Artist Collaborations

The SFI funded project, Building City Dashboards, is pleased to announce collaborations with media artists Conor McGarrigle, Cordula Hansen, and Jeffrey Weeter to create digital artworks using open data from the Dublin and Cork dashboards (http://www.dublindashboard.ie/ and http://www.corkdashboard.ie). The goal of this initiative is to explore and expand multimodal creative expression in the digital space using open urban data and to extend the work of the dashboards' visualizations as well as the public impact of

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BCD Data Art Exhibition 7-14 June 2018

BUILDING CITY DASHBOARDS DATA ART EXHIBITION  Launched by Professor Linda Connolly on Thursday 7th June at 1:30pm. MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY rsvp jeneen.naji@mu.ie by 31 May 2018 Digital artworks using open data from the Dublin and Cork dashboards www.dublindashboard.ie and www.corkdashboard.ie created by media artists Cordula Hansen, Conor McGarrigle, and Jeffrey Weeter will be exhibited along with outputs from the Building City Dashboards project. The goal of this initiative is to increase the public impact of

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Thoughts from critical visualisation of urban data

The BCD project recently hosted four visitors for two weeks to share their experiences on a variety of subjects related to visualisation. We held a public seminar on February 15th where each spoke about their research. We recorded their talks and hope to make them available with the permission of the speakers, but there were a couple of thematic arches that take the cross-platform visualisation experiences of our guests back to the topic of city

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Critical visualisation of urban data

A seminar to explore improving user experience and social interactions with data. The Building City Dashboards Project is pleased to announce that it will be hosting its first research seminar of 2018 : Critical Visualisation of Urban Data. The seminar will take place on the Thursday 15th of February, 2018, in the Phoenix Boardroom, 1st floor Phoenix Building, North Campus, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Kildare.   You are invited to register for attend the event (for free) on the

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New Platforms for Urban Data – Special Session at the ERSA Congress in Cork

Join us to share ideas and experiences at the European Regional Science Association Congress in Cork between 28-31st of August. We are organising a special session: Presentations on city dashboards, interactive visual spatio-temporal analysis, VR/AR applications,  and other ideas for alternative representations of urban data are all welcome.  Let’s explore the complex structure of urban life together. Looking forward to receiving your extended abstracts by the 28th of February. For more details you can

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Cork Dashboard Launch – Dec 15th 2017

On Friday December 15th 2017 we gathered in the sunny surrounds of Cork International Hotel to mark the official launch of the Cork Dashboard. The Building City Dashboards team were joined by a variety of partners, stakeholders, and citizens to mark a first for the City and County region of Cork, an online open-data dashboard for Cork.   https://twitter.com/CorkDashboard/status/941652558241845249   Speakers on the day included Building City Dashboards principal project investigators Professor Chris Brunsdon and

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Data driven cities seminar

Data driven cities seminar The Building City Dashboards Project is pleased to announce that it will be hosting its second seminar of 2018 : Data Driven Cities. The seminar will take place on the Wednesday May 2nd, 2018, in the Iontas Seminar Room, 2nd floor Iontas Building, North Campus, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Kildare.   You are invited to register for the free event on the Eventbrite page below. The seminar will begin with refreshments 1pm followed

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