UBDC Senior IT Manager, Mark Mitchell, presents at the IASSIST Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Wednesday, 3rd June. The topic of this year's conference is The Data Divide: Data in the International Context. Mark will be speaking in a session on Enabling Public Use of Public Data, drawing from the infrastructure and services provid...

UBDC researcher, Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka presents her paper, "The concept of the 'third place' - identifying significant places from GPS trajectories" at the Geo-Social Data session of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

Prof. Nick Bailey, Associate Director of the Urban Big Data Centre will be speaking on "Using data to identify and tackle society problems." Big Data presents exciting opportunities for policy makers and social researchers interested in understanding and addressing societal problems. But it is policy and social research which need to drive th...

AAG 2015 Symposium on CyberGIS for Fostering New Frontiers of Geographic Research and Education Session: Frontiers of Big Data and Urban Informatics; Chair: UBDC Director Prof. Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah A suite of panel and paper sessions will address new frontiers of geographic research and education enabled by cutting-edge CyberGIS particu...