My actual name is Patrick. Locke is me playing on https://​​xkcd.com/​​635/​​

My dog’s name is Scout. Yes that’s a daily reminder to maintain a Scout rather than Soldier’s mindset. A bit of backstory: Out of grad school, several friends and I launched a public data nonprofit, with seed funding from the Knight Foundation and a coalition of visionary water managers that believed in our vision of public data infrastructure. You can learn more about our water data work at theCaDC.org.