UBDC is pleased to announce a seminar from Prof. Alex Singleton, Professor at University of Liverpool and Deputy Director/Co-Investigator of the Consumer Data Research Centre. Abstract: Human Dynamics and Urban Structure Developing models of urban structure and human dynamics has a long history within geography and planning. In their contempor...

The Urban Big Data Centre in conjunction with SASNet invite you to a free seminar on Transport Data Modelling, Simulation and advancements in Big Data.  This half day seminar will consist of two 1-hour sessions presented by Devrim Kara, Director, PTV Group UK, covering the use of ‘Big Data’ for improving transport networks and research into the...

The UK Data Service is hosting a panel session and networking event on the evening of 13 October 2016 from 4 pm at the Lighthouse, Glasgow. Hosted by Matthew Woollard, Director of the UK Data Service, a panel of leading data innovators will explore data re-use in policy and research, sharing their experiences of demonstrating data enhanced impa...

Yeran Sun, UBDC Research Associate will be attending the #NSMNSS / SRA Conference as a speaker on 11 October in London.  He will be presenting ‘How to use R and QGIS to find out tourism hotspots in cities’. His presentation will focus on how to use open source tools to identify tourism attractions in cities from photo-sharing social media Flic...