says every major US city police department uses CompStat
“I don't know of a single police department in a large city in the United States that isn't going a ComStat model.”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 27:13 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013

How they sound: speaking style how? →

256 words/min while actually speaking · 25.4 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Mike Flowers: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 5,700 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Mike Flowers said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Held up
Mike Flowers predicts future NYC mayors must burn money to rebuild silos
“The data silos thing, that's busted. So somebody's literally going to have to throw money away to reverse that. Reverse the fact that the fire department knows what the buildings department knows, what the finance department knows, et cetera. So I don't see th…”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 30:38 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
Assertion Supported
Cities historically measured 911 response times from dispatch, not call termination
“The city of New York has never, and no other city in the United States, or, you know, some of our larger counterparts in Europe that we were able to check with, ah, everybody does not do it from that. They do it from this. The moment of dispatch to the arrival…”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 16:05 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
Assertion Partly supported
NYC integrated six emergency systems to track end-to-end 911 response times
“So, what we were able to do was take these six different systems involved with nine one response, and we're talking about crime, fire medical, right, about 30 to 40,000 a day. And stitch them together. So that I now know from the moment we hang up, right, the …”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 16:17 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
FDNY staff manually searched city websites while trucks rolled to active fires
“Every time a truck goes out to a fire what they do is they have five people basically searching city websites to find out what else the city knows about those locations.”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 17:59 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
Assertion Contradicted
Mike Flowers says every major US city police department uses CompStat
“I don't know of a single police department in a large city in the United States that isn't going a ComStat model.”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 27:13 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mike Flowers notes very few US cities leverage cross-agency data
“The question is, are you leveraging what another agency knows on the map of delivering your widget? And the answer to that is I think it's a very, very small number.”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 27:30 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
New York City mortgage fraud totals roughly $400 million annually
“Mortgage fraud is about four hundred million dollars a year in the city of New York.”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 5:44 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
Assertion Contradicted
Total real estate turnover in New York City is roughly $1.25 trillion
“The total overall property turnover is about 1.25 trillion, right?”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 5:48 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
Disclosure
NYC secured a grant to release its geo-support codebase on GitHub
“We got a grant from The eponymous learning foundation. And we're going to use that to put the geo support in the, on GitHub in the hopes that people such as yourself will go out and come up with apps that will allow us to leverage what the citizenry is doing a…”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 35:01 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
Assertion Partly supported
New York City has approximately 650,000 one- or two-family residential structures
“There's about 650,001 or two family structures in the city of New York.”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 12:27 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013

The other half of the tape: Mike Flowers's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 8 times in 3 episodes on the MAD Podcast. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Drew Conway 6Matt Turck 1Gideon Mann 1

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2015 1 mention in 1 episode
2013 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013 Dec 5, 2013 25m
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