UBDC Research Associate, Dr. Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka, will be presenting her research at the ESRC Seminar Microenterprise, technology and big data: new forms of digital enterprise and work and ways to research them. Her presentation will focus on ‘New insights into homeworking through social media’.   

The Urban Big Data Centre is delighted Brian Riordan from Strava Metro, will host a training session on using Strava Metro data at the UBDC on Wednesday, 28th September at 10am. About Strava — a social network for cyclists and runners — is more than just a fitness app. Millions of users upload details of their trips every week via smartphone o...

UBDC Research Associate, Dr. Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka, will be presenting her research at the International Conference on Geographic Information Science in Montreal, Canada in September. Her presentation will be part of the Workshop on the Analysis of Movement Data and will focus on: A route map to calibrate spatial interaction models from GPS mo...

UBDC was delighted to host Prof. Sabine Timpf, Professor of Geoinformatics from the University of Augsburg, Germany, for a Masterclass at the UBDC in September.  Abstract Simulations of urban transportation reflect the modelling purpose, which is concerned with managing or optimizing the whole transportation system. As a consequence individual...