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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We are pleased to announce an open artist call to work with the Building City Dashboards research team located in the MU Social Sciences Institute and the National Centre for Geocomputation. We invite artists to create a digital artwork using open data from the Dublin and or Cork dashboards (http://www.dublindashboard.ie/and http://www.corkdashboard.ie). The goal is to explore and expand multimodal creative expression in the digital space using open urban data and to extend the work