Survey: State of the Art of Data Science in Local Government

30 October 2017

Authors: Jonathan Bright

The Data Science for Local Government project seeks to map and understand the use of both novel data analysis techniques and novel data sources in local governments across Europe. ...
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Estimating local commuting patterns from geolocated Twitter data

25 October 2017

Authors: Jonathan Bright

Over the last decade or so there has been an explosion of research interest in the area of measuring (and forecasting) of traffic and commuting patterns. Part of this ...
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A simple trick for drawing pseudo-geographical networks

21 July 2016

Authors: Graham McNeill

Not all networks have geographic information (e.g., friendship networks, hyperlink networks, etc.). However, for networks that do have geographic data (such as networks of commuting or migration), geography can ...
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Visualizing network data

11 April 2016

Authors: Scott A. Hale

Released in 2012, the sigma.js plugin for Gephi allows for the interactive display of network data in a web browser using open-source technologies, principally sigma.js. The HTML framework and ...
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Social and Open Data Sources and Visualisation Methods for Urban Decision Making

2 February 2016

Authors: Jonathan Bright

One of the deliverables from the UrbanData2Decide project has just been published on the project website. It’s a report on social and open data sources and visualisation methods for ...
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Smart cities and collaborative mapping tools

1 February 2016

Authors: Jonathan Bright

The UrbanData2Decide project has partly been about getting to know local government administrators and understanding more about the types of data related challenges they face when policymaking. One common ...
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The changing nature of big data sources as a barrier to smart city implementation

27 January 2016

Authors: Jonathan Bright

Twitter is going to be a major data source for the NEXUS project, as it is for almost every other project studying social media data. Twitter is extraordinarily generous in ...
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Mapping human mobility with social media data

12 January 2016

Authors: Jonathan Bright

One of the key aims of the NEXUS project is to explore the extent to which human mobility patterns (e.g. commuting, tourism, migration) can be effectively mapped using social media ...
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