iMCD project: Datascape of Movement Patterns in Glasgow
The Urban Big Data Centre's integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) project is designed to provide our user community with innovative primary data sources about Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, the combination of which has never before been collected.
To demonstrate the potential of the project's sensor data strand, the visualization above illustrates a ‘typical week’ of movement in Glasgow’s city centre. The patterns are shown here using day of the week and a time period (early morning, mid-morning, etc.). In blue and pink you can also see how men and women move around the city in different ways and utilise different locations at different times.
Learn more on the iMCD project page and in our existing blog post: Urban life captured through survey, sensors and multimedia.
Credits
This data visualization was created by the Glasgow School of Art's Digital Design Studio on behalf of the Urban Big Data Centre.
Sources in addition to the iMCD project data include: Lidar's data from 'blue sky' and satellite imagery from EU Spacing Imaging.
This activity is part of the 13th annual Festival of Social Science, which takes place from 7-14 November 2015 with over 200 free events nationwide. Run by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Festival provides an opportunity for anyone to meet with some of the country’s leading social scientists and discover, discuss and debate the role that research plays in everyday life. With a whole range of creative and engaging events there’s something for everyone including businesses, charities, schools and government agencies.