Posted January 23, 2018 - 13:49
This issue features the latest news about UBDC activities and opportunities:
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Hello,
Welcome to your first 2018 update from the UBDC.
We provide data services, guidance and support for urban research that makes a difference.
This issue features the latest news about UBDC activities and opportunities, including:
Please read on to learn more, or visit the UBDC website.
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Come on, get active! Encouraging cycling with Strava Metro data
Every year, the Urban Big Data Centre eagerly grasps the opportunity to take part in the ESRC Festival of Social Science. We're always keen to get all kinds of people - such as data enthusiasts, local activists, urbanists and others - involved in the work we do here, to keep our research on big data for urban improvement relevant.
Last year we ran an Active Travel Data Challenge, where we asked folks with skills and an interest to use the Strava Metro app data we provide to make tools to encourage more cycling. And we hosted an Active Travel Data Demo Day in November to show off the challenge finalists' entries, alongside a range of other interesting active travel data developments. We also hoped to get some useful insights from participants that we could pass on to cycling groups and urban planners to enhance their future developments.
Find out more >
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Adventures in design and data - how good design took big data to IKEA
Dr Kate Reid has undertaken research in the area of ‘Lifewide Literacies’ (e.g. health, environmental, financial and digital literacies). In this blog, she explains the process of using art and design to make research with big data accessible to new audiences…and fun!
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Putting citizens’ data at the heart of city transport planning
The Citizens at the City’s Heart project (Catch! for short) was an exciting idea born out of a desire to generate better data for use in transport planning, and ultimately to make moving around cities easier. In this blog, Dr David McArthur explains the contribution that UBDC researchers are making to this collaborative project and how you can get involved.
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Lifewide Literacies and Big, Novel Data
A team of psychologists in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow have used Urban Big Data Centre data from the integrated Multimedia City Data Project (iMCD) to analyse and visualise literacy inequalities in Glasgow. In this blog, Dr Catherine Lido explains how the team engages the public with the importance of various literacies through data representations that they can literally reach out and touch.
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How many landlords are there in Scotland?
You'd be forgiven for assuming this is a simple enquiry with a simple response. However, despite its growth, the private rented sector remains difficult to study. In this blog, UBDC Associate Director Nick Bailey explores the diverse datasets that could be used to attempt to answer this question and explains the public value of getting a credible answer.
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Urban design patterns to support independent living for older people
Jan Kazak, a researcher from the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Poland, worked with our data on a short project to study aspects of urban design and the lifestyles of elderly people. In this blog, Jan explains the growing need for this research in the context of an ageing European population and details the unique expertise and data services that the UBDC provided.
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Students’ digital practices in post-digital environments
One of the most interesting areas of research at UBDC is the use of wearable devices by research participants to gather detailed data. In this blog Lavinia Hirsu explains why she borrowed our wearable devices to collect data and what they captured.
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By publishing case studies, the Urban Big Data Centre aims to promote the use of urban data in research and raise awareness of its benefits to the public.
If you are interested in the latest updates on our innovative research projects, from the academic researchers working on them, please visit Our research - latest updates.
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