Dublin Bus does not release location information of its buses while in motion. However, they do periodically release information gathered from each stop a bus makes. Sometimes it can be found on Smart Dublin. The BCD team looked at one of the days in a sample of this data added to Smart Dublin to track where, how late, and at what time of day buses were late in Dublin. Using R mapping and data table
Unsupervised clustering processes bring order to unexplored data by creating groups, or clusters, of input data objects based on properties which are otherwise difficult to see with the naked eye. The similarities and differences between clusters and their object members reveal a structure that can be further investigated. Clustering may be the first step in an analytical process to understand a large collection of data with multiple dimensions which are difficult to view at once.
Last month Dublin held its first 3D Data Hackathon over the weekend of the 11th and 12th of May 2019. The 3D model of the Dublin Docklands SDZ (Strategic Development Zone) that provided the core dataset for the event has now been released to the public as open data on Dublin’s Open Data portal Dublinked. These events are the culmination of a process which began at the end of August 2018 with the release
The Building City Dashboard’s team is excited to officially launch the Cork Dashboard on Friday December 15th in Cork. The Cork Dashboard will be the first major output from the Science Foundation Ireland funded project based here in the National Centre for Geocomputation, Maynooth University. Over the past year, we have been working alongside our partners in Cork Smart Gateway, Cork County Council and Cork City Council to gather static and real-time datasets for
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
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
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
The researcher will work on Work Package 2.2 Investigating scalar issues in visualisation. At present, most city dashboards are optimized to function best on a standard display screen. They will display on a smartphone or tablet, but in a way that is suboptimal in terms of legibility and coherence. This task will investigate scalar issues in how data are effectively visualised across different media and to use the resultant information to develop appropriate methods
We are pleased to announce five visiting positions to Maynooth University to work with the Programmable City and/or Building City Dashboards research teams located in the MU Social Sciences Institute and the National Centre for Geocomputation. We are particularly keen to host visitors with an expertise in urban data, data visualisation, augmented/virtual reality, media art and installations, and spatial analytics/modelling, either from a social theory or applied/technical perspective. It is anticipated that visitors would be
The Building City Dashboards project is currently recruiting for a number of positions - more details can be found below. Research fellow 36-42 month contract - Closing date Dec 12th 2016 The Research Fellow will contribute as part of an interdisciplinary team to the SFI-funded Building City Dashboards project, undertaking fundamental and applied research on creating effective city dashboards. The researcher will contribute to one of the four work packages below (applicants should make it