urban big data centre
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Urban Big Data CentreSarah Currier
UBDC Senior Project ManagerPresentation to Women in Tech Scotland, Glasgow, 22 March 2016
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Vision
The Urban Big Data Centre is a national data service for researchers, urban practitioners, and citizens, offering data, support and training centred on the use of innovative methods and complex urban data to address global social, behavioural and environmental city challenges.
Strategic Themes - dynamic resource management; social inclusion; lifelong learning; economic and business innovations; citizen engagement and citizen science;
Data Activities – open, safeguarded and confidential data; “naturally occurring” data; real-time analytics; data linkage;
Multiple Urban Sectors - transport, housing, education, economic development, environment, energy – particularly their connections.
innovations for sustainable and socially just cities
Data Services
Methods and Social Science Research
Data images from flickr under Creative Commons
What We Do
The Urban Big Data Centre provides a national data service, free at the point of use, and open to UK-based researchers, policymakers, third sector organisations, businesses and citizens. The service includes:
data collections and data products; data sourcing services; research support services; knowledge exchange and outreach activities; and training and capacity building services.
innovations for sustainable and socially just cities
Methods and Social Science Research
Data Services
Data image from flickr under Creative Commons
High-Spec Computing Cluster
Virtual Machines
Statistical Software GIS Software
User
DataLinux / Windows
Image: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=56855&picture=gingerbread-person-with-decorations
Linkage System
CKAN Data Portal
GeoServer
We offer 3 levels of data: Open data: Data which can be placed in the public domain with
minimal restrictions on usage. Safeguarded data: Data where license conditions or other
considerations mean that access needs to be restricted. Controlled data: The most secure level – data which could
potentially provide information about individuals.
We also produce our own Data Products (SUDS, iMCD …)Plus, we have a Data Sourcing Service – we can help you find and use data that is otherwise unavailable …
… and we can in some cases we can acquire that data for our Data Collection.
• Lead Investigator:Vonu Thakuriah
• Co-Investigators: Mike Osborne Gwilym Pryce Zhenhong Li Jinhyun Hong Mark Livingston Iadh Ounis Joemon Jose Craig McDonald
Integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) Project
The Survey• 1500 Greater Glasgow Households• Attitudes, values, literacy/ knowledge &
behaviours – Education/ skills – Sustainability– Transport– Cultural/ civic activities – ICT/ technology
• Linked Data Products
GPS Sensors
Lifelogging Cameras
Social Media Capture:Glasgow Memories Server
• 12 months capture:– online news archives;– social media posts– user blogs (Tumblr)– photos (e.g. Flickr)Keywords: Learning Cities indicators…
Why is this train
always late?
Why isn’t this
station accessible
?
Urban Indicators Project• Urban Indicators developed using urban
models & simulations • Statistical uncertainty of the data &
indicators• Data visualisations- GeoExplore on our
GeoServer
Other new data for you
• Strava App Data: Cycling data covering Glasgow (and all-Scotland coming later)
• LiDAR: High resolution image data of the Earth's surface – Glasgow
• Nestoria: Data on Glasgow and Paisley housing market (and Zoopla data coming soon too)
Visit http://ubdc.ac.uk/our-services/research-services/call-for-expressions-of-interest/ for more information.
An example …
Datascape of Movement Patterns in Glasgowhttp://ubdc.ac.uk/blog/2015/november/movement-patterns-in-glasgow/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzpRUuDjiO4
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE COLOUR SCHEME?!?
CREDITS FOR VIDEOThis data visualisation was created by the Glasgow School of Art's Digital Design Studio on behalf of the Urban Big Data Centre using iMCD GPS Survey Data.Data sources in addition to the iMCD project data include: LiDAR data from Blue Sky and satellite imagery from EU Spacing Imaging.This was created as part of the 13th Annual ESRC Festival of Social Science, which took place from 7-14 November 2015 with over 200 free events nationwide. Run by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Festival provides an opportunity for anyone to meet with some of the country’s leading social scientists and discover, discuss and debate the role that research plays in everyday life. With a whole range of creative and engaging events there’s something for everyone including businesses, charities, schools and government agencies. A full programme is available at www.esrc.ac.uk/festival.
Credits
Thanks to these excellent UBDC women for their slides, upon which this presentation was built:• Prof Vonu Thakuriah (UBDC Director)• Dr Stefanie Lewis (former UBDC Scientific Computing Officer)• Sila Nowicka (UBDC Research Associate in Urban Methods,
Modelling and Simulations)• Dr Catherine Lido (UBDC Research Associate in Social Justice,
Place and Lifelong Education)• Hana Ros (UBDC Business and Communications Officer)
And some guys too. Their names are on the website.Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or YouTube.
Contact me on [email protected] or 0141 330 8534
