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

      30 October 2017

      Author:

      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. ...
      Read More Survey: State of the Art of Data Science in Local Government

    • Estimating local commuting patterns from geolocated Twitter data

      25 October 2017

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More Estimating local commuting patterns from geolocated Twitter data

    • A simple trick for drawing pseudo-geographical networks

      21 July 2016

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More A simple trick for drawing pseudo-geographical networks

    • Visualizing network data

      11 April 2016

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More Visualizing network data

    • Social and Open Data Sources and Visualisation Methods for Urban Decision Making

      2 February 2016

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More Social and Open Data Sources and Visualisation Methods for Urban Decision Making

    • Smart cities and collaborative mapping tools

      1 February 2016

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More Smart cities and collaborative mapping tools

    • The changing nature of big data sources as a barrier to smart city implementation

      27 January 2016

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More The changing nature of big data sources as a barrier to smart city implementation

    • Mapping human mobility with social media data

      12 January 2016

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More Mapping human mobility with social media data

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