Just to let you know that we have now published our showcase event write-up as a news release on our website [2].
This week marks the start of a new chapter, as we begin the second phase of the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC [3]). This follows our award of £5 million from UKRI-ESRC and the University of Glasgow to continue for another five years.
Over the past few months we have been reflecting on the Centre's achievements across our first phase, and looking ahead to this new opportunity. As part of this celebration, we held a showcase event on 'Shaping Cities Through Urban Analytics' on 28th November 2018 in Glasgow.
Over 100 invited senior stakeholders from academia, industry, the public sector, and the third sector were welcomed to the event by Professor Anne H Anderson OBE, Vice-Principal and Head of College of Social Sciences at University of Glasgow.
Opening the event, Scottish Minister for Public Finance and Digital Economy, Kate Forbes MSP [4] described the opportunities for data analytics to be used to improve the economy, the healthcare system and the environment. She also stressed the importance of bringing academia, the public sector and business together to develop the skills and capabilities necessary to take advantage of these opportunities, which was the main driver for us holding this event.
Please see the full news release... [2]
This also includes publishing the presentations from the event [5].
Rhiannon
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