Urban Big Data
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: School of Social & Political Sciences
Abstract
The proposed UBDRC will bring together an internationally outstanding combination of researchers, data resources and engaged local and national stakeholders to establish a unique linked data resource based in the University of Glasgow (UoG). Through extensive partnerships with other key academic institutions, data-owning organizations, and other scientific, governmental, third sector and business organizations, the UBDRC will: (i) establish a world leading facility to create an multi-sectoral urban linked data resource from local government authorities and business owners in Glasgow; (ii) provide outstanding training and research support services to ensure wide exploitation of the data; and (iii) deliver a strategic approach to knowledge transfer and training to build capacity and engage with policy, business, and the wider public. The UBDRC will provide a unique facility for researching cross-cutting urban issues and complex urban challenges by enabling access to multi-sectoral linked data from local government, business and other sources. This vision will be achieved by: (1) Data Services: UBDRC will focus on bringing together myriad of datasets many of which are unique and hard to obtain, from multiple urban sectors to create a linked urban data resource that allows comprehensive and cross-sectoral research. The centre will provide data curation services and the necessary metadata and provide a range of data access services to users, including, where necessary, secure access to confidential data. (2) Methods and social science research: UBDRC will develop, test and evaluate a wide range of methodological approaches including urban and regional modeling, agent-based models, machine learning and other methods and will support research leading to new cross-cutting theoretical insights, hypotheses and understanding of urban systems, thereby stimulating foundational research on new models of urban behaviour, processes and service provision. The data resource will be used to develop spatially-indexed (and perhaps temporally-indexed) urban indicators on myriad aspects describing the quality and character of urban spaces, and the spatial distribution of the urban processes, eg, on environmental risks, mobility and accessibility patterns, housing and educational aspects, and other aspects that desribe the socio-demographic, economic, environmental, built environment, physical and other aspects of urban areas.. The data would further allow policy research on a wide range of urban sectors and the derivation of a multitude of approaches for urban governance and business development. Additionally, new insights may be derived for capacity-building, innovations and learning strategies to better equip citizens to meet a diversity of challenges in cities of the future. (3) Knowledge Exchange, Outreach and Public Engagement: The UBDRC will be an important node in a growing network of UK-wide and international initiatives on cities. The networks include: international centres on urban research and cities, international research Networks, and networks of governmental, private, non-profit and other organizations.
The UBDRC will undertake a research programme to advance the state-of-the-art of methods related to the use of the data resource, as well as an applied urban research stream to demonstrate the use of the linked urban Big Data resource and to derive understanding towards theory, planning and policy. Research Group 1: Methods Research: A series of computational, data management, statistical, and urban analytics projects will be undertaken to make the data more easily accessible and usable. Group 2: Urban Research Projects (URPs): Research projects on substantive urban issues such as transport, housing, migration and education will demonstrate to data owners and policy makers the value of large-scale, cross-sectoral data linkage and lead to policy insights for public, private and non-profit decision-makers.
The UBDRC will undertake a research programme to advance the state-of-the-art of methods related to the use of the data resource, as well as an applied urban research stream to demonstrate the use of the linked urban Big Data resource and to derive understanding towards theory, planning and policy. Research Group 1: Methods Research: A series of computational, data management, statistical, and urban analytics projects will be undertaken to make the data more easily accessible and usable. Group 2: Urban Research Projects (URPs): Research projects on substantive urban issues such as transport, housing, migration and education will demonstrate to data owners and policy makers the value of large-scale, cross-sectoral data linkage and lead to policy insights for public, private and non-profit decision-makers.
Planned Impact
Who will benefit from the work of the centre?
The research conducted or facilitated by the UBDRC will have an impact on a range of non-academic groups, including local and national government, other public bodies, businesses, voluntary sector organisations, civic groups and the wider public. Some will benefit as data owners facing fewer burdens in data sharing in future. A much wider group will benefit from the substantive research conducted through the UBDRC as we aim to facilitate research on cross-cutting urban issues, as well as more methodological research. We aim to have an impact on economic competitiveness, on social welfare and well-being, and on the efficiency of public services and policy interventions. Training and capacity building activities will also be accessible to non-academic groups
How will they benefit from the work of the centre?
1. Data owners
There is some scope for the UBDRC to reduce the burden of requests on data owners by providing a first point-of-call and expert guidance on data availability and quality. Having established a relationship with the UBDRC, data owners will be able to provide access to data through us using standard protocols and procedures, knowing the facility safeguards their interests. This in turn makes it easier for research commissioners to formulate and commission research ideas, since they will have greater certainty over what is available and how long it will take to access it. Time and cost savings will be realised, but we also hope new research ideas will be formed that, hitherto, did not seem feasible.
2. Policy makers in local government, national government and voluntary sector
A wide range of actors in local government could benefit from the increased understanding of diverse social and economic processes, and of the impacts of their policies and interventions. There could be benefits for service delivery. Research may stimulate horizontal discussions within partnership organisation such as Community Planning Partnerships due to enhanced awareness of the inter-relationships between services. Vertical discussions may be stimulated with national government bodies (Scottish Government or UK level e.g. DWP) or with civic of voluntary organisations representing particular service-user groups.
3. Researchers and research organisations
We will offer advanced training in the methods necessary to access and analyse the linked data. A wide range of researchers in public, voluntary and business sectors may benefit, both directly from the skills developed and indirectly through their enhanced capacity to use the facility to address research issues which matter to them.
4. Businesses
Businesses may benefit from more effective policies and investments to support their activities: in land preparation or land release; in transport investment; in skills development and training.
5. The wider public
The wider public may benefit in diverse ways. More efficient or competitive businesses or public services may impact directly employment opportunities or social welfare. A better understanding of the impacts of particular services - or the costs of withdrawing them - may help certain groups defend services of particular importance to them. In particular, we would expect that research into distributional issues would tend to provide insights which enable less powerful groups to represent their interests.
The research conducted or facilitated by the UBDRC will have an impact on a range of non-academic groups, including local and national government, other public bodies, businesses, voluntary sector organisations, civic groups and the wider public. Some will benefit as data owners facing fewer burdens in data sharing in future. A much wider group will benefit from the substantive research conducted through the UBDRC as we aim to facilitate research on cross-cutting urban issues, as well as more methodological research. We aim to have an impact on economic competitiveness, on social welfare and well-being, and on the efficiency of public services and policy interventions. Training and capacity building activities will also be accessible to non-academic groups
How will they benefit from the work of the centre?
1. Data owners
There is some scope for the UBDRC to reduce the burden of requests on data owners by providing a first point-of-call and expert guidance on data availability and quality. Having established a relationship with the UBDRC, data owners will be able to provide access to data through us using standard protocols and procedures, knowing the facility safeguards their interests. This in turn makes it easier for research commissioners to formulate and commission research ideas, since they will have greater certainty over what is available and how long it will take to access it. Time and cost savings will be realised, but we also hope new research ideas will be formed that, hitherto, did not seem feasible.
2. Policy makers in local government, national government and voluntary sector
A wide range of actors in local government could benefit from the increased understanding of diverse social and economic processes, and of the impacts of their policies and interventions. There could be benefits for service delivery. Research may stimulate horizontal discussions within partnership organisation such as Community Planning Partnerships due to enhanced awareness of the inter-relationships between services. Vertical discussions may be stimulated with national government bodies (Scottish Government or UK level e.g. DWP) or with civic of voluntary organisations representing particular service-user groups.
3. Researchers and research organisations
We will offer advanced training in the methods necessary to access and analyse the linked data. A wide range of researchers in public, voluntary and business sectors may benefit, both directly from the skills developed and indirectly through their enhanced capacity to use the facility to address research issues which matter to them.
4. Businesses
Businesses may benefit from more effective policies and investments to support their activities: in land preparation or land release; in transport investment; in skills development and training.
5. The wider public
The wider public may benefit in diverse ways. More efficient or competitive businesses or public services may impact directly employment opportunities or social welfare. A better understanding of the impacts of particular services - or the costs of withdrawing them - may help certain groups defend services of particular importance to them. In particular, we would expect that research into distributional issues would tend to provide insights which enable less powerful groups to represent their interests.
Organisations
- University of Glasgow (Lead Research Organisation)
- Zoopla Property Group Ltd (Collaboration)
- Springboard (Collaboration)
- Salvation Army (Collaboration)
- Experian (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Institute of Transport Economics (Norway) (Collaboration)
- NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) (Collaboration)
- Arizona State University (Collaboration)
- Norwegian School of Economics (Collaboration)
- Ordnance Survey (Collaboration)
- Aberdeen City Council (Collaboration)
- Cabinet Office (Collaboration)
- Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Collaboration)
- Scottish Power Ltd (Collaboration)
- British Standards Institute (BSI Group) (Collaboration)
- Government of Scotland (Collaboration)
- Statistics Netherlands (Collaboration)
- Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (Collaboration)
- FixMyStreet (Collaboration)
- SOUTH TYNESIDE COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- BRITISH RED CROSS (Collaboration)
- Administrative Data Research Centre for Scotland (Collaboration)
- NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) (Collaboration)
- Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Collaboration)
- University of Stirling (Collaboration)
- Cycling Scotland (Collaboration)
- Transport Scotland (Collaboration)
- World Meteorological Organization (Collaboration)
- STRATHCLYDE PARTNERSHIP FOR TRANSPORT (Collaboration)
- Code the City (Collaboration)
- Adzuna (Collaboration)
- Western University (Collaboration)
- Meteorological Office UK (Collaboration)
- University of Melbourne (Collaboration)
- Higher Education Statistical Agency (Collaboration)
- British Geological Survey (Collaboration)
- University of Wroclaw (Collaboration)
- Registers of Scotland (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- HUQ INDUSTRIES LIMITED (Collaboration)
- ScotRail Railways Limited (Collaboration)
- European Commission (Collaboration)
- Uber Technologies Inc. (Collaboration)
- Tongji University (Collaboration)
- Locomizer (Collaboration)
- Bike Citizens (Collaboration)
- Strava, Inc (Collaboration)
- The Data Lab - Innovation Centre (Collaboration)
- Iowa State University (Collaboration)
- TAMOCO LIMITED (Collaboration)
- Renfreshire Council (Collaboration)
- Information Services Division (ISD) (Collaboration)
- North Lanarkshire Council (Collaboration)
- Ohio State University (Collaboration)
- Scotland's Towns Partnership (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER (Collaboration)
- Sustrans (Collaboration)
- Department for Communities and Local Government (Collaboration)
- Burning Glass Technologies (Collaboration)
- Government of Wales (Collaboration)
- Office for National Statistics (Collaboration)
- Learning Cities Networks (LCN) (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- City of Edinburgh Council (Collaboration)
- Bluesky International (Collaboration)
- ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- Purdue University (Collaboration)
- University of St Andrews (Collaboration)
- RENFREWSHIRE COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Collaboration)
- Lumiere Property (Collaboration)
- Wikimedia UK (Collaboration)
- Scottish Cities Alliance (Collaboration)
- OAI, Inc (Collaboration)
- Lothian Valuation Joint Board (Collaboration)
- Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research (Collaboration)
- Improvement Service (Collaboration)
- Scottish Parliament (Collaboration)
- Economic and Social Research Council (Collaboration)
- Lokku Limited (Collaboration)
- CREATe (RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy) (Collaboration)
- General Teaching Council for Scotland (Collaboration)
- University of Seoul (Collaboration)
Publications
Wang Y
(2018)
Enhancing data privacy with semantic trajectories: A raster-based framework for GPS stop/move management
in Transactions in GIS
Kearns A
(2018)
The Effects of Neighbourhood Offender Concentrations on the Number, Type and Location of Crimes Committed by Resident Offenders
in British Journal of Criminology
Hong J
(2018)
Is the popularity of social networking services beneficial for public health? Focusing on active travel and BMI
in Journal of Transport & Health
Baltagi B
(2018)
A Time-Space Dynamic Panel Data Model with Spatial Moving Average Errors
in Regional Science and Urban Economics
Smolak K
(2018)
Urban Hourly Water Demand Prediction Using Human Mobility Data
Zhang X
(2018)
Exploring Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Urban Fires: A Case of Nanjing, China
in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Sila Nowicka K.
(2018)
Analysis of Actual Versus Permitted Driving Speed: A Case Study from Glasgow, Scotland.
| Title | 3D Data Sculptures of Segregation in Rotherham and Sheffield |
| Description | A series of 3D data sculptures designed to help stakeholders engage with complex data on segregation in a tactile and interactive way. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | The sculptures have proved to be a valuable stimulus for discussion, ideas, teaching, etc. We have exhibited the sculptures at various events including community engagement events and public lectures. The sculptures help stimulate discussion which led to UBDC researchers being invited to talk about our research to senior members of Rotherham Council. |
| URL | http://www.imaginecommunity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Imagine-Rotherham-Event-2017-Report-Fi... |
| Title | Adventures in design and data - 3D visualisations of iMCD data |
| Description | A team of psychologists in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow used Urban Big Data Centre data from the integrated Multimedia City Data Project (iMCD) to analyse and visualise literacy inequalities in Glasgow. Dr Kate Reid - working with fellow psychologist and UBDC alumni Dr Catherine Lido and student interns Michaella Drummond and Stefi Hahn - undertook research in the area of 'Lifewide Literacies' (e.g. health, environmental, financial and digital literacies), and created a series of 3D artefacts and exhibition pieces from the data, bringing them to several science fairs, including one held at Ikea in Glasgow. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | Both the researchers and the UBDC team were delighted with the interest and discussions had, with a new audience generated, in the most part, from the highly tactile objects which enabled them to tell the story of their research. We now have objects that can be used across different public engagement contexts, both formally at public engagement 'badged' events and also more informally, within communities including schools and colleges. We have also reflected on opportunities to incorporate good design and visual interest within our academic outputs such as poster presentations for academic audiences. The use of infographics and data visualisations, supported by platforms such as Piktochart, are improving the quality of our academic conversations including knowledge exchange. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news/2017/november/adventures-in-design-and-data-how-good-design-took-big-data-to-... |
| Title | Datascape of Movement Patterns in Glasgow |
| Description | The Urban Big Data Centre's integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) project has produced innovative primary data sources about Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, in combinations which have never before been collected. To demonstrate the potential of the project's GPS sensor data strand, the Datascape Visualisation illustrates a 'typical week' of movement in Glasgow's city centre. The patterns are shown using day of the week and a time period (early morning, mid-morning, etc.). In blue and pink you can also see how men and women move around the city in different ways and utilise different locations at different times. This data visualisation was created by the Glasgow School of Art's Digital Design Studio on behalf of the Urban Big Data Centre. Sources in addition to the iMCD project data include Lidar data from 'blue sky' and satellite imagery from EU Spacing Imaging. This work was created as part of the 13th Annual Festival of Social Science, which took place from 7-14 November 2015. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | This was an early demonstrator of the type of visualisation that can be created using UBDC iMCD data. It has been used in numerous presentations since, generating interest in working with UBDC. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/blog/2015/november/movement-patterns-in-glasgow/ |
| Description | This award provides funding for UBDC's national data service, enhancing access for researchers across the UK and beyond to digital footprints (DF) data with a particular focus on the analysis of cities. We therefore report here on UBDC's data service activities; achievements and impacts from our research funding are reported under a separate award. Our current data service objectives (for Phase 1 as a DF data service to September 2024) include: the development of data resources and the enhancement of the value of those resources; capacity building through training but also the development of guidance, methods and tools for working with DF data; the development of data partnerships and research communities; and contributing to debates about DF data policy and practice. Data resource development and enhancement UBDC has developed an extensive set of DF data resources which now span multiple dimensions or domains of urban life, as our data catalogue demonstrates. Our geographic focus is the whole of the UK by default although, at times, we acquire resources covering a subset of regions or urban areas because of cost constraints or simple availability. At times too, we focus on individual spatial areas across successive data acquisitions in order to expose them to multiple analytical lenses and facilitate comparisons across multiple domains. We strive to maximise temporal coverage within the limits of the data available, to maintain consistency of coverage over time and to negotiate durable rights. We have contributed significantly to ESRC's discussions around the future of DF data services, drawing on the knowledge and expertise accumulated through several years of operation. We acquire data through licensing arrangements with data owners which permit onward sharing for non-commercial academic research as a minimum. We undertake original data collection activities to produce new resources we can share, as exemplified by mobile phone app data collection for a random sample of the population. We produce derived data products from existing data resources where the original data are either inaccessible (e.g. our pedestrian footfall counts from CCTV image data) or open but difficult to work with (e.g. our public transport accessibility indices from open transport schedules). We help researchers negotiate data sharing agreements for specific projects where there is no alternative (e.g. to access personal data from business or administrative systems). We enhance the ability of others to access DF data through the provision of methods, tools (e.g. open-licensed code) and capacity building services (e.g., guidance on legal and governance aspects of web-scraping) which enable them to collect these data for themselves. This is the approach taken with some web-scraping activities, for example, where legal restrictions permit the individual to collect, store and process data but not to share it with others. We enhance the value of data collections through the provision of documentation and meta-data which enable discoverability and the planning of research. We enhance value through research on data quality and resulting enhancement efforts with specific data collections. We have published a number of papers now which analyse the qualities of our major data collections: Strava cycling data (McArthur et al 2019); Zoopla housing listings (Livingston et al, 2021); Huq and Tamoco mobile phone app data (Sinclair et al, 2022), for example. We also published analyses of existing open data (e.g., OpenStreetMap) that underpin several urban analytics studies and some of our own data collections (Herfort et al. 2022). All focus on questions of representativeness or bias in particular. We enhance value through additions to data collections: with the mobile data, work on representativeness led to the addition of weights to reduce bias. We have conducted research on algorithms used for privacy protection, notably in relation to the Strava collection, documenting the adverse impact of recent changes in their approach on the quality of their data outputs and proposing alternatives which preserve more of the information while still protecting privacy (Raturi et al 2021). We have a programme to produce derived data products within the constraints of licensing, privacy requirements and restrictions on data collection methods. With mobile data, for example, we have developed methods to produce derived data on origin-destination flows for small areas within a city-region, covering different times of day and years and disaggregated by socio-economic status. These are available as licensed data, reflecting the original licence terms with the data providers. We enhance value by improving interoperability, processing data to link them to standard identifiers which, in turn, enable wider data integration. In relation to address-based data, for example, we have developed rule-based methods for identifying the standard government identifier (the Unique Property Reference Number or UPRN) from poorly structured address text. UPRNs are being attached to data on house sales, rentals and Energy Performance Certificates for a range of British datasets, enabling the construction of a uniquely integrated property data collection. Working with Ordnance Survey, DLUHC and others, we conducted an evaluation of the various methods and made recommendations for improvement. Consistent with its core principles of openness and transparency, UBDC has shared code for the processing of many of its major data collections through our Github repository. We encourage other researchers to do the same, to promote learning and efficiency in the use of these data, and to build research communities around the different data collections. Capacity building: training and guidance We have provided multiple training courses to enhance research skills on data-intensive urban research. Some are focussed on the promotion of the data service or particular data resources. Some have promoted methods, tools and guidance we have developed. Others focus on legal and governance aspects associated with providing and consuming data services. The website provides a full record. Jointly with the UK Copyright & Creative Economy Centre (CREATe), we have conducted pioneering research on the law on web-scraping for non-commercial research. A summary report details the lack of clarity in relation to these practices which are clearly widespread in social data science (Burrow 2021). We are continuing to work with CREATe to develop community guidelines in order to shape practices and give researchers a degree of reassurance on the legality of what they are doing. Capacity building: methods and tools development Our research in urban analytics which has produced a range of new methods and open-source tools which other researchers can use or adapt. These include the application of object detection tools to analyse of CCTV images/video to produce counts of pedestrians and other activity in urban areas. We also developed and documented associated protocols to support the successful deployment of this technical system within functioning public safety operations, using a qualitative approach to understand operator perceptions and experiences. We have developed tools for web-scraping for social research, accompanied by the guidance described above on the legal issues surrounding such activities. Data partnerships and research communities UBDC has built a number of long-term partnerships with data providers around a number of areas of common interest. These include a concern with data quality, particularly representativeness and methods to extracting additional structured data from unstructured fields. They also include the development of new data products, often in response to identified user demands. We have also convened a number of meetings with user groups, based around one or more data collections. These provide the opportunity for researchers to share insights from their work, inspiring others to use the same data. They provide a forum for exchange in relation to methodological challenges and data enhancement. And they provide a further source of value for data partners, who gain further intelligence on the value of their existing data and routes to enhance this. Data policy and practice As a result of the experience of running our data service, we have added to knowledge on the challenges of accessing digital footprints data and how to overcome these. We have also added to knowledge about how to assess the qualities of those data and how to enhance them. We have been active contributors to debates about administrating future data services and future use of digital footprints data, notably those led by UKRI-ESRC. More broadly, we have made contributions to public debates on the value of new and emerging forms of data, through presentations at policy and practitioner conferences, blogs and related activities. |
| Exploitation Route | There are multiple routes by which the work of the Urban Big Data Centre is being taken up and forwards by other researchers and practitioners. Most obviously, of course, the data resources we have developed, along with associated methods, tools and guidance, will support the research of our broad user community, now numbering in excess of 1200. Our efforts to compile, curate, document, validate, enhance and make accessible these data have rendered them usable for an enormous range of applications. UBDC has also provided expertise on data integration platforms and methods to incorporate data-intensive methods in urban policy and practice through a number of associated research projects. These projects and other external research drawing on UBDC data services and research results have also been able to build on the insights we have generated in fields such as transport, housing and education. The knowledge generated about UBDC's data service delivery in the context of digital footprints data will be taken forwards in future investments in data infrastructure. We have been working with UKRI-ESRC to help shape plans in this area, feeding in to consultation exercises and wider discussions. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Environment,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Retail,Transport |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/research/ubdc-staff-publications/ |
| Description | This narrative focuses on impacts arising from our data service activities. UBDC's research activities are funded under a separate award so impacts from those are reported elsewhere. Actual and potential beneficiaries are very diverse, including businesses, public bodies and civil society groups, nationally and internationally, across a wide range of domains or functional areas. Impact is achieved through the academic research enabled by our data collections, as well as the use made of these data by non-academic organisations where licence conditions permit. Impact is also achieved through methodological developments associated with the data service, capacity building activities and influence on data policies and practices. Use and value of data collections Our data service enables the use of novel digital footprint (DF) datasets and enhances their value by: licensing collections; creating new open or derived data products; creating new data collections, using sensors, surveys or a combination of the two; enhancing data through processing and integration; and enhancing usability through provision of data interfaces. We have licensed a substantial number of major data collections for non-commercial academic research (at a minimum), covering a wide range of domains of urban activity. One licensed data collection covers property listings for housing rentals and sales (Zoopla, covering Britain from 2012 on). UBDC research has provided validation of the Zoopla dataset as a means to study private rented housing (Livingston et al 2021), and we supported further validation work by ONS. ONS also used the Zoopla data in studies to guide planning of fieldwork for the Census 2021, and to chart local trends in rental markets. External academic research using the Zoopla data includes: analysis of the impact of Land and Buildings Transaction Tax reform; evaluation of the impact of windfarms on nearby house prices; analysis of the impacts of Airbnb on the London housing market (Shabrina et al 2021); and an evaluation of the impact of the re-regulation of private tenancies in Scotland. As with all data collections, we monitor outputs from studies using our work and follow up to understand wider impacts. Access to data collections for non-academic users varies depending on licence terms, which in turn reflect data owner interests and business models. One early collection from the fitness app, Strava, has been used by a number of public authorities to facilitate planning activities, including Nestrans, the Transport Partnership for Aberdeen City/Shire, and South Tyneside Council. Commercial organisations such as multinational planning companies Sweco and Arup have used the data in their work with local authorities to validate infrastructural investment decisions. ESRI (the publisher of leading GIS platform ArcGIS) has used the data to develop and demonstrate its visualisation functionality. The data have also been used by third sector organisations interested in active travel including Cycling Scotland and Sustrans, to support research and campaigning efforts. In 2020, we took out new licences for major mobile phone data collections from two companies (Tamoco and Huq), covering the Glasgow city-region for 2019-22. We worked with a range of stakeholders in the city council, Scottish Government and the Geospatial Commission on the specification and licensing for these data, ensuring access for public sector users as well as academics was written in to the licences. UBDC researchers developed novel methods to produce measures of origin-destination (OD) flows from these data, covering the period during and after the pandemic restrictions were in operation. These OD flows are accessible to public bodies under the terms of the licence, and have been used by the Council as part of an integrated transport appraisal to support the Glasgow Transport Strategy. They have helped to validate and refine the identification of key public transport corridors which will inform the Glasgow Transport Strategy Spatial Delivery Framework to be published in 2022, as well as testing the impact of options within appraisal. Compared with the previous data used for this analysis, the new OD flows provided greater insight into the potential gaps in public transport services between zones with a greater proportion of shorter or more localised trips. UBDC's data therefore allowed a broader range of potential solutions to be assessed than would have been the case with more traditional data sets such as those from the Census or household surveys. We are now in discussions with ONS to see how our methods may be used to provide OD flows for England and Wales, overcoming the problems with the poor quality of Census 2021 data in this area. The mobile datasets have also been used to inform Liveable Neighbourhoods work by showing 'natural' travel catchments in the city. They allow the flows of people within each Neighbourhood to be broken down by levels of deprivation, helping to identify whether different social groups use their local area in the same ways. This will in turn support the development of services and investment which better address social inequalities. The datasets are also providing an improved understanding of where people travel from to access parks and open spaces in the city. Open spaces have been under unprecedented pressure through the pandemic, given the restrictions on travel and indoor socialising. The local services data provide a huge increase in the level of understanding of how the use of these spaces has changed over time, and how it varies over the course of the day or the week. This supports decision-making in relation to investment and management for these spaces. For example, the data are providing insights into the introduction of weekend parking restrictions for one of Glasgow's major public parks, Pollok. We have created a range of new open data collections which have already shown their value for policy makers. Data on pedestrian footfall was produced by UBDC using Glasgow City's CCTV network, by embedding object detection software within their operational public safety system. We have been publishing data since 2019 but work scaled up rapidly in 2020 at Glasgow City Council's request, in order to inform their response to the pandemic. They provided real-time insights into levels of activities in city centre, high streets and parks across 40 locations in the city, informing efforts to promote social distancing ('Spaces for People'). The data were also used by ONS as part of their UK-wide monitoring of urban activity levels during the pandemic and contributed to their reporting to the Government's scientific advisory group, SAGE. We extended coverage to vehicle counting capacity in 2021 and are currently working to improve counts of cycling. Other data products from UBDC include the Integrated Multimedia City Data Project (iMCD). This produced a data collection combining survey, sensor and other sources which has been widely used, notably in analysis of lifelong learning within the city of Glasgow. This included an analysis and visualisation of literacy inequalities and 'Lifewide Literacies' (e.g. health, environmental, financial and digital literacies) in Glasgow. This has led to invitations to present work to UNESCO-UIL on adult learning metrics and the production of briefing papers for UNESCO Learning Cities programme. Methodological developments One area of methodological innovation has been in relation to managing privacy risks with mobility data as these can be particularly disclosive. UBDC developed a method for processing geospatial data in ways which protect individual privacy while preserving valuable detail or information. These methods have had industrial impact through our collaboration under the Innovate UK-funded Catch! project. This led to our processing framework being used by an SME, TravelAi, as they rolled out their new journey tracking app. The app captures valuable data about travel demand in a local area through the provision of the journey planning service. While the initial business plan centred on selling services to planning authorities to better understand the impacts of planning decisions, the company also emphasises use of the app as part of household survey data collection. In 2020, we published details for a methodology to use open tools to measure pavement widths, informing local authority social distancing measures. We published the methodology along with the initial data product. The measures were used by at least one Scottish authority to plan the provision of greater space for pedestrians during the pandemic. Capacity building Our training and capacity-building programmes have been attended by academic researchers, industry analysts and a range of government agencies and public service providers. UBDC training courses have been attended by more than 500 people to date. UBDC has conducted training and conveyed the essentials as well as more advanced knowledge on statistical programming and data analytics, Geographic Information Systems and spatial analysis, visualisation, and more specialist topics such as Measuring Segregation and Scale in R, "Beyond Excel": PostgreSQL for Data Management, New Mobility Perspectives in the era of Wearable Sensors. In the context of training, key groups which have benefitted include small businesses and a wide range of public bodies from local, devolved and national government. Our Msc students have undertaken a range of group and individual projects in conjunction with non-academic partners. Influence on data policies and practices There have been many high-level statements of political support for better use of data in government and public policy making, not least in the National Data Strategy (2020) but the practice too often lags behind with opportunities to make valuable data accessible to government and to researchers missed. UBDC plays a strategic role here by articulating the case for greater data access, helping policy makers recognise the barriers or missed opportunities, and contributing directly to the 'digital commons' through open data, open tools and guidance. We have made inputs to many processes concerned with data availability, making the case not just for opening up data already held by public bodies but for government to be more aware of the opportunities to ensure that systems and processes run by or regulated by government capture data in ways which maximise its value for analysis, not just administration. We can point to a number of areas where our work is influencing practice in relation to specific datasets. A completed UBDC PhD (cofounded by Scottish Government) constructed a unique database of linked health and social care records for one million Scots over 65 (Henderson 2020). In addition to the substantive findings, we produced papers examining the quality and completeness of the data (Henderson et al 2018; Henderson et al 2019). The PhD and papers have been cited by the UK's Office for Statistics Regulation in its review of adult social care statistics for Scotland, and the student (now a postdoc) was invited to write a blog for them on the topic. In our work on the housing system, and on the PRS and short-term lets markets in particular, we have argued that there are several missed opportunities in the current system. Our review of the data needed to evaluate Scottish Government reforms for SPICe made several recommendations here, a number of which have found political support. We have shown that the data captured by the private landlord registration system in Scotland provides an excellent representation of the sector. We persuaded four local authorities to release extracts from the register and lobbied Scottish Government to make this data routinely available for the whole of Scotland. Outputs have been promised but not, as yet, delivered. We also made representations to the Scottish Government about opening up access to EPC data which have been successful. We presented the case for open housing transactions data to Registers of Scotland. RoS are now exploring the case in more detail, with UBDC advising. UBDC continues to influence the development of standards around data management and urban quality of life indicators. We actively participate in the Research Data Alliance Interest Group on Urban Quality of Life and in a national context we have established close working relationships with BSI, the UK Standards body. The impact of data standards in the future will be to underpin national and international efforts to share and use data with reduced barriers and costs to engagement. BSI are sponsoring a collaborative PhD to continue this work. UBDC has recently expanded the international impact of its activities by providing expertise on DF data integration platforms and methods for the Waterproofing Data project, after the PI transferred to the University of Glasgow in 2021. This included hosting the Waterproofing Data Dashboard web application, which provides policy and decision makers of cities in Brazil with a real-time visualisation interface to make sense of data generated by the citizen scientists of the project in combination with other sources of data (e.g., weather forecasts, official rainfall gauges). Working with project partners the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN), this enabled the team to develop an innovative approach, combining community-generated data and analytics, aimed at improving the resilience of communities vulnerable to floods. Reflecting on the significance of the project, the Director of CEMADEN wrote "Improved local-level data co-produced by citizens [] enables CEMADEN to improve the current understanding of the local impacts of flooding across the continental territory of Brazil". The Centre has engaged with a range of national and international statistics and data organisations including ONS, Geospatial Commission, Statistics Netherlands and EuroStat, establishing a profile within international efforts to develop trusted smart statistics. This has involved close participation with national bodies, involving data sharing, participation in data hackday activities, establishing staff fellowship opportunities and establishing a presence at key events. This ultimately led to an invitation from EuroStat to deliver a day of training on methods associated with the development of smart statistics and a lecture to key European senior policymakers. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Environment,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Retail,Transport |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | "Beyond Excel": PostgreSQL for Data Management |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The purpose of this half-day training course was to aid data analysts working with very large datasets that would be difficult to analyse using spreadsheet applications such as Excel. The course was delivered by UBDC's Scientific Officer Rod Walpole who demonstrated how to conduct basic database operations using PostgreSQL, an open-source system capable of handling 'Big' Data (datasets with hundreds of millions of rows and individual tables of multiple TB in size), and the common data types for working at that scale. The course was attended by information analysts and data researchers from academia as well as public and private sector organisations. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/beyond-exce... |
| Description | Accessing the UBDC's Data Service |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This was a training course that demonstrated how to use the Urban Big Data Centre's national data service for support on using urban data in research and accessing UDBC's open, licensed and controlled data. The course was attended by people from local authorities, charitable organisations, private businesses and university researchers and students. The impact was evidenced through increased numbers of applicants to UBDC's data service and the support and advice sought during the training session. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-services/ |
| Description | An Introduction to Python - Richard Skeggs, BLG DRC |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | An Introduction to Python provided an opportunity for hands-on experience with Python as a programming language and to learn how it can be effectively used for data processing including big data. Pre-requisite knowledge: This is an introductory level course aimed at anyone who has an interest in using Python. Some basic programming background (enough to understand logic of programming) would however be helpful but is not required. Please contact Keith Maynard for any clarification prior to booking. Course summary: Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming. Python has a design philosophy that emphasizes code readability, and a syntax that allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code, notably using significant whitespace. It provides constructs that enable clear programming on both small and large scales. This course will introduce you to Python. The course will cover the basic structure and overview of the programming language and the data types that you will be able to use within the language. Course Outcomes: In this one day course delegates will learn about programming possibilities using Python. Starting with a one hour seminar the day will continue with two hands-on exercise sessions enabling you to apply the tools and techniques. The day will end with a 15-30 minute brainstorming session and discussion to help you think about applying what you have learnt to your own work. |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2018/an-introduction-to-p... |
| Description | Big Data and Internet of Things - Association of Accounting Technicians |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | UBDC researcher Dr Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka was invited to deliver this workshop to the Association of Accounting Technicians in February 2017. About 25 people attended. |
| Description | Collecting and Storing Data from Internet-based Sources |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Consultation re: UKRI ESRC Proposal for New and Emerging Forms of Data Network (now Digital Footprints) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Contribution to guidance and interventions to support older people to sit less |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | In early 2016, Richard Shaw of the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit approached UBDC for help with a research project contrasting the relationships between sedentary behaviour measures on the one hand and neighbourhood measures on the other: The Seniors USP (Understanding Sedentary Patterns) project, funded by the UK Medical Research Council as part of the Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Initiative, and led by Prof Dawn Skelton of Glasgow Caledonian University. While they had a number of established datasets to call on, UBDC was able to supply useful green space data, from our SUDS urban indicators programme. This project has since made several significant contributions to the scientific literature, and guidance and intervention materials based on their findings, including the peer reviewed paper 'The Influence of Neighbourhoods and the Social Environment on Sedentary Behaviour in Older Adults in Three Prospective Cohorts' in IJERPH. The research team will, with the assistance of the Economic and Social Research Council in collaboration with Paths for All, translate the results from Seniors USP into new guidance and interventions to support older people to sit less, covering: - Developing sedentary behaviour information resources (e.g. a top tips cue card). - Developing and piloting training materials on reducing sedentary behaviour for integration into existing Paths for All walk-leader training courses. - Describing the key components and delivery mechanism of a future intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour in older adults. - There is a briefing sheet on Intervening on Sedentary Behaviour in Older Adults: From Results to Practice (PDF 4MB), from this Paths for All work. In addition to the published research paper described here, which had the support of UBDC, there are other contributions to the literature available (on BMJ Journals Volume 7, Issue 6 and BMJ Journals Volume 7, Issue 4) from Seniors USP. The team also held a webinar for researchers interested in their methods, called A Recipe for Success: Exploring the ingredients of successful data collection of objective sedentary behaviour in large scale cohort on 20th September 2017, from which a recording is available. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/impact/case-studies/older-people-and-sedentary-behaviour-what-s-the-connection-wit... |
| Description | DWP/ESRC consultation meeting on Work, Health and Disability Green Paper |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/work-health-and-disability-improving-lives |
| Description | Data Access Research Environment (DARE) Programme Engagement re: Trusted Research Environments |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://dareuk.org.uk/ |
| Description | Evaluation of Glasgows public cycle hire scheme |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | This report, 'Glasgow's public cycle hire scheme: analysis of usage between 2014 & 2016', was published in March 2017 has been read by Glasgow bike scheme managers and praised for its insight and they say it will help with future planning. The data prepared by UBDC for this evaluation has been made available as a separate slice in UBDC's Open Data Collection, to enable others to use it. This mutually beneficial collaboration is something the UBDC will repeat in future with the GCPH; one item in the pipeline is on the use of our urban indicators data to investigate children's access to greenspace in Glasgow. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/impact/case-studies/using-weather-data-to-understand-usage-of-glasgow-s-cycle-hire... |
| Description | GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods Training Workshop for Early Career Researchers: From Big Data To Better Policy - Phil Mason |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Geographically Weighted Regression - Workshop |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | UBDC researcher Dr Jing Yao delivered this workshop at Hohai University, China in June 2017. |
| Description | Getting Started with Data Management |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This course was designed to guide those with limited or no experience of using data-supported research methods through the fundamental processes from acquiring data through to best practices in data management. The need to up-skill in this area was identified by UBDC's data services team, who delivered the course, as it became clear that researchers from different disciplines needed guidance in the preparation and organisation of the data they were requesting to ensure accuracy and efficiency within the usage terms. The course explained the basic principles of data management and then introduced R as a recommended platform to perform basic data operations such as loading, merging and naming. This course equipped users of UBDC's data service as well as attendees from the Scottish Government, local councils and a private company with these necessary skills for handling their data. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/getting-sta... |
| Description | Hexograms: better maps of area based data - a tutorial |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This open web tutorial, by UBDC Co-Investogator Prof Rich Harris, is published on the RPubs website, part of the RStudio offering. Summary: This tutorial explores the use of hexograms to produce better maps of area based data and population distributions. Hexograms are a cross between hexagonal binning, tile maps and cartograms that aim to redress the problem of 'invisibility' prevalent in conventional maps and also the problem of distortion caused by cartograms. Examples of hexograms and the functions to produce them in R are presented. In principle those functions will work with other data (specifically, spatial polygons and spatial polygon data frames). However, it is a proof of concept not fully developed code and it's not at all optimised for speed. |
| URL | https://rpubs.com/profrichharris/hexograms |
| Description | Impact on council services |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | Nicole Paterson, Head of Environmental Assets at North Lanarkshire Council, provided the following quotation attesting to the impact of the research findings: "It has recently assisted in reporting to the Council's Audit & Scrutiny Panel the changing face of the service over time, work which given the changing nature of service delivery, Officers within the service often don't get the opportunity to step back from day to day tasks to do. It has highlighted to Members the service constraints and opportunities. "The early work has highlighted the substantial decrease in funding to the service over the last ten years and with the help of UBDC analysing trends and resultant differences in the service delivered to customers day to day. "Reflection on the historical analysis presented has enabled the service to more objectively consider the proper targeting of resources going forward, and integrate the learning into opportunities to roll out new technologies and practices within North Lanarkshire's communities. "We look forward to the further work in relation to street cleansing and deprivation, gaining an understanding of what that will mean to service delivery opportunities within North Lanarkshire, ensuring resources are targeted to make North Lanarkshire the place to live, learn, work, invest and visit." |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/february/using-council-data-to-understand-the-impact-of-auste... |
| Description | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee Urban Informatics and iMCD Training Webinar |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Webinar training delivered to Indian researchers via the IIT Roorkee Programme. As well as capacity building for Indian researchers, this event also strengthened international links and raised awareness of the UBDC service and iMCD programme. |
| Description | Introduction to ArcGIS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | IT Lab-based summer training course designed to familiarise participants with what a geographic information system is and the potential for it to be used for informed decision-making using the industry-standard ArcGIS software. The course was attended by people from local authorities, NHS, National Records of Scotland and university researchers and students from numerous disciplines. It can therefore be inferred that the upskilling of individuals in these influential roles to make more effective use of their data using ArcGIS software would give them a better understanding of the spatial dimension of their data and therefore the locations that their data apply to. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/introductio... |
| Description | Introduction to ArcGIS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | IT Lab-based training event open to people working in the public and private sectors as well as academics and private individuals. This event was attended by people from local authorities, a charitable organisation, the Scottish Government and university researchers and students. It can therefore be inferred that the upskilling of individuals in these influential roles to make more effective use of their data using ArcGIS software would give them a better understanding of the spatial dimension of their data and therefore the locations that their data.apply to. |
| Description | Introduction to Areal Data Modelling using R |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This short training course demonstrated advanced statistical measures in R to visualise spatial dependencies characterised by different areal units. The course was attended by land registry and local council data analysts and senior academic researchers who reported improvements in their ability to understand the statistical concepts and practical implementations, aided by the variety of examples brought about by the diversity in course participants. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/introductio... |
| Description | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - Using ArcGIS: SESSION 1 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This training had 20 participants from academia, business and local government. Topic: The importance of understanding the spatial dimension of data has long been understood, despite that fact that this dimension is often ignored. However, recent years have seen a massive expansion in the quantity of data available. At the same time, new methods and software have opened up new opportunities for analysing spatial data. In this short course, participants will be introduced to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a powerful tool for analysing spatial data. The purpose of this course is to familiarise participants with what a geographic information system is and the potential for it to be used for informed decision-making. |
| Description | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - Using ArcGIS: SESSION 2 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This training session included 20 participants from academia, business and local government. Topic: The importance of understanding the spatial dimension of data has long been understood, despite that fact that this dimension is often ignored. However, recent years have seen a massive expansion in the quantity of data available. At the same time, new methods and software have opened up new opportunities for analysing spatial data. In this short course, participants will be introduced to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a powerful tool for analysing spatial data. The purpose of this course is to familiarise participants with what a geographic information system is and the potential for it to be used for informed decision-making. |
| Description | Introduction to Network Analysis in ArcGIS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This training had 20 participants from academia, business and local government. Course topic: Network analysis is a particularly useful class of analysis, which can be performed with a Geographic Information System (GIS). Network analysis allows us to analyse problems which are connected to the transportation of goods or people across a network. Using these methods we can consider questions such as: What is the shortest route between two points? What is the service area for a facility? Where should bus stops be placed along a route in order to maximise ridership? The course covered how to get routing data, import it into ArcGIS and then perform analysis. This course builds on your existing GIS knowledge with a focus on network analysis for understanding spatial data and making informed, data-driven decisions that can be applied to urban planning and policymaking. |
| Description | Introduction to Network Analysis in ArcGIS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This half day training course was designed to build on existing GIS knowledge with a focus on network analysis for understanding transport network data and making informed, data-driven decisions that can be applied to urban planning and policymaking. The course was attended by Service Developers from Glasgow City Council, health researchers and PhD students from across the UK. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/introductio... |
| Description | Introduction to QGIS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This short course provided attendees with the foundations of geospatial data and GIS theory using the open source software QGIS. Delegates from the Scottish Government, the Land Registry and researchers in a variety of disciplines to visualize, manage and analyse geospatial data. Time was provided at the end of the session for the course attendees to practice using examples of their own spatial data with the software. Fran Hogg, a SASNet fellow at UBDC attended the course and was able to put her learning into immediate practice on her project analysing geospatial data for school cycle routes. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/introductio... |
| Description | Introduction to QGIS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | IT Lab-based training event open to people working in the public and private sectors as well as academics and private individuals. This event was attended by people from local authorities, NHS Scotland Health Information professionals and university researchers and students. This course shared similarities with UBDC's introductory ArcGIS course but used the free open source software QGIS which many participants found to be more easily obtainable. It can therefore be inferred that the upskilling of individuals in these influential roles to make more effective use of their data to give them a better understanding of the spatial dimension of their data and therefore the locations that their data.apply to. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2016/introductio... |
| Description | Introduction to R |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | IT Lab-based training event open to people working in the public and private sectors as well as academics and private individuals. This event was attended by people from the Scottish Government, NHS Scotland Health Information professionals and university researchers and students. This course taught the skills required to perform basic analysis of a variety of data types using the free open source software R. It can therefore be inferred that the upskilling of individuals in these influential roles to make more effective use of their data by using R's powerful analytical and visualisation functions. |
| Description | Introduction to R |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | IT Lab-based training event open to people working in the public and private sectors as well as academics and private individuals. This event was attended by statisticians from the Scottish Government, as well as people from Glasgow City Council. Policy Scotland and university researchers and students. This course taught the skills required to perform basic analysis of a variety of data types using the free open source software R. It can therefore be inferred that the upskilling of individuals in these influential roles to make more effective use of their data by using R's powerful analytical and visualisation functions. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/introductio... |
| Description | Introduction to R for NHS Services Scotland |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | IT Lab-based data skills training. This course was booked out by a cohort of statisticians and healthcare analysts from NHS Services Scotland who were taught the skills required to perform basic analysis of a variety of data types using the free open source software R. It can therefore be inferred that the upskilling of individuals in these public healthcare roles will enable more effective use of their data by using R's powerful analytical and visualisation functions. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/ubdc-traini... |
| Description | Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This training was attended by 27 participants from academia, business and local government. Topic: As a powerful open-source tool for statistical analysis, R has been increasingly utilised in higher education, scientific research and practice. The purpose of this course is to introduce basic knowledge of R, such as how to load data into R and how to visualise data using different visualisation methods. By the end of the course, you will be able to load data into R, calculate descriptive statistics, implement hypothesis testing and carry out generalised linear regression analysis. Through this introductory course, we aim to provide analysts with the foundational skills needed to use R for statistical analysis, which can be applied to research as well as practical planning situations. |
| Description | Introduction to R: SESSION 1 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This training had 20 participants from academia, business and local government. Topic: As a powerful open-source tool for statistical analysis, R has been increasingly utilised in higher education, scientific research and practice. The purpose of this course is to introduce basic knowledge of R, such as how to load data into R and how to visualise data using different visualisation methods. By the end of the course, you will be able to load data into R, calculate descriptive statistics, implement hypothesis testing and carry out generalised linear regression analysis. Through this introductory course, we aim to provide analysts with the foundational skills needed to use R for statistical analysis, which can be applied to research as well as practical planning situations. |
| Description | Introduction to R: SESSION 2 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This training had 20 participants from academia, business and local government. Topic: As a powerful open-source tool for statistical analysis, R has been increasingly utilised in higher education, scientific research and practice. The purpose of this course is to introduce basic knowledge of R, such as how to load data into R and how to visualise data using different visualisation methods. By the end of the course, you will be able to load data into R, calculate descriptive statistics, implement hypothesis testing and carry out generalised linear regression analysis. Through this introductory course, we aim to provide analysts with the foundational skills needed to use R for statistical analysis, which can be applied to research as well as practical planning situations. |
| Description | Introduction to Scientific Computing with Python |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The course aimed to equip data scientists from academia, local councils and statistical departments within the Scottish Government with data analysis skills in Python using high-level libraries such as managing data using NumPy, performing mathematical SciPy algorithms, managing numerical tables in Pandas and plotting figures in Matplotlib. The course was designed to develop knowledge and experiences of scripting in Python according to the attendees' specific data analysis requirements and prepare them for future learning around the wider ranges of Python libraries. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/introductio... |
| Description | Introduction to data wrangling and visualisation in R |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | UBDC University of Sheffield researcher Dan Olner delivered a one day interactive workshop teaching programming in R, using English house price data to learn about data shaping and visualisation. |
| URL | http://danolner.github.io/2016/12/Introduction_to_data_wrangling_n_viz_in_R |
| Description | Journal article quoted in Lords debate on Welfare Reform and Work Bill |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Results described in paper from PSE-UK survey (Bailey 2016, Critical Social Policy) were cited by Baroness Lister of Burtersett in her speech during the Lords debate on the Welfare Reform and Work Bill (25 Jan 2016, House of Lords Hansard, col 1079). |
| Description | Measuring Segregation and Scale in R |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This hands-on half-day course delivered by guest presenter Professor Richard Harris, University of Bristol, demonstrated the MLID package in R, which offers tools and functions for studying ethnic and social segregation with a multilevel index of dissimilarity. The course was attended by a largely academic audience with analysts from The Registers of Scotland, interested in hazard/risk mapping also in attendance. They reported very positive learning outcomes and an undaunting use of the R environment to work through the practical exercises. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/measuring-s... |
| Description | Membership of BSI Committee MBD/1: Big data - MBD/001/0-/03 Project Communications |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | UBDC Senior IT & Data Services Manager, Dr Andrew McHugh, is a members of this committee, which makes a contribution to development of standards and exploring resolution of issues associated with widespread adoption of big data. |
| Description | Membership of BSI Committee SDS/2: Smart and sustainable cities and communities |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | UBDC Senior IT & Data Services Manager, Dr Andrew McHugh, is a member of this BSI committee, whose work makes a contribution to development of standards informing city development including quality of life indicators for cities and exploring resolution of issues associated with widespread adoption of big data. |
| URL | https://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/committees/50267187 |
| Description | Optimisation Problems in Geographically Weighted Regression - Workshop |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Delivered as workshop by UBDC researcher Dr Jing Yao to School of Government, Peking University, China. |
| Description | Participation in Department for Transport / FutureGov Consultation on National Access Point (UK National Transport Data Catalogue) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | This is primarily manifested in improvements in the provision of data cataloguing and access services around transport data. |
| URL | https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/digital-outcomes-and-specialists/opportunities/12774 |
| Description | Participation in consultation on ESRC Data Infrastructure Strategy |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://esrc.ukri.org/news-events-and-publications/publications/corporate-publications/data-infrastr... |
| Description | Principles of Visualising Data in R - Dan Olner, Sheffield University |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Dan Olner, UBDC Research Associate, University of Sheffield, ran a workshop on the 22.02.19 to UoS social science PhDs, "Principles of visualising data in R." |
| Description | Principles of Visualising Data with R and ggplot |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This short course built on the basics of R to explore its powerful and versatile open-source visualisation packages. The primary purpose of the course was to make the underlying principles of tidy data and ggplot as clear as possible to allow the course attendees to make more informed decisions on how to visualise their data. The varied group of attendees ranging from university to researchers to public health analysts and economists reported very satisfactory outcomes and returned for further related courses in the programme. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/principles-... |
| Description | Principles of Visualising Data with R and ggplot |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | UBDC University of Sheffield researcher Dan Olner delivered this one day workshop teaching programming in R, using English house price data to teach underlying principles of data manipulation and visualisation. |
| URL | http://danolner.github.io/2017/09/Learn_ggplot_and_R_using_English_house_price_and_wage_data |
| Description | Prof Gwilym Pryce gave evidence to Housing White Paper consultation document on affordability in local housing plans |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government response published in 2018. |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/685297/Government_response... |
| Description | Prof Gwilym Pryce gave oral evidence to the House of Commons CLG Committee on Housing for Older Persons (January 2018) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Report published 2018. |
| URL | http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/communities-and-local-gov... |
| Description | Prof. P Thakuriah contributed to: U.K. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. Big and Open Data in Transport. Houses of Parliament POSTNOTE Number 472 July 2014. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/POST-PN-472 |
| Description | Prof. P Thakuriah participated in US policy forum: U.S. Government Accountability Office. Data and Analytics Innovation: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-659SP |
| Description | Project advisory group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | RSS Conference 2017 Professional Development Session: Getting your research published and maximising its impact |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This session at the Royal Statistical Society Conference 2017 was for early career / young researchers and/or those who wish to publish their work in academic journals and magazines and raise the visibility of their research.It provided advice for writing journal articles, give an overview of the journal review processes, and explore available self-promotional tools. UBDC Mathematics and Statistics Co-Investigator, Prof Adrian Bowman, was one of the speakers, covering key elements of writing a research article, explore what makes a "good" article, and mention some common mistakes to avoid.. |
| URL | https://events.rss.org.uk/rss/frontend/reg/titem.csp?pageID=39088&eventID=93 |
| Description | Report to Glasgow City Council on SUPPORTING INDEPENDENT LIVING THROUGH THE PREDICTION AND PREVENTION OF FALLS |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | UBDC collaborated with Glasgow City Council on sourcing and acquiring various data to assist with prevention of falls among the elderly in Glasgow. UBDC then offered research support in the production of the above-named report. We are awaiting further news on the report's impact on planning. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/media/1632/supporting-independent-living-report-etaine-lamy-231017.pdf |
| Description | Research with administrative data: opportunities and legal framework |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) in collaboration with the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Office (DPFOI) at the University of Glasgow, delivered this seminar on research with administrative data about individuals. This was an introductory seminar for researchers who are thinking of using administrative data in the future. The seminar covered: - the purpose of research services, such as the UBDC, which aim to support researcher access to administrative data; - the legal framework that regulates research with personal data, particularly the Data Protection Act of 1998; and - the research process, from constructing a proposal through applying for data to conducting analyses. |
| URL | http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/events/headline_457900_en.html |
| Description | Sabine Timpf Masterclass: Agent-based modelling of pedestrian behaviour |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | 22 researchers attended this Masterclass, hosted at UBDC's Glasgow premises. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2016/sabine-timp... |
| Description | Scottish Parliament Information Centre Academic Fellowship |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://digitalpublications.parliament.scot/ResearchBriefings/Report/2018/11/14/Private-renting-refo... |
| Description | UK Govt BIS Consultation on Proposals for Long-Term Capital Investment in Science and Research - Prof Thakuriah |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/332767/bis-14-750-science-... |
| Description | Urban Big Data for Trusted Smart Statistics - Eurostat Training |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | UBDC provided training to introduce Eurostat staff (primarily statisticians and managers: 28 registered participants from various countries) to the developments currently happening in the smart systems and smart cities world, with a focus on smart transportation systems and mobility. It covered an overview of the main sources of urban big data, including sensors and the Internet of Things, crowd-sourced mobility data, data aggregated from websites and other Internet sources, wearable technologies. It continued to describe how these data sources can be integrated, from the technical infrastructure to methodologies for producing statistical information, as well as other topics of relevance in the domain of urban big data. Learning outcomes included establishing an understanding of urban, smart cities and transport sectors; identification of data, methods and tools; comprehension of opportunities, risks and strategies with the acquisition and sustainability of data; and understanding of innovate business cases in smart statistics in the sector. |
| Description | Use of data-generating wearables in academic research |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | One of the most interesting areas of research at UBDC - particularly within our iMCD programme and subsequent leading-edge research based on iMCD data - is the use of wearable devices by research participants to gather detailed data. A small subset of folk who had taken part in the Household Survey element of the iMCD project also spent a week wearing GPS tracking devices and lifelogging cameras everywhere they went. We soon found that others working on a variety of research topics wanted to not only use the knowledge we had gained from doing this but also to borrow our wearable devices to collect data. We not only lend out the devices where asked, but have developed an advice sheet and work with them on developing the use of these devices in their research. Two external researchers have now given us blog posts evidencing the usefulness of this work, with one published and one on its way. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news/2017/october/students-digital-practices-in-post-digital-environments/ |
| Description | Using ArcGIS: Network Analysis |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | IT Lab-based training event open to people working in the public and private sectors as well as academics and private individuals. This event was a follow-up to the introductory ArcGIS course with focus on applying the skills to analysing networks e.g. transportation networks. It was attended by people from the Scottish Government, an environmental organisation and university researchers and students. It can therefore be inferred that the upskilling of individuals in these influential roles to make more effective use of their data using ArcGIS software would give them a better understanding of the spatial dimension of their data and therefore the locations that their data.apply to. |
| Description | Using PySAL for Spatial Analysis - Workshop |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | UBDC researcher Dr Jing Yao delivered this workshop at Hohai University, China in June 2017. |
| Description | Using R: Mapping Spatial Data |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The purpose of this course was to introduce some common functions in R in relation to spatial data visualisation and mapping, ranging from basic data manipulation to choropleth mapping. By the end of the course, the large, mixed group of attendees (Developers and GIS analysts from Scottish Government, a cycling data charity and the land registry) were able to load geographic data into R and manipulate those data to generate a variety of maps and visualisations. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/using-r-map... |
| Description | Using R: statistical analysis |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | IT Lab-based training event open to people working in the public and private sectors as well as academics and private individuals. This event was attended by people from the Scottish Government's statistical and accountancy departments, NHS Scotland Health Information professionals and university researchers and students. This course followed on from the introductory R course with detailed focus on applying more advanced statistical techniques in data analysis using this open source software. It can therefore be inferred that the upskilling of individuals in these influential roles to better analyse their data using this free statistical software package. |
| Description | Using iMCD Household Survey for MSc classes |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | UBDC researcher Dr Jinhyun Hong used two of his papers (one published and the other one under review) that utilised the iMCD survey for class materials at the University of Glasgow (Msc in Urban Transport, MSc in City Planning and Transport). |
| Description | Working with Administrative Data: From Ideas to Research (Manchester) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | UBDC / SASNet event - UBDC Data Scientist Dr Mirjam Allik led this training session for 20 researchers in Manchester. Topic: Leading urban and social science increasingly use individual level data collected by public bodies, companies or other organisations for research purposes. This is a seminar on accessing these types of administrative data for research. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/working-wit... |
| Description | 3D City Modeling |
| Amount | £34,122 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2022 |
| End | 01/2023 |
| Description | Approaching the Cliff Edge? The Intentions of Private Rented Sector Landlords on Cessation of the Eviction Ban in Scotland |
| Amount | £35,317 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2021 |
| End | 07/2022 |
| Description | CATCH! Citizens at the City's Heart |
| Amount | £1,570,791 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 102426 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 03/2018 |
| Description | CDT in Data Analytics and Society (1) |
| Amount | £6,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | CDT in Data Analytics and Society (2) |
| Amount | £6,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | Children's Health in Care in Scotland: effects of maternal health, health behaviours and early childhood health on entering care. |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2023 |
| Description | Climate-KIC Pathfinder Programme |
| Amount | £48,927 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Climate-KIC |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2017 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | Closed-Loop Data Science for Complex, Computationally- and Data-Intensive Analytics |
| Amount | £3,055,465 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R018634/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2018 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | College of Social Science PhD Scholorship |
| Amount | £61,327 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Department | College of Social Sciences |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| Description | College of Social Science PhD Scholorship |
| Amount | £82,465 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Department | College of Social Sciences |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| Description | Data Lab - MSc student scholarship: This is an existing course which has received TDL funding in the past. 2022-2024 |
| Amount | £18,090 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | Developing and Exploring Methods to Understand Human-Nature Interactions in Urban Areas Using New Forms of Big Data' |
| Amount | £296,900 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/W012979/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | Development of spopt location modelling package to include the capacitated p-median problem |
| Amount | € 4,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Start | 12/2022 |
| End | 07/2023 |
| Description | EPSRC Computer Science Intern for UBDC Data |
| Amount | £2,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2016 |
| End | 08/2016 |
| Description | EPSRC Institutional Sponsorship Fund (University of Glasgow) |
| Amount | £13,422 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N508792/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2015 |
| End | 03/2016 |
| Description | EPSRC New Approaches to Data Science Call |
| Amount | £3,055,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R018634/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2018 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (University of Glasgow) |
| Amount | £9,928 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2017 |
| End | 11/2017 |
| Description | ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (University of Glasgow) Strava Privacy Study |
| Amount | £11,160 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2019 |
| End | 07/2020 |
| Description | ESRC Supplementary Award (UBDC Data Service) |
| Amount | £838,853 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/L011921/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | European Commission FP7 Marie Curie Career Integration Grants |
| Amount | € 76,538 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | Project Number 632075, Call identifier FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 05/2014 |
| End | 04/2018 |
| Description | European Commission funding |
| Amount | € 3,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | Eurostat |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 02/2018 |
| End | 02/2018 |
| Description | Exploiting Closed-Loop Aspects in Computationally and Data Intensive Analytics |
| Amount | £3,055,465 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R018634/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2018 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | Exploring the Effects of Location and Environment on Human Mobility Flows with Big Data Analytics |
| Amount | £73,681 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Gendered Journeys: the trajectories of STEM students and graduates through higher education and into employment, in multiple global south contexts |
| Amount | £998,184 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/T005068/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 01/2023 |
| Description | Glasgow City Council Mobile Data (Phase 1) |
| Amount | £40,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 314369 |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Glasgow City Council Mobile Data (Phase 2) |
| Amount | £48,750 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation |
| Amount | £800,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 01/2027 |
| Description | Glasgow-Nankai Research Exchange Grant |
| Amount | £1,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 12/2017 |
| Description | Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Research Councils UK Collective Fund |
| Amount | £7,105,262 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/P011020/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme |
| Amount | £2,508 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | IDEAMAPS Ecosystem: Co-creating an inclusive urban data ecosystem for equitable digital exchanges towards neighbourhood regeneration |
| Amount | $1,660,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 12/2022 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | IDEAMAPS: A participatory data-modeling ecosystem for deprived area map production in LMIC cities |
| Amount | $1,690,337 (USD) |
| Funding ID | INV-045252 |
| Organisation | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 10/2022 |
| End | 09/2025 |
| Description | ISPRS Foundation and Congress Travel Grant |
| Amount | £700 (GBP) |
| Organisation | International Society of Photogrammmetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| Country | Global |
| Start | 07/2016 |
| End | 07/2016 |
| Description | Impact Study, British Council School Programmes in Scotland |
| Amount | £66,807 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2018 |
| End | 09/2018 |
| Description | Innovate UK Small Business Research Initiative |
| Amount | £199,900 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 12/2017 |
| Description | NPIF Innovation Fellowship Scheme |
| Amount | £302,344 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/S002875/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | OS National Enhanced Residential Property Data, Data Linkage Runway Project |
| Amount | £34,308 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Ordanance Survey |
| Amount | £32,171 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | PRISTINE: Privacy-preserving and Secure Data Sharing and Trading Ecosystem for Distributed Wireless IoT Networks |
| Amount | £179,408 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 313372 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 02/2023 |
| Description | Postdoctoral and Early Career Researcher Exchanges Funds |
| Amount | £2,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2016 |
| End | 07/2017 |
| Description | RSE-NSFC joint project |
| Amount | £9,800 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2021 |
| End | 05/2023 |
| Description | SGSSS-DTP Pathway: Human Geography, Environment and Urban Planning |
| Amount | £73,681 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Scottish Parliament Information Centre Academic Fellowship Scheme |
| Amount | £1,617 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Scottish Parliament |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2018 |
| End | 06/2018 |
| Description | Social and Economic Implications of Transport Sharing and Automation |
| Amount | £302,344 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/S001875/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 01/2021 |
| Description | Teaching for Digital Citizenship: Digital ethics in the classroom and beyond it |
| Amount | £742,252 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | The Data Lab - MSc student scholarship: This is an existing course which has received TDL funding in the past. |
| Amount | £18,090 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | The Data Lab - MSc student scholarship: This is an existing course which has received TDL funding in the past." |
| Amount | £36,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | The Lab Data - MSc Student Scholarship |
| Amount | £12,060 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | UBDC Data Service Extension |
| Amount | £1,111,150 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/L011921/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | UK-China Research and Innovation Partnership Fund (Newton Fund) |
| Amount | £606,945 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | UKRI ESRC Centres Transition Funding |
| Amount | £4,500,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/S007105/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 01/2024 |
| Description | UKRI ESRC Digital Footprint Data Service |
| Amount | £2,691,675 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/L011921/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | UKRI ESRC World Class Labs (WCL) Underspend |
| Amount | £729,084 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/L011921/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | University of Glasgow Research Exchange Grant |
| Amount | £1,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2015 |
| End | 08/2015 |
| Description | Urban Transformations |
| Amount | £781,247 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | VisNET: Virtual in situ networking to reinvent the rules of international collaborations and reduce gender differences in academic careers |
| Amount | £395,302 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S012079/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2018 |
| End | 05/2021 |
| Title | Automated API/Scraping based approach to AirBnB Data Collection |
| Description | This is bespoke infrastructure that utilises publicly accessible APIs and, based on the Text and Data Mining Exception from UK and EU copyright law, collects online AirBnB listings data for the purposes of academic research. The platform itself (still in development) provides the means to specify a location of interest, managing call and traffic constraints associated with AirBnB's platform and providing a persistent datastore that can then be the basis for bespoke extracts and specific research enquiries. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The platform remains in development but already is providing a basis for data collection that will inform research into housing, neighbourhoods and the impact of the new sharing economy. Ultimately, although copyright law does not appear to permit us to share the collected data, we will release the code to facilitate others' data collection efforts in due course. |
| Title | Enhanced social media geolocalisation |
| Description | Researchers in multiple disciplines have used social media to study various patterns and "live" aspects of cities. However, the number of tweets that are explicitly geo-tagged by users tend to be sparse (just 1 to 2% of the entire Twitter firehose) so that locations of critical events tweeted may be missed when considering geo-tagged tweets only. specific approach to enhancing the geographic details of non-geotagged tweets. This method deals with estimating the location where a tweet originated using multiple approaches. The process of estimating the locations of posts that are not associated with explicit coordinates is called "geolocalization". The method has the potential to substantially increase the sample size of tweets available for real-time traffic operations assessment, event detection, public mood change detection and geo-localised community detection. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The method has the potential to substantially increase the sample size of tweets available for real-time traffic operations assessment, event detection, public mood change detection and geo-localised community detection. Specific applications include real-time road and transport incident detection as well as political and social event detection. |
| Title | GPS Linked Data Anonymisation |
| Description | The method safeguards against re-identification of persons from Global Positioning System (GPS) data on significant locations and Points of Interest visited by persons carrying or using GPS devices. Trajectory datasets are being generated in great volumes due to high levels of GPS and Location-Based Services (LBS) use. Such data are increasingly being collected for a variety of academic, industrial and recreational reasons, sometimes together with other strands of personal data such as socio-demographic, social survey and other sensor data carried/worn by the person (for example, fitness trackers, portable cameras etc). In such cases, not only are movement data of a person available but also data on potentially a wide variety of other personal and household attributes. Making such person-level data available for analytics opens up the possibility of new directions in analysing, studying and understanding human behaviour, which is typically not possible with GPS trajectory datasets alone. At the same time, the GPS data should be released in a privacy-preserving way that takes into account the possibility of re-identification of individuals from quasi-identifiers available from other data strands. De-identification in these strands may be risked due to uniquely identifiable information on significant locations and other spatial behaviours and choices detected from GPS trajectories. This is a privacy-enhancing approach, when personally-identifiable data are available from multiple data strands, for the specific purpose of data to be released for transport research. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The approach was tested and ulitised to anonymise GPS data collected as a part of UBDC's Integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) project. This data will be made available as a part of our data service to users who undergo our research approvals process. The social survey part of the project has already been requested and are currently being used by over 70 users as per our last Calls for Expressions of Interest (dated September 26, 2016). We expect this number to become even higher with our new call, which is due to be complete by the end of Marchj 2017. A paper on the topic was published in the proceedins of an international conference. The reference is: Sila-Nowicka, K., and Thakuriah, P. (2016) The trade-off between privacy and geographic data resolution. a case of GPS trajectories combined with the social survey results. In: XXIII ISPRS Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 12-19 Jul 2016, pp. 535-542. (doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B2-535-2016) |
| Title | IT platform additions to facilitate machine learning (including computer vision) and data management redundancy |
| Description | UBDC has added remotely accessible high power compute / GPU capacity, available to all data scientists and researchers within UBDC and potentially accessible to data service users. These services are increasingly important within UBDC as the Centre's focus intensifies on data services built on technologies such as computer vision, text and data mining, spatial interpolation and pattern detection and other novel information extraction methods. A remotely accessible service optimises our investment, offering resources to the Centre's data science and researcher communities where additional compute power is required, complementing lower spec hardware accessible on each staff member's desktop. Furthermore, additional fast storage to support additional data creation requirements. The current iteration of our data service delivery model relies on de-normalised and frequently redundant datasets in order to offer data retrieval, extraction and delivery services at scale in an efficient manner. The addition of these resources will facilitate this approach. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | Web Scraping Tool |
| Description | This tool was developed with the aim to retrieve online data from the Scottish Assessors Association (https://www.saa.gov.uk) website. Python language was used for the implementation; the tool can be run from the command line by providing some arguments. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This assistive tool facilitated the collection of the SAA data which then was used for research purposes. |
| Title | Zoopla Analysis for Adverts Mentioning People Receiving Housing Benefits |
| Description | In the context of the research regarding housing, a need has arisen to investigate the case of online property rental adverts hesitating or refusing to let their properties to people who are receiving housing benefits. The analysis used Zoopla online rental adverts from the whole UK from 2013 to 2016. First, using appropriate keywords, we gathered a set of adverts, creating two subsets, the ones that welcome people with benefits and the ones that don't. Then, we looked into the different aspects of the properties of those subsets, e.g location, number of bedrooms, price trying to see the correlation between them and whether the adverts lean positively or negatively towards the two different groups. We also investigated the language being used to describe this behaviour and whether this has changed over the years. The analysis provides visualisation charts and plots that prove the findings and discusses the reasons we chose to look into different factors. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This has equipped UBDC housing researchers to identify the extent of discrimination against benefits claimants within online job advertisements |
| Title | iMCD Lifelogging Face and Person Detection Tools/Methods |
| Description | In order to apply face and person detection, we set up an Object Detection framework. Object Detection algorithms typically use extracted features and learning algorithms to recognise instances of an object category, which in this case is either a face or a person. For detecting faces in the images, we used the Dlib library, a C++ toolkit containing machine learning algorithms and tools. In detail, we used a CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) - based face detector with a pre-trained model that is used to find faces in an image. The model was trained with various publicly available image datasets with faces, after being manually annotated. We tested the model across a test set of 1200 images and we manually went through the images to assess the detection accuracy. We acquired a precision of 0.996 and a recall of 0.869, very high scores given the nature of the dataset. For detecting persons in the images, we used the Tensorflow Object Detection API, an open source framework built on top of TensorFlow that makes it easy to construct, train and deploy object detection models. Specifically, we used a pre-trained model that was trained with the Common Objects in Context (COCO) dataset. Tensorflow used COCO to train several different neural networks and made them publicly available by reporting their speed and performance. We used a Faster R-CNN (specifically the faster_rcnn_inception_resnet_v2_atrous_coco - see http://download.tensorflow.org/models/object_detection/faster_rcnn_inception_resnet_v2_atrous_coco_2018_01_28.tar.gz) as it has high performance and quite good speed for our purposes. Similar to the face detection case, we also tested this model on our test set, acquiring precision of 0.944 and recall of 0.851. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Within the context of iMCD research these methods and tools provided a novel approach to analyse extent of social isolation in everyday life. |
| Title | Aberdeen Landlord Registration Data |
| Description | Landlord registration data for Aberdeen provided at 15th August 2017. The data was provided at postcode for each of the properties and then aggregated to the Datazone level. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Published as open data following successful Freedom of Information Request to Aberdeen City Council - it is hoped that this will be the start of a co-ordinated approach to make this data increasingly available across many more local authorities |
| URL | http://ubdc.gla.ac.uk/dataset/aberdeen-landlord-datazone-registration |
| Title | Adzuna Online Jobs Listings Data |
| Description | Adzuna is a search engine for job advertisements and provides data about the job market. Adzuna searches thousands of websites and brings together millions of advertisements on their website. The dataset consists of full point-in-time snapshots with details of all advertisements which were on adzuna.co.uk. Access to historical data from Spring 2017 is provided in addition to ongoing data to Spring 2022. Non-commercial academic use, up to a total of twelve projects, can be supported by the dataset. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | AirBnB Online Scraped Data Collection |
| Description | This dataset comprises scraped data from the AirBnB online short-term letting service. It includes details of calendar status captured daily with coverage including most of Scotland and several locations in England as well as property characteristics and user feedback (review) information. The dataset is not available to a wider audience at this time. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | An Agent Based Model of Social Exclusion |
| Description | Developed by UBDC's University of Illinois at Chicago's research team, this agent based model (ABM) simulates household, neighbourhood and labour market interactions. It aims to recreate the processes that lead to social exclusion, incorporating decisions on education, family formation, interactions with neighbourhood and other factors, and the labour market. Once the model is calibrated to a given area, it can then be used as a testing environment for different policies or changes in the urban environment. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | One finding from the empirical work is the strong association between childhood experiences of poverty and what happens in adulthood. This work suggests that intervention to reduce childhood poverty experiences not only address the immediate needs of children but can also have positive consequences in adulthood. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news/2017/october/economic-outcomes-of-long-term-childhood-poverty/ |
| Title | BSAS+Nhd Chars |
| Description | BSAS 2004 and 2009 data with detailed set of neighbourhood contextual variables attached. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Provided to PhD student at LSE working on political attitudes and neighbourhood context. No results published yet. |
| Title | CCTV Automated Object Detection Data Output |
| Description | An output of the ongoing collaboration with Glasgow City Council to utilise Glasgow's existing CCTV system as a ready made sensor network, this dataset comprises counts over time of particular object types (car, person, bicycle, motorcycle, bus and truck) at each of the pilot sites within the CCTV study. As of 2021 there are in the region of 50 cameras providing imagery for processing / counting at generally 30 minute intervals. The dataset is now available from a dedicated online API (see Software & Technical Products) as of 2020. A further dataset records the outcomes of manual counts produced to provide ground truth data, used as the basis for evaluating the effectiveness of the automated counts. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The database already informs and will continue to inform the development of new work evaluating the impact of major capital investment currently ongoing within the City of Glasgow. The project is particularly in response to sparse pedestrian count data which is available for cities such as Glasgow. Those datasets that are available tend to be confined to specific locations (see Springboard data also acquired by UBDC) or prohibitively expensive (e.g. mobile phone / telcom data). This dataset, and underlying approach are intended to reveal insights across the whole city and not require investment in procuring, deploying and maintaining costly new sensor technologies. The dataset has seen several applications during Covid19 and has been expanded to include additional camera locations throughout Glasgow to reflect specific policy and operational needs. The dataset has been used as part of a UK wide effort to collate similar data undertaken by ONS. Discussions with Glasgow City Council are ongoing to enable the release of the dataset as open data. These are mature and there is considerable optimism that this will be achieved in the near future. |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/transport-and-mobility-data/glasgow-cctv-data/ |
| Title | CGSTL Night Light Data (Glasgow and Edinburgh) |
| Description | High resolution night light remotely sensed imagery (JL1-3) from CGSTL in Glasgow and Edinburgh areas. This data is pixel based remotely sensed imagery. The spatial resolution is around 0.7m/pixel. High-resolution night light images provide an alternative way to measure urban infrastructure and human activities from the space. We anticipate supporting research that uses the high-resolution night light images to understand, among other things, transport behaviours, crime patterns, and housing development. It has the potential to support high quality research with scientific and public benefit impact. The data is from commercial company, and is not held in any of the existing UK data collections/archives. The company providing the data are content to permit us to share night light imagery to non-commercial academic users under end-user license agreements with the appropriate attribution given. This is a critical priority for data service investments to ensure widespread value can be achieved. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | Edinburgh Landlord Registration Data - Mark Livingston |
| Description | Edinburgh Landlord Registration data is landlord registration data for Edinburgh created at 10th November 2017 and shared the file on the 13th November 2017. The data was provided under Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 for each of the property at postcode level. Number of properties is also recorded at each postcode. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Published as open data following successful Freedom of Information Request to Edinburgh City Council - it is hoped that this will be the start of a co-ordinated approach to make this data increasingly available across many more local authorities. |
| URL | http://ubdc.gla.ac.uk/dataset/edinburgh-landlord-registration-data |
| Title | Experian Goad Plan Retail Address Data |
| Description | Experian's GOAD RETAIL ADDRESS DATABASE, comprising postal address, trading and holding company details if known, use class, and category for all retail and commercial outlets included in UK Goad plans for 2019. This complements and extends access to data previously purchased covering selected years during the period 1998 to 2017. The agreement permits UBDC / University of Glasgow to make these data available to users of UBDC's national data service for the purpose of bona-fide academic research. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To follow |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/commercial-and-retail-data/goad-plan-experian-da... |
| Title | Graphics for uncertainty |
| Description | Data and code underpinning the associated paper. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Housing tenure and poverty database |
| Description | Derived by aggregating data from Family Resources Survey 1994-2016, dataset shows proportions of people living in each housing tenure by poverty status, for single year of age and single year of time. UK and regional breakdowns. Data are smoothed to ensure privacy preserved. Data are used to construct Lexis surfaces to visualise the changes in housing tenure over time, and the shifts in housing tenure for those poor/not poor using different poverty metrics. Data made available on line through interactive housing tenure-poverty visualiser tool. Aggregated data freely available to download from that site (hosted by UBDC) and from github repository. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Significant public and policy maker interest in the |
| URL | https://github.com/nick-bailey/Poverty-and-private-renting |
| Title | Huq.io Mobility Dataset |
| Description | Huq's event-level geo-data offers a rich and descriptive record of how consumers move and interact with the places around them. Huq's footfall data can be combined with other data sources to build predictions relating to how public entities are likely to report, specifically, where it concerns footfall correlated with revenue. The data can be used to observe how consumers interact with traded or private physical assets in order to observe changes in consumer trends and consider how those may affect their investment positions. UBDC has licensed data covering (spatially) Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire and (temporally) the 3 year period from 2019 to 2021. Academic researchers or postgraduate students based in UK higher education institutions and employees of public sector/government organisations may access and use the data for purposes of non-commercial research including academic research and to support policy and operational work EDIT - in 2021 UBDC reached agreement with Huq Industries to licence a further year of data to end of 2022, and in addition to broaden its collection of data (historical and ongoing) to include full UK coverage. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | Intersections Geography for Five UK Censuses |
| Description | Intersections data to provide a means to link census data over multiple collection years. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Tool to facilitate census research, specifically the harmonised country of birth data. Created by Dan Olner, UBDC Sheffield University Researcher. |
| URL | http://ubdc.gla.ac.uk/dataset/great-britain-5-census-intersects |
| Title | Lead prevalence by postcode sectors (Glasgow, 1993-94) |
| Description | This data is presented in spreadsheet form, and lists the 1991 Glasgow postcode sectors together with the relative prevalence of raised tap water lead and neighbourhood types depicted in the map of the Glasgow 93 lead study final report. The original map (black and white) was divided here into six parts which cover different areas of the city (Central, N, NW, NE, SW, SE). Another map (purple) which shows accurate boundaries of the 1991 postcode sectors has been superimposed over them. Seven postcode sectors cover two areas and are coded differently in Prevalence/Neighbourhood type 1 and 2. Most postcode sectors have the same coding for Prevalence/Neighbourhood 1 and 2. Due to the method used to compile the dataset and the historic nature of the original report and map, the researchers should be critical of the accuracy of the data. The Glasgow 93 lead study final report and the six maps used to create the dataset are also available upon request. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The data is available on an open access basis but we will continue to monitor its usage to identify scientific and public benefit impacts. It is being used in association with NHS health and NRS birth and death registration data by one of UBDC's Controlled Data Service Projects, which is exploring links between child mortality and lead content in water supplies. |
| URL | http://ubdc.gla.ac.uk/dataset/lead-prevalence-by-postcode-sectors-glasgow-93-94 |
| Title | Machine learning approach to automatically identify and count objects from CCTV image data |
| Description | This approach uses CNN techniques, building on the open COCO Tensor Flow automated object detection libraries to automate the identification of several types of objects from CCTV imagery acquired in collaboration with Glasgow City Council. Privacy assurances are maintained by ensuring that processing takes place only within the secure infrastructure operated and managed by the local authority, with only benign object count data leaving the secure physical and logical environment. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The approach is yielding data which as well as set to inform UBDC research agenda is also expected to be released as an open dataset, informing research from broader academic and other communities. Furthermore, we are hopeful that having demonstrated the potential of this approach (which uses downtime or redundancy within the existing CCTV system) we will be well positioned to deploy similar software within networks in other city settings. Key non-functional requirements are to minimise operational disruption, ensure privacy is maintained and to offer scalability and easy deployment. Each of these aspects been broadly successful to date, with further optimisation planned. |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2019/september/piloting-cctv-analysis-that-protects-individuals-pr... |
| Title | Open Source Facility Location Modeling Python Package (Spopt) |
| Description | We have developed 4 open-source facility location modeling models including location set covering problem (LSCP), maximum location covering problem (MCLP), P-Median, and P-Centre models through GSOC 2021. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This is the first single 'one-stop' open-source ecosystem to comprehensively address facility location modeling problems for the potential users. |
| URL | https://github.com/pysal/spopt |
| Title | Registers of Scotland Open Data Product |
| Description | UBDC's licensing agreement with Registers of Scotland permits us to produce produce statistical reports and publications using the data including, but not limited to, summaries of market activity (e.g. number of sales, average price) for a given period at Datazone level (subject to a minimum of five transactions per datazone level). This dataset is an excerpt that conforms to this specification, and can be made widely available without charge. It covers the period 2003 to January 2019. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | We have shared this with dataservice users and hope to continue to do so, complementing a fuller RoS data set that we also make available. We will continue to monitor usage of the data and associated impact. |
| URL | http://ubdc.gla.ac.uk/dataset/registers-of-scotland-data |
| Title | Scottish Local Government during COVID-19: Data Needs, Capabilities, and Uses |
| Description | No information avaiable |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The dataset is part of an ESRC funded project led by Dr Justine Gangneux and Prof Simon Joss at the Urban Big Data Centre (Grant no. ES/S007105/1). The project examined the Scottish local government's data engagement during COVID-19 (Full report available ISBN: 978-0-85261-975-9). |
| URL | https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/1201/ |
| Title | Springboard Footfall Data |
| Description | Springboard's footfall data provided in terms average weekly footfall volume in each month over a five year period for 16 UK cities/towns. Average weekly footfall volume data to be provided for each counting location in each town. Complementary access to Springboard's insights reports library is provided, comprising reports that are published weekly/monthly/quarterly/annually and for key trading periods such as Easter, Black Friday and Christmas. UBDC has the opportunity to use and make accessible Springboard data from the period 2013 to 2022 inclusive until 2023. Complementary data offers weekday/weekend breakdown as well as part day average footfalls. . |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To follow |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/commercial-and-retail-data/springboards-footfall... |
| Title | Tamoco Mobility Data |
| Description | Tamoco provides organisations with access to real-time mobile phone location data. Tamoco's geospatial data is derived directly from mobile devices using a combination of GPS and WiFi, in order to generate industry-leading location signals. The dataset consists of Tamoco's Standalone Location Data which provides: raw location events stemming directly from the device Operating System; 7-digit Latitude and Longitude data with accuracy scores, providing a complete picture of how a device moves over time. It is keyed on the Mobile Advertising ID and Device IP. UBDC has licensed data covering (spatially) Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire and (temporally) the 3 year period from 2019 to 2021. Academic researchers or postgraduate students based in UK higher education institutions and employees of public sector/government organisations may access and use the data for purposes of non-commercial research including academic research and to support policy and operational work EDIT - in 2021 UBDC reached agreement with Tamoco to licence a further year of data to end of 2022, and in addition to broaden its collection of data (historical and ongoing) to include full UK coverage. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | Transport Availability Metrics (TAM) |
| Description | This offers public Transport Availability Metrics (TAM) at both the stop/station and small area levels across Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland). Specifically, it offers stop-level public transport availability data ("GB_STOP_PTAI_2016.csv", "GB_STOP_PTAI_2016.shp", LSOA-level public transport availability data "GB_LSOA_PTAI_2016.csv", "GB_LSOA_PTAI_2016.shp", and MSOA-level public transport availability data "GB_MSOA_PTAI_2016.csv" and GB_MSOA_PTAI_2016.shp. Other metrics generated include: average hourly frequency (AHF), density of stops (DOS), density of night-time stops (DONS), and Density of Routes (DOR). Stop-level TAM was measured by using public transport schedule data and stop/station location data. This was subsequently aggregated to small-area levels (LSOA and MSOA) in order to ensure PTAI is linkable to socioeconomic data at the same geography level. Specifically, stop-level PTAI was first aggregated to LSOA-level PTAI by overlaying service areas of stops/stations with LSOA boundaries. This was further aggregated to MSOA-level PTAI by weighting LSOA's PTAI with its population. Data sources for this including the LSOA boundaries, MSOA boundaries and LSOA-level population. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The TAM represents levels of public transport service provisions at both stop/station and small area levels. It can be used to estimate transport poverty at highly detailed spatial scale across an entire country. People in transport poor areas can easily be identified with TAM. This is vitally important as reducing gaps in the provision of public transport services is important for social equity, especially for low-income families who cannot afford to own and use cars. Hence, TAM can be deployed to ensure equitable access to basic amenities such as employment, healthcare, education, recreation, and shopping. The metrics can also be linked to other socioeconomic indicators to understand impacts of policies and new initiatives. |
| Title | UBDC Data Catalogue |
| Description | This is an in-development database intended to facilitate the management and curation of UBDC's licensed and primary datasets, ensuring a maintained relationship between data collection or acquisition projects and any derived data, analyses or indicators. Ultimately this will replace the existing UBDC data catalogue and provide a means to discover and sub-license available dataset, complementing existing UBDC data service systems as well as enhancing the curatorial efforts within the Centre. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | In progress |
| Title | UBDC Ecoquartier Curated Data |
| Description | This is a French dataset comprising 28 socio-economic variables drawn from census and 28 geographical variables drawn from a diverse range of sources and mainly providing information on infrastructures such as schools, shops among others. The data is from 2012 and is spatially related to the 50153 Iris polygons which are the statistical units of the French territory. The data relating the 28 geographical variables were improved by calculating an index of accessibility to infrastructures to the whole of the Iris units. Furthermore the Iris data was calculated and transferred to Ecoquartier and Quartier Prioritarire de la Ville which are other territorial units of the French territory. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | UBDC Glasgow Features Dataset |
| Description | This dataset was produced to inform selection of CCTV cameras to provide an optimal picture of relevant urban activities within Glasgow. To facilitate this discussion, it would be valuable for the team, working in different organizations and each one confined at home, to rapidly have access to a shared map of Glasgow with those features of interest. To achieve this goal we made use of open data available in Open Street Map (OSM) and several open-source tools. The following tasks were performed: 1. Extracted the features of interest from open street map (OSM)(https://www.openstreetmap.org) with OSM and GDAL tools (https://gdal.org/); 2. In the free and open source Geographic Information System, QGIS (https://www.qgis.org), we manipulated the extracted features for the area of interest of Glasgow City Council. 3. In the open-source Plotly/Dash (https://plotly.com/dash/) we created a map with these features 4. Finally we deployed the map we have just created into Heroku webserver (https://avenues-map.herokuapp.com/). Although Heroku is not open-source nor free, it allows one to easily deploy a simple app on the web for free with restrictions. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Informed selection of CCTV cameras to produce open count data with numerous downstream impact benefits (see relevant entries within this return). |
| URL | https://avenues-map.herokuapp.com/ |
| Title | UBDC Pavement Width Dataset |
| Description | To measure pavement width at scale, we turned our attention to our local city, Glasgow. UBDC is working with Glasgow City Council on issues relating to mobility and neighbourhoods so it seemed an obvious setting to develop an initial proof of concept. Our first step was to identify the paved ways, sidewalks and paths themselves. We used the Ordnance Survey MasterMap Topography Layer, accessed via Edina's Digimap service as our starting point. We filtered four 10km tiles covering most of Glasgow to produce a dataset comprising man-made roadside features, although different filters could be used to exclude or include other features. Having isolated these polygons we needed to be able to identify the central line of each polygon, establish a means to calculate the distance between two points and establish a value for pavement width - essentially the sum of the lengths of the shortest lines between the centre line and the left/right boundaries of the parent polygon. We use a built-in transformer within FME called CenterLineReplacer to calculate the centre line. FME is a commercial tool that supports manipulation of (especially spatial) data. The software is quite accessible, available for non-commercial work under a free personal license. Graphic showing centre lines and width vectors as explained in text below Figure 2 - Centre lines and width vectors The transformer does a pretty good job of identifying approximate centre lines, our basis for calculating width. Subsequently, each centre line is densified to individual points along that line, attaining sub-metre resolution. For each one, we measure the shortest distance between that point and the approximate diametrically opposed points on the polygon - i.e, from the centre to the edges of the pavement. To ensure the width is represented correctly, we enforce a rule that the angle formed between the lines connecting the centre point with each edge can be no less than 140 degrees. Finally, for each join between adjacent centre points we reconstruct a line segment and apply to it a width value - the average distance between the two connected points. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Glasgow City Council has already acquired and used the dataset to inform its policy and operational decision making around safe social distancing infrastructure improvement. |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/personal-space-exploration-pavement-widths-and-walking-s... |
| Title | UBDC Spatial Urban Data System (SUDS) |
| Description | UBDC has made significant progress on the Spatial Urban Data System (SUDS) - the Centre's capstone Urban Indicators project - which provides small-area estimates of key UK-wide urban indicators using complex urban models and simulations. We began with the 14 largest built-up areas in the UK. The resultant indicators not only provide contextual information to researchers studying complex urban problems but are also a tool for supporting local government and private sector decision-making. Examples of key indicators include datazone-level indicators of job accessibility and greenspace. We are now also connecting the SUDS programme to a novel set of open-source technologies for GIS mapping, mobile development, visualisation and reporting so that citizens, small businesses, non-profit organisations and local governments can have an opportunity explore trends and patterns in their city/region. Indicators currently complete and available to end users of UBDC are: * Percentage of persons in full-employment (%) - Output Areas for 13 built-up areas: Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton-Portsmouth, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast. * Unemployed: Aged 16-24 years (%) - Output Areas for 14 built-up areas: Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton-Portsmouth, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast. * Unemployment rate - all economically active and inactive (%) - Output Areas for 14 built-up areas: Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton-Portsmouth, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast. * Unemployment rate-all economically active only (%) - Output Areas for 14 built-up areas: Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton-Portsmouth, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast * Public Greenspace - Output Areas for 14 built-up areas: Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton-Portsmouth, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast. * Job Accessibility Indicators (experimental) - Output Areas for 14 built-up areas: Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton-Portsmouth, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast. Ongoing work to develop accessibility measures for labour market and healthcare are also yielding new data. As an outcome of our work to define transit accessibility indices we have developed, based on Traveline data, UK-wide public transportation schedules in the popular interchange GTFS format. These data offer timetables for bus, light rail, tram and ferry stops in Great Britain. Users who are interested in transit availability in the UK are already making use of them. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This initial tranche of Urban Indicators, as at March 2017, prompted over 30 requests to use the data, including requesting the indicators and the underlying data. Since then the number has risen to ca 90. SUDS is also feeding into the RDA's Quality of Urban Life standardisation work as well as work with BSI to develop and enhance standards around big data and smart cities. It is also highly thematically congruent with our efforts to engage within the UK with local authorities in all of the four nations of the UK, and internationally with organisations including Statistics Netherlands and the World Council on City Data. The platform has been subject to intensive iterative development and is currently available via the UBDC website in a prototype format. Based on a robust spatial database the platform uses a combination of technologies to deliver online spatial analytics. These comprise web analytical tools based on spatial queries enabling users to interact with several underlying datasets, in order to derive additional insights from the data. These tools were designed to be simple and easy to use (for mostly drilling-down or aggregating information) from one or two aspects (indicators/ datasets) of the urban area. More complex queries (Multi Criteria Analysis) that will enable the integration of information from different indicators or sectors of the urban areas will be developed to enable wider understanding of causes, effects of particular outcomes or changes. Transport accessibility and connectivity indicators and employment accessibility indicators have each been implemented within the platform. Integration of UBDC research outputs from transport, housing, education, health, weather, accidents, and crime studies is in the process of being implemented, including estimated O-D flows from highway sensor data (network analysis/Transcad), outputs from social networking research (Twitter geolocalisation, Facebook etc) and housing sales and rental data from open Land Registry, Registers of Scotland and Zoopla data sets. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/geospatial-data/ |
| Title | Zoopla Aggregate Listings Tables |
| Description | Aggregate data tables summarising rental market according to data acquired from properly listings aggregator Zoopla (to 2016): • Quarterly count of number of rental adverts by UK Local Authority (XLSX) • Quarterly mean and median rent per month by UK Local Authority (XLSX) • Quarterly count of number of rental adverts by Broad Rental Market Area (BRMA) (XLSX) • Quarterly mean and median rent per month by Broad Rental Market Area (BRMA) (XLSX) • Quarterly count of number of rental adverts by Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA) (XLSX) • Quarterly mean and median rent per month by Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA) (XLSX) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Equivalent data were the basis of ONS' study of the use of big data in official statistics on private renting (2018). We hope to drive interest in our fuller Zoopla historical and current data (see ResearchFish Collaboration section for details of data sharing agreement) using these widely accessible data. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/housing-data/ |
| Title | iMCD GPS Data |
| Description | 333 iMCD Household Survey participants agreed to wear a GPS device to record their movements for a seven day period. Participants completed an Activity Diary on the first day, providing groundtruthing for the data. GPS coordinates were captured every five seconds for each participant. The data can be linked to the other iMCD survey and lifelogging data by participant ID. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The UBDC first released this data in its second Call for Expressions of Interest (July 2016). With ca 30 requests to date, the data has been approved for use in two projects. One will use aggregated data with the other accessing raw, de-identified (spatially cloaked) data via UBDC's Controlled Data Service safehaven. The data is available under application (UBDC has reached agreement with ESRC that new data requests will be evaluated internally by the Centre's Research Approvals Working Group) and a number of additional applications are in the process of being considered. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/imcd-data/ |
| Title | iMCD Household Survey Data |
| Description | The UBDC's iMCD Project gathered a unique and exciting collection of data looking at urban life in Glasgow. UBDC gives researchers access to the data from the iMCD Household Survey, in anonymised form. The Survey has a unique combination of questions covering detailed information about each household, and their attitudes and behaviours to transport, education, computer and mobile phone usage, and sustainability. These data would be of interest to planners, researchers or individuals wanting to gain a better understanding of these topics and their interactions. The iMCD Household Survey interviewed a representative sample of adults (2095 people from 1508 household) in the Glasgow and Clyde Valley Planning area between April and November 2015. This area includes the following local authorities: Glasgow; North Lanarkshire; South Lanarkshire; Inverclyde; Renfrewshire; East Renfrewshire; East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire. As well as basic demographic data, the survey has a significant number of questions on education, transport, sustainability, and ICT usage. It also contains questions on civic and cultural activities, and neighbourhood belonging and satisfaction. Some variables have been removed or have had responses grouped to ensure anonymity of respondents, and there is no geographic or locational information. A subset of participants (1506) also completed a Travel Diary, describing their movements and purpose on the day prior to the Survey's collection. For widespread sharing, this data is aggregated to local authority level, consistent with the Scottish Household Survey methodolology. The iMCD project also gathered and created a number of other datasets that may be linked to the survey data. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The UBDC released this initial dataset as part of our first Call for Expressions of Interest in February 2016. To date over 100 requests have been made for the data, and many requestors are also interested in combining the data with other iMCD collections. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/imcd-data/ |
| Title | iMCD Lifelogging Data |
| Description | 230 iMCD Household Survey participants wore an Autographer lifelogging device, in addition to a GPS device, for two days. This captured image data (at typically five second intervals) and other sensor data. The captured variables include participant ID, image ID, image metadata including date/time, resolution, exposure time, colour space, white balance, etc and acceleration, magnetometer, light sensor, temperature and orientation sensor data. The data poses some interesting challenges for sharing due to its unique sensitivities (personally identifiable images, etc.). We are currently finalising methods for automating the blurring of faces and car registrations prior to releasing it for external use. We anticipate that usage will ultimately be limited to UBDC's Controlled Data Service safehaven. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | We have had enquiries about use of this data. We are also using the data as a research material in itself as we are at the cutting edge of making this type of data available for research use, with all the privacy implications that brings - so we anticipate a high level of scientific impact. Current processing is focusing on face and person recognition in order to blur sensitive content as well as the production of statistical summaries (which can be more widely shared) based on automated identification of, among other things, co-location with others, ICT usage and transportation usage. Some papers have been published with more anticipated. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/imcd-data/ |
| Title | iMCD Social Isolation Groups Data |
| Description | We developed methods to analyse lifelogging image data collected within the iMCD project with an objective to study people's isolation level in the city. To this end, we used the image set as an attempt to group people with similar social state and behaviour based on the number of faces and number of people they are surrounded by in their everyday life. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Linking the social activity level with the existing participants' data (demographics, elements from the household survey) gave researchers the opportunity to associate social activity with several factors. |
| Title | iMCD Twitter Data |
| Description | Concurrent to the collection of the iMCD Household Survey data, UBDC researchers undertook a significant information extraction exercise to capture data streams related to Glasgow from a variety of online sources. Twitter data comprises a large part of this collection, with some 65 million tweets gathered during the period 1/12/14 - 30/11/2015 that arose from the greater Glasgow area. This, for example, may give insights into the citizens' behaviour, reactions and moods in certain contexts or at particular times. The dataset can be queried through a bespoke online tool by specific hashtag or tweet term, in order to return statistical information or specific Tweet IDs. Captured tweets were those geolocated in Glasgow (based on a polygon around the geography), those from certain known Glasgow accounts (e.g. @BBCWestScot; @policescotland) and containing certain terms or hashtags (e.g. glasgow, or #glasgow2014). Due to the terms of Twitter's licensing we may not redistribute or allow the downloading of full tweets. Instead the service will provide Tweet IDs in lieu of the tweets themselves. These can then be used in queries to Twitter's own API to retrieve the full content. Results would typically be provided in JSON format with meta-data including userID, time and location if recorded. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | We have had ca 50 requests for usage of this data since its promotion as part of the second UBDC Call for Expressions of Interest (July 2016). Several of those interested have indicated an interest in combining these data with other iMCD data collections. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/imcd-data/ |
| Description | Aberdeen City Council Count of Properties on Landlord Registry |
| Organisation | Aberdeen City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has acquired this data under FOI. We have in turn aggregated to datazone level and estimated numbers of registered properties to inform ongoing work exploring the nature of the private rental sector. The data acquired do not permit the identification of duplicate entries but analysis of similar data for another local authority (Renfrewshire) showed that, for every 1000 registered properties, there were 1230 register entries. In this dataset, we have aggregated these postcodes to Datazones, providing a count of register entries for each. We have also made a simple estimate of the number of registered properties by applying the adjustment factor from the Renfrewshire experience (1000/1230 or .81). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Aberdeen City Council published a list of postcodes for entries on their Landlord Register on 15 August 2017, following a Freedom of Information request by a UBDC researcher. Private landlords in Scotland are required to register with their local authority under Part 8 of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004. Registration lasts for three years so the fact that a property is registered does not necessarily mean that it is currently being rented out. In a number of cases, an individual property may have more than one register entry since there is a requirement for each owner to register separately. |
| Impact | As open data in our portal, we are monitoring its usage on an ongoing basis. The data informs our ongoing internal UBDC Private Rental Sector research strand. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Adzuna Data License |
| Organisation | Adzuna |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has agreed terms with Adzuna for the supply of online jobs listings data covering the period 2017-2022, enabling its usage for academic research and government non-commercial usage. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Adzuna aggregates online jobs listings from a variety of sources, providing a unique and powerful dataset capable of summarising the job market as a whole, making explicit current skills demands and providing location information that reveals a geographical spread of the volumes of jobs and job types. Data coverage is whole of UK. |
| Impact | Data availability to commence in March 2021. We anticipate widespread interest in the data, although this will be capped in the first licensing period to up to 12 academic research projects of 2 years' duration. These are managed in form of research project credits, which may be combined to facilitate longer projects. Furthermore, the data will inform UBDC's own research agenda around transport and mobility as well as economic activity. UBDC staff, students and associates based at the University of Glasgow enjoy access to the data without requiring credits to be exhausted. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Analysis of ScotRail passenger data |
| Organisation | ScotRail Railways Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We have provided time and data analysis expertise. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ScotRail have contributed data, time of a data scientist and time of senior executives. |
| Impact | We held a workshop where we presented findings of out analysis. We also provided informal training for their data scientist. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | British Standards Institution (BSI Group) |
| Organisation | British Standards Institute (BSI Group) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | UBDC is supporting BSI in understanding, developing and capacity building around international data standards for urban big data. The SASNet project provided the resources for UBDC to host an event in collaboration with the BSI to highlight how data standards can support the widespread adoption of common approaches to the implementation of products and services in future cities. This successful event helped to cement UBDC's relationship with the BSI - Andrew McHugh, UBDC's Data Services Manager is now a member of two BSI Committees: BSI Committee SDS/2, Smart and sustainable cities and communities and Committee MBD/1, Big data, specifically working on MBD/001/0-/03 Project Communications. As of May 2018 Centre is working with BSI to develop a partnership aimed at producing, piloting and validating an international data management standard, in collaboration with the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city and UK partners including the City Standards Institute and the City of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | BSI will work with UBDC to extend the impact of our data standards work within the UK and internationally. Collaboration with BSI ensures that UBDC remain in the forefront of discussions and advancements relating to data standardisation, particularly in relation to Smart cities and Big Data. Through shared knowledge via events and committee meetings, UBDC can gain valuable insights into: • the transparency of data activities • engagement with data users, including templates for communication (and 'reasonable expectation') • communications frameworks around data breach and remedies (linking to GDPR requirements) • success stories (benefits) of using data • guidance on providing contextual use of data ("your data will be used for XX"). All of these issues and considerations are vital to be continually up to date when providing a sustainable data service. |
| Impact | Presentations from the data standards event are downloadable from the news story on the UBDC website (and also the Urban Transformations website). The BSI committees are formed of multidisciplinary members and therefore will cover broadly-ranging data standards issues. Membership of BSI Committee SDS/2, Smart and sustainable cities and communities and MBD/1, Big data, specifically working on MBD/001/0-/03 Project Communications, a group working on a standard covering: • transparency of data activities • engagement with data users, including templates for communication (and 'reasonable expectation') • communications frameworks around data breach and remedies (linking to GDPR requirements) • success stories (benefits) of using data • guidance on providing contextual use of data UBDC and BSI delivered a successful event in 2017 exploring the role of standards in implementing future cities, attended by city representatives (national and international), architects and spatial planners and representatives from national statistics institutions including Statistics Netherlands (recorded under Engagement). |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Burning Glass Data Agreement |
| Organisation | Burning Glass Technologies |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has a data agreement with Burning Glass to access its online job listings (Nova Feeds) information in support of up to 3 research projects |
| Collaborator Contribution | The data comprises of individual (deduped) online job listings information for period 2012 to 2017 encoded in XML format and includes details of location, description, core skills, salary etc as well as full text of the original job posting |
| Impact | The data is in use in two separate research projects, respectively examining the impact on skills and labour markets of automation and secondly evaluating the geographic distribution and dynamics of high-tech jobs that involves AI, ML and smart technologies |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CREATe Collaboration Agreement |
| Organisation | CREATe (RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has agreed to commission from CREATe a publication aimed at Social Scientists to offer reassurances regarding the legal legitimacy of their online data collection activities. This follows several interactions between UBDC and CREATe staff regarding the Copyright Exception for Text and Data Mining which essentially permits academic researchers to harvest and collect publicly accessible online data for academic research purposes irrespective of contractual terms which appear to purport to prohibit such behaviour. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CREATe colleagues have appointed a post-doctoral researcher to undertake the work and produce an accessible output articulating the legal situation with regards to web scraping, harvesting of online data and the acceptable parameters within which this can be undertaken for academic research purposes. |
| Impact | This has the potential to be a highly impactful piece of work as it could be a means to overcome paralysis often associated with little formal understanding of legal risk associated with data. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration with Department of Geography, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada |
| Organisation | Western University |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UBDC's research associate, Dr Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka has started collaboration with Jed Long to work on human movement related papers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Unknown |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Cycling Scotland Data Agreement |
| Organisation | Cycling Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has an agreement with Cycling Scotland to provide open access to their National Monitoring Framework dataset (2017 - 18) |
| Collaborator Contribution | "Cycling Scotland is the nation's cycling organisation. Cycling Scotland helps create and deliver opportunities and an environment so anyone anywhere in Scotland can cycle easily and safely. This dataset comprises data about cycling counts in various streets within Scotland and includes manual traffic surveys with counts of various modes of transport." |
| Impact | The data has been requested by a range of academic and policy audiences. To date 14 requests for these data have been received |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Data Processing Agreement - CCTV Video Data |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Council is working in collaboration with the Processor to develop and test a framework for installing video analytical software to monitor activity on streets using spare CCTV capacity. The project builds on existing collaborations between the Council and the Processor which processes static images captured within the CCTV suite to generate counts of pedestrians and vehicles on streets. The project will explore the delivery of analytics in three distinct areas: • Enhanced detection of pedestrians, counting moving and non-moving objects, identifying direction • Enhanced detection of vehicles, counting moving and non-moving objects, identifying direction • Development of street activity metrics, including tracing objects (pedestrians and vehicles) through space. Initial processing will concentrate on the detection and counting of the number of people present at regular intervals during the day using streets which are part of, or near to, streets which are included in the Council's Avenues Project. However, there is an option for the work to progress to detect other objects or image features, including for example potholes or broken traffic lights, cyclists or wheelchair users. The Processor aims to implement its object detection software in order to capture data through the CCTV system. In doing this, its goal is to use the data produced to conduct and publish research on the use of public space in Glasgow and how this is affected by investments such as the Avenues Project. It also aims to refine or develop its object detection software so that it might be more effective in capturing a wider range of objects, and also so it might be more widely deployed. The project will develop methods and software for implementation within the CCTV suite, to operate on stand-alone machine(s). Aggregate counts and analytical outputs will be completely anonymised, removing any raw video or image data once processing has been completed. The exception to this will be a validation of the implemented system, which will use manual counts and verification of analysis to quantify variation in accuracy across camera, time of day, day of the week and lighting conditions. The project will also assess the impact of the system on the Community Safety operation to identify and resolve any issues that are detected. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Council will provide secure access to up to 24 hours of video footage captured via its CCTV network infrastructure from two bespoke cameras. The Council aims to use the investment in the CCTV system to produce aggregated non-identifiable data data which can be of value to the operations and policies of the Council. It also aims to provide aggregated non-identifiable data to the Processor, in order that the Processor can conduct research, which will inform the Council's Avenues Project. |
| Impact | To follow |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | ESRC AQMeN and UBDC |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Department | Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) II |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UBDC Co-I Prof. Gwilym Pryce and colleagues are working with a variety of outputs and methods developed by the AQMeN project developing ways to visualise novel measures of the housing market in engaging and interesting interfaces and outputs. Among other variables they are applying data visualisation methods to are some of the innovative measures developed by the AQMeN Research Centre, such as the Cross Price Elasticity (CPEP) measure of neighbourhood substitutability developed by the USI AQMeN strand. In collaboration with the core UBDC Data Service, they are currently developing new Java-based visualisation interfaces that allow users to interact with the data and discover how the CPEP measure can reveal hidden social frontiers between urban neighbourhoods. |
| Collaborator Contribution | AQMeN are providing the theory, method and data outputs needed for the visualisation tools. UBDC are developing the visualisation interfaces using Java programming language and relevant software. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Edinburgh Landlord Registration Data |
| Organisation | City of Edinburgh Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has acquired landlord registration data from Edinburgh City Council under Freedom of Information legislation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Private landlords in Scotland are required to register with their local authority under Part 8 of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004. Registration lasts for three years so the fact that a property is registered does not necessarily mean that it is currently being rented out. In a number of cases, an individual property may have more than one register entry since there is a requirement for each owner to register separately. This dataset was created on 10th November 2017 and shared on the 13th November 2017. The data was provided under Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 for each of the properties at postcode level. Number of properties is recorded at each postcode. |
| Impact | This data acquisition is a continuation of a coordinated approach to make this data increasingly available across many more local authorities. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Eurostat Collaboration |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | Eurostat |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC provided training to introduce Eurostat staff (primarily statisticians and managers) to the developments currently happening in the smart systems and smart cities world, with a focus on smart transportation systems and mobility. It covered an overview of the main sources of urban big data, including sensors and the Internet of Things, crowd-sourced mobility data, data aggregated from websites and other Internet sources, wearable technologies. It continued to describe how these data sources can be integrated, from the technical infrastructure to methodologies for producing statistical information, as well as other topics of relevance in the domain of urban big data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Eurostat is continuing to engage with UBDC and following this training and a subsequent keynote address to the Plenary of National Directors of Methodology and Informatics has invited UBDC to sit on the Scientific Committee for New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS). |
| Impact | Developed relationship with Eurostat and several national statistics organisations, establishing opportunities to influence development of smart statistics agenda. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | FixMyStreet Data Sharing Open Licence |
| Organisation | FixMyStreet |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has acquired data from the FixMyStreet web app, that can be shared under an open licence. We have added 2011 datazones and codes to facilitate usage of the data and made this data available to researchers in our Open Data Portal. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The data shared by FixMyStreet refers to reports made, by anyone in public, to FixMyStreet.com website or smartphone apps, regarding either potholes or pavements/footpaths in the Glasgow City area. Each report includes geographically reported location defined by lat/long coordinates to 2017. |
| Impact | As open data in our portal, we are monitoring its usage on an ongoing basis. To date the data has been used in the production of a policy briefing report produced by UBDC in collaboration with Glasgow City Council entitled "Supporting Independent Living Through the Prediction and Prevention of Falls". |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Future mobility |
| Organisation | Institute of Transport Economics (Norway) |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | I have given a talk at an event arranged by the institute. I have also participated in a funding application. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They have included UBDC in a funding application. |
| Impact | I gave a talk at a workshop in Oslo organised by the institute. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GPS Movement Analysis (University of St Andrews and UBDC) |
| Organisation | University of St Andrews |
| Department | Department of Geography & Sustainable Development |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UBDC researcher Dr Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka is supporting the University of St Andrew research team around GPS movement analysis, specifically new measures for quantifying activity spaces, based on expertise and data gained through UBDC's iMCD project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of St Andrews researchers Dr Urska Demsar and Jed Long are working with UBDC on this, contributing their own expertise to our data service. |
| Impact | This work will support both new publications and data service provision to UBDC's users. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Glasgow City Council - 3D City Modelling |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has been commissioned to process detailed (25ppm) LiDAR data to produce a detailed open source 3D model. The new model will be hosted by UBDC, replacing an existing model previously supplied to UBDC by Glasgow City Council. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision 3D Light Detection and Range (LiDAR) Point Cloud Data obtained by Glasgow City Council as part of an agreement with the Scottish Government (SG). The Point Cloud Data was procured at two different dates: one in Autumn 2020 and one in Spring 2021. This data can be converted into a more detailed/accurate 3D model of the city which will support multiple different projects and initiatives as well as operational service delivery in areas such as planning. |
| Impact | To follow |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Glasgow City Council - Data Visualisation |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has been working with the council to capture, analyse and visualise mobility data about Glasgow. Our current work consists of visualising some of this data in a dashboard to demonstrate its value and potentials to inform decision-making at local level. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Glasgow colleagues are providing input on needs, specifically in terms of the indicators we are looking at, as well as on how they fit within the relevant strategies and policy targets. This input helps us better understand the needs in this area within the council as well as identify where to put our efforts to have a working proof of concept. |
| Impact | - prototype dashboards / interfaces - summary of data needs aligned with indicators and appropriate visualisations - road map and resourcing requirements for future deployment of information presentation services |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Glasgow City Council - Mobility Data Agenda |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | On mobility we have partnered with Glasgow City Council to evaluate data and analytical needs associated primarily with transport policy development, city centre management and neighborhood regeneration. New mobility datasets being collected and produced by UBDC will be made accessible to local authority partners and related consultants and UBDC will produce analyses and accessible data interfaces to reflect demand. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Glasgow City Council have invested financially in this work (see above) and are contributing time and resources to facilitate the specification of third party available datasets and support our efforts to collect primary mobility data via council platforms, sensors and extracted from existing data sources. |
| Impact | - Dataset specifications - Understanding / articulation of needs and priorities - Acquired mobility datasets (Huq.io and Tamoco) - Proof-of-concept dashboard demonstrators |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Glasgow City Council - Pavement Width |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | In order to measure pavement width at scale we turned our attention to our local city, Glasgow. UBDC is working with Glasgow City Council on issues relating to mobility and neighbourhoods so it seemed an obvious setting to develop an initial proof of concept. Our first step was to identify the paved ways, sidewalks and paths themselves. We used the Ordnance Survey MasterMap Topography Layer, accessed via Edina's Digimap service as our starting point. We filtered four 10km tiles covering most of Glasgow to produce a dataset comprising man made roadside features, although different filters could be used to exclude or include other features. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Glasgow City Council's Neighborhoods and Sustainability and GIS teams have obtained access to UBDC's Pavement Width dataset and configured it for use in several applications. |
| Impact | Details forthcoming |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Huq.io Data License |
| Organisation | Huq Industries Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has agreed a contract with Huq.io for the supply of mobility data covering the period 2019 - 2021, enabling its usage for academic research and government non-commercial usage. EDIT - UBDC has renewed and extended its agreement with Huq Industries, offering full UK data coverage for period 2019 - 2022. This includes access for academic research use with government non-commercial usage limited to original spatial region (Glasgow City Region authorities) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Through its relationships with a wide selection of mobile app publishers Huq captures location information of app users and relates these to a network of points of interest. Our data coverage includes Glasgow and the seven neighbouring local authorities. |
| Impact | Data availability to commence in February 2021. We anticipate widespread interest in the data, including from local government within the Glasgow City Region and wider Scottish policy communities, as well as elsewhere within the UK. In addition, we have been collaborating in conversations with the Open Data Institute and Cabinet Office / Geospatial Commission re: agenda for acquiring new mobility information. Furthermore, the data will inform UBDC's own research agenda around transport and mobility as well as economic activity. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Increasing linkage quality: Evaluation of Ordinance Survey linkage methodology |
| Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are checking the quality of the OS' existing linkage with linkage done using a different and more robust methodology. To examine where improvements can be made. This is helpful for us and is a key stepping stone in working towards creating an integrated housing database, with energy performance certificates and land registry as the back bone of this data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | OS have contibuted over £34,000 pounds to this, with agreement for another years funding close to being signed off. |
| Impact | None as yet as we have just begun the work |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Learning Cities Network and Finnish ERDF Project: |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC is part of this newly funded Finnish project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | It is unclear at this stage whether funding for this project will come to UBDC - add to Further Funding section if this happens. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Learning Cities Network and Finnish ERDF Project: |
| Organisation | Learning Cities Networks (LCN) |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | UBDC is part of this newly funded Finnish project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | It is unclear at this stage whether funding for this project will come to UBDC - add to Further Funding section if this happens. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Life in Data Research Network |
| Organisation | General Teaching Council for Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | UBDC's Education Project team are working with Stirling University on this project, which was funded, but with no funds for University of Glasgow. We are bringing knowledge exchange and capacity building support to this network which aims to empower people with data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Stirling is leading this Network and the other partners are all contributing in various ways to building knowledge exchange networks around data and city life. UBDC has specifically sponsored a Life in Data / Creative Stirling event, including providing data for it as a hackday (recorded under Engagement). |
| Impact | This project crosses disciplines of education and teaching, digital media communications, data science, and urban studies. UBDC supported a Life in Data / Creative Stirling event, including providing data for it as a hackday (recorded under Engagement). |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Life in Data Research Network |
| Organisation | Scottish Cities Alliance |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC's Education Project team are working with Stirling University on this project, which was funded, but with no funds for University of Glasgow. We are bringing knowledge exchange and capacity building support to this network which aims to empower people with data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Stirling is leading this Network and the other partners are all contributing in various ways to building knowledge exchange networks around data and city life. UBDC has specifically sponsored a Life in Data / Creative Stirling event, including providing data for it as a hackday (recorded under Engagement). |
| Impact | This project crosses disciplines of education and teaching, digital media communications, data science, and urban studies. UBDC supported a Life in Data / Creative Stirling event, including providing data for it as a hackday (recorded under Engagement). |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Life in Data Research Network |
| Organisation | The Data Lab - Innovation Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC's Education Project team are working with Stirling University on this project, which was funded, but with no funds for University of Glasgow. We are bringing knowledge exchange and capacity building support to this network which aims to empower people with data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Stirling is leading this Network and the other partners are all contributing in various ways to building knowledge exchange networks around data and city life. UBDC has specifically sponsored a Life in Data / Creative Stirling event, including providing data for it as a hackday (recorded under Engagement). |
| Impact | This project crosses disciplines of education and teaching, digital media communications, data science, and urban studies. UBDC supported a Life in Data / Creative Stirling event, including providing data for it as a hackday (recorded under Engagement). |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Life in Data Research Network |
| Organisation | University of Stirling |
| Department | Faculty of Social Science |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UBDC's Education Project team are working with Stirling University on this project, which was funded, but with no funds for University of Glasgow. We are bringing knowledge exchange and capacity building support to this network which aims to empower people with data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Stirling is leading this Network and the other partners are all contributing in various ways to building knowledge exchange networks around data and city life. UBDC has specifically sponsored a Life in Data / Creative Stirling event, including providing data for it as a hackday (recorded under Engagement). |
| Impact | This project crosses disciplines of education and teaching, digital media communications, data science, and urban studies. UBDC supported a Life in Data / Creative Stirling event, including providing data for it as a hackday (recorded under Engagement). |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Life in Data Research Network |
| Organisation | Wikimedia UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | UBDC's Education Project team are working with Stirling University on this project, which was funded, but with no funds for University of Glasgow. We are bringing knowledge exchange and capacity building support to this network which aims to empower people with data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Stirling is leading this Network and the other partners are all contributing in various ways to building knowledge exchange networks around data and city life. UBDC has specifically sponsored a Life in Data / Creative Stirling event, including providing data for it as a hackday (recorded under Engagement). |
| Impact | This project crosses disciplines of education and teaching, digital media communications, data science, and urban studies. UBDC supported a Life in Data / Creative Stirling event, including providing data for it as a hackday (recorded under Engagement). |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Met Office Observations and Forecasts |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are collecting hourly observations for the last 24 hours for approximately 140 locations across the UK via the Met Office DataPoint API on a daily basis. Our collection starts from 30 November 2011 till 6 February 2017 (an initial bulk capture of historical data was acquired) and then from 23 January 2018 to date (there is a gap in our collection from 7 February 2017 to 22 January 2018). In addition, we have captured in forecast data in 3-hourly intervals out to five days. This is quality controlled forecast for more than 5,000 sites in the UK, including airports, major landmarks and beaches. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hourly observation reports as recorded in real time by the Met Office UK Monitoring System. Available parameters are based on the instrumentation installed at each site . Observations are subject to final quality control by the Met Office after publication by Data Point. The QC process can take up to six months to be completed and therefore any changes made will not be retrospectively applied to this dataset. |
| Impact | The data has been requested by a range of academic and policy audiences. To date 13 requests for these data have been received. http://ubdc.gla.ac.uk/dataset/met-office-observations-data http://ubdc.gla.ac.uk/dataset/met-office-forecasts-data |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Mobility Data Working Group |
| Organisation | Cabinet Office |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Contribution to ongoing conversation and scoping work re: availability, utility and accessibility of new forms of mobility data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners have recounted their experiences, data needs and shared details of available data, data assessments/appraisals and methodologies. |
| Impact | The group has contributed to the evidence base that supports UBDC's acquisition of two mobility data sets (from Huq and Tamoco) as well as providing compelling expertise and experience around data valuation and market factors for data acquisition. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mobility Data Working Group |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Contribution to ongoing conversation and scoping work re: availability, utility and accessibility of new forms of mobility data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners have recounted their experiences, data needs and shared details of available data, data assessments/appraisals and methodologies. |
| Impact | The group has contributed to the evidence base that supports UBDC's acquisition of two mobility data sets (from Huq and Tamoco) as well as providing compelling expertise and experience around data valuation and market factors for data acquisition. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mobility Data Working Group |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Department | Scottish Government Welfare Discussion Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Contribution to ongoing conversation and scoping work re: availability, utility and accessibility of new forms of mobility data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners have recounted their experiences, data needs and shared details of available data, data assessments/appraisals and methodologies. |
| Impact | The group has contributed to the evidence base that supports UBDC's acquisition of two mobility data sets (from Huq and Tamoco) as well as providing compelling expertise and experience around data valuation and market factors for data acquisition. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mobility Data Working Group |
| Organisation | Transport Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Contribution to ongoing conversation and scoping work re: availability, utility and accessibility of new forms of mobility data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners have recounted their experiences, data needs and shared details of available data, data assessments/appraisals and methodologies. |
| Impact | The group has contributed to the evidence base that supports UBDC's acquisition of two mobility data sets (from Huq and Tamoco) as well as providing compelling expertise and experience around data valuation and market factors for data acquisition. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Referrals to Community Falls Prevention Programme |
| Organisation | NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has acquired this data and made accessible as open data from its online portal. The data has been used in the production of a policy briefing report for Glasgow City Council entitled "Supporting Independent Living Through the Prediction and Prevention of Falls". |
| Collaborator Contribution | UBDC has acquired this data and made accessible as open data from its online portal. Aggregated counts of referrals per 2011 datazone for the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to the Community Falls Prevention Program. It contains reports of referrals to the Community Falls Prevention Programme per year from 2010-2016, holding a running total for the time period per datazone. The data covers the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board area. Datazones are marked NA or missing from the dataset if nobody from those datazones took up an appointment with the service or because the recorded data is insufficient to attach the datazone. The Community Falls Prevention Program is a program run by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to help stop and advise over 65's on issues surrounding falling. http://www.nhsggc.org.uk/your-health/health-services/osteoporosis-and-falls-prevention-services/community-falls-prevention-programme/ The Data was provided by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Safe Haven. Set up in 2011, along with the Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, Safe Haven is a centre for health data research and act as part of the Scottish branch of the Farr Institute. |
| Impact | As open data in our Portal, we are monitoring its usage on an ongoing basis. Internally, the data has been used in the production of a policy briefing report produced by UBDC in collaboration with Glasgow City Council entitled "Supporting Independent Living Through the Prediction and Prevention of Falls". |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | NextBike Data Agreement (Glasgow City Council) |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has an agreement with Glasgow City Council to use their NextBike bikeshare scheme data for non-commercial purposes |
| Collaborator Contribution | The data, and access to the live API, provide details of the bikesharing infrastructure and status of each of its stations in real time |
| Impact | The data can not currently be shared more widely but is being used in the course of ongoing transportation research within UBDC |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | North Lanarkshire Council Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | North Lanarkshire Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has facilitated the creation of a data sharing agreement between North Lanarkshire Council and the University of Glasgow to provide access to data collected from the Local Authority's online issue reporting platform. This will inform work within the Centre's research agenda relating to changing access to local services in a digital environment |
| Collaborator Contribution | North Lanarkshire has provided data including details of issue reports, submitters and local authority responses under a data sharing agreement |
| Impact | This is a critical data sharing relationship for this work stream and provides a basis to critically assess the benefits and impacts of digital channels to facilitate communication between citizens and government |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Norwegian Administrative Data Research Project |
| Organisation | Norwegian School of Economics |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I have committed time to data analysis, writing papers, and writing funding applications. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They have committed time to data analysis, writing papers and writing funding applications. They have also provided access to the register data used in the research. |
| Impact | We have had an unsuccessful funding application. We currently have one paper submitted to a journal and one draft of a paper. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Norwegian Administrative Data Research Project |
| Organisation | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I have committed time to data analysis, writing papers, and writing funding applications. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They have committed time to data analysis, writing papers and writing funding applications. They have also provided access to the register data used in the research. |
| Impact | We have had an unsuccessful funding application. We currently have one paper submitted to a journal and one draft of a paper. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | ONS CCTV Information Sharing |
| Organisation | Office for National Statistics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC researchers and data scientists provided information re: video analytics and object detection / automated counting methods and technologies to inform a study being undertaken at ONS. In addition, we provided data via our API to a UK wide effort to collect such data for purposes of studying some of the effects and behavioural impacts of Covid 19. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ONS contributed their own information and expertise. |
| Impact | Shared knowledge base in technology growth area. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Purdue University, USA and Tongji University, China: initiative on Big Data and Transportation |
| Organisation | Purdue University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UBDC supported their initiative on Big Data and Transportation including a workshop on the topic held in Tongji University in July 2016. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UBDC was able to use their initiative on Big Data and Transportation including a workshop on the topic held in Tongji University, to grow influence and reach and promote the Centre internationally. |
| Impact | Unknown. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Purdue University, USA and Tongji University, China: initiative on Big Data and Transportation |
| Organisation | Tongji University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UBDC supported their initiative on Big Data and Transportation including a workshop on the topic held in Tongji University in July 2016. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UBDC was able to use their initiative on Big Data and Transportation including a workshop on the topic held in Tongji University, to grow influence and reach and promote the Centre internationally. |
| Impact | Unknown. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Registers of Scotland (Land Registry) Open Data Agenda Development |
| Organisation | Registers of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Participation in several meetings intended to highlight the potential benefits and opportunities of opening up access to Registers of Scotland's sales for consideration (Land Registry) dataset. Currently this data is available only under a commercial licensing agreement, irrespective of purpose/use. UBDC has licensed the RoS dataset before on behalf of its user communities, but the model was costly, prohibitively restrictve and not scalable. An offer was made to undertake a comparative research piece highlighting the differing opportunities and value offered in England and Wales, where the equivalent data is available under and open license. This was warmly received but like the work in general was immediately de-prioritised with the pandemic response dominating agenda. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Outlining the considerations faced by RoS. During conversations an offer was articulated to produce a more open data excerpt that could be accessible by academic audiences. Although a tentative initial step this would have provided some basis for demonstrating demand and value. Unfortunately wtih the pandemic this has not yet been progressed. |
| Impact | - series of conversations - meetings re: open licensing agenda - tentative proposals to undertake comparative analysis and to release summary dataset under less restrictive licensing terms |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Renfrewshire Council Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | Renfreshire Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC will make research results available to the Council. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Renfrewshire Council signed a data sharing agreement with UBDC to provide administrative data for housing research being carried out by the UBDC's Private Rental Housing research strand. |
| Impact | Research has begun (see blog post and data note linked to above). This DSA has also led to a subsequent agreement on health and social care data for a UBDC_based PhD project: see under 'UBDC / Renfrewshire Council Information Sharing Protocol' in this section. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Research collaboration with Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea) |
| Organisation | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) |
| Country | Korea, Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I was invited to give a guest lecture and introduced UBDC. UBDC became a partner of KAIST for the funded project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | KAIST is planning to have conferences and meetings related to the funded project and inviting our staff. In June 2020, one of our staff will present his project in the conference. |
| Impact | Not yet. However future collaboration plans (e.g., invited talks in the seminars and conferences) are under discussion. In addition, KAIST and UoG are working on MOU. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research collaboration with University of Seoul (South Korea) |
| Organisation | University of Seoul |
| Country | Korea, Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I visited there and gave a guest lecture about UBDC and recent cycling research. I am currently working on a proposal with them. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They gave me an opportunity to introduce our work in UBDC. They seek for a funding opportunity with us in South Korea. |
| Impact | We have had several conference calls and are preparing research proposal. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | SASNet Fellowship Programme: Carla Bailo, Ohio State University |
| Organisation | Ohio State University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The SASNet fellowship scheme not only provides a resource to allow the Urban Big Data Centre to offer a range of training and capacity-building events to our networks and wider community of social scientists, it also provides time for the fellow to engage and interact more closely with the centre's research and services. During Carla Bailo's 3-day visit in March, we made arrangements for Carla to meet with UBDC's research and Data Services teams as well as with our stakeholders with interests in smart city innovation. Further to this, a training workshop was arranged titled 'Smart Mobility and Smart Cities - Access & Opportunities' which was attended by a large audience of around 60 people including transport planners, telecommunications consultants and academics from public policy and business (http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/smart-mobility-and-smart-cities-access-opportunities). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Separate meetings with Carla Bailo were set up with several group within UBDC and our local partners and collaborators. A top-level meeting with UBDC management and senior researchers saw discussion on common research aims and how respective research centres are structured. She met with a smaller UBDC research group comprising postdocs and PhD students to share ideas in work relating to Smart Mobility and future transport solutions. Further to this she met Iain Docherty, Professor of Public Policy and Governance from Glasgow's Business School who is leading ongoing development work on the University's Smart Campus. |
| Impact | As indicated above, interest in Smart Technologies span a broad range of disciplines, many of which were reached during Carla Bailo's outreach activities. In addition to the workshop and individual meetings, the visit brought about continues discussion via our social media channels and the presentation has been made available to download via the UBDC website. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | SASNet Fellowship Programme: Dr Anuj Sharma, Iowa State University |
| Organisation | Iowa State University |
| Department | Institute for Transportation |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The SASNet fellowship scheme not only provides a resource to allow the Urban Big Data Centre to offer a range of training and capacity-building events to our networks and wider community of social scientists, it also provides time for the fellow to engage and interact more closely with the centre's research and services. During Dr Sharma's visit, we made several arrangements for him to meet various members of the centre and some key stakeholders to discuss his transport research and aspects of his data management infrastructure. Additionally, we arranged and advertised a training workshop for him to deliver. The workshop was titled 'Data Management for Urban Transport Operations' and attended by approx. 30 people from transport industry and research backgrounds (http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2016/data-management-for-urban-transport-operations/). |
| Collaborator Contribution | During Dr Sharma's 4 day fellowship in Glasgow, he met with 5 different groups, arranged according to their research and data management interests. Future collaborative projects were discussed and knowledge and advice was exchanged. Following the training, Dr Sharma provided a training resource for publicly available download from the UBDC website. |
| Impact | The outcome from this collaboration to date has been in the form of improved capacity within the field of data analytics covered in the training. Additionally, through meetings and networking opportunities that were provided across disciplines including physics, engineering and social sciences, more tangible outputs would be expected in the fullness of time. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | SASNet Fellowship Programme: Dr Jan Kazak, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences |
| Organisation | University of Wroclaw |
| Country | Poland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This fellowship was arranged as a result of a successful application to UBDC's SASNet Fellowship Programme (terms described here: http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/sasnet/fellowship-programme/). Jan Kazak, a researcher from the Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Poland, worked with our iMCD Household Survey and Travel Diary data on a short project to study aspects of urban design - land use, accessibility of services and facilities and neighbourhood attributes - and the relationship of these aspects to the lifestyles of elderly people. Travel, accommodation and office space was arranged for Jan for his 4-week visit. Members of UBDC's iMCD project oversaw Jan's data analysis work. The UBDC data service team also helped refine Jan's research questions and guided him through the process of gaining access this secure data via eDRIS. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Jan Kazak's work with the iMCD data provided evidence of another interesting use case for this unique data collection. As part of his visit, Jan also ran a half-day workshop titled 'Decision Support Systems in Urban Planning' that demonstrated the application of decision support software models in urban planning and shared the materials via the UBDC website resources page. It was attended by a mixed group of around 25 urban planners, councillors and academics (http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/decision-support-systems-in-urban-planning) |
| Impact | Jan wrote a blog for the UBDC website (as per the link above) to describe the process of working on the project and the support provided by UBDC. He has recently presented this project work at an event at the University of Bristol, 'Health: the Design, Planning and Politics of How and Where We Live' (Jan 25-26), and has a paper based on this submitted for publication to a scientific journal. He continues to expand on this strand of research in collaboration with UBDC. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | SASNet Fellowship Programme: Dr Mirela Causevic, Center for Big Data Statistics (CBDS) |
| Organisation | Statistics Netherlands |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This fellowship was arranged as a result of a successful application to UBDC's SASNet Fellowship Programme (terms described here: http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/sasnet/fellowship-programme/). Mirela Causevic, a data scientist from the Center for Big Data Statistics (CBDS) in the Netherlands, joined UBDC for on a three-week visit in which she engaged with UBDC researchers and data service providers in an exploratory project leading to comparisons of UBDC's UK-based travel and mobility data with official statistics and data resources available to CBDS in the Netherlands. Travel, accommodation and office space was arranged for Mirela and meetings were scheduled throughout her stay with UBDC researchers and the data team. Mirela was given access to a number of UBDC transport and mobility datasets. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As the purpose of Mirela's visit was to help strengthen ties between the two Big Data research centres, her project and subsequent presentation provided a valuable insight into each centre respective areas of expertise and ideas of projects that could benefit from both. CBS' international leadership and inspiring innovation around data makes them a valued partner and UBDC is learning a great deal about priorities and gaps facing evidence-based decision making and about where our Centre's contributions may fit in in a global context. |
| Impact | Following on from Mirela's presentation, she provided the collaborating centres with a summary document detailing common research areas and possible research questions to collaborate on in the future. UBDC and CBS have established a positive working relationship and collaborations such as Mirela's fellowship visit offer further opportunities to share insights, best practice and data. Outputs from Mirela's fellowship visit - and further collaboration with CBS etc - will be detailed on the Partnerships page of the new UBDC website when it launches. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | SASNet Fellowship Programme: Francesca Hogg, Sustrans |
| Organisation | Sustrans |
| Department | Research and Monitoring Unit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This fellowship was arranged as a result of a successful application to UBDC's SASNet Fellowship Programme (terms described here: http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/sasnet/fellowship-programme/). It was agreed that Francesca Hogg, an Evaluation Officer at Sustrans' Newcastle office, would work on a 2-month project under the advisement of Mark Livingston (Research Associate, UBDC) to assess the impact on Sustrans' work on school cycling intervention schemes in Scotland. This involved the arrangement of several Skype meetings, visits to the UBDC, access to data, assistance with data linkage and modelling work, use of UBDC equipment and training in mapping software QGIS during UBDC's summer training programme. A workshop was arranged at the end of the fellowship scheme to share the project's findings. This workshop was titled 'Active Travel to School - The Effectiveness of School-based Travel Interventions' and was attended by a varied audience of over 50 people (http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/active-travel-to-school-the-effectiveness-of-school-based-travel-interventions/). |
| Collaborator Contribution | As part of the fellowship agreement, Francesca provided presentations at two of our seminar events. The first was specifically to share the project results (http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/active-travel-to-school-the-effectiveness-of-school-based-travel-interventions/) and the second, to speak at a larger active travel event (http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/data-challenge-demo-day/). The collaboration also let to a data sharing agreement with UBDC planning to host Sustran's iBike, HUSS and cycle counter data via the UBDC Data Service. |
| Impact | Sustrans are producing a case study for the UBDC website to show the impacts of certain interventions relating to active travel to school in Scotland, as a follow up to the collaboration via the SASNet fellowship and their SASNet seminar in October 2017. This is due to be published in March 2018. These results will help to select and refine successful schemes for to encourage improvements to health and transport infrastructure. This collaboration has also led to a blog on gender and active travel, which is planned for late March and ongoing dialogue through events and the data sharing agreement. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | SASNet Fellowship Programme: Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster |
| Organisation | University of Westminster |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr Rachel Aldred, a reader in Transport at the University of Westminster, visited UBDC via the SASNet Fellowship Programme to talk about her research insights into cycling injury risk through a series of meetings that were arranged for her and a seminar. Arrangements for travel and accommodation were made for her for her 3-day visit and 5 meetings were scheduled to allow her to meet with interested parties within UBDC, Glasgow City Council, Sustrans and Glasgow Centre for Population Health. Mark Livingston, a RA at UBDC introduced he to many people actively working in similar research areas and chaired her seminar. |
| Collaborator Contribution | There was a mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and research ideas throughout Rachel's meetings at UBDC and she provided a very well attended seminar. The seminar was titled 'Using Cycling Flow Data to Analyse Injury Risk', attracting an audience of around 60. Active travel and work with Strava data has proven to be a popular topic within UBDC's contact network so the seminar was an excellent opportunity for engagement and to promote UBDC's data service. |
| Impact | Following on from Rachel Aldred's visit Mark Livingston visited the University of Westminster to talk about his UBDC work using Strava Metro data to evaluate cycling interventions. Current collaborative work includes pursuing Strava data for London from TFL to increase UBDC's overall UK coverage for Strava data and UBDC are also in the process of developing some joint research proposals with her. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | SASNet Fellowship Programme: Steven Ramage, World Meteorological Organization |
| Organisation | World Meteorological Organization |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The SASNet fellowship scheme not only provides a resource to allow the Urban Big Data Centre to offer a range of training an capacity-building events to our networks and wider community of social scientists, it also provides time for the fellow to engage and interact more closely with the centre's research and services. During Mr Ramage's visit, we made several arrangements for him to meet various members of the centre and some key stakeholders to discuss his variety of advisory roles and future ambitions to broaden the knowledge and use of open geospatial data standards. Additionally, we arranged and advertised a training workshop for him to deliver. The workshop was titled 'An Introduction to Open Geospatial Standards' and attended by approx. 40 people with interests ranging from data security to tourism (http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2016/an-introduction-to-open-geospatial-standards/). |
| Collaborator Contribution | During Steven Ramage's 3-day fellowship in Glasgow, he met with 3 different groups, arranged according to their research interests. Future collaborative projects were discussed and in particularly, one whereby UBDC could expand their open data portal offerings by linking with the data available via the WMO and OGC portals. Discussions relating to the technical delivery of this are ongoing. Following the training, a training resource was made publicly available for download from the UBDC website. |
| Impact | The outcome from this collaboration to date has been in the form of improved capacity within the field of data analytics covered in the training. Additionally through meetings and networking opportunities that were provided during the visit, more tangible outputs would be expected in the fullness of time. As mentioned above, collaboration between our data management team and Mr Ramage in ongoing with a view to consolidating geospatial datasets on our open data portals. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Scottish Informatics and Linkage Collaboration (SILC) |
| Organisation | Administrative Data Research Centre for Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UBDC as part of this partnership delivers an end-to-end service for secure / safelab administrative data research. We find projects with impactful objectives around urban big data research and support them in finalising needed data sharing agreements, privacy impact assessments, etc. |
| Collaborator Contribution | These partners provide the physical 'safelab' facilities for UBDC's Controlled Data Service users, plus other infrastructure such as expert staff to do secure data linkage. |
| Impact | Delivery of data and services to internal UBDC projects (Education and Housing) plus 7 external Controlled Data Service projects under way. Co-delivery of Data Linkage Scotland event which raised awareness of UBDC's services. UBDC has delivered two training workshops (in Glasgow and Manchester) introducing researchers to the use of SILC facilities via UBDC, from which UBDC has already had several enquiries. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Scottish Informatics and Linkage Collaboration (SILC) |
| Organisation | Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UBDC as part of this partnership delivers an end-to-end service for secure / safelab administrative data research. We find projects with impactful objectives around urban big data research and support them in finalising needed data sharing agreements, privacy impact assessments, etc. |
| Collaborator Contribution | These partners provide the physical 'safelab' facilities for UBDC's Controlled Data Service users, plus other infrastructure such as expert staff to do secure data linkage. |
| Impact | Delivery of data and services to internal UBDC projects (Education and Housing) plus 7 external Controlled Data Service projects under way. Co-delivery of Data Linkage Scotland event which raised awareness of UBDC's services. UBDC has delivered two training workshops (in Glasgow and Manchester) introducing researchers to the use of SILC facilities via UBDC, from which UBDC has already had several enquiries. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Scottish Open Data Unconference Partnership |
| Organisation | Code the City |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | UBDC is supporting the Scottish Open Data Unconference (Aberdeen 14th and 15th March 2020), administered by Code The City, with participation and modest funding |
| Collaborator Contribution | The event will bring together data scientists and those with relevant core skills and provide a means to showcase UBDC's own work |
| Impact | Participation with a modest sponsorship will provide us with the means to connect with relevant technologist and domain practitioners in the North East region of Scotland |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Scottish Parliament Information Centre housing fellowship |
| Organisation | Scottish Parliament |
| Department | Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I received a SPICe funded fellowship position to carry out an evidence review, consultation, and to develop and write two briefing papers with colleagues at SPICe, and CaCHE on the private rental sector.. I was primarily responsible for carrying out the review, and consultation with senior figures in the industry. I was responsible for writing Briefing paper 1 and for making a significant contribution to writing Briefing paper 2. Much of this work built on and was informed by the work we had been doing in the housing research group at the UBDC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | SPICE provided resources and expertise in the form of Kate Berry who is a Senior Researcher (Justice and Social Affairs Unit). Kate co-wrote the briefing papers, helped organise dissemination events and papers. |
| Impact | We have produced two briefing papers as a result of this fellowship: PRIVATE RENTING REFORMS: HOW TO EVIDENCE THE IMPACT OF LEGISLATION https://digitalpublications.parliament.scot/ResearchBriefings/Report/2018/11/14/Private-renting-reforms--how-to-evidence-the-impact-of-legislation-1 OVERVIEW OF PRIVATE RENTED HOUSING REFORMS IN SCOTLAND https://digitalpublications.parliament.scot/ResearchBriefings/Report/2019/5/14/Overview-of-private-rented-housing-reforms-in-Scotland |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN) Collaboration |
| Organisation | Scottish Power Ltd |
| Department | Scottish Power Energy Networks |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Co-developing research and impact/engagement activities with SPEN around zero-carbon agenda and SPEN's transition to Distribution System Operator. Includes research and impacts intended to align with forthcoming COP26 meeting in Glasgow, 2021. Participation in a series of meetings intended to highlight opportunities for SPEN re: - the use of new and emerging forms of data in maintaining adequate infrastructure for new demands on the energy network as a result of zero carbon agenda - appropriate data management policies and approaches - sourcing of new data sources to inform policy development |
| Collaborator Contribution | SPEN are providing use cases and impact pathways for UBDC research and methods and ultimately are expected to contribute resources to facilitate the completion of related research and impact activities. |
| Impact | - planned research / impact collaborations - outcomes of intensive SPEN / UBDC workshop - SPEN data management policy |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Spatial Interaction Modelling (Arizona State University and UBDC) |
| Organisation | Arizona State University |
| Department | School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UBDC researcher Dr Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka has been working with researchers at ASU on topics related to spatial interaction modelling, bringing expertise gained at UDC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof. Stewart Fotheringham from ASU is bringing his own expertise in the area of spatial interaction modelling to this collaboration with UBDC. |
| Impact | This collaboration will lead to scientific outputs including publications and provision of data services to users at UBDC. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Strathclyde Partnership for Transport |
| Organisation | Strathclyde Partnership for Transport |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We had meetings and collected subway data for research. Our team is currently working on public transport research with the data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They provided us their data so we can do research about public transport system in Glasgow. |
| Impact | We are working on a paper about public transport systems in Glasgow. We will use it to make further collaboration with them. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Strava Impact Accelerator Account Partnership |
| Organisation | Strava, Inc |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Driven by GDPR and the broader evolving data privacy context, Strava announced in 2018 several changes to the data specification for its Metro product. Among the changes were additional aggregation and rounding of data counts as well as limitations on origin/destination information available from within the dataset. Given the sensitive context, Strava is understandably resistant to implementing a more relaxed data specification. We have had productive conversations with Strava regarding best practice for balancing analytical value with privacy protection, and shared several resources that outline methods for disclosure control that optimise the value of data. There are several methodologies available for achieving similar outcomes, enabling the production of privacy-protected data specifications that offer higher levels of utility than those currently available. Strava colleagues indicated that our feedback regarding the new Metro specification is consistent with that received from elsewhere. We aimedto be able to support Strava's response by initially offering recommendations to support greater flexibility, providing end users with expressive datasets while retaining appropriate safeguards and assurances of methodological robustness. We have therefore undertaken a full substantive review of the new Strava Metro format and sought to evaluate its continued utility and value, including its expressiveness to be used to reproduce existing work undertaken with older specification data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time Strava has agreed to provide a range of resources in support of this research activity, primarily in terms of staff availability, including engineering, spatial specialists and strategic / management, but also including limited data availability: 3 x staff members - 1 product manager, 1 engineer, 1 geospatial analyst 8-10 hours each Non-staff costs Sample data for additional areas of study, custom data builds to support research |
| Impact | The study has revealed several opportunities to optimise Strava's new approach, whether in terms of adjustments to the specification itself, or refinement of governance and sharing arrangements to mitigate risks associated with less aggregated data in a less destructive way. We are currently in the final stages of publishing the report and engaging with Strava senior management. We remain hopeful that our role of critical friend will continue to be valued by Strava; the experience has also provided useful opportunities to reflect on some of the challenges and implicit tensions in academic collaborations with commercial organisations, as well as to develop appropriate mitigation measures to effectively offset these. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Tamoco Data License |
| Organisation | Tamoco Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has agreed a contract with Tamoco for the supply of mobility data covering the period 2019 - 2021, enabling its usage for academic research and government non-commercial usage. EDIT - UBDC has renewed and extended its agreement with Tamoco, offering full UK data coverage for period 2019 - 2022. This includes access for academic research use with government non-commercial usage limited to original spatial region (Glasgow City Region authorities) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Through its relationships with a wide selection of mobile app publishers Tamoco captures location information of app users and relates these to a network of points of interest. Our data coverage includes Glasgow and the seven neighbouring local authorities. |
| Impact | Data availability to commence in February 2021. We anticipate widespread interest in the data, including from local government within the Glasgow City Region and wider Scottish policy communities, as well as elsewhere within the UK. In addition, we have been collaborating in conversations with the Open Data Institute and Cabinet Office / Geospatial Commission re: agenda for acquiring new mobility information. Furthermore, the data will inform UBDC's own research agenda around transport and mobility as well as economic activity. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | The Data Lab Data Fest Fringe |
| Organisation | The Data Lab - Innovation Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has agreed to run a workshop on effective models for engagement between academia and government as part of Datalab's annual Datafest Fringe |
| Collaborator Contribution | Datalab will support our event with promotion and market the event and its outcomes to a wide audience of highly relevant stakeholders |
| Impact | Datafest is a premier data-related fixture within the Scottish event calendar and our association with it as part of the fringe will serve to promote our work and extend our reach and influence with key public sector, industry, third sector and academic stakeholders |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | The Improvement Service - Data Agreement |
| Organisation | Improvement Service |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has been in negotiation for some time with the Improvement Service to help facilitate broader access to data, specifically for academic use. This is expected to be ultimately a responsibility that EDINA will administer through its Digimap platform but for the time being we have been given confirmation that we may act as data distributors provided that terms of use are adhered to |
| Collaborator Contribution | Improvement Service has published c. 36 datasets for academic use that UBDC is positioned to promote and assist in making available |
| Impact | Data such as nationwide school catchment areas have been long sought after by UBDC and associated researchers so this development has the opportunity to inform well established and refined work |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | The building of an integrated Uk housing data set |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are working with UCL's CASA and Ordinance Survey(OS) to create a national housing data set. UBDC are carrying out linkage to examine the success of previous linkage by OS and to look for improvements. Once established we want to roll out the methodology to a number of housing data, like the land registry and Energy Performance Certificates |
| Collaborator Contribution | Adam Dennett in CASA has expertise in this area and has worked with Bin Chi a postdoctoral researcher working on this project. He brings insight and connections to the Department for Leveling UP, Housing and Communities and Ordinance Survey. |
| Impact | We have been successful in attracting funding from Ordinance Survey and |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | UBDC - BikeCitizen Collaboration |
| Organisation | Bike Citizens |
| Country | Austria |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | A collaborative MSc dissertation has been established with Bike Citizen in the year 2021-22. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Mihai from the Bike Citizen provides data, guidance, support for our MSc students. |
| Impact | An MSc dissertation will be finished and the results will be delivered to Bike Citizen. Also the student will develop the survey component of their app and the component can be reused in the app in the future. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | UBDC - Cycling Scotland Collaboration |
| Organisation | Cycling Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | A collaborative MSc dissertation has been established with Cycling Scotland in the year 2020-21 and 2021-22. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Nick from the Cycling Scotland provides data, guidance, support for our MSc students. |
| Impact | A MSc dissertation has been finished and the results have been delivered to Cycling Scotland. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | UBDC - Lumiere Property Collaboration |
| Organisation | Lumiere Property |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Four MSc Urban Analytics students work on the urban analytics group project to look at Using Urban Data Science to Predict Property Development Planning Successes: Recommendations to Lumiere Property in 2020. In 2021, 4 MSc Urban Analytics students work on the group project again to look at how to classifying protected trees by using deep learning models. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Geoff Smith from the Lumiere Property provides data, guidance, and support for the student group project. |
| Impact | A student group project report has been produced and delivered to the Lumiere Property. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | UBDC - Sustrans Collaboration |
| Organisation | Sustrans |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | A collaborative MSc dissertation has been established with the Sustrans through the Data Lab Scholarship Placement program. A collaborative MSc group project has been established in the year of 2021-22. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Cecilia from the Sustrans provides data, guidance, support, and internship salaries for our MSc students. |
| Impact | A MSc dissertation in progress. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | UBDC - the Salvation Army Collaboration |
| Organisation | Salvation Army |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | A collaborative dissertation proposal has been established with the Salvation Army and is submitted to SGSSS collaborative PhD fellowship and College of Social Science PhD fellowship. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Adrian from the Salvation Army provides data, guidance, and support for the 4 years PhD projects. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | UBDC / AURIN Memorandum of Understanding |
| Organisation | University of Melbourne |
| Department | Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has met with key people from AURIN, and hosted an AURIN Board Member visit to our Centre to discuss matters of mutual interest. |
| Collaborator Contribution | AURIN staff have visited UBDC and presented on their work and experiences to UBDC staff. |
| Impact | A signed MOU with the Australian Urban Infrastructure Research Network (AURIN) to establish our cooperative research relationship and explore joint projects together. Project development is ongoing. This collaboration is multi-disciplinary as both Centres involve a wide range of disciplines involved in researching urban issues. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | UBDC / BlueSky LiDAR Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | Bluesky International |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The UBDC data service has agreed with BlueSky to make their LiDAR data for the Glasgow area (2003) available for non-commercial research purposes to users. UBDC has also used this data in developing materials that promote BlueSky's involvement. |
| Collaborator Contribution | LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging - is a remote sensing method used to examine the surface of the Earth. LiDAR data is extremely accurate 3D data generated from sensors on the ground or on airplanes. These accurate models have uses for local government planners who need detailed structural plans of the city. LiDAR is also regularly used by archaeologists, computer scientists, and civil engineering companies. This data is available as part of UBDC's Safeguarded Data Collection. Data owner: BlueSky Coverage (geographical): Glasgow Coverage (time): 2003 Who can use this data? Only academic research users |
| Impact | The LiDAR Data available at UBDC has been requested by a number of internal and external users (ca 50 requests to date). It is a key component of our integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) collection. It has been used to develop a planning map for Glasgow University's Western Infirmary site development, and has also been used to create a popular graphic that UBDC has made available of traffic flows in Glasgow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzpRUuDjiO4 Research publications based on this data are in progress. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | UBDC / British Geological Survey Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | British Geological Survey |
| Department | Accessing Subsurface Knowledge Network |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UBDC offering BGS CUSP data for the Glasgow region in our Safeguarded Data Collection for urban and data science researchers is extending the impact of this data, which has previously mainly been used by engineers and other technical planning operations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Licensing of BGS CUSP data for the Greater Glasgow and the Clyde estuary and catchment areas from the CUSP project, so that non-commercial research use can be made of the data within urban studies / urban science and data science. |
| Impact | UBDC anticipates using the data internally on data models, visualisations, urban indicators and more, plus we have had several enquiries to use the data from external users leading to strong potential for KE and policy-related impact in Glasgow and Scotland, including from colleagues interested in the data's applications within the ESRC Understanding Inequalities project. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | UBDC / DCLG Data Sharing Agreement - Zoopla data |
| Organisation | Department for Communities and Local Government |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The UK Department for Communities and Local Government entered into a sub-licensing agreement with UBDC to access Zoopla property listings data in our Safeguarded Data Collection, to support real time tracking of housing market information and explore methods for matching the data to other administrative datasets. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We remain in dialogue with DCLG regarding outputs from their use of this data. |
| Impact | We expect that government will produce outputs from their use of Zoopla and similar data that offer compelling public interest benefits. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC / Essex County Council Data Sharing Agreement - Zoopla data |
| Organisation | Essex County Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Essex County Council entered into a sub-licensing agreement with UBDC to access Zoopla property listings data in support of their pursuit of new, innovative and commercially driven ways of addressing the increase and diversity of population, housing and jobs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project was eventually cancelled by Essex County Council. |
| Impact | None. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | UBDC / Experian Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | Experian |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has acquired from Experian its GOAD Retail Address data, offering a perspective of commercial retail properties across five separate years. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Goad Plan Data Experian is a dataset with retail areas within urban areas across the whole UK and Ireland; its comprehensiveness and time period coverage has the potential to support high quality research through both coverage and geographic linkability; and the data is "naturally occurring" in that it is collated by a company for use in planning and marketing commercial ventures in cities. |
| Impact | Data in use in various internal and external projects associated with commercial retail. 16 requests for this data have been received to date. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | UBDC / Glasgow City Assessor Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Department | Glasgow City Assessor |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has established itself as a license provider of this data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have received from Glasgow City Assessor Valuation Roll data for the period 1995 to 2018. The dataset contains location, property description and net annual value and rateable value information for commercial properties within the Glasgow City Local Authority Area. |
| Impact | Data in use in various studies into commercial property. 7 requests for this data have been received to date. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | UBDC / Glasgow City Council Data Sharing Agreement - Strava data |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Glasgow City Council entered into a sub-licensing agreement with UBDC to access Strava Metro data from our Safeguarded Data Collection, to inform infrastructural planning and development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration is in the process of identifying a strategic access network for the Glasgow City Region which includes walking and cycling. The purpose of this exercise is to inform the development of a Green Network "Blueprint" for the next regional city plan (which will replace the Strategic Development Plan - Clydeplan). The under lying principle is that as far as is possible the Green Network should facilitate the movement of people around the city region to places of work and education, for recreation and a myriad of other activities. |
| Impact | We hope to identify policy impact based on the use of this data within Glasgow. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | UBDC / Glasgow City Council Over-65s Falls Data 2011 - 15 Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has acquired data from ISD Scotland that can be shared under an open licence. The UBDC collaborative project "Supporting independent living through the prediction and prevention of falls", with Glasgow City Council, has made this and other data more widely available, and produced a policy briefing report for the use of Glasgow City Council. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UBDC has acquired data from ISD Scotland that can be shared under an open licence. The dataset provides information about falls among people 65 and older. The data covers Glasgow City Council area for years ending 31 March 2011-2015. Data is provided by 2011 datazones. The data was purchased from Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland (part of NHS National Services Scotland) by UBDC for the collaborative project "Supporting independent living through the prediction and prevention of falls" between UBDC and Glasgow City Council. The data comes from two main sources: • Scottish Morbidity Records (SMR01 - General / Acute Inpatient and Day Case). Data is based on year of discharge from hospital. Population data is from National Records of Scotland (NRS). More on SMR 01 http://www.ndc.scot.nhs.uk/Data-Dictionary/SMR-Datasets//SMR01-General-Acute-Inpatient-and-Day-Case/ • Unscheduled Care Datamart (UCD) - The UCD is populated by data from a variety of services. These data come from NHS 24 and the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS). |
| Impact | As open data in our Portal, we are monitoring its usage on an ongoing basis. Internally, the data has been used in the production of a policy briefing report produced by UBDC in collaboration with Glasgow City Council entitled "Supporting Independent Living Through the Prediction and Prevention of Falls". |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC / Glasgow City Council Over-65s Falls Data 2011 - 15 Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | Information Services Division (ISD) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has acquired data from ISD Scotland that can be shared under an open licence. The UBDC collaborative project "Supporting independent living through the prediction and prevention of falls", with Glasgow City Council, has made this and other data more widely available, and produced a policy briefing report for the use of Glasgow City Council. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UBDC has acquired data from ISD Scotland that can be shared under an open licence. The dataset provides information about falls among people 65 and older. The data covers Glasgow City Council area for years ending 31 March 2011-2015. Data is provided by 2011 datazones. The data was purchased from Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland (part of NHS National Services Scotland) by UBDC for the collaborative project "Supporting independent living through the prediction and prevention of falls" between UBDC and Glasgow City Council. The data comes from two main sources: • Scottish Morbidity Records (SMR01 - General / Acute Inpatient and Day Case). Data is based on year of discharge from hospital. Population data is from National Records of Scotland (NRS). More on SMR 01 http://www.ndc.scot.nhs.uk/Data-Dictionary/SMR-Datasets//SMR01-General-Acute-Inpatient-and-Day-Case/ • Unscheduled Care Datamart (UCD) - The UCD is populated by data from a variety of services. These data come from NHS 24 and the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS). |
| Impact | As open data in our Portal, we are monitoring its usage on an ongoing basis. Internally, the data has been used in the production of a policy briefing report produced by UBDC in collaboration with Glasgow City Council entitled "Supporting Independent Living Through the Prediction and Prevention of Falls". |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC / Glasgow City Council Project Collaboration |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | In collaboration with the Glasgow City Council, the project 'Supporting independent living' aimed to understand the reasons behind falls among the elderly, through the analysis of various data sources, including open data available from the UBDC, so that effective strategies can be developed to prevent them. UBDC sourced and acquired the relevant data for the project and provided an intern (from the Q-Step Programme) to assist with the final report. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Glasgow offered initial context to the issue and explored availability of their own data to share in support of the research outcomes. |
| Impact | As an outcome of this work UBDC produced a policy briefing report summarising the pattern of falls in the elderly population in Glasgow City and making several recommendations in order to inform effective interventions on falls prevention. The Centre also now has open data acquired and developed for this project available to researchers in the Open Data Portal: http://ubdc.gla.ac.uk/dataset/fms-glasgow-to-2017, http://ubdc.gla.ac.uk/dataset/gcc-over65-falls-2011-15 and http://ubdc.gla.ac.uk/dataset/nhs-ggc-cfpp-referrals-2010-16, and a blog post describing the work for the general reader: http://ubdc.ac.uk/news/2018/january/supporting-independent-living-by-preventing-falls/. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | UBDC / Higher Education Statistics Authority (HESA) Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | Higher Education Statistical Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has acquired from HESA data on students, qualifiers and leavers 2000/01-2015/16 at UK HE providers. In its raw form the data is accessible to only named authorised researchers but UBDC is permitted to produce aggregate derived datasets for wider distribution for academic research use. |
| Collaborator Contribution | HESA has made the data available to named researchers from UBDC's Educational Place and Disadvantage project but permits the production and wider sharing (for academic use) of derived aggregate datasets. |
| Impact | The data provided will benefit the UBDC Educational Place and Disadvantage project to continue to develop a whole-of-life picture of educational journeys and outcomes, in association with previous data acquisitions including data acquired from UCAS and the Scottish Government. We expect wider research audiences to similarly benefit from aggregate datasets that will be made available. Future plans for linkage of this data with other data acquired are summarised in this blog post by UBDC researcher Phil Mason: http://ubdc.ac.uk/news/2018/february/educational-trajectories-and-place-based-disadvantage-looking-deeper-and-wider/ |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | UBDC / Lokku Limited (Nestoria) Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | Lokku Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has become the UK distributor for data from the Nestoria housing advertisement website, for non-commercial research use. We enable research with scientific and public benefit impact to be done with the data, which provides Nestoria with positive publicity. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UBDC has permission from Lokku Limited to make data downloaded from the Nestoria property search engine for Glasgow, and subsequently the whole UK, for non-commercial research use. The data covers both sales and rental properties advertised and was collected daily from Nestoria. The data includes the summary description of the property, advertised price, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, updates, image links and location (lat/lon). Coverage (geographical): Glasgow region (G postcodes and selected PA postcodes); now collecting UK-wide data. Format: Monthly sales or rentals files in csv format. |
| Impact | Nestoria's data has evinced some interest with UBDC's data service users, both within the UBDC consortium, and with external users with ca 35 requests to date. However, over time it has been overtaken by the Zoopla data collection, as ongoing research and investigation has shown the Nestoria data to not be as useful for housing research. Nevertheless, it is still sometimes requested and remains in our Safeguarded Data Collection. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | UBDC / Lothian Valuation Joint Board (LVJB) Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | Lothian Valuation Joint Board |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has established itself as a licensed provider of this data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lothian Valuation Roll is a dataset which contains an entry for all non domestic properties in the Lothian's administrative areas except those specifically excluded by law. Each entry in the Roll includes the Net Annual Value which has been set by the Assessor and the Rateable Value. The Rateable Value is derived from the Net Annual value and as legislation currently stands, for the majority of properties, Rateable Value and Net Annual Value are the same. |
| Impact | Data in use in various studies into commercial property. 8 requests for this data have been received to date. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | UBDC / ONS Data Sharing Agreement - Zoopla data |
| Organisation | Office for National Statistics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | ONS entered into a sub-licensing agreement with UBDC to access Zoopla property listings data held in our Safeguarded Data Collection, to inform their feasibility studies in estimating types of properties, characteristics of properties and house sales and rental market. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ONS has published a report into "Rent price statistics for small areas, Great Britain: 2012 to 2016" using data provided by UBDC. Their Big Data Team have also used the Zoopla for investigating 'Caravans and gated communities: homes or holiday properties?', with an ONS article published in April 2018: https://digitalblog.ons.gov.uk/2017/06/21/happy-campers-using-machine-learning-to-identify-caravans-in-zoopla-data/ and code from their work on the ONS public GitHub: https://github.com/ONSBigData/housing_clf. |
| Impact | As well as sharing data with ONS we supported their Data Dive using Housing Data with data and staff support, plus one entrant (under Engagement) and hope to continue to engage on methodological aspects, including with ONS Data Science Campus which was established in 2016. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC / Registers of Scotland Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | Registers of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has become a distributor of Registers of Scotland All Sales Property data for non-commercial academic use. We enable research with scientific and public benefit impact to take place, promoting the data and Registers of Scotland's activities and driving wider usage of their services. |
| Collaborator Contribution | RoS has provided access to Current and Historic All Sales data for Scotland, covering 2003 to the January 2019, with new and updated data retrieved on a monthly basis. Reports comprise details of Master, Address, Granter and Applicant. For each registered entry the data includes Application Date, Title Number, Application Number, Application Type, Price Paid, Value, Property Address, Property Easting and Northing and OSAPR, Land Class, Date of Entry an Deed Code information. Property types are also supplied under the terms of the agreement. Projects wishing to use the additional Granter Name/Address and Applicant Name/Address data are required to apply separately via UBDC (UBDC does not hold this information, which may be classified personal data). UBDC is permitted to share for academic research use, although each usage outwith University of Glasgow incurs an additional licensing fee, to be paid by UBDC. |
| Impact | These data will be used by a range of internal UBDC projects and in the development of platforms such as SUDS that aim to present a multidimensional representation of the world through combining data collections. It is also being used by our externally approved project "Integrating Data and Interests within an Urban Retailing System". We have been marketing this dataset for 2 months, for external usage, and have received a number of applications, including work exploring fiscal and energy policy impact. At present three projects (two related PhDs and a contribution to UBDC's sister BDN2 Centre CDRC's small area data validatio work) are approved and in process. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC / Renfrewshire Council Information Sharing Protocol |
| Organisation | Renfrewshire Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has acquired data from Renfrewshire Council for the "Health and Social Care" Controlled Data Service project, accessible only to named researchers via the eDRIS National Safe Haven facility. The researcher is working closely with the Council and sharing research results to support their understanding of their data and assist with planning. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The data provided by Renfrewshire Council comprises demographic and social care (care plan, self-directed support, home care, meals, equipment and adaptions, care home, day care, and respite) data from 1st April 2006 to 31st March 2016. |
| Impact | We expect to see scientific and public interest benefits as the research continues. A quote from the partner organisation: "Danny McAllion, Data Analytics and Research Manager at Renfrewshire council, said "This research will help move forward our understanding of how social care is currently delivered and assist us in improving the design and delivery of our services. Working with the UBDC has been a valuable experience and a good example of academia and Local Government sharing resources and expertise. We'll look for opportunities to work with them again in the future." |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC / Scotlands Towns Partnership Data Sharing Agreement - Zoopla data |
| Organisation | Scotland's Towns Partnership |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Scotland's Towns Partnership, part of a consortium that includes Scottish Government, the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES), and the University of Stirling, entered into a sub-licensing agreement with UBDC to access Zoopla property listings data to create a locality-level house price indicator as part of the Understanding Scottish Places platform (USP, http://www.usp.scot). USP is used for non-commercial research purposes, primarily by local authorities, public servants and planning consultants. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We remain in dialogue with STP regarding the publication of these indicators, which we have been advised will appear in April 2018. |
| Impact | Scotland's Towns Partnership (STP) is a Government funded agency for town centre regeneration set up at the end of 2014. USP is a world first data platform modelling all Scottish towns with populations greater than 1000 (479 towns in total). The platform allows users to interrogate towns based on real data - an audit will show weak spots and areas for improvement for Local Authorities to take action. As of mid-2017 the site had received 155k visits. In addition to UBDC data, the resource uses a combination of sources, mainly census based. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC / Scottish Government Data Sharing Agreement - Education Analytical Services (EAS) |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Department | Education Analytical Services Division |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has acquired under license data from Scottish Government EAS to support named researchers from the UBDC Educational Place and Disadvantage project to explore how place shapes educational disadvantage and learning success and seeking to define the 'spatial school system' in Glasgow City region. The data is accessible only to named researchers via UBDC's Controlled Data Service, using the eDRIS National Safe Haven facility. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data shared by Scottish Government includes Pupil Census (S4, S5 and S6 for years 2006/07 to 2014/15), school leavers (2006/07 - 2014/15), school attendance and absence (S4, S5 or S6 for years 2006/07-2014/15) and school level variables for secondary schools 2006/07-2014/15. The data are shared at individual level for Glasgow City and the surrounding seven local authorities. |
| Impact | The data is being used by the UBDC Educational Place and Disadvantage project in association with other datasets acquired to support that project. Publications and other outputs are expected. One recent outcome has been the funding awarded by the British Council to some members of the Education research team, for their 'Impact Study of British Council School Programmes', which will include use of the data acquired through this partnership. The grant is over £66,000 and is noted in the Further Funding section. We also have a blog update on progress by UBDC researcher Phil Mason, here: http://ubdc.ac.uk/news/2018/february/educational-trajectories-and-place-based-disadvantage-looking-deeper-and-wider/ |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | UBDC / Scottish Government Data Sharing Agreement - Health and Social Care |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has acquired data for its "Health and Social Care" Controlled Data Service project. This work will provide scientific and public benefit impacts. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UBDC has acquired data for its "Health and Social Care" Controlled Data Service project, accessible only to named researchers via the eDRIS National Safe Haven facility. The data to be provided comprises NHS NSS data (SMR01, SMR04, AE2, PIS), Community Health Index (CHI) data, Social Care Survey 2012 - 16 data (Scottish Government) and Death Registrations data (National Records of Scotland). Data are generally from 2010 - 2015, with CHI for births before 1951 and still alive at end of March 2016. |
| Impact | We expect to see scientific and public interest benefits as the research continues. See also under UBDC / Renfrewshire Council Information Sharing Protocol in this section. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC / Scottish Government Data Sharing Agreement - Looked After Children |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Department | Education Analytical Services Division |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has acquired data for its "Looked After Children" Controlled Data Service project, accessible only to named researchers via the eDRIS National Safe Haven facility |
| Collaborator Contribution | The data provided by Scottish Government EAS comprises Schools data (pupil census) and Looked After Children data (CLAS) from 2009, to be linked with non-Scottish Government sources from NRS (birth and death registrations) and health data SMR 00,01,02,04, Prescribing Information Systems, and A&E admissions. |
| Impact | We expect to see scientific and public interest benefits as the research continues. The project lead has also looked into getting a PhD student to work on this research. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC / South Tyneside Council Data Sharing Agreement - Strava data |
| Organisation | South Tyneside Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | South Tyneside Council entered into a sub-licensing agreement with UBDC to access Strava Metro data from our Safeguarded Data Collection, to inform its upcoming Cycling and Walking Investment Plan and the development of schemes, both Capital and Revenue for the next several years. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The work is to enhance existing efforts using the Propensity to Cycle Model, in order to provide a robust evidence base to validate and justify financial investments into their network. |
| Impact | We will continue to liaise with the Council to track benefits and impacts. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | UBDC / Springboard Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | Springboard |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has acquired Springboard footfall data to make available for academic and public sector research usage. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Springboard has provided access under licence to a dataset comprising average weekly footfall by town and average weekly footfall by specific locations in fifteen UK towns and cities. Coverage includes a total of 48 counting locations across Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Chester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Reading, Southampton and York. Weekly counts are provided from January 2013 to December 2017. |
| Impact | These data are being used in a variety of internal and external research projects, exploring issues including the future of commercial retail, and energy and fiscal policy. To date, 13 requests for these data have been received. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | UBDC / Stirling University / NHS Scotland Public Benefits and Privacy Panel Approval |
| Organisation | NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC's Controlled Data Service Project "Life Unleaded: investigating the effects of public interventions to reduce water lead pollution on infants and children's health" will allow a researcher based at the University of Stirling carry out research of scientific importance and public benefit impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UBDC's Controlled Data Service Project "Life Unleaded: investigating the effects of public interventions to reduce water lead pollution on infants and children's health" has had its public benefits and privacy panel application to use health data approved. The data will be made accessible to named researchers via the eDRIS National Safe Haven. The data to be provided and linked includes SMR 01 and SMR 02 health data as well as death and birth registrations data from NRS for a variety of years, mostly between 1975 and 2000. |
| Impact | We expect to see scientific and public interest benefits as the research progresses. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC / Stirling University / NHS Scotland Public Benefits and Privacy Panel Approval |
| Organisation | University of Stirling |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UBDC's Controlled Data Service Project "Life Unleaded: investigating the effects of public interventions to reduce water lead pollution on infants and children's health" will allow a researcher based at the University of Stirling carry out research of scientific importance and public benefit impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UBDC's Controlled Data Service Project "Life Unleaded: investigating the effects of public interventions to reduce water lead pollution on infants and children's health" has had its public benefits and privacy panel application to use health data approved. The data will be made accessible to named researchers via the eDRIS National Safe Haven. The data to be provided and linked includes SMR 01 and SMR 02 health data as well as death and birth registrations data from NRS for a variety of years, mostly between 1975 and 2000. |
| Impact | We expect to see scientific and public interest benefits as the research progresses. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC / Strava (Metro) Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | Strava, Inc |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC is, as a result of this agreement, the UK distributor for UK Strava Metro data from Strava's cycling and walking app, for research use (apart from London data, which is subject to a Strava agreement with TfL). We enable research in any sector, with scientific and public benefit impact, to be done with the data, and use it ourselves in our internal research programmes and SUDS Urban Indicators collection. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Strava is a social network for athletes, recording data from its users who upload cycle rides and running activity via smartphone or GPS device. This dataset, now available in UBDC's Safeguarded Data Collection for research users, currently comprises anonymised data from Strava users in Scotland, Manchester, Sheffield, and Tyne and Wear (including Newcastle). The Strava Metro aggregate information provides GIS compatible data that offer a minute by minute count of users at street level and wait times at intersections based on the Open Street Map roads network. The origin and destination of trips is also available, resolved to census output areas. Data owner: Strava Inc.; Coverage (geographical): Scotland, Tyne & Wear, Manchester, Sheffield; Coverage (time): 2015 - 2018 (quarterly data deliveries), except Sheffield - 2017 only, data corresponding solely to Glasgow is also available for 2013 and 2014; Who can use this data? Anyone; Format: Supplied as ESRI .shp file and csv format. |
| Impact | Strava data has proven very popular with UBDC's data service users, both within the UBDC consortium, and with external users. We have had requests from academics at all levels and from many disciplines, local authorities, public bodies, campaign groups and private individuals to use this data. Approximate requests to date are: Strava (Glasgow): 72; Strava (Scotland): 77; Strava (Tyne and Wear): 48; Strava (Manchester (24). Strava (Sheffield) has not been released for use at time of writing but there has been interest shown from stakeholders already. Research applications include pilot work to explore the influence that road lighting has on cycling activity in several English cities; crash modelling work in a range of UK locations; and research into the effectiveness of resource investment into active travel. In terms of wider policy influence, we are providing Strava data to facilitate planning activities undertaken by Nestrans, the Transport Partnership for Aberdeen City and Shire. Several organisations including Cycling Scotland and South Tyneside Council are using Strava to explore cycling potential and propensity to cycle to validate and incentivise infrastructural investments. We have also attracted ca. 140 additional users of Strava data through participation in data challenge and hack day events administered internally by UBDC as well as in partnership with ONS and Alan Turing Institute, and as part of ProductForge's Public Health hackathon (in collaboration with the NHS). UBDC's own Active Travel Data Challenge and Demo Day brought in ca 40 people from activist, third sector, academic, government and commercial backgrounds and this has lead to several partnership projects. Finally, the permissive terms and conditions of the Strava Metro data has enabled diverse types of engagement with several commercial organisations - we are working with multinational planning companies Sweco and Arup to support their work with local authorities to validate infrastructural investment decisions using Strava data; supporting the improvement of customer insights for ScotRail; and providing Strava data for ESRI (the publisher of leading GIS platform ArcGIS) to develop and demonstrate its visualisation functionality. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | UBDC / UCAS Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | Universities and Colleges Admissions Service |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has acquired under license data relating to UK students' applications for entry to UK HE institutions from 2000 to 2015. The data's usage is limited to University of Glasgow researchers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our data collection from UCAS comprises aggregated queried data for full- and part-time students (UK and non-UK domiciled) from years of entry to Higher Education study for years 2000 to 2015 inclusive. |
| Impact | The data are being used by the UBDC Educational Place and Disadvantage project: http://ubdc.ac.uk/research/ubdc-staff-research-projects/neighbourhoods-housing-and-educational-opportunity/ - in association with other datasets acquired to support that project. Publications and other outputs are expected from that project. UBDC also retained the services of Q-Step intern Euan Murphie to create an openly available Data Note summarising this data (see under Publications) and co-author a blog post for the general reader about it: http://ubdc.ac.uk/news/2017/may/ucas-application-and-applicant-analysis/ |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC / Welsh Government Data Sharing Agreement - Zoopla data |
| Organisation | Government of Wales |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Several staff members on behalf of the Welsh Government have entered into sub-licensing agreements with UBDC to access Zoopla property listings data to improve knowledge of Welsh housing trends and the Welsh housing market. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We remain in dialogue with colleagues regarding outputs from their use of this data. |
| Impact | We expect that governments will produce outputs from their use of Zoopla and similar data that offer compelling public interest benefits. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC / Zoopla Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | Zoopla Property Group Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC is the UK distributor for data from the Zoopla housing advertisement website, for any non-commercial use (including research and teaching). We enable research with scientific and public benefit impact to be done with the data, which provides Zoopla with positive publicity, as well as giving them information in support of their own data business model. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UBDC has permission from Zoopla Property Group Ltd to make data downloaded from their property website for the whole UK, for non-commercial research use. Zoopla is one of the UK's leading providers of property data for consumers and property professionals, giving free access to information on 27,000,000 homes, up to 1,000,000 property listings and 15 years of sold prices data. UBDC is licensed by Zoopla to 1) provide access to original or resulting data (including historical data) to registered researchers and 2) publish online aggregate data (at Datazone level) comprising counts of the number of advertisements for rental properties and average rentals and counts of the number of advertisements for properties for sale and average prices. Coverage (geographical): United Kingdom. Coverage (time): 2010 to current. Format: JSON or CSV or similar tabular format. |
| Impact | Zoopla data has proven popular with UBDC's data service users, both within the UBDC consortium, and with external users, with ca 60 requests to date. This data is contributing to UBDC's own housing sector research, which will have direct impact on housing service provision and policy. Among the most prominent external users of these data has been ONS, who have been using Zoopla data provided by UBDC in several feasibility studies, to estimate types of properties in local areas, characteristics of properties and the house sales and rental market. This has generated wider enthusiasm for the data, including from the Department of Communities and Local Government who have sublicensed the Zoopla data to support real time tracking of housing market information and explore methods for matching the data to other administrative datasets. Also linked to government, the Zoopla data is being used by a consortium of organisations commissioned by the Scottish Government and led by the Carnegie UK Trust, and also includes Scotland's Towns Partnership (STP), the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) and the University of Stirling to create a locality-level house price indicator as part of the Understanding Scottish Places platform (USP, http://www.usp.scot). USP is used for non-commercial research purposes, primarily by local authorities, public servants and planning consultants. External academic research using the Zoopla data has explored the impact of Land and Buildings Transaction Tax reform; sought to evaluate the impact of windfarms on nearby house prices; explored seasonality of house prices; interpreted aggregated gas and electricity consumption data at postcode level, in pursuit of an understanding of the correlation with census demographic information and the underlying buildings; and, in the ESRC funded Accessibility, Social justice and Transport emission Impacts of transit-oriented Development strategies (ASTRID) project, investigated the causal mechanisms underlying disparity and social injustice in job accessibility and air quality in metropolitan areas, and the potential of transit-oriented development to promote social justice (Zoopla data from UBDC is being used for a study on affordability of environmental quality and job accessibility in London's segmented housing market). |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | UBDC Chicago Project working with OAI in Workforce Development, OAI, Inc |
| Organisation | OAI, Inc |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC's University of Illinois at Chicago project has a partnership with OAI, Inc., based in Chicago, that does Workforce Development. They work in different communities to enhance skills and connect job searchers to employers. They also run a program that pays for child care assistance for those who need it to participate in skills training and job finding. The project has a working relationship with the organization to inform the Agent Based Model (ABM) under development, based on their practical experience. They are also interested in what the ABM model predicts as effective strategies/policies in combating economic exclusion. Through this partnership there is the possibility to use the model in outreach to policy makers regarding which efforts/policies to support. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing data from their practical experience with the workforce in Chicago, to inform the ABM the project is developing. |
| Impact | No outcomes to report yet. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | UBDC Sheffield / ESRC Urban Inequalities collaboration |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC's Sheffield University Co-Investigator, Prof Gwilym Pryce and his team collaborated with the ESRC Urban Inequalities project by supporting them to use their 'visibility of green space' algorithm and outputs to look at the impact of inequality on health and wellbeing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Unknown. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | UBDC research collaboration with Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (WUELS) |
| Organisation | Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences |
| Country | Poland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UBDC researcher Dr Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka has a research collaboration where she is involved in a set of research projects related to human mobility analysis using big data such as mobile phone records, mobile apps' data etc. They have applied for two grants together, with success on the second one (recorded under Further Funding). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Early findings from the research collaboration were presented at a health conference in Bristol in January 2018 (http://architecturemps.com/bristol-2018 - in Engagement). |
| Impact | Climate-KIC Pathfinder grant (see under Further Funding). Dr Jan Kazak was then invited for a four-month SASNet Fellowship at UBDC in 2017 (in Internships / Fellowships section), where he carried out research using UBDC's iMCD data and presented a workshop and wrote a blog post on his findings. Future publications expexted. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | UBDC-Glasgow City Council 3D City Collaboration |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We collaborate with GCC on the 3D city modelling project. GCC and the Scottish Government share their updated LIDAR data with UBDC, and UBDC helps host/share the raw LIDAR data. UBDC also hires PDRA to process the raw LIDAR to other derived products such as 3D building and tree models. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Glasgow City Council collaborators provide data, guidance, and support for the LIDAR data and PDRA hiring cost. |
| Impact | MOU between UBDC and GCC has been established and UBDC will host LIDAR data and the derived data for better data sharing services and research purposes. GCC will also benefit from the building and tree models for their service, such as planning application. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | UBDC-Locomizer Collaboration |
| Organisation | Locomizer |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | One MSc Urban Analytics student works on the collaboration dissertation to look at Quantitative approach to identifying factors of urban revitalisation driven by public space development. Locomizer also collaborated with Dr. Qunshan Zhao on an Innovate UK funding bid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Alexei from the Locomizer provides data, guidance, and support for the student dissertation. |
| Impact | A student dissertation has been produced along with a report delivered to the Locomizer. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | UBDC-The British Red Cross Collaboration |
| Organisation | British Red Cross |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | One MSc Urban Analytics student works on the collaboration dissertation to look at data analysis and visualisation of philanthropic activities for small foundations and statutory donors in the UK. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lindsay from the British Red Cross provides data, guidance, and support for the student dissertation. |
| Impact | A student dissertation has been produced along with a report delivered to the British Red Cross. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Uber Movement Data Agreement |
| Organisation | Uber Technologies Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Uber has agreed with UBDC to provide early access to its Movement data set to identify research opportunities |
| Collaborator Contribution | "Movement shares historical, aggregated, and anonymized data to help provide insights into the towns and cities where Uber operates. There are two types of data we share through Movement: Zone to Zone Travel Times to help cities build towards better traffic and safety outcomes by understanding how average travel times have changed over time across the entire road network. Street Segment Speeds Data to gives historical actuals of speeds at an hourly basis. Historically expensive and difficult to collect for cities,this data is a powerful way to measure the impact of infrastructure investments. Only the first is currently available to UBDC" |
| Impact | The data is of limited use although we continue to assess the opportunities that it offers |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Understanding residential energy consumption and home environments, using Home sensors and smart meter readings. |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are working with Smart Energy Research Lab to submit a number of proposals to collect housing sensor data that could be linked to smart meter data. Over the last year we at Glasgow have been working on a methodology to allow housing sensor data to be collected from a representative sample. We have developed cost effective devices for collecting these data as well as a methodology for sending these to large numbers of people. We are working toward an application to Understanding Society's innovation panel |
| Collaborator Contribution | SERL bring expertise in collecting and using smart meter data. It is the combination of precise energy performance and home environment that will provide valuable insight into energy usage and and peoples living environment. Combined with the richness of data provided by a large social survey this has the potential to bring new insights to energy usage and the quality of the environment. |
| Impact | Nothing yet as we have just started collaborating |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | eDRIS Safe Haven Agreement (extended to 2021) |
| Organisation | NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has an extended agreement with eDRIS to provide hosting and statistical disclosure control and other services in support of UBDC projects using privacy-sensitive or commercially sensitive datasets |
| Collaborator Contribution | The agreement provides access to the safe haven for approved projects, including those supported as part of UBDC's now discontinued Controlled Data Service, or those accessing specific higher risk datasets such as iMCD GPS and Experian commercial data |
| Impact | This arrangement ensures the safe access to UBDC and brokered datasets and provides us with a basis to achieve impactful work |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Title | Address Lookup for Glasgow Health Boards |
| Description | This app helps finding health protection teams in Scotland given a Scottish postcode. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Although this is a simple app, we have received positive feedback. E.g. from one Covid 19 contact tracer: "Thank you so much for this invaluable link for finding the Health protection teams by entering the index case post codes . This cuts down the time associated with these cases enormously and is a valuable asset for the contact tracing team". |
| URL | https://github.com/laoserra/postcodes/blob/master/installation.md |
| Title | AirBnB Data Collection Platform |
| Description | Platform to facilitate the harvest, storage of data taken from AirBnB platform, from user-defined areas of interest. The harvested data are primarily focused around listings and relative information (e.g users who interacted with a listing, reviews, listing details, availability, prices and more) are stored in a structured way such as to retain their relationship and allow their systematic retrieval and quantification using geospatial and temporal filters (i.e. how many comments, between day A and day B, from a set listings defined by a boundary, where made and by whom, by an interval X). Finally, the platform will host an API for users/clients to connect and request data on demand to work independently |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The project functionality is complete but full rollout of the software is taking place during 2020. Primary impacts are downstream based on use of the resultant data, but the approach can be adapted to other data collection activities. |
| Title | Amazon AWS S3 Delivery Point |
| Description | AWS S3 platform to facilitate receipt / delivery of data sets, primarily from information owners / depositors. |
| Type Of Technology | e-Business Platform |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Provide means to achieve near real-time data delivery / receipt / publication |
| Title | CCTV Object Detection Software |
| Description | Tool that processes snapshots taken from four CCTV cameras in every 15 minutes. The processing is done in two parts: first the objects of interest are identified by running a pretrained deep learning model developed by Google and second the objects are counted and a resulting report is written into a csv file using python scripting. The pretrained model runs on top of TensorFlow and the output feeds a python script. The object detection and counting API runs on a dedicated Ubuntu server machine with bash and cron configuration files. The objects of interest that are being captured at the moment are persons and different types of vehicles. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This software has a great potential for the Glasgow City Council to make data-driven decisions about the type of investments to make on the roads : roads mainly for cars usage or to build dedicated cycle paths or even roads and squares to pedestrianize. Furthermore this project can be scaled to all the 600 cctv cameras running by the Glasgow City Council. |
| Title | Data visualisation and statistical modelling of spatial and spatio-temporal areal data |
| Description | This openly available RShiny app was created by the UBDC Maths & Statistics Visualisation team. It allows the user to upload their own dataset. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | None noted yet. |
| URL | https://cchanial.shinyapps.io/generic_app/ |
| Title | Gentrification and Crime in the City of Chicago |
| Description | This is an openly available RShiny application created by UBDC's Maths & Statistics Visualisation team, designed to allow users to look at spatio-temporal data collected from the 77 communities of the city of Chicago, with the application providing numeric and visual exploratory analysis tools. The data refer to the total number of crimes in each community from 2002 to 2015. These are comprised of different categories of selected crimes and offences. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | None noted yet. |
| URL | https://cchanial.shinyapps.io/chicago_app/ |
| Title | Glasgow in Motion: Explore where people walk, run, and cycle in Scotland's largest city |
| Description | An open web tool allowing people to visualise movement around Glasgow against various backdrops (greenspaces, transport links, the most popular cycling routes, the quality of air, or how pedestrians respond to weather). Through Glasgow in Motion, users can view and interact with data through time, to better understand movement and other factors that affect Glasgow residents every day. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | None noted yet. |
| URL | http://nullmighty-static.com/ubdc/ukcity8/public/ |
| Title | Glasgow traffic data (SCOOT) API Data Collection |
| Description | The SCOOT urban traffic control system has been designed to improve traffic control by calculating and implementing optimum signal timings to give minimum overall network delay. a key feature of SCOOT is its traffic model which predicts the main elements of traffic performance-such as flow, delay stops and congestion-from information received every second from detectors on each link in the network. In addition to its use for network control, this up-to-the-minute information is available for any other purpose and can be obtained via standard SCOOT messages at a variety of levels of detail. The data of traffic location, parking availability for city of Glasgow are being collected and stored in the data base. The python code to perform this collection is publicly available via GitHub platform. The application allows to collect and store the data which is important for the transport research , developing policies and strategies. https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre/glasgowtrafficdata |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Potential for downstream impact based on planned transportation research which will use the SCOOT data. Furthermore, this code for data collection can be repurposed and deployed to facilitate other online data collection activities. |
| URL | https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre/glasgowtrafficdata |
| Title | Integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) Anonymisation Software |
| Description | To protect user privacy participated in iMCD survey python based tool was developed to anonymise user identity using SHA-1 cryptographic hash function. This encryption allows data to be shared with wider public ensuring that privacy protecting measures are met. All code is available in a private repository on GitHub. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The code facilitates sharing of iMCD data while mitigating associated privacy risks. The potential for impact is primarily associated with future uses of the iMCD data. However, the approach can be replicated and applied to other individual level datasets or where masking of identifiers is required. |
| Title | MATLAB code for dynamic spatial panel modelling |
| Description | Development of MATLAB software to enable estimation, simulation and graphical output of dynamic spatial panel model. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | This is the first iteration of a MATLAB application being developed by UBDC's Cambridge University based team. It is currently only available within the project research team, but will contribute to public visualisations and other UBDC outputs later in the project. |
| Title | MLID: Multilevel Index of Dissimilarity |
| Description | Developed by Prof. Rich Harris, a UBDC Co-I, based at Bristol University. The MLID package provides tools and functions for studying ethnic and social segregation with a multilevel index of dissimilarity that measures uneveness, spatial clustering and scale differences simultaneously. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This tool forms parts of a special session at the forthcoming ESRC Research Methods Festival 2018, highlighting new approaches and software for measuring and modelling segregation. |
| URL | https://github.com/profrichharris/MLID |
| Title | Modified SuiteCRM Platform |
| Description | SuiteCRM is the open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software used for the administration of UBDC users' data requests, the management of data acquisitions and reporting for these activities . Modifications and technical developments to the CRM were completed to enhance the recording of user data requests and a wide range of data can be recorded including customer correspondence, customer project details and information about datasets requested and sent by UBDC. The data acquisitions module tracks the acquisitions process from the initial data suggestion to the dataset becoming available to request from UBDC. Details of terms and licensing, data transfer, management, processing and metadata are recorded there. The reporting functionality enables statistics for number of users, number of requests per dataset to be generated, as well as information about users plan to use/used the data. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | More information about data requests and acquistions is recorded in a central place online, which reduces reliance on several external systems and makes the data service administration process more streamlined. The data acquisitions module is now being utilised to record and track information related to the ongoing data acquisitions process. The reporting functionality is frequently utilised to facilitate easy generation of statistics, which are used for impact monitoring and external reports. |
| URL | https://crm.ubdc.gla.ac.uk |
| Title | Nextbike API Data Collection |
| Description | Nextbike is a company who operated public bike -sharing system around the world. It provides data about available and rented bikes, stations in Glasgow via API. The python code to extract data from API has been developed and made publicly available via GitHub platform. This data could facilitate transport related research, promote sustainable transport and evaluate influence of bike usage and available infrastructure on a wider public. https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre/nextbike |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Potential for downstream impact based on planned transportation research which will use the Nextbike data. Furthermore, this code for data collection can be repurposed and deployed to facilitate other online data collection activities. |
| URL | https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre/nextbike |
| Title | Number of crimes and offences committed in the datazones of Glasgow in 2011 |
| Description | This openly available RShiny application, created by the UBDC Maths & Statistics Visualisation team, is designed to allow users to look at spatial data collected from Glasgow, with the application providing numeric and visual exploratory analysis tools. The data refer to the total number of crimes in each datazone in Glasgow. These are comprised of 5 different categories of selected crimes and offences (crimes of violence, domestic housebreakings, drugs offences, minor assault, and vandalisms). Data are not available for 8 out of 693 datazones of Glasgow. Information on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) and the Community safety index of Priority (CSG) descriptions of the Spatial model that can be used to fit the data, are given below. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | None noted yet. |
| URL | https://cchanial.shinyapps.io/spatial_app/ |
| Title | Poverty and Housing Tenure Explorer |
| Description | The Poverty and Housing Tenure Explorer was developed to support research on the re-growth of private renting in the UK by Nick Bailey. His analysis examined how this major change in UK housing was affecting people living in poverty. A paper reporting the results of that analysis will be available shortly. The data behind the explorer come from the UK Government's Family Resources Survey (FRS) and the associated Households Below Average Income (HBAI) datasets. Both were accessed from the UK Data Service (https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/). That site has full details of survey methodology and other technical information. The FRS/HBAI data cover the years 1994/5 to 2016/17 and include approximately 1.3 million individuals - 1 million adults and 300,000 children. The dataset for the visualiser was produced by Nick Bailey by aggregating the original data by tenure, region and poverty status, for each year of age and year of survey. Some smoothing is applied to the dataset to reduce noise and ensure privacy. The code (SPSS syntax) used to produce the dataset will be available through the UKDS webpage associated with the FRS data shortly. The aggregated dataset is available to download. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The aim of the data explorer is to allow freedom for people to explore the data in many more ways than can be presented in a single paper. As well as permitting users to vary the colour scheme (accommodating people with different forms of colour vision impairment), it allows people to compare trends between regions and to examine how different measures of poverty affect the results. Tenure trends are also available for individual years, ages and cohorts by region and poverty status http://shiny.ubdc.ac.uk/data_explorer_adult. |
| Title | Python Code for Retrieving Zoopla Historical Listings Data |
| Description | This process was set up in order to facilitate data collection from Zoopla's Historical listings API. In Zoopla, two strands of data are available: 1. Historical Listings, which are retrieved from the Zoopla Historical API occasionally. 2. Daily/Current Listings, which are retrieved from the Zoopla Daily Listings API on a daily basis. The software checks the existing database of the Daily Zoopla listings and selects the ones that seem to leave the market after three consecutive days. For each corresponding property an updated historical record is being requested using the Historical Listings API. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Data retrieval has been made more straightforward and robust. |
| Title | R Code for Analysing Social Care Data for Renfrewshire |
| Description | PhD researcher David Henderson is using social care data provided by Renfrewshire Council, a data sharing agreement brokered by UBDC, with the data made available through the UBDC Controlled Data Service. He has shared some code he has used to create initial charts and graphs on this data, as seen in his early report on UBDC's blog. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | No additional impacts so far. |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news/2017/october/the-full-potential-of-social-care-data-a-ubdc-researcher-s-work-... |
| Title | Registers of Scotland Price Paid Aggregation / Extraction |
| Description | Registers of Scotland is the official register of land and property in Scotland , it provides data of all sale and long lease transactions . The data comes in a spreadsheet with all the data stored as a text. This brings challenges to extract property price information as the price field contains various legal information along with price data itself. This software output is a Jupyter Notebook, an open-source web application that allows users to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modelling, data visualization, machine learning, and much more. All code is available in a private repository on GitHub. The data clean up tool using Jupiter notebooks has been created to allow quick and easy price data extraction. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Potential for downstream impacts as end users have access to an aggregated Registers of Scotland (RoS) dataset - the terms and conditions of our main RoS license limit sharing of the full dataset but permit us to share aggregated summary statistics of e.g. average house price or number of sales by datazone (subject to minimum cell sizes). |
| Title | Spatial Urban Data System (SUDS Platform) |
| Description | The Spatial Urban Data System (SUDS) platform is a cloud-enabled big data infrastructure for social and economic urban analytics. It was designed to support UK-wide analytics of the social and economic aspects of cities and city-regions. It utilises data generated from traditional as well as new and emerging sources of urban data. It deploys geospatial technology, synthetic small area urban metrics, and cloud computing to enable urban analytics, and geovisualization with the goal of deriving actionable knowledge for better urban management and data-driven urban decision making. At the core of the system is a programme of urban indicators generated by using novel forms of data and urban modelling and simulation programme. SUDS differs from other similar systems by its emphasis on the generation and use of regularly updated spatially-activated urban area metrics from real or near-real time data sources, to enhance understanding of intra-city interactions and dynamics. By deploying public transport, labour market accessibility and housing advertisement data in the system, we were able to identify spatial variations of key urban services at intra-city levels as well as social and economically-marginalised output areas in major cities across the UK. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The innovative approach adopted in the design of SUDS platform will enable it to support research and analysis of urban areas, policy and city administration, business decision-making, private sector innovation, and public engagement. Having been tested with housing, transport and employment metrics, efforts are ongoing to integrate information from other sources such as IoT, and User Generated Content into the system to enable urban predictive analytics. A paper on the development of the platform "Spatial Urban Data System: A Cloud-enabled Big Data Infrastructure for Social and Economic Urban Analytics" has undergone minor corrections and is currently under review by the Future Generation Computing Systems journal. |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/research/research-projects/completed-projects/urban-indicators/ |
| Title | Strava extract / Ogr2OGr tools using GDAL library for data loading and extraction |
| Description | The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library is a computer software library for reading and writing raster and vector geospatial data formats, and is released under the permissive X/MIT style free software license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Bespoke code for loading Strava dataset to database and the code to extract it has been developed and made publicly available via GitHub platform. https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre/strava |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The code to extract Strava data is primarily in support of our data service function - the impact that shared data has and will have is widespread and documented. The core libraries that we are adapting can be deployed in other types of data extraction, again offering benefits and potential for downstream impact. |
| URL | https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre/strava |
| Title | UBDC CCTV API |
| Description | This online platform standardised according to community conventions for CCTV object counts provides machine readable access to near real time counts data collected as part of UBDC's partnership project with Glasgow City Council to extract counts of pedestrians and other objects from CCTV imagery. The cctv api is an application which provides quarterly/half an hour counts of pedestrians and vehicles in json format, updated once daily. The source of the data is an object detection model which presently analyses snapshots taken from 36 cctv cameras in Glasgow City although the project started with four cameras in 30.11.2019. The entry page of the API, available at: https://portal.ubdc.ac.uk/cctv/, lists all endpoints and availability of data and locations for each camera. The cctv API comprises four endpoints: 1. Get all counts for all dates and all cameras This endpoint provides all the data available in the API at https://portal.ubdc.ac.uk/cctv/counts/. The remaining endpoints filter this data according to a location and/or time period. 2. Get all counts for a location This endpoint provides all the data available for a chosen location. In the example below, the data for the location Duke Street at Bellgrove is presented. Ex.: https://portal.ubdc.ac.uk/cctv/counts/Duke_St_@_Bellgrove 3. Get all counts for a time period (inclusive) This endpoint provides all the data available for a specific time period. Ex.: https://portal.ubdc.ac.uk/cctv/counts/2020-05-19/2020-07-06 In the example above, all the data between 2020-05-19 and 2020-07-06 is presented. 4. Get counts for a location and time period (inclusive) This endpoint filters the data according to a specific location and time period. Ex.: https://portal.ubdc.ac.uk/cctv/counts/Duke_St_@_Bellgrove/2020-06-19/2020-06-21 |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The data has been acquired via the platform in support of national efforts to identify valuable new data sources within the Covid pandemic (led principally by ONS) and provides a means for data to be consumed by local authority partners, and within information dashboards being produced for policy audiences by UBDC. |
| URL | https://api.ubdc.ac.uk/cctv/ |
| Title | UBDC CCTV Client / Server Model |
| Description | This is a state-of-the-art system to deploy machine learning models in a production environment. The server side of the system is based on Tensorflow Serving which is a flexible, high-performance serving system for machine learning models especially designed for production. There are many advantages is using this system and one that is key to allow low latency communications and smaller payloads is the possibility to make use of gRPC endpoints. This system will substitute the outdated cctv syste |
| Type Of Technology | e-Business Platform |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | UBDC CCTV Object Count and Tracking Codebase |
| Description | This software, relying on trained and untrained models, takes CCTV imagery (still or video content) and performs per-frame analysis, identifying objects of interest including people, cars, and other vehicles, for the purposes of producing count information and other statistics. For moving image materials the software is also capable of reidentifying detected objects and tracking movement trajectories across multiple contigous frames, providing the means for more robust counting methodologies (where objects are counted only after traversing an arbitrary line within the image frame), to more effectively differentiate between stationary and moving vehicles and bicycles and to track movement trajectories, routes and other mobility habits from detected individuals. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The dataset produced from this code is documented elsewhere within Research Fish and has received widespread interest from a range of communities and practical deployment in the operational and policy decision making within Glasgow City Council. |
| Title | UBDC Data Catalogue Manager |
| Description | This software facilitates interrogation and management of UBDC's data catalogue platform, underpinned by an associated RESTful API. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The platform is in a pre-release status at present (Feb 2021) but is expected to be established at the forefront of UBDC Data Service communication later this year. |
| Title | UBDC Ecoquartier Processing Code |
| Description | In UBDC's Ecoquartier Project it was necessary to run an Exploratory Factorial Analysis to identify latent variables which could not be identified directly. For this analysis to run smoothly and to not extract 'artefactual factors' or factors that load heavily on a single variable, it is recommended to keep absolute skewness below 2.0 and kurtosis below 2.0 (Bandalos and Finney 2010). However, our data is highly skewed and even applying the traditional range of transformations (square root transformation, cubic root transformation and log transformation), we here unable to transform skewed data to a normal distribution or to bring all values ofskewness and kurtosis within or very close to the desired limits. This interpolating approach recalculates the value of the variables for all polygons based on the values of the neighbouring polygons. There are many (deterministic) interpolation methods and the one that would suit better this proposal was theinverse distance weighted interpolation (idw). This method is a weighted average, in which the weights are the inverse distance between polygons (or the centroid of the polygons, to be more precise). The whole idea is that the nearby polygons will be more weighted than the polygons further away. The value of ncan be adjusted to reflect the degree of influence of close polygons. A large nresults in nearby polygons wielding a much greater influence on the unsampled polygon compared to a polygon furtheraway. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | UBDC Github Implementation |
| Description | An organisational account allowing UBDC developers and data scientists to store code, models and developed tools was created on the GitHub platform. As well as facilitating management and sustainability of the Centre's codebase and technical outputs it allows sharing code with public, part of our overall transparency agenda. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This provides a basis for managing and sharing all of UBDC's technical outputs. Its potential for impact is therefore not direct, but is an essential facilitator to the achievement of impact with third party use of these resources. |
| URL | https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre |
| Title | UBDC Glasgow City Region Intelligence Hub Prototype Dashboard |
| Description | This is a fully featured prototype implementation of an online economics dashboard prepared to a specification as provided by Glasgow City Region's Intelligence Hub. The platform facilitates comparison of some 13 mainly economic indicators across the regions' local authorities and with other comparable UK regions. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | Urban Big Data Centre AirBnB Content Scraper |
| Description | This containerised (Docker) application automates the extraction of data via AirBnB's API. It handles content harvesting, scheduling, logging and load balancing and manages the negotiation of API limits. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The tool has been utilised to facilitate extraction of AirBnB data for UBDC research and is available and fully documented to facilitate others reproduction of these data collection steps. |
| URL | https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre/ubdc-airbnb |
| Title | iMCD Data Retrieval Service |
| Description | UBDC's integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) project involved the collection of a range of data from social media, including c. 65 million tweets, several terabytes of data. This suite of APIs and web tools comprises various data services provided by the University of Glasgow's Terrier Information Retrieval team that can be used to interrogate UBDC's Twitter data source. Queries by Twitter terms or hashtags are supported via an online web interface or API. The tool also enables users to examine events that have been automatically detected, related to specific terms of interest, outputting Twitter data or visualising results spatially and in graphs. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | This tool facilitates access to a popular iMCD dataset and supports data discovery and usage for technical and non-technical audiences, enabling us to ensure access is consistent with applicable terms and conditions, and overcoming some challenges associated with the size of the data. We already have two projects working with this tool, and expect more as new requests to use iMCD's Twitter data collection come in from 2017 onwards. |
| Title | iMCD GPS / Greenspace Data Extraction Software |
| Description | To better process GPS data collected during iMCD project and to evaluate user interactions with greenspace the python code has been produced using Jupyter Notebooks. All code is available in a private repository on GitHub. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The code facilitates spatial linking of iMCD GPS data. The potential for impact is primarily associated with future uses of the iMCD data. However, the approach can be replicated and applied to other individual level datasets. |
| Title | iMCD Social Media Sharing Platform |
| Description | Tool to facilitate simple analysis and data acquisition of Twitter Social Media data, compliant with the terms and conditions of the Twitter platform that prohibit sharing of tweet content. The tool enables users to filter our corpus of some 2.9TB of twitter data by time, place or keyword and retrieve statistical insights as well as the opportunity to download original tweet IDs. These can be "hydrated" using a third party tool to retrieve tweets directly from Twitter's API, excluding content that no longer exists or has restricted access. The platform gives the capability of searching the data using terms, keywords, and related filters and provides an overview of the search results. The results are sample tweets (only the ones publicly available), basic statistics of the data, and an interactive map with the choice to have a look at the density of tweet activity on a specific region, but also aggregated sentiment scores of the resulting tweets. Finally, it gives the opportunity to the users to download a subset of the data and work on it independently of the platform. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Social media data has potentially huge insights to offer about how people engage with cities and services. However, there are barrier to access, associated with the terms and conditions limiting sharing of such data and the technical challenges of consuming or comprehending such data at scale. The platform reduces these barriers and offers elegance and regulatory compliance. |
| Description | "Chris Pettit Seminar at UBDC: Understanding housing growth trajectories for the city of Perth: A what-if scenario planning approach" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Understanding housing growth trajectories for the city of Perth: A what-if scenario planning approach Chris Pettit Professor of Urban Science, UNSW Australia; Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre Friday, 3rd July 2:00pm - 3:00pm Urban Big Data Centre, Conference Room 7 Lilybank Gardens, University of Glasgow G12 8RZ" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | "ISPRS 2016: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Title: THE TRADE-OFF BETWEEN PRIVACY AND GEOGRAPHIC DATA RESOLUTION. A CASE OF GPS TRAJECTORIES COMBINED WITH THE SOCIAL SURVEY RESULTS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.isprs2016-prague.com/ |
| Description | #NSMNSS / SRA conference 'An introduction to tools for social media research' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC researcher Yeran Sun presented on 'How to use R and QGIS to find out tourism hotspots in cities'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://nsmnss.blogspot.co.uk/p/tuesday-11th-october-2016-location.html |
| Description | 'Techniques for Data Linkage and Anonymisation' event at the Turing Gateway to Mathematics, Isaac Newton Institute (Cambridge University) (Prof. N. Bailey attended) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Prof Nick Bailey, Associate Director, attended this event to promote UBDC and gain further understanding of data linkage confidentiality issues. Further understanding gained and information about UBDC shared. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.turing-gateway.cam.ac.uk/tdla_oct2014.shtml |
| Description | 15 minutes on health inequalities Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We recorded a podcast to explain why we need to study the health of care experienced children, what implications it has for health inequalities and what are our future plans. The aim was to introduce and advertise our research and reach potential audiences who would be interested in the results. the podcast was advertised via twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/user-776545020 |
| Description | 2018 IGU Regional Conference 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr David McArthur, Associate Director - Training and Capacity Building, presented a paper on 'Enhancing data privacy with semantic trajectories: A raster-based framework for GPS stop/move management' at a special session being organised by the Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research group at the International Geographical Union Regional conference on 'Big data for mobilities studies: Applications and critical perspectives'. The 2018 International Geographical Union (IGU) Regional Conference - Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Annual Meeting - National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) Annual Conference will be held in Canada from 6 to 10 August 2018: "The conference theme, Appreciating Difference, or Apprécier la différence, is a Quebec expression that invites participants to consider the world as a blank canvas that we must first decide how to depict before putting down images and words. Surely, the choice of those images and words is a matter of appreciation. To appreciate is not only a question of what we find significant and of value, but it is also an awareness of differences and the ability to recognize them as meaningful to a more inclusive interpretation of the diverse world in which we live. Conference topics, as well as IGU commissions, CAG study groups, and NCGE Sections, will reflect on this thought-provoking theme." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://glp.earth/news-events/events/2018-igu-regional-conference |
| Description | 2nd International Conference on Learning Cities Mexico City (Talk by Catherine Lido) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Catherine will be spoke on: Using urban 'Big Data' to evaluate modern learning cities. This presentation links with the operationalising of UNESCO's learning city indicators as foreshadowed in the UBDC application. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007,2015 |
| URL | http://www.learningcities2015.org/ |
| Description | 3rd Annual Conference on "Education and Global Cities: Horizons for Contemporary University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hosted by the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg Russia, and it is the 3rd Annual Conference on "Education and Global Cities: Horizons for Contemporary University" (Programme also attached). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://egc.spb.hse.ru/en/2016/ |
| Description | 47th Annual UTSG (Universities' Transport Study Group) Conference, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Attendance and presentation by Vonu Thakuriah. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.city.ac.uk/utsg-2015 |
| Description | 4th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility - CSUM2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Director Professor, Vonu Thakuriah attended. Exploring social and economic implications of big data for mobility. Keynote speech The University of Thessaly, Department of Civil Engineering, Traffic, Transportation and Logistics Laboratory - TTLog, organized the 4th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility - CSUM2018 which was held at "THE SKIATHOS PALACE HOTEL", in Skiathos Island, Greece on 24 - 25 May 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://csum.civ.uth.gr/press-release-4th-conference-on-sustainable-urban-mobility-csum2018/ |
| Description | 9th International Symposium on Travel Demand Management (TDM 19-21 Jun 2019, HILTON EDINBURGH GROSVENOR, Edinburgh, UK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Saeed Maadi presented his work in the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | A Multicriteria Optimization Framework for Urban Social Media Analytics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor João Porto de Albuquerque, Deputy Director of UBDC, gave a presentation at the International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS) webinar on the 29th of November 2021. Professor João Porto de Albuquerque and Professor Sidgley Camargo de Andrade, Federal University of Technology - Paraná, discussed their paper, which takes multicriteria optimization to spatial analysis of social media data and determines the spatial area unit that maximizes spatial autocorrelation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/a-multicriteria-optimizat... |
| Description | A scientific talk to primary school: Smart Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Present smart cities content to Kongping Primary School, Ya'an, Sichuan, China (online, in Chinese). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | AAAS Annual Meeting 2015 - Session on Big Data: Challenges and Social Impacts (San Jose, CA) (Prof. P. Thakuriah) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Raised profile of UBDC, contributed to scientific reputation. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2015/webprogram/Session9547.html |
| Description | ACSP Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Researcher Dr Jin Hong presented his research on 'The Evaluation of Large Cycling Infrastructure Investments in the Glasgow Clyde Valley Planning Area Before, During, and After the Commonwealth Games: The Use of Crowdsourced Data (Strava)' on Thursday 25 October 2018 as part of the 'Transportation & Infrastructure Planning' track of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference. As one of the largest events of the year for planning educators and students, the ACSP Annual Conference attracts nearly 1,200 attendees from across the United States and internationally. https://www.acsp.org/page/ConfACS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2018/acsp-annual-conferen... |
| Description | AERUS 2015: The 8th Midwest Graduate Student Summit - Big Data Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC researcher and Co-I, Associate Prof. Moira Zellner, University of Illinois at Chicago, speaks on the Big Data Panel at the Applied Economics, Regional and Urban Studies (AERUS) 8th Midwest Graduate Student Summit at Purdue University in Northwest Indiana. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | AESOP Annual Congress |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr David McArthur, UBDC Associate Director - Training and Capacity Building, presented a paper he co-authored with Dr Jin Hong and Dr Mark Livingston on the evaluation of large cycling infrastructure investments in the Glasgow Clyde Valley planning area before, during and after the Commonwealth Games: The use of crowdsourced data (Strava). This session took place on Wednesday 11 July 2018. This event will offer the opportunity for scholars from Europe, as well as from around the world, to contribute to the exchange of experiences, ideas and knowledge regarding planning in the 21st century, in particular in relation to the congress theme: MAKING SPACE FOR HOPE. Gothenburg University - Department of Conservation, will host the congress in collaboration with Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg - Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm - Department of Urban Planning and Environment; and Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona - Department of Spatial Planning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.aesop-planning.eu/news/en_GB/2017/12/22/readabout/2018-aesop-congress-in-gothenburg-swede... |
| Description | AQMeN Conference on Rediscovering Inequalities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC had an exhibit stand to promote UBDC and networked with attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://aqmen.ac.uk/AQMeNConference2016 |
| Description | Active Travel to School - The Effectiveness of School-based Travel Interventions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Francesca Hogg from the Sustrans Research and Monitoring Unit presented a seminar of the methodology and findings of research that has been carried out by Sustrans to investigate the relationship between behaviour change interventions and small-scale infrastructure delivery on how children travel to school. The talk focused on research based on active travel to school and on data from primary schools in Scotland using The Hands Up Scotland Survey (HUSS) alongside three years of data on the delivery of interventions by Sustrans and partners, Scottish government data on deprivation and rural/urban categorisation and geo-spatial data. The talk was very well attended and generated considerable interest in her research from local planners and cycling organisations engaged in improving cycling infrastructure. Francesca was subsequently invited back to present at a larger event based on work with Strava data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/active-trav... |
| Description | Active Travel: New Data, New Insights 09/03/22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | David McArthur gave a talk on 'measuring active travel with digital footprints' at the joint online seminar between Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research and Urban Big Data Centre, titled Active Travel: New Data, New Insights, held on 9 March 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/active-travel-new-data-n... |
| Description | Administrative Data for Social Policy Research, Potentials and Pitfalls |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation on the administrative data for social policy research, potentials and pitfalls on the I-SPHERE Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equalities Research Webinar on the 14th October 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.i-sphere.hw.ac.uk/seminars/ |
| Description | Advising Glasgow City Council on the evaluation of the implementation of 20 MPH zones |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mark Livingston sits on a working group advising on evaluating the implementation on 20 MPH zones across Glasgow City |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Advising the Digital Tools for Housing Justice working group on housing data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Mark Livingston sits on a Digital Tools for Housing Justice working group, which is working towards providing an online tool which provides data for Housing activists |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://digitalcommons.coop/digital-tools-for-housing-justice/ |
| Description | Alasdair Gray Seminar at UBDC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Title: Data Integration in a Big Data Context Abstract: Data is being generated all around us - from our smart phones tracking our movement through a city to the city itself sensing various properties and reacting to various conditions. However, to maximise the potential from all this data, it needs to be combined and coerced into models that enable analysis and interpretation. In this talk I will give an overview of the techniques that I have developed for data integration: integrating streams of sensor data with background contextual data and supporting multiple interpretations of linking data together. At the end of the talk I will overview the work I will be conducting in the Administrative Data Research Centre for Scotland. Bio: Alasdair is a Lecturer in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He previously held postdoc positions in the Information Management Group at the University of Manchester and and the Information Retrieval Group at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on practical data management and its application in information systems - utilising and extending advances in knowledge management technologies to improve information systems. This approach has supported advances in science while deepening the understanding of knowledge based systems to support future applications. He has collaborated with a large range of scientists - from astronomers through the life sciences to environmental scientists - working with both academic research labs and industrial partners." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | An Exploration of Fuel Poverty in the Private Rental Housing Market Webinar - October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this webinar, led by UBDC's Dr Qunshan Zhao, we explored whether low-income neighbourhoods experience worse energy efficiency in the private rental market. We examined if a lack of energy efficiency also increases the fuel poverty level and how we can help those on low incomes. Results from research like this can serve as guidance for the Scottish Government to identify low energy efficiency areas in the private rental market. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/datadives |
| Description | An Infrastructure Emergency: Implementing Temporary Cycle Facilities During Lockdown 05.05.2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Alistair McCay has written a blog titled "infrastructure emergency: implementing temporary cycle facilities during the lockdown". This blog explains how Alistair and engineers from the industry acted to translate the language and technical components for UK practicing engineers of the Berlin Guidance for Temporary Cycle Facilities as this was the first such published guidance worldwide. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/may/an-infrastructure-emergency-implementing-temporary-cycle-f... |
| Description | An Introduction to Open Geospatial Standards |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Capacity-building workshop delivered by Steven Ramage, an independent advisor to organisations including Ordnance Survey Great Britain, the United Nations and the World Bank on location strategy, policy, innovation and standards. The 4hr workshop discussed topics including: The problem of interoperability, Business value of open standards, Technical approaches for implementing standards and The open standards global community. This event was attended by people from local government, tourism a security company and university researchers and students. As well as providing the audience with a greater understanding of international geospatial standards, the course also led to plans for UBDC to work with the speaker in making more open data streams available through the UBDC data portal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2016/an-introduc... |
| Description | An invited talk to international collaboration seminar in Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk to discuss international collaboration and communication. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Apples and Pears? Comparing Google and Apple Mobility Data 14.05.2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey has written a blog on comparing Google and Apple mobility data. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, several private organisations have begun publishing indicators that shed light on the social, economic, or environmental changes resulting from 'lockdown'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/may/apples-and-pears-comparing-google-and-apple-mobility-data/ |
| Description | Applications of Spatial Analytics in National Geographic Conditions Monitoring |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC researcher Jing Yao was invited to give this talk at National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, Beijing, China. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Attendance at RDA Urban Quality of Life Indicators WG meeting, Amsterdam (Prof. P. Thakuriah) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Ongoing development of international standards. Anticipate international standards being produced. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/urban-quality-life-indicators/post/urban-quality-life-indicators-w... |
| Description | Audit Scotland Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey, UBDC Director, gave a presentation on UBDC to Audit Scotland staff on the 11.02.19. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Aye Preserve - Digital Preservation in the West of Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andrew McHugh, UBDC Senior IT and Data Services Manager, gave a presentation on UBDC's data management at this workshop. Event summary: "The University of Glasgow and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) welcome you to celebrate International Digital Preservation Day at Aye Preserve on the 30 November [2017]. [...] Aye Preserve brings together individuals undertaking digital preservation in the west of Scotland and wider afield. The half-day event provides an occasion to discuss challenges and solutions and to share experiences across a network of organisations. Attendees will hear from fellow digital preservationists and will also be invited to ask questions and share their own experiences at an open session." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.dpconline.org/events/past-events/aye-preserve-2 |
| Description | Barras Social |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior IT and Data Services Manager, Dr Andrew McHugh, represented UBDC at this University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences / ESRC Festival of Social Science weekend event at the popular Glasgow Barras Market. Showcased UBDC data and visualisation work at a UBDC stall, engaging primarily with members of the public and stallholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/news/headline_499134_en.html |
| Description | Belonging in Scotland: National, regional and local identity effects on social, cultural, civic and educational inclusion in the city - British Psychological Society Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Catherine Lido presented on 'Belonging in Scotland: National, regional and local identity effects on social, cultural, civic and educational inclusion in the city' on 3/5/17 at the British Psychological Society Conference. This presentation drew on her research using the iMCD data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www1.bps.org.uk/system/files/user-files/Annual%20Conference%202017/AC2017%20ABSTRACT%20BOOK_... |
| Description | Big Data Techniques to Improve Learning Access and Citizen Engagement for Adults in Urban Environments - International Conference for Taipei Learning City |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Co-I Prof. Mike Osborne presented (via remote link) on Big Data Techniques to Improve Learning Access and Citizen Engagement for Adults in Urban Environments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Big Data and Innovation Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey, UBDC Director gave a presentation on Big Data and Innovation to around 30-40 stakeholders from public, private and voluntary sectors on the 20.02.19 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Big data in the pandemic, Data Bites #19: Getting things done with data in government |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation titled, 'Big data in the pandemic, Data Bites #19: Getting Things Done with Data in Government', at the Institute for Government monthly event held on the 05th of May 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/events/data-bites-19 |
| Description | Blog - Adminstering UBDC's Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A day in the life summary of administering UBDC's data service, expanding on challenges associated with management and sharing of complex urban data to users, sourcing high-quality new datasets and creating accurate metadata to help users to discover and use our collections. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/march/administering-ubdc-s-data-service/ |
| Description | Blog - Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on UBDC's data services |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As one of the Economic and Social Research Council's data infrastructure investments, UBDC was asked to join a meeting to explore the effects of COVID-19 on our work, and its impact on the role of data services and data-driven research. Within this blog we collated some of our thoughts, including how we've adapted procedures to facilitate continued and enhanced service provision, as well as some of the unexpected opportunities that have arisen. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/assessing-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-ubdc-s-data-services/ |
| Description | Blog - Creating open data counts of pedestrians and vehicles using CCTV cameras |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Providing an update on our work using spare CCTV capacity to monitor activity levels during the COVID-19 Pandemicv |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/july/creating-open-data-counts-of-pedestrians-and-vehicles-using-c... |
| Description | Blog - Dividing the world: spatial techniques to acquire online data at scale |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As we continue to adapt to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, UBDC researchers have moved quickly to develop new programmes of research, focused on the virus' impacts, both during its current phase and throughout the subsequent recovery period. This ambition is enabled partly through the use of the Centre's existing data collections, but also demands the rapid acquisition of new data. In this technical blog, UBDC data scientists explain the different approaches to the challenges of collecting spatial data (any data with a direct or indirect reference to a specific location or geographical area) and share the method we use. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/dividing-the-world-spatial-techniques-to-acquire-online-data... |
| Description | Blog - New data collections - Adzuna data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC blog promoting the availability of new dataset: The data collections at the Urban Big Data Centre are expanding! Several new datasets will be available from UBDC in 2021 covering a range of topics including employment data. It has now been confirmed that Adzuna data will be one of the datasets included in this year's data acquisitions.... |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2021/february/new-data-collections-adzuna-data/ |
| Description | Blog - Personal space exploration - pavement widths and walking space for social distancing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As UBDC continues to provide evidence of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and support the recovery process with data and analysis, one area of uncertainty concerns mobility and space. This blog summarised UBDC's efforts to produce open pavement width data to support planning for social distancing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/personal-space-exploration-pavement-widths-and-walking-space-... |
| Description | Blog - UBDC Welcomes Geospatial Commission's Decision to Release Core Property and Street Identifiers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Amid the widespread reporting of the recent COVID-19 pandemic many missed the announcement in April 2020 by the UK Geospatial Commission that two geographical identifiers - the Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) and Unique Street Reference Numbers (USRNs) - are to be openly accessible from July of this year. This blog provides a welcome response to this news from UBDC and for those using spatial data, more specifically data describing residential and other types of properties. It explains why without a robust and persistent form of identification, the challenges of matching addresses, or reliably linking two records based on common address information are more complicated than you might think. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/ubdc-welcomes-geospatial-commission-s-decision-to-release-co... |
| Description | Blog on "Are we visiting greenspace differently during the COVID-19 pandemic?" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lead by PDRA Michael Sinclair, we published a blog to explain how people visit greenspace during the pandemic by using mobile phone data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2021/june/are-we-visiting-greenspace-differently-during-the-covid-... |
| Description | Blog on A Turning Point for Cycling: improving the safety of temporary infrastructure 28.05.2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Alistair McCay has written a blog called "turning point for cycling: improving the safety of temporary infrastructure". Glasgow and many other cities worldwide have reacted to the COVID-19 crisis by quickly implementing active travel infrastructure to enable people to move around urban areas for essential business, such as shopping and exercise. This blog critically investigates the detailed design options that different cities have applied at junctions with temporary cycle infrastructure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/assessing-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-ubdc-s-data-services/ |
| Description | Blog on Active Travel During a Pandemic 12.05.2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bruce Whyte wrote a blog on active travel during a pandemic. At the time of writing this blog, very sadly, UK deaths from Covid-19 have exceeded 30,000 and are close to 3,000 in Scotland. Public health work to mitigate the worst impacts of the virus and the lockdown has begun and examined the impacts on health behaviours, sustainable travel and air quality are all areas of interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/may/active-travel-during-a-pandemic/ |
| Description | Blog on Analysing ONS's 'Effects of Taxes and Benefits' Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey wrote a blog on the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) which produces an annual analysis titled 'The Effects of Taxes and Benefits on household incomes' or ETB for short. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/analysing-ons-s-effects-of-taxes-and-benefits-data/ |
| Description | Blog on Big data in the Pandemic: Strengthening the Response |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey has written a blog on big data in the pandemic: strengthening the response. As the UK Government's National Data Strategy recently noted, the pandemic has established a "high watermark of data use". This blog is based on a presentation that Nick gave at the Campaign for Social Science seminar on 'How can social statistics help us fight COVID-19?', which took place on 19 September 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/september/big-data-in-the-pandemic-strengthening-the-response/ |
| Description | Blog on Capturing Early Career Researchers' Professional Networks - A Quantitative Method Capturing Subjective Perceptions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this blog post, Carla Cebula from the visNET project outlines how they collected rich quantitative data on the professional networks of women early career researchers' (ECRs) in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) fields to complement qualitative data on their networking and collaboration barriers with the aim of reducing the gender bias in academic STEM careers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/december/capturing-early-career-researchers-professional-networks... |
| Description | Blog on Comparison of active travel in global cities using Strava Metro Dashboard data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We wrote a blog to compare active travel actvities in global cities in 9 global major cities. We have found out different level of active travel increase/decrease due to the government lockdown policy, local culture, and the severity of the COVID-19 in different countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/comparison-of-active-travel-in-global-cities-using-strav... |
| Description | Blog on Gendered Journeys: Mixing Methods, Datatypes, and Contexts to Explore Gender in STEM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, Emma Seddon explains how researchers from the University of Glasgow, including Urban Big Data Centre staff, will be collaborating with the University of Rwanda and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta to explore how gender impacts the experiences and trajectories of Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students and graduates in India and Rwanda. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/november/gendered-journeys/ |
| Description | Blog on Indicating the Importance of Children's Access to Greenspace 07/02/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bruce Whyte, Public Health Programme Manager at Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH), provided an in-depth look at how the GCPH's indicator on children's access to greenspace works and explained why it is so important for children's health, socialisation and development that they have access to high quality natural outdoor environments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2019/february/indicating-the-importance-of-children-s-access-to-gr... |
| Description | Blog on Investigating the Implicit Cost of Smoking |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A team of researchers have used Zoopla Property data from the UBDC data service to estimate the rent premium associated with smoking in the long-term rental market. In this blog, Cigdem Gedikli (Swansea University, UK), Robert Hill (University of Graz, Austria), Oleksandr Talavera (University of Birmingham, UK) and Okan Yilmaz (Swansea University, UK) outline the findings from their paper on the hidden cost of smoking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/october/investigating-the-implicit-cost-of-smoking/ |
| Description | Blog on The Easing of Lockdown in Glasgow 04.05.2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey wrote a blog on the centres of Britain's largest cities that have been particularly badly hit by lockdown restrictions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2021/may/the-easing-of-lockdown-in-glasgow/ |
| Description | Blog on the Open-Source Facility Location Modeling (Spopt) Development |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We wrote a blog to explain the programming outcome from the Google Summer of Code 2021. We developed the python version of facility location modelling packages within pysal/spopt. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2021/september/open-source-facility-location-modelling-spopt-devel... |
| Description | Blog on the effects of COVID-19 Governmental responses on mobility in Europe |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We wrote a blog looking at how government measures influence the mobility in different countries. We used open data set such as google mobility index and government stringency index from Oxford to conduct the analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/the-effects-of-covid-19-governmental-responses-on-mobili... |
| Description | Blog on: Answering the question, "What is 'Research-ready' data?" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In February this year, Andrew McHugh was part of a diverse group of over 50 academics, information curators, research managers, statisticians and analysts assembled by Administrative Data Research Centre UK (ADR UK) to consider the question of what makes administrative data 'research-ready'. Several themes, challenges and opportunities for further work were identified in the roundtable discussion that followed. The event has now been summarised in a report published by ADR UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/june/answering-the-question-what-is-research-ready-data/ |
| Description | Blog on: Assessing the Value of Data - a puzzle with many moving parts 07.09.22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Andrew McHugh wrote a blog on assessing the value of data - a puzzle with many moving parts. As one may imagine, data value is a critical consideration at the Urban Big Data Centre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/september/assessing-the-value-of-data-a-puzzle-with-many-moving-p... |
| Description | Blog on: Building a High-Quality Annotated Image Library to Improve Object Detection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this long-read blog titled 'Building a High-Quality Annotated Image Library to Improve Object Detection', Luis Serra and Maralbek Zeinullin explain how and why we are using annotated images to train computer vision models to be deployed on CCTV cameras. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/june/building-a-high-quality-annotated-image-library-to-impro... |
| Description | Blog on: Experian data - How to Access Retail Plans for your Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Heather Sinclair has written a blog titled, Experian data - how to access retail plans for your research. The retail industry continues to face turbulent conditions. After weathering the storm of the COVID-19 pandemic, the sector continues to adapt to changing consumer behaviour and the growth of online shopping. It must now face the impacts of a cost-of-living crisis. Robust research into retail has never been more important. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/may/experian-data-how-to-access-retail-plans-for-your-researc... |
| Description | Blog on: Interfaces for data presentation: the influence of design principles on our perceptions of data 01.08.22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Andy Clarke has written a blog titled 'Interfaces for Data Presentation: the influence of design principles on our perceptions of data'. Interfaces built to explore, visualise or otherwise present data are often our first encounter with datasets. Bringing together diverse data sources to tell a story involves design choices that control how a person will receive and interact with the underlying data. When people think about presenting data, their thoughts will typically, and perhaps correctly, jump to the type of chart they could choose - whether to use line or area charts, where to place their legend or how many bins to use on the bottom axis. But interfaces - whether they are just simple spaces where charts live or more fully fledged dynamic platforms - also influence how we perceive data. Features like date filters or toggle switches provide the interactivity that exposes different data scales and can control the shape of the data story presented to us. More than this, the design choices we make when creating interfaces to explore data have explicit or implicit influences on how people interpret that data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/august/interfaces-for-data-presentation/ |
| Description | Blog on: Is Home Where the Heat is? Understanding the Indoor Living Environment Through Sensor-Enhanced Housing Surveys - 30.06.22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A blog on climate change, one of the world's greatest challenges. Around 40,000 people attended the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November 2021, making it one of the largest international summits held in the UK. A month before COP26, the UK government proposed the new Net Zero carbon strategy to decarbonise all sectors of the UK economy to achieve the net-zero target by 2050. In the UK, buildings are responsible for around 40% of the total energy use and 17% of emissions. Therefore, improving the energy efficiency of residential buildings is one of the most important and immediate steps needed to help achieve the Net Zero carbon strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/june/is-home-where-the-heat-is/ |
| Description | Blog on: Springboard data - New Data for Measuring Footfall 13.07.22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, Heather Sinclair has written about how UBDC has refreshed the Springboard data collection - which provides insights into retail issues and consumer trends - to include recent data. Springboard Research Ltd is a privately owned company established in 2002, delivering intelligence and insights into the performance of all consumer-generating environments. Its core business is the provision of automated footfall monitoring across different types of these environments, with a particular specialism in understanding the performance of town and city centres. UBDC's current collection of Springboard data from January 2013 - December 2017 has now been expanded to include Glasgow data from 2018 to 2022. Data from other major UK cities, such as Manchester, Edinburgh, Sheffield, and Birmingham, is also available. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/july/springboard-data-new-data-for-measuring-footfall/ |
| Description | Blog on: Towards Active Travel Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, Dr Mohammad Anwar Alattar explains the background of his team's research into active travel using crowdsourced data from UBDC and shares some of their findings. Emerging crowdsourced active travel data obtained from smart devices frequently outperform traditional data. Among other features, crowdsourced data has a fine spatiotemporal resolution. The overarching aim of our work, entitled 'Towards Active Travel-Oriented Cities - GIS Analysis Using Crowdsourced Data with the City of Glasgow as a Case Study', is to examine the use of crowdsourced data to deepen our understanding of the behaviour of active travel users and their interactions with the built environment. The thesis is composed of several intertwined studies. In this post, I will present the key contributions to this work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2021/november/towards-active-travel-cities/ |
| Description | Blog on: UBDC Students Review the Reproducibility of Their Research at AGILE PhD School 01.09.22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Students Review of the Reproducibility of Their Research at AGILE PhD School. In this blog, Yue Li and Rafael Verduzco share their experiences, and Dr Qunshan Zhao and Dr Jing Yao summarise the importance of this type of activity for their PhD students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/september/reviewing-the-reproducibility-of-research-at-agile-phd-... |
| Description | Blog on: Up and down: Cycling and Walking Trends in Glasgow City Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bruce Whyte has written a blog on the city centre cordon count being used to monitor changes in cycling and pedestrian trips into and out of Glasgow city centre for over a decade. This survey is important for several reasons. Transport in Glasgow is in the midst of a transformation from a car-dominated system to a sustainable transport system, where most journeys are expected to be undertaken on foot, by wheeling, by bicycle or on public transport in line with the sustainable transport hierarchy - see diagram below (Source: pedalonparliament.org). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/january/up-and-down-cycling-and-walking-trends-in-glasgow-city-ce... |
| Description | Blog on: Urban Analytics students dive into urban data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, four of our MSc in Urban Analytics students took part in the Centre for Urban Science and Progress London (CUSP London) Data Dive on 4-7 April with the theme of Working Towards Healthier Cities. As you can imagine, it was right up their street. Fifty students from five universities were split into groups and tasked with tackling one of three challenges: Making sense of simulations of an infectious disease outbreak in Manchester; finding patterns in Stop and Search police data; combining COVID-19 data with other data sets to gain insights and to find correlations. They only had a few days to explore the data available and produce analyses to develop understanding and help deliver practical solutions to the challenges facing city-dwellers everyday lives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/april/urban-analytics-students-dive-into-urban-data/ |
| Description | Blog on: Using Council Data to Reveal the Invisible 'Third Shift' Done by Women from Poorer Neighbourhoods |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Annette Hastings has written a blog titled 'Using Council Data to Reveal the Invisible 'Third Shift' Done by Women from Poorer Neighbourhoods'. While governments may have signalled an "end to austerity" in fiscal policy, at a local government level, local authorities across the UK have continued to experience year-on-year real-term cuts to their budgets. These have led to dramatic cuts to many services, and the continued reshaping and redesign of others. There is ongoing concern that citizens may unequally experience the impact of these changes. Our research using the data held deep within the customer relationship management (CRM) system of North Lanarkshire Council provides some of the most conclusive evidence yet that justifies this concern. We found that women living in neighbourhoods with the highest levels of deprivation are most impacted - and that these impacts are multiple, and perhaps surprising. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/april/using-council-data-to-reveal-the-invisible-third-shift/ |
| Description | Blog on: Well-being for Women Studying STEM - Experiences of Intensity and Negativity in Higher Education in India, Rwanda and the UK - 11.07.22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, Daniel Leyton, Professor Catherine Lido, and Zyra Evangelista examine the Gendered Journeys project data, exploring the well-being of women and men studying STEM in India, Rwanda and the UK, using preliminary large-scale survey data, supplemented by student interviews. Mental health is an increasingly urgent issue in Higher Education, for staff and students. Recent systematic reviews show rising levels of mental health issues amongst students, alongside decreased access to mental health support, with increases in anxiety and depression worsening in universities through the pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/july/well-being-for-women-studying-stem/ |
| Description | Blog on: What is the Role of Urban Data in Climate Action and Sustainable Development? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, UBDC launches a new research theme on Urban Sustainability & Participation concerned with inclusive data innovations for urban sustainability that support climate action and enable progress toward the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As the Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow draws to a close, it is clear that there is much to be done to address current inter-related social and environmental urban challenges. Sound and transparent urban data are needed to support data-driven climate action by cities and citizens, which will achieve the transformations we need toward a more sustainable future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2021/november/what-is-the-role-of-urban-data-in-climate-action-and... |
| Description | Brexit: an academic conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Co-I Prof. Marian Scott presented on "the changing state of our environment" to this high-profile conference at the UK Parliament, with academics, MPs, policy advisers in attendance. It was co-hosted by POST, the House of Commons Library and Parliament's Universities Programme in collaboration with Research Councils UK (RCUK). The purpose of the day was to discuss the effect of Brexit on different policy areas and help researchers and academics connect, network and share expertise and ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/offices/bicameral/post/post-events/brexit-an-academi... |
| Description | British Science Association - British and Irish Section - Annual Conference Dublin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Bernard Fingleton participated in the Transport and Infrastructure Session on "Spatial panels, UK house prices and the global crisis." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Building a Future for the Urban Analytics Blueprint Event - 16-18 October 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Researcher Qunshan Zhao gave a talk at the Building a Future for the Urban Analytics Blueprint event run by The Alan Turing Institute, Princes Wharf, Bristol on the 17 October 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2019/building-a-future-fo... |
| Description | Byres Road public realm changes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mark Livingston advises Glasgow City Councils Byres Road development team on the evaluation of the major structural changes on Byres Rd |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CIHT and UK Roads Liaison Group Meeting on use of Transport Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The UK Roads Liaison Group (UKRLG) brings together national and local government from across the UK to consider roads infrastructure engineering and operations matters. The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) worked with them and UBDC to bring a knowledge exchange meeting to the UBDC, so that experienced high-level practitioners in this area could discuss the use of big and complex data in transport planning, both to understand the cutting edge research in this area, and to explain what they have been doing to date and what the top priority requirements are. The meeting was attended by a range of government departments, including UK and all the devolved administrations, as well as related organisations. Several researchers from the UBDC team, as well as a UBDC data service user working in this area, presented on their research. There was detailed discussion at the end about pragmatic ways forward to ensure availability of data for research and involvement of this kind of research in policy and service delivery in road transport. Since the meeting, UBDC researcher Dr Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka was invited to give a talk on Data Science and Transport at the Google Academy, and has had discussions with the Traffic Enforcement Advisor for Hampshire Constabulary, and Richard Owen of Road Safety Analysis about methods presented on to study driving behaviour and road safety policy. Non-UBDC attendance list included: - Graham Pendlebury - Director of Local Transport, DfT - and Chair of the UKRLG - Lindsay Mcgregor - Associate Director, Scottish Futures Trust - Chair of the UK Lighting Board - David.Denner - Highways Technology Manager, Welsh Government - Transport, member of the UK Lighting Board - Mark.Anderson - Uwch Beiriannydd (Goleuadau Stryd) | Senior Engineer (Street Lighting), member of UK Lighting Board - Stuart Beale, Highways England, member of UK Lighting Board - John Irvine, Director of Network Services at the Department for Infrastructure Northern Ireland and member of UKRLG - Hugh Gillies, Director of Trunk Road and Bus Operations, Transport Scotland and member of UKRLG - Anthony Boucher, Deputy Director, Local Infrastructure, Department for Transport - Steve Berry, Head, Local Roads, Light Rail and Cableways Branch, Department for Transport, member of UKRLG. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | CIKM 2015 Workshop: Understanding the City with Urban Informatics, Melbourne Australia (UBDC hosted workshop) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC staff will host a workshop on "Understanding the City with Urban Informatics" at the 4th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015) in Melbourne, Australia this October. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | CONSERVE - Cisco Demo Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop, attended by UBDC IT and Data Services Manager Dr Andrew McHugh, was a CONSERVE Project implementation showcase meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | COVID-19 blog in UBDC (Did safe cycling infrastructure still matter during lockdown?) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Title: Did safe cycling infrastructure still matter during lockdown? This blog is based on our new publication and examine the role played by safe cycling infrastructure during the lockdown period. 2019-2020 Strava data were used. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/october/did-safe-cycling-infrastructure-still-matter-during-lo... |
| Description | COVID-19 blog in UBDC (The effects of the lockdown on traffic in Glasgow) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Title: The effects of the lockdown on traffic in Glasgow This blog examined the effects of the lockdown on traffic in Glasgow by using Scoot data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/the-effects-of-the-lockdown-on-traffic-in-glasgow/ |
| Description | CR&DALL & UBDC Seminar - Well-being and learning for a better life: Reflecting across cultures and contexts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "The UBDC in partnership with CR&DALL presents a seminar on "Learning for a better life: reflecting across cultures" with Prof. Anna Robinson-Pant, Professor of Education, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK as well as UBDC researcher Dr. Catherine Lido. Places are limited and registration is required via Eventbrite. ABSTRACT Learning for a better life: reflecting across cultures In rural communities around the world, people have long recognised the power of informal learning to transform their lives and have developed their own strategies for sharing and adapting indigenous and new knowledge with their peers and family members to improve their livelihoods. However, international and national Education For All policy has continued to take a narrow focus on learning as synonymous with schooling and formal education/training. Drawing on ethnographic-style research conducted for UNESCO-IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) in rural areas of Cambodia, Egypt and Ethiopia, this seminar will explore young people's aspirations in these contexts - and how they set out to gain new knowledge, skills and opportunities for a better life. BIOGRAPHY Anna Robinson-Pant Anna Robinson-Pant is Professor of Education. She was based for around ten years in Nepal, where she worked as a teacher trainer, educational planner and ethnographic researcher with various aid agencies. She won the UNESCO International Award for Literacy Research in 1998 for her ethnographic study of women's literacy and development in Nepal (Why eat green cucumber at the time of dying? Exploring the link between women's literacy and development).Since then, she has conducted research projects on literacy, gender, education and development - including her recent role as Global Research Coordinator for the IFAD-UNESCO project in Cambodia, Ethiopia and Egypt, 'Learning knowledge and skills for agriculture to improve rural livelihoods' - on which this seminar will be based. In the UK she has researched children's decision making in primary education and the internationalisation of higher education." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | CR&DALL Seminar at UBDC - Learning Through Intergenerational Practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Half-day seminar to introduce aspects of intergenerational learning, tutoring and research. Prof. Osborne and Prof. Thakuriah provided introduction about the UBDC. Raised awareness of UBDC to educational researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/our-services/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2015/crdall-seminar-learni... |
| Description | CREATe Copyright Centre - Text and Data Mining and the Law Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andrew McHugh (10/10/19) - Invited talk at workshop exploring issues around data collection and intellectual property law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2019/12/11/create-symposium-2019-information-research-data-and-open-sc... |
| Description | CaCHE Launch Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC staff attended the launch on 18/10/17 of the newly funded UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE). This was an opportunity for networking with interested people and also tweeting from the event to draw links between UBDC housing research and data, and the CaCHE remit and planned activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.rics.org/uk/news/news-insight/news/launch-of-the-uk-collaborative-centre-for-housing-evid... |
| Description | CaCHE Seminar: Poverty in the Private Rented Sector |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Director Professor Nick Bailey, gave a speech on Poverty in the Private Rented Sector, at the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence's seminar on the 07/12/18. The private rented sector is experiencing unprecedented growth in Scotland and elsewhere in the UK. The sector remains massively controversial and faces many problems and challenges as well as key opportunities for potential benefit to households and the economy. The seminar began with a presentation from Prof Ken Gibb on the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence's future work plans in relation to the private rented sector. This will be followed by three presentations which explore recent research on the rise of poverty in private renting and 'generation rent', before opening up to a roundtable discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2018/cache-seminar-povert... |
| Description | CaCHE Short Term Lets seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr. David McArthur gave a talk about how open data can be used to better understand the effect of short term rentals on cities. The event was intended to improve the policy response to the large growth in the market for short term lets. After the talk, three UBDC researchers were asked to attend a roundtable event organised by the Scottish Government. We were also approached by the Dublin Housing Observatory to collaborate on research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2019/cache-seminar-short-... |
| Description | Call for Expressions of Interest into Adzuna Dataset |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC invites expressions of interest from applicants interested in using Adzuna job listings data for non-commercial academic research projects. Adzuna is a search engine for job advertisements in the UK and provides data about the job market. Adzuna searches thousands of websites to bring together information on millions of advertisements on their service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-services/call-for-expressions-of-interest/ |
| Description | Campaign for the Social Sciences 2020 Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation entitled 'Big Data and COVID-19 Pandemic: Potentials and Pitfalls' at an online event organised by the Campaign for the Social Sciences on the 21st of September 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2020/how-can-social-stati... |
| Description | Catch! Showcase 03-13-18 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Catch! is a £2m collaborative R&D project that brings together high growth SMEs, leading research centres - including UBDC - and 5 forward thinking Local Authorities in the UK to launch a prototype, state-of-the-art real-time, crowdsourcing data service to provide transport professionals with next-generation data to solve transport problems. This showcase will offer the opportunity to understand the challenges faced by Local Authorities and see how, through Catch's highly-scalable system, travel-behaviour data can be crowdsourced, analysed and acted upon in real time. This granular, multi-modal data helps to better understand existing infrastructure use and citizen demands and deliver more accessible, timely and cost-effective services. This in turn brings economic, environmental and societal benefits to the wider community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2018/catch-showcase/ |
| Description | Choose the Right Rights, Use the Data Right |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In a wide ranging workshop related to data licensing Andrew McHugh, UBDC Senior Data Science Manager presented to practitioners the role of UBDC as well as issues associated when gathering, storing and using data, including issues around privacy, data protection, sustainability and copyright on the 06/04/18, Glasgow UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://datasetlicencing.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Choose the Right Rights, Use the Data Right |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior Data and IT Services manager, Dr Andrew McHugh, presented on UBDC as a data licensing case study at this event jointly delivered by the University of Glasgow and Jisc. The day-long event was intended to explore issues around licencing of datasets. How do creators of data select suitable licences? Do consumers of data understand what the licences mean? What is needed to address concerns? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/choose-the-right-rights-use-the-data-right-tickets-38036349746# |
| Description | Cities Alive - Towards a Walking World / Resilience & Regeneration - Arup Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior Business Manager Keith Dingwall attedned this launch of the Arup Report 'Cities Alive: Towards a walking world'. This was a networking opportunity with industry and city planners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.arup.com/cities_alive/towards_a_walking_world |
| Description | Cities Today Press Coverage: Pandemic spurs city data innovation in Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Cities Today's press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://cities-today.com/pandemic-spurs-city-data-innovation-in-scotland/ |
| Description | Cities UKRI Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey UBDC Director, attended this meeting on canvassing for ideas for a future research programme on the 03.09.18. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | City Analytics Conference 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Director Professor Vonu Thakuriah gave a speech at The Royal Society of Edinburgh's City Analytics Conference held on the 30 May 2018. In today's digital, multi-sensored world, cities have become 'living laboratories', providing a range of data streams around urban life. What new opportunities arise from these rich data sources; what novel mathematical models and computational tools are required; and what are the relevant data-privacy issues? A range of speakers from academia and beyond will address these challenges. In addition to computer science and the mathematical sciences, the event will involve and reach out to researchers and practitioners in energy, health, transport, security, commerce and local government. The conference aims to explore opportunities and challenges around the use of rich and varied data streams, to improve quality of human life in urban areas across the world. Supported by The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Digital Economy Theme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2018/city-analytics-confe... |
| Description | City Futures Research Centre (University of New South Wales) seminar with UBDC team (led by Bill Randolph, Director of CFRC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | This presentation by Bill Randolph, Director of the UNSW City Futures Research Centre, and discussion with UBDC staff, resulted in an MoU between UBDC and AURIN (and potentially one with NICTA). It also informed planning towards future collaborations and projects. MoU between UBDC and AURIN (and potentially one with NICTA) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | City Visions - Hosted by Foresight Future of Cities Project at Urban Innovation Centre, London (Des McNulty held stall for UBDC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC will be hosting an exhibition stall to raise awareness. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Civil Engineering and Land Surveying High School in Wroclaw in Poland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | UBDC researcher Dr Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka gave a keynote to 70 high school students (16-18 years old) regarding Geoprivacy on the 17/02/18. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Civil Service Live Festival in Manchester (UBDC hosts stall) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC will host a stall exhibiting UBDC services and research, including a presentation, data portal and data visualisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Co-convened two panel sessions at the Smart City Research Symposium, Stavanger 22-09-2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I co-convened a panel on Smart/Sustainable Transport at the Smart City Research symposium. It was a fairly traditional academic event with paper presentations as well as a discussion. After the event, we are looking into the possibility of publishing some of the outputs in a special issue of a journal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.uis.no/en/smart-city/smart-city-research-symposium |
| Description | CodetheCity Scottish Data Science Technology Meetup - SUDS / March 19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Obinna Anejionu presented at the Aberdeen Data Science meetup on March 12th 2019 a talk entitled "Activating big data with spatial context to derive deeper insight in socioeconomic research" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.meetup.com/Scotland-Data-Science-Technology-Meetup/events/256813260/ |
| Description | Common Purpose Global Leadership Summit - What Makes a City Smart Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Des McNulty, Knowledge Exchange and Outreach Manager is participating in a panel discussion re "What Makes a City Smart?" to a group of 100 international students. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/our-services/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2015/common-purpose-global... |
| Description | Complex Networks Approaches to Supply Chain Management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The half-day workshop delivered by Dr Guven Demirel and Professor Vania Sena from the Business and Local Government Data Research Centre gave an introductory overview of supply chain management, and then provided an introduction to basic network concepts and measures, illustrating how these can be used on real-life data. Discussions followed around how complex networks approaches can provide insights on the relationships between the supply chain network structure and the response to disturbances and disruptions. The audience of around 38 was made up largely of university researchers and students but also included interested outside parties from energy and urban planning organisations. Reading materials and guidance for using the demonstrated Gephi visualisation software was provided to attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/complex-net... |
| Description | Conference - Migrants in the City: New Dynamics of Migration in Urban Settings (UBDC hosted stall) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Migrants in the city' international conference is a collaboration between The Sheffield Methods Institute, Faculty of Social Science Migration Research Group and the ESRC Applied Quantitative Methods Network. 2 day international conference on segregation and migration on 12th & 13th October called "Migrants in the City". UBDC will host a stand with materials about the centre services, research and specifically the migration project led by Gwilym." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Conference Presentation at Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Chicago |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC researcher, Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka presents her paper, "The concept of the 'third place' - identifying significant places from GPS trajectories" at the Geo-Social Data session of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=23222 |
| Description | Connected and Automated Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Co-I Kostas Ampountolas presented on 'Connected and Automated Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges', at the NEO Cities Workshop, Mexico City, Sept 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Contribution by Prof. P. Thakuriah to UK Parliament Office for Science and Technology POST Note on Big Data and Transport |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Contribution incorporated into publication. Unknown to date. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/briefing-papers/POST-PN-472/big-and-open-dat... |
| Description | Creative Innovation in Scotland: Big Ideas from Small Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The UBDC partnered with Creative Stirling, University of Stirling, and Codebase Stirling to deliver this free public event, as part of a larger knowledge exchange network based at Stirling University for people interested in increasing data literacy. This network is called 'Life in Data: Literacy, Openness, Education Policy and Creative Data Innovation in Scotland', and the UBDC, through its Education Research Team, is a member. The purpose of this event was to bring together artists inspired by big data together with other creative thinkers and practitioners who take a "data-driven" approach to their artistic or creative outputs. Another outcome was to gather ideas for a future hackathon focused on creative approaches to place development. That hackathon will continue to link with the nontechnical communities to get their perspectives but also to make stronger links between data analysts, geeks, nerds to engage communities more broadly, widening the reach and impact of the Life in Data data literacy research project. The event included presentations, workshopping sessions, an "ideation session" run by Product Forge to "[c]ontinue processing questions and ideas for future hackathon events" and a final roundtable summary discussion session. Dr Catherine Lido and Dr Kate Reid of Glasgow University's School of Education represented UBDC, giving an overarching presentation on the Centre's research and services, distributing UBDC information, and joining in on the Roundtable. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.stir.ac.uk/news/2018/02/big-data-meets-art/ |
| Description | Cyber-Security and Intelligent Mobility Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior IT & Data Services manager, Dr Andrew McHugh, attended this event in Glasgow to keep UBDC's knowledge and practice up-to-date and contribute some of what we have learned, as well as general networking. Event description: Transport Systems Catapult and University of Aberdeen held a workshop on Cyber Security and Intelligent Mobility on 31st March 2017 in Glasgow: "The world of mobility is undergoing significant change in response to technological developments and Cyber Security has been identified as a key issue for public attention. As with any sector undergoing rapid, impactful change, Intelligent Mobility is facing technological threats to its evolution. The exploration of these threats, as well as trends and observations provides the context for this workshop. The purpose of this workshop is: - To consider the different capabilities required by the Intelligent Mobility sector to tackle Cyber Security challenges going forward. - To understand the knowledge gaps, requirements and capability limits within and between academia, government and the Cyber Security industry in relation to this emerging market. - To explore how technological change will alter the nature of the Cyber Security threat over the next ten years? The workshop will conclude with a plenary feedback session." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.abdn.ac.uk/ctr/news/10510/ |
| Description | Data Bites #19: Getting things done with data in government 05/05/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Director Professor Nick Bailey gave a presentation on 'Data Bites #19: Getting things done with data in government' at the Data Bites event from the Institute for Government held on the 5th of May 2021. Better use of data is key to more effective government. Across government, teams are doing fascinating work with data. But those projects don't get the attention they deserve. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/getting-things-done-... |
| Description | Data Impact 2015, London (Keith Dingwall attended) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The UK Data Service is hosting a panel session and networking event on the evening of 2 December 2015 from 6pm at the Digital Catapult Centre, London. Hosted by Jane Elliott, Chief Executive of the ESRC, and Matthew Woollard, Director of the UK Data Service, a panel of leading data innovators will explore data re-use in policy and research, sharing their experiences of demonstrating data enhanced impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Data Impact Event with UKDS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Vonu Thakuriah and Des McNulty spoke on this workshop panel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Data Management for Urban Transport Operations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The half-day workshop introduced data management methods and modelling for urban transport planning, using specific case studies to illustrate the use of sensors and high-performance computing. The workshop was delivered by renowned leaders in the field of urban informatics, in two focused sessions: 'Macroscopic traffic flow modelling and control of heterogeneous cities with multi-sensor data' and 'Traffic Management Enabled By High Performance Computing'. This event was attended by people from transportation organisations and university researchers and students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2016/data-manage... |
| Description | Data Scotland Cross Party Working Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior Business Manager Keith Dingwall attended this working group which was hosted by The Data Lab (Scotland), to form closer links with government and others working in the data area in Scotland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009,2016 |
| Description | Data Sharing Consultation Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The UK Government has recently announced new proposals on data sharing within government. This consultation event is to help users of official statistics to understand more about the proposed data sharing legislation and to consider their own responses to the consultation. The event will take the form of two panels of speakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/news/data-sharing-consultation-event |
| Description | Data Taskforce's Advisory Board Meeting (Digital Office for Scottish Local Government) 190821 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Simon Joss gave a short presentation of research findings and recommendations from our research on Scottish local government's data response at the Digital Office's Data Taskforce's Advisory Board Meeting held on the 19th of August 2021. The Data Taskforce comprises of data practitioners across local government in Scotland. The presentation was followed by an interactive discussion about how to take findings and recommendations forward, engage with key stakeholders and develop an action plan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Data and Intelligence Network Data Transformation Board. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Justine Gangneux gave a short presentation of research findings and recommendations from our research on Scottish local government's data response to Covid-19 to the Data & Intelligence Network led by the Scottish Government on the 31st August 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Data integration: Opportunities and Challenges 21 July 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation titled, Data integration: Opportunities and Challenges at the Allan Turing Institute Data Centre Collaboration Event held on 21 July 2022, along with speakers: A Heppenstall, R Franklin, Mark Mon-Williams, Phil James, Mark Birkin in Stream 1: Towards connected data for societal benefit. The aim of this session is to work towards consensus on the potential for increased data connection and co-analysis. The session will be structured around three cases: routinely collected population data (Connected Bradford), distributed sensor data (Newcastle, others) and securely stored activity/transaction data (Leeds, Glasgow). Presentations on the vision for societal problems that could be addressed, experiences (and perceptions of the issues with process, governance, enablers, etc.) will be followed by Q&A, group discussions and input from stakeholders. The session will conclude with synthesis of key opportunities and challenges - what could happen next and what's needed to enable it? Presentations on the vision for societal problems that could be addressed, experiences (and perceptions of the issues with process, governance, enablers, etc.) will be followed by Q&A, group discussions and input from stakeholders. The session will conclude with synthesis of key opportunities and challenges - what could happen next and what's needed to enable it? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | DataFest 2017 - Data Summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | UBDC had an exhibition stall at this 2 day event, with dozens if not hundreds of participants coming by to chat, and take merchandise and information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPp6iqaTWwUs68_wE0u9XEIoO1_J0uKmkmBCBG3bL-KFZyMKdoDoHPgTDwlAcuD... |
| Description | DataFest 2017 - Smarter Tourism: Shaping Glasgow's Data Plan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior Business manager, Keith Dingwall, presented on UBDC at this high-profile KE event. Following on from the £24m Technology Strategy Board-funded Future City Glasgow programme, tourism partners, Glasgow Life, Scottish Enterprise and VisitScotland set up this event to develop a Data Plan for the city's thriving tourism sector. The event, developed with the support of The Data Lab, the Institute for Future Cities and Scottish Enterprise, offered attendees from industry and academia the opportunity to learn more about the city's current priorities and plans in the tourism space, discuss the learning from existing academic or student data projects, private sector operators, collaborations and Future Cities initiatives, while also feeding insight and ideas into the next stage of data-led tourism innovation. Further discussions on tourism-related data continued directly with Glasgow City Marketing Bureau in the month's following this workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://theknowledgeexchangeblog.com/2017/04/03/smarter-tourism-solving-the-data-problem-to-boost-to... |
| Description | DataVisFest on (In)equality and Inclusion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC was listed as a sponsor of this event and UBDC Co-I Professor Gwilym Pryce set one of the challenges, which took place on the 16/03/18. More info on the website here: https://datavisfest.wordpress.com/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://datavisfest.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Datafest Event - "Effective Models for Data-Driven Collaborations Between Universities and Government" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Through a combination of case study experiences and practical interactive exercises this event aimed to identify opportunities and effective models for cooperation and collaboration between academic researchers and government. Three informal presentations described some successful and ongoing collaborations between the Urban Big Data Centre and selected Local Authority partners. In each example speakers summarised the origins of their collaboration, the respective benefits of participation and any specific challenges or obstacles that have been overcome. The intention was not to present final, or even well-formed research or operational outcomes, but to focus on the collaborations themselves. 1. UBDC and Glasgow City Council's CCTV Object Detection Project (Mark Livingston, UBDC and Kimberley Hose, Glasgow City Council) 2. UBDC and North Lanarkshire Council's exploration of access to public services in the digital age (Annette Hastings and Yang Wang, UBDC and Nicole Paterson, North Lanarkshire Council) 3. UBDC's data service collection building experiences with government data owners (Andrew McHugh, UBDC) In a second session, through a series of group exercises attendees shared their experiences of similar projects (positive and negative!), developing a common understanding of challenges around issues such as data sharing, partnership development and shared objective setting, as well as best practice strategies and available resources for effectively addressing them. Participants had the chance to develop new collaborative ideas within the workshop environment, critically assessing their feasibility and potential benefits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2020/effective-models-for... |
| Description | Deadline (News Agency) Press Coverage: A new study has revealed the importance of data sharing during COVID |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Deadline (News Agency) press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2021/05/26/a-new-study-has-revealed-the-importance-of-data-sharing-du... |
| Description | Decision Support Systems in Urban Planning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jan Kazak, Lecturer in the Department of Spatial Economy, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences provided a workshop covering Decision Support Systems (DSS)'s use of principles, assumptions and limiting factors in forecasting the future in aspects of spatial planning. Two different tools were presented: Metronamica (based on cellular automata) and CommunityViz (an extension for ArcGIS) in order to compare the different mechanisms of calculations that are used. Jan conducted a series of group exercises allowing attendees to consider the competing factors at play in determining building sites and compared group responses with the DSS algorithm's optimal placements. Jan visited the Urban Big Data Centre for four weeks via the SASNet fellowship programme and worked with UBDC's iMCD data on a short project to study aspects of land use, accessibility and neighbourhood attributes with a focus on lifestyles of elderly people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news/2017/november/urban-design-patterns-to-support-independent-living-for-older-p... |
| Description | Delivering the devolution revolution requires better data - ONS Centre for Cities Public Policy Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Associate Director, Prof. Nick Bailey, presented on big data at this workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.centreforcities.org/event/delivering-devolution-revolution-requires-better-data/ |
| Description | Development of Transport Policy and Use of Mobility Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation to the Glasgow City Council 'Open Data and Innovation Working Group', titled 'Development of transport policy and use of mobility data. on the 25th February 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Digging into Data (UBDC hosted stall) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC will have an exhibition stand with materials and be displaying the iMCD video Datascape of movement patterns in Glasgow City Centre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Digital Glasgow Board - Transport (OFFICIAL): Transport Strategy Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation on Transport Strategy at the Digital Glasgow Board - Transport (OFFICIAL) held on the 7th of December 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns: A Workshop (Washington, D.C.) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Scientific Computing Officer, Michael Comerford, presents social media analysis regarding the Scottish referendum included in the paper "Digital Communication Technologies and the Scottish Referendum: how, why and with what implications?" For more information and updates about the workshop, please view the workshop website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Directors General of National Statistical Institutes Conference - Andrew McHugh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The conference focused on official statistics in a datafied society (trusted smart statistics) - Directors General of each national statistical institution comprise the major part of the audience. Andrew McHugh, UBDC Senior Data Science Manager, focused his presentation on on UBDC's urban mobility research in the context of ICT and data trends including smart and connected transport and buildings, integrated smart systems and personal and wearable technology on the 10/10/18. It covered sources of urban big data, and showcased methodological and infrastructural approaches to facilitate data management and the production of information insights. It touched too on organisational aspects around big data including team composition and skills, quality assurance and information governance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/ess/event-details?id=8647956 |
| Description | Discrete Choice Modelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Capacity-building seminar delivered by Prof Chandra Bhat, Director of the Center for Transport Research (CTR), Professor of Engineering and Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, and a world-renowned expert in the area of transportation and urban policy design. The seminar was made up of two 1-hour presentations, a general 'Introduction to Discrete Choice Modelling' training lecture followed by presentation of recent research on 'Cause-Effect Relationships in Residential, Auto Ownership, and Activity Choices'. This event was attended by people from transportation organisations and university researchers and students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2016/discrete-ch... |
| Description | Discussion: The Emerging Research Agenda for a Digital Built Britain - Andrew McHugh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Andrew McHugh, UBDC Senior Data Science Manager, joined an experts exchange intended to pull together the themes that will compose the Centre for Digital Built Britain's Research Agenda for the journey towards a digital built Britain. He offered a review of the emerging draft and commented on the balance and content of the key messages, also discussing the early draft of the Research Landscape which signposts centres of competence, especially in the UK on the 27/02/19. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Does the type of segregation matter? Social Frontiers, Networks & Domains (Urban Segregation and Inequality in Europe and China Conference, Sheffield, July 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC University of Sheffield Co-Investigator, prof Gwilym Pryce, presented at this one day conference collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The presentation of UBDC research sparked lots of interest and has led to the development of a book proposal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi/conferences-and-events/urban-segregation-inequality-europe-china |
| Description | Dr. Alasdair Rae Seminar: From Data to Wisdom? Spatial Data Visualisation as a Policy Tool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Co-organised by UBDC with the Glasgow Sustainability Network. Introductions by Prof Vonu Thakuriah, UBDC Director, Prof Marian Scott, UBDC Co-I, and big data visualisation demonstration by Michael Comerford, UBDC Scientific Computing Officer. Followed by a drinks reception. (70+ attendees, including representatives from SEPA and Glasgow City Council). Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.gla.ac.uk/events/?action=details&id=7027 |
| Description | Dr. Sandi Rosenbloom - UBDC Masterclass for PhD Students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Students and other early career academics engaged with experienced transportation planning expert at a UBDC masterclass. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Dr. Sandi Rosenbloom - UBDC Seminar: "What's Bigger Than The Coming Age Wave? Then Why Are We Ignoring It?" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk was well attended by UBDC and other Glasgow-based academic and technical staff. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/our-services/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2014/dr-sandra-rosenbloom/ |
| Description | ENHR Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey, Mark Livingston Welfare and housing reform, and the suburbanisation of poverty in the UK. Paper presented at the ENHR Annual Conference, Uppsala, 27-29 June. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ifhp.org/event/partner-event-enhr-conference-2018 |
| Description | ENHR Annual Conference 2018 - Phil Mason |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Phil Mason, Research Fellow (School of Education) gave a presentation on the preliminary and future research, "Home and schoolneighbourhood deprivation and secondary educational outcomes in the West of Scotland" (Mason P, Lido C, Kintrea k, Osborne M) from the 27-29 of June 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.enhr2018.com/ |
| Description | EPSRC Workshop: Urban Living |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On the 4th and 5th of April, 2016, the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), University of Glasgow hosted an EPSRC-funded 1.5 day workshop to explore the methodological challenges and innovations in urban data and to introduce UBDC's exciting integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) project. The workshop, entitled 'Interdisciplinary Data Resources to Address the Challenges of Urban Living', was attended by a group of nearly fifty individuals, comprising academics involved in collecting these novel sources of urban data, as well as methodological researchers, and public and private sector representatives of end-users. The event was arranged into a number of distinct sessions in order to introduce and highlight the wide variety of applications and ongoing work relating to urban data and to stimulate discussion on subjects including end use, interdisciplinary collaboration and issues of privacy and ethics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2016/epsrc-urban... |
| Description | ESRC 50th Anniversary Launch Event (Prof. G. Pryce, Prof. M. Osborne and Jenny Ryall attended) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Pryce, Prof. Osborne and Jenny Ryall attended and networked on behalf of UBDC. Increased knowledge of UBDC, broadened network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.esrc.ac.uk/about-esrc/50-years-of-ESRC/anniversary-launch-event.aspx |
| Description | ESRC Data Investments Data Access Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion led by each of ESRC's data investments, exploring data access during Covid19 pandemic to discuss and share the challenges and opportunities that have arisen around data access and security and the potential for linkage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | ESRC Festival of Social Science Event - Get the most out of your data: A Workshop for Local Authorities (UBDC hosted) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC is hosting this event as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. Several UBDC staff will be presenting and facilitating the event. The full day programme and delegate list are attached. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://s3.amazonaws.com/SmartsheetB1/1ff49559860e4f0792be06e56078aaa7?response-content-disposition=... |
| Description | ESRC IAA Conference (Des McNulty attended) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Des McNulty was informed of current impact work at ESRC and raised profile of UBDC. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | ESRC Public Dialogues events (Glasgow) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of UBDC team attended ESRC Public Dialogues held in Glasgow, and participated in discussions / answered questions about data from the general public. Public better informed about use of big data in research. UBDC better informed about public attitudes and priorities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | ESRC seminar 'Microenterprise, technology and big data: new forms of digital enterprise and work and ways to research them' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Researcher Dr Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka was invited to give this seminar in Bournemouth University for ESRC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/2016/09/15/esrc-seminar-microenterprise-technology-and-big-d... |
| Description | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel - COVID-19 effects on cycling blog in UBDC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, we share the findings from our new publication in Sustainability, which examines the role played by safe cycling infrastructure during the lockdown period. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/october/did-safe-cycling-infrastructure-still-matter-during-lo... |
| Description | Engagement video introduction produced, shared through project Twitter page during a Scotland wide online research engagement event Explortathon 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We produced a short video to explain the aims of our research project. The goal was to share it during the Scotland wide online engagement event to get more followers for our project twitter page. We will later use the twitter page to disseminate findings and advertise project related events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/CHiCS_project |
| Description | Enriching address-based data with UPRNs :Learning from Domestic EPC and Land Registry PPD datasets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bin Chi presented our work on integrating UPRNS on a number of important housing data sets. Energy Performance Certificate and Price Paid Data, at Ordnance Survey's annual research conference in Southampton. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Estimating the cost of COVID-19 related cancellations to Airbnb and their hosts in Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Blog estimating the cost of COVID-19 cancellations to Airbnb and their hosts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/estimating-the-cost-of-covid-19-related-cancellations-t... |
| Description | Ethnic and Racial Harrassment, Mental Health and Ethnic Concentration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Gwilym Pryce ran a Public Event at the Royal Statistical Society in London linked to our UBDC research on segregation at the RSS, Errol Street, London held on the 12.06.18. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2018/06/12/ethnic-and-racial-harassment-mental-health-... |
| Description | European Regional Science Association (ERSA) Lisbon 2015 (Vonu Thakuriah and David McArthur presented) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session titled "New Data and Methods in Accessibility Analysis: Accessibility patterns in UK cities" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://media.wix.com/ugd/1ce593_d90c83f0c75845c49424843421c0e65b.pdf |
| Description | Eurostat Trusted Smart Statistics Workshop - Andrew McHugh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The workshop held on the 30/01/19 brought together producers of official statistics, policymakers, members of research community developing innovative projects, to have a first discussion on data driven policymaking in the age of the IoT, opportunities related to the production of trusted smart statistics from the conceptual, practical and technical perspective. Andrew McHugh, UBDC Senior Data Science Manager, aligned UBDC's approaches with a wider smart statistics agenda, and outlined through a series of examples the ways in which data capture, processing and analysis can be systematically embedded to enable the production of comparable, reproducible, scalable and robust data for policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cros/content/workshop-trusted-smart-statistics-policymaking-age-iot_en |
| Description | Evaluation and Active Travel Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Research Fellow Dr mark Livingstone presented on using Strava Metro data to evaluate cycling interventions, and participated in the panel discussion at this seminar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Evidence and data for monitoring the PRS in Scotland, First Housing Conference - Mark Livingston |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mark Livingston, UBDC Research Fellow - Housing Research. Presentation on the evidence and data for monitoring the PRS in Scotland on the 06/06/18. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Exploring Learning City Inclusion with Diverse Education Data Webinar - October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this webinar, led by UBDC's Professor Catherine Lido with Rachel Cassar (postgraduate researcher for the VisNET project), we presented the work and data behind the Oxford Review paper 'Lifewide learning in the city: novel big data approaches to exploring learning with large-scale surveys, GPS, and social media'. In this session, we examined the background to UNESCO Learning Cities and how it informed the integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) project, with a discussion around the educational aspects of the survey, education-relevant Twitter data harvesting and the role of GPS and lifelogging images for less formal types of learning practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/datadives |
| Description | Exploring human-nature Interactions Using New Forms of Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Michael Sinclair gave a voluntary presentation on the potential of mobile phone data for managing natural areas, which was given to a wide group of Scottish park managers. This was facilitated throughout the charity Greenspace Scotland and comprised of a presentation and discussion session. This resulted in further follow-up meetings with Greenspace Scotland and the park manager's forum and generated ongoing interest in the work UBDC are undertaking on human-nature interactions via mobile phone data. This engagement was also the beginning of a longer-term partnership with Greenspace Scotland. Greenspace Scotland submitted a letter of support to contribute to our ongoing research on urban greenspace via mobile phone data in the Glasgow City Region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.greenspacescotland.org.uk/park-managers-forum-19-may-2021 |
| Description | Final Review Event for the Catch Project , Yang Wang and David |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Yang Wang, Research Associate in Transport Modelling and Informatics and David McArthur, UBDC Associate Director - Training and Capacity Building, attended the final review event for the Catch Project on the 16/04/18. The purpose is to summarize the project and present the research and project outcomes to the wider public including industry experts and city council professionals. Yang and David present our research paper published in the peer-reviewed journal. The talk brings further awareness from all the audience about UDBC and the research carried out in the University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | First Annual Scottish Housing Policy Conference 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mark Livingston, UBDC Lead - Housing and Neighbourhoods, gave a presentation at the First Annual Scottish Housing Conference on the 06.0.6.18. The talk focused on the evidence and data needed for monitoring the PRS in Scotland. This was to report the work we had started with the Scottish Parliament Information Centre looking at recent private rental legislation. We presented to a wide variety of housing professionals, policy makers and members of third sector organisations. The main objective was to communicate the information on the availability of data and what actions needed to be undertaken to improve the available data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2018/1st-annual-scottish-... |
| Description | Follow up meeting re: Open Data Agenda |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Following up from an earlier talk at a Registers of Scotland Open Day this meeting was an opportunity to expand on the potential benefits of pursuing an open data licensing approach for RoS data - at least for non-commercial academic research purposes. The meeting took place with Samuel Dickinson and Katherine Falconer of RoS, with UBDC's Andrew McHugh attending. The discussion promised much further progress but the Covid19 pandemic struck shortly afterwards, requiring the work to be largely set aside. Possible avenues included a comparative analysis of the situations in Scotland and England & Wales (the equivalent data in E&W is open already) and conceptualisation of a limited open data subset that could be available for academic users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Forum: Digital Preservation Coalition - Preserving Social Media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | "Digital Preservation Coalition : Preserving Social Media 29th April - British Library, London - Michael participates in a forum discussion" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Future Cities Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Identify challenges in the Future Cities landscape that satellite data could potentially be used to solve. 2. Develop a landscape map. 3. Share knowledge and expertise. 4. Identify opportunities for collaboration (short/longer term)." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.strath.ac.uk/cities/ |
| Description | GIS-Based Facility Location Analysis for the Public and Private Sectors Webinar - October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this webinar, led by UBDC's Dr Jing Yao, we introduced some classic facility location models, with examples of location-allocation analyses in ArcGIS using open data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/datadives |
| Description | GISRUK 2017 - Geographic Information Science Research Conference, 18th - 21st April 2017 The University of Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC researchers Dr David McArthur and Yang Wang presented on 'Linking Smartphone GPS Data with Transport Planning: A Framework of Data Aggregation and Anonymization for a Journey Planning App'. The GISRUK conference series is the UK's largest national GIS research conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://huckg.is/gisruk2017/GISRUK_2017_paper_11.pdf |
| Description | GISRUK 2018 - Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sila-Nowicka UBDC researcher, attended the 26th Annual GIScience Research UK Conference, organised by the Pete Fisher Laboratory for Geocomputation and the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment of the University of Leicester and held at the University of Leicester on 17-20 April 2018 where she presented the results of her research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://leicester.gisruk.org/ |
| Description | GLASGOW INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FESTIVAL 2017 6th-8th April 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Information Retrieval researcher Dr Yashar Moshfeghi gave a short talk on his UBDC research: Identifying Relevance and Need in the Brain. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/irfest2017/ |
| Description | GeoComputation 2017: 2017 International Conference on GeoComputation: Celebrating 21 Years of GeoComputation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC researchers Yang Wang and David McArthur attended this conference to present, and promoted UBDC through networking and information included in their talks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.geocomputation.org/2017/papers/23.pdf |
| Description | GeoComputation Conference 2017 - presentation on windfarms |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC University of Sheffield team presented in September 2017 at the GeoComputation Conference, Leeds. Presentation: "Large-scale analysis of line of sight that includes buildings with Scottish windfarms". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.geocomputation.org/2017/conference/ |
| Description | GeoNatura Workshop - Social & Environmental Applications of GIS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | What are the advantages derived from the use of geographic information in social and environmental applications? Which sectors of society benefit from the use of geographical information systems (GIS) and which sectors are potential employers? What is the current state and future trends of GIS applications? The answer to these and other questions is the basis for the development of a GIS initiation program developed under the European Union funded GEONATURA project in partnership with the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; TU Delft, Netherlands; and the University of Florence, Italy. This one day workshop featured invited speakers from UK academia, industry and government and is free of charge (programme below). It is aimed at those with little or no background knowledge in GIS and also provides a good opportunity to network with the speakers, students and lecturers based in Scotland, Portugal, Italy and the Netherlands. Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka, Research Associate in Urban Methods, Modelling and Simulatio, gave a speech on the Big Data in Transport Studies. Applications and geo-privacy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2018/geonatura-workshop/ |
| Description | Getting what you need from data providers: A brainstorm workshop and legal Q&A |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Claire Munroe, from the Contracts department within the University's legal team, runs a lunchtime session for researchers wanting to know the legal ins and outs of data licensing and access. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Glasgow City Centre Districts Regeneration Frameworks Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior Business Manager Keith Dingwall attended this Launch of GCC funded City Centre Regeneration project, to network and establish potential collaborations and KE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=19936 |
| Description | Glasgow City of Science and Innovation Press Coverage: A New Study has Revealed the Importance of Data Sharing During COVID |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Glasgow City of Science and Innovation's press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/university-of-glasgow-research-shows-importance-of-dat... |
| Description | Glasgow Science Fair - Science Sunday 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC's Education Research Group took part in the University of Glasgow's Glasgow Science Fair Science Sunday, a free public event. Dr Catherine Lido and Dr Kate Reid, and their Q-step intern Michaella Drummond, presented on 'Representing literacies in times of precarity using Glasgow Big Data', with their3D visulsations and other methods and activities using iMCD data to engage with the public and promote data literacy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/sciencefestival/eventsandprojects/glasgowsciencefestival2017/allages/sc... |
| Description | Glasgow University Knowledge Exchange and Impact Lunchtime Seminar (Des McNulty spoke) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Des McNulty spoke at this regular seminar to raise awareness of UBDC and our approach to KE and impact. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.gla.ac.uk/staff/news/archives/2014/december/headline_376427_en.html |
| Description | Global Cities Teaching Time - Presentation to German Students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Speaking to 36 German students about the UBDC, GIS modeling, etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Google Academy, Data Science in Transport |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka, UBDC Researcher, delivered a presentation on how new forms of data can improve transport solutions in different cities at the The Department for Transport's first Data Science in Transport event of 2018 hosted at Google Academy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-science-in-transport-tickets-42562044220 |
| Description | Governance and Empowerment in the Smart City - Liesbet van Zoonen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Liesbet van Zoonen, academic director of the Center for BOLD Cities in the Netherlands, visited UBDC on 30th October 2017 to give a lecture entitled 'Governance and Empowerment in the Smart City', followed by a discussion session on areas of mutual interest. Abstract: While 'smart city' is already a stale term in IT and urban discourse, the average citizen is unlikely to know what it means, and city civil servants are still catching up on the implications of 'smart' for their particular policy and planning arena. Hence, the current cry among smart city companies and professionals is that it is time to 'involve the people'. However, it is never discussed which people are expected and desired to become involved what desirable outcomes of this involvement are, and what forms of involvement one should strive for. In this talk, Liesbet van Zoonen discusses the need for the empowerment of citizens and civil servants against the big IT and platform companies, and presents the action research that her research centre for Big Open and Linked Data (BOLD) Cities conducts. Combining data science with participatory methods proves a promising way, she will argue, to help both citizens and civil servants to keep the city as a public space enabling public life. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/governance-... |
| Description | Guest Lecture for MA Students, University of Liverpool: Research Data Management and Big Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Introductory lecture to information science students covering: - What is Research Data Management? What is Big Data? - What is involved each? - Introduction to the Urban Big Data Centre? - What types of data are being collected? - What systems are involved? - What policies are in place? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Harvey Miller Masterclass |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The UBDC is delighted to announce a Masterclass with Prof. Harvey J. Miller, Chair in Geographic Information Science and Professor at The Ohio State University. This masterclass is aimed primarily at postgraduate and early career researchers - please see full agenda below. Refreshments and light lunch will be provided. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Harvey Miller Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Prof. Harvey J. Miller Bob and Mary Reusche Chair in Geographic Information Science and Professor in the Department of Geography at The Ohio State University The Moving Across Places Study (MAPS): Measuring the Influence of Light Rail Transit and Complete Streets on Physical Activity Lack of physical activity (PA) and consequent poor health outcomes such as obesity, diabetes and some cancers is a persistent public health issue. Planners and policy leaders often view public transit as a means for increasing PA levels. While there is evidence that public transit users are more physically active overall, it is not clear whether it is new or shifted from other forms of existing PA. The typically greater time required to use public transit relative to automobile trips suggests that users may substitute transit-related PA for other activities such as recreational walking and biking, attenuating the health benefits of public transit. Using GPS and accelerometer data from a quasi-experimental study of PA before and after construction of a light rail line and walkability enhancements in a neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah USA, we investigate changes in PA and explore disaggregate and spatial effects. Adult participants wore accelerometers and GPS loggers for approximately one week during pre-construction (Time 1) and post-construction (Time 2) of a Complete Street intervention involving a light rail line, new sidewalks and a bike path. Participants also completed surveys for socioeconomic, attitudinal and behavioral data. We examine 537 participants with complete accelerometer and GPS data for both time periods. Results suggest that transit ridership is associated with new PA rather than drawn from existing PA. This implies that public health benefits should be considered in public transit policies and plans." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Health Literacy & Precarious Living: A 'Big-Data' Multi-method Approach using iMCD data' - British Psychological Society Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Kate Reid presented on 'Health Literacy & Precarious Living: A 'Big-Data' Multi-method Approach using iMCD data' at the British Psychological Society Conference on 4/5/17. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www1.bps.org.uk/system/files/user-files/Annual%20Conference%202017/AC2017%20ABSTRACT%20BOOK_... |
| Description | High Performance Computing and Big Data Summit 2015 (Talk by Prof. P. Thakuriah) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Thakuriah spoke at summit on "Urban Big Data Centre Case Study: Addressing the Social, Economic and Environmental Challenges Facing Cities". Raised awareness of UBDC. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://ukhpc.co.uk/ |
| Description | Holyrood Public Sector Data Policy Summit 2022 Invited Talk (Andrew McHugh) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited participation in experts' panel session entitled "The Power of Data Science and Analytics". Session summarised as follows: "With high-quality data collected, organisations can utilise data science and analysis to drive insight and better decision-making. These analytics can then enable improved services across the public sector. This session will comprise a panel discussion amongst sector experts about how best to maximise the value of data and the impact data analysis can bring to an organisation." Chair - Gemma Milne, Writer & Researcher Speakers • Dr Joanna McKenzie, Head of Data Science, The Data Lab • Dr Andrew McHugh, Senior Data Science Manager, Urban Big Data Centre at University of Glasgow • Jarmo Eskelinen, Executive Director, Data Driven Innovation Initiative at The University of Edinburgh |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://events.holyrood.com/event/public-sector-data-summit-2022/ |
| Description | Human Dynamics and Urban Structure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Vonu Thakuriah, Jing Yao, and other UBDC staff attended this seminar, hosted by UBDC in Glasgow, and had discussions with presenter Alex Singleton from CDRC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/human-dynamics-and-urban-structure/ |
| Description | IAA Impact Event at Scottish Parliament (Des McNulty attended) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Des McNulty attended this event for informational and networking purposes on behalf of UBDC. Informed UBDC team of IAA issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | IOT//GLA (Internet of Things) #1 Meetup |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | UBDC hosted the inaugural IOT//GLA Internet of Things Glasgow Meetup, organised by the Internet of Things Scotland Meetup group, and live-streamed by Product Forge. Led to a number of ongoing discussions with OfCom, Alba Orbital, Product Forge and others regarding collaborations. Collaboration with product Forge is now under way, and Dr Jeremy Singer, who presented at the meeting on his Raspberry Pi Smart Campus work, followed up with a UBDC Methods Session on the same. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.meetup.com/iotScotland/events/236233596/ |
| Description | ISCF Future Cities Challenge Workshop - Andrew McHugh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Innovate UK, on behalf of the UK Research and Innovation, in collaboration with BEIS and the Knowledge Transfer Network, sought practitioners to participate in an engagement workshop to review and validate the proposed Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) theme: "21st Century Cities". Andrew McHugh, UBDC Senior Data Science Manager, contributed to discussion on the 17/05/18 - one practical outcome has been a formal statement of support from UBDC for a proposed ISCF strategic case for Growing Cities Sustainably." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://ktn-uk.co.uk/events/iscf-future-cities-challenge-workshop-edinburgh |
| Description | Illinois News Today Press Coverage: Pandemic spurs innovation in Scottish urban data-Cities Today |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Illinois News Today's press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://illinoisnewstoday.com/pandemic-spurs-innovation-in-scottish-urban-data-cities-today/225249/ |
| Description | Impacts of COVID-19 on the Airbnb Market in Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A blog looking at the impact of Airbnbs COVID 19 cancellation and refund policy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/impacts-of-covid-19-on-the-airbnb-market-in-edinburgh/ |
| Description | Inequality and the City Event at Dept of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow (UBDC showcased materials) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC materials are being showcased at the Urban Studies "Inequality and the City" event with 85 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Innovate 2016 Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Innovate is the UK's primary Innovation Showcase event. Smart cities was major theme for the event programme. UBDC Senior Business Manager Keith Dingwall attended to network and raise awareness of UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.events.trade.gov.uk/innovate-uk-2016 |
| Description | Innovate UK Infrastructure Systems Competition Briefing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior Business Manager Keith Dingwall attended this event to gather information and network for UBDC, and look at potential partnerships that might arise from this Competition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Innovate UK Workshop: Solving Urban Challenges with Data (Glasgow) (Prof. N. Bailey and Des McNulty attended) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Nick Bailey and Des McNulty attended to gather information about the Innovate UK investments and network with potential collaborators. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/solving-urban-challenges-with-data/events-view/-/events/18894293 |
| Description | Innovate UK Workshop: Solving Urban Problems with Data (Manchester) (Prof. G. Pryce attended) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Gwilym Pryce attended from University of Sheffield to raise profile of UBDC and take advantage of networking opportunities. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/solving-urban-challenges-with-data/events-view/-/events/18474006?... |
| Description | Innovative Use of Big Data - Investing in the Danish Smart Cities Sector |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior Business Manager Keith Dingwall attended this smart cities event hosted jointly by Future Cities Catapult, DTU, and Danish Govt International Development, to network, gather information, and promote UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Innovative approaches to social research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Catherine Lido, a researcher with the UBDC's Education Research Group, presented in London on the work of the Urban Big Data Centre (University of Glasgow), and specifically, the integrated Multmedia City Data (iMCD) project. She presented findings regarding precarity, place and 'social capital' as it relates to literacies, as well as, civic participation and overall general health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Institute of Civil Engineers delegation to UBDC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit to UBDC by Prof Tim Broyd, Chair of Institute of Civil Engineers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016 |
| Description | Integrated Multimedia City Data Workshop - Andrew McHugh, Christina Boididou, Magdalena Drafiova, Obinna Anejionu |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In this iMCD workshop Andrew McHugh, UBDC Senior Data Science Manager, presented on the work to publish social media data undertaken within the Centre. Christina Boididou, UBDC Scientific Computing Officer - Research Data Scientist, summarised image detection and social isolation work using iMCD lifelogging image data on the 01/10/18. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ubdc-data-workshop-series-integrated-multimedia-city-data-imcd-ticket... |
| Description | Integration and Equality in 21st Century: Can we have one without the other? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Integration and Equality in 21st Century: Can we have one without the other? Public Lecture, 14th June 2017. UBDC Co-Investigator, Prof Gwilym Pryce's inaugural lecture at the University of Sheffield presented work from the UBDC project and related research on segregation and inequality, sparking lively questions and discussion, and leading to a number of research opportunities and collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi/latest-news/inaugural-lecture-1.702407 |
| Description | Intelligent Community Challenge: Urban Design, London (UBDC hosting stall) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC is hosting an exhibition stall to promote the UBDC services and training offering as well as the MsC in Urban Transport. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | International Conference on Weblog and Social Media: "Tweeting Behaviour during Train Disruptions within a City" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC researchers Nut Limsopatham, M-Dyaa Albakour, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis present their paper, "Tweeting Behaviour during Train Disruptions within a City" at the Digital Placemaking Workshop, which is part of the 2015 International Conference on Weblog and Social Media (ICWSM) in Oxford, UK this May. For more information, please visit the ICWSM Digital Placemaking Workshop website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | International Environmetrics Society Meeting (TIES International Conference ) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC materials distributed in programme pack. ISPRS is a leading organization in remote sensing, photogrammetry and spatial information sciences - very high-resolution satellite imagery, terrain based imaging and participatory sensing, inexpensive platforms, and advanced information and communications technologies. Every 4 years the Congress welcomes participants from all over the world. This gathering strengthens relations among the researchers, professionals and representatives of governmental and non-governmental organization thus enhancing the co-operation within the field. ISPRS welcomes all papers bringing new results, achievements, methods and theory to help to shift the present level of knowledge. All interested organizations are welcome to participate at the Congress as exhibitors. Profit from the opportunity to present your products and services to the leaders in the field. The program structure is split into several session types: Technical Sessions, Theme Sessions, Special sessions, Plenary Meetings, Exhibitor's Showcase Sessions and Commercial Sessions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.isprs2016-prague.com/ |
| Description | International Healthy Streets Summit 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave an invited talk on my research. The focus was partly on what the policy implications were, but also on how the data and methods could enhance practice in the field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://landor.co.uk/healthystreets/2019/home.php#nil |
| Description | International Statistical Institute (ISI) Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk and discussion at panel at International Statistical Institute (ISI) Annual Meeting. I was am invited speaker and discussant, 63rd World Statistics Congress. The title of my talk was "Partnerships with official statistical agencies: an academic perspective on experimental statistics." The panel was organized by Statistics Netherlands, with participation of Mexican National Statistical Office. The panel met on June 22, 2021. The outcome was a discussion on better ideas of how official statistical agencies can better engage with universities, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Interview - Contribution to Think Piece on Future Data and Analytics - Andrew McHugh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Feeding into the UKRI research infrastructure survey and wider UKRI road mapping exercise, David de Roure was commissioned by ESRC to write a "Think Piece" on future data and analytics. He explained that his aim was to get a sense of the future needs of the social science community in terms of data analytics and computational needs. Focussing on "new and emerging forms of data", particularly social media and Internet of Things (as opposed to surveys, admin, consumer, government data - which are being addressed by others), he was also interested in the quality of research, for example to inform "evidence based policy". Andrew McHugh, UBDC Senior Data Science Manager, participated in a 30 minute interview. Areas of interest included work on SUDS and iMCD - UBDC is quite unique in terms of how we combine a range of types of data sources on the 04/06/18. Other participants in the work included UKDS and the social data science team at the Turing Institute. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Interview by New Scientist Magazine about building energy efficiency |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed by Jeremy Hsu from the New Scientists about one preprint publication from Stanford researchers. I gave my view about their preprints and discussed what's the best way to using AI and satellite imagery to better understand building energy efficiency in the global scale. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.newscientist.com/article/2341034-ai-can-tell-which-buildings-are-energy-efficient-from-t... |
| Description | Interview for national newspaper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The Herald newspaper did a series of interviews with academics as part of a series on the COP26 climate change conference. I was interviewed for Transport Day to talk about future mobility. I focused on warning against relying solely on electric vehicles to reduce CO2 emissions and promoted the idea of active travel and integrated ticketing for public transport. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.nla-eclips.com/PDFs/BRAB210.PDF |
| Description | Interview for the Financial Times |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | UBDC's Associate Director for Training and Capacity Building, Dr David McArthur, was interviewed for a Financial Times article on the potential for Strava data to generate big data that can be used for public development. In the article entitled 'City planners zero in on cyclists through exercise app', they note that David "compared journeys logged by Strava against roadside counts and found the numbers correlated relatively well." The article goes on to say: "He has found, based on data from the app, that when segregated cycle-only paths were built cycling volumes increased by 12-18 per cent; when a lane was simply painted on the road the number dropped. "The app "opens up new modelling possibilities", Mr McArthur said, but noted important discrepancies in the data. There are more Strava users, for example, in wealthier west Glasgow than the east of the city, so using the data alone could risk replicating deeper inequalities." This article, which reached a potential of 1m readers (from FT circulation statistics) has contributed to dissemination of UBDC research outcomes across an international audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ft.com/content/bfd4dbaa-061b-11ea-9afa-d9e2401fa7ca |
| Description | Interview with Technology Scotland for Blog Series on Covid-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Took part in an interview with Technology Scotland, to inform a blog on "Responding to Covid-19". This was an opportunity to highlight recent work being undertaken at UBDC in the months since March 2020 around the effects of Covid-19 on UK urban areas. We were able to highlight some of the recent research being undertaken and links to our Covid-19 related outputs were provided within the blog. This was also an opportunity to raise the profile of UBDC more generally, and to focus attention to specific successful collaborations between UBDC and local authorities, including Glasgow City Council. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://technologyscotland.scot/blog-series-responding-to-covid-19-urban-big-data-centre/ |
| Description | Introducing the Waterproofing Data Dashboard v.0.0.1 - 21.09.22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, Andy Clarke and Professor João Porto de Albuquerque introduce the latest instalment from the Waterproofing Data project - a public web platform presenting maps and charts visualising flood-related data in Brazil. Bringing together data from weather stations, disaster risk mapping and citizen science, the dashboard app was developed with the dialogical approach of the Waterproofing Data project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/september/introducing-the-waterproofing-data-dashboard-v001/ |
| Description | Introduction to Adzuna Job Market Data Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A UBDC online seminar: Introduction to Adzuna Job Market Data. I gave a presentation with the title of "Understanding the impact of AI and smart technologies on jobs using online job vacancy data". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/introduction-to-adzu... |
| Description | Invited Talk SAD 2020 Spatial Analytics + Data Seminar Series 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk from Newcastle University. Talk title: Articulating strategies to address heat resilience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKYkbKpNPDY&t=67s |
| Description | Invited Talk by Co-I Dr Konstantinos Ampountolas: Motorway tidal flow lane control, 11th April 2019, Transport Institute, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | During this presentation Dr. Ampountolas proposed a simple and practical real-time strategy for efficient motorway tidal flow lane control. A switching policy based on the fundamental diagram, that requires only aggregated measurements of density (or occupancy). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.tudelft.nl/evenementen/2019/transport-institute/transport-thursday-11th-of-april-motorwa... |
| Description | Invited Talk in GDSL (Geographic Data Science Lab)-CDRC (Consumer Data Research Centre) Brown Bag Seminar, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk at the University of Liverpool. Talk title: Fuel poverty or pandemic mobility? A new insight for the private rental housing market and green space visitation from new forms of urban big data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gdsl-cdrc-brown-bag-seminar-with-qunshan-zhao-tickets-156653664327# |
| Description | Invited Talk in Graduate Colloquium Series, Department of Geography, University of Northern Iowa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk at the University of Northern Iowa. Talk title: Designing a Sustainable Urban Environment by Spatial Data Science and Urban Climatology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited Talk in Heat Islands and Inequality Journalism Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk at the Heat Islands and Inequality Journalism Symposium and this may lead to future collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited Talk in School of Engineering, Newcastle University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk at Newcastle University. Talk title: A multi-scale framework for fuel station location: From highways to street intersections |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited online talk to WGDC Summit 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this WDGC summit 2020, I presented my recent research on "A multi-scale framework for fuel station location: From highways to street intersections." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://wgdc.taibo.cn/ |
| Description | Invited speaker and International Advisory Committee member, 7) First International Workshop on Big Data Smart Transportation Analytics in Shanghai, China, jointly organized by Purdue University and Tongji University, Shanghai, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | First International Workshop on Big Data Smart Transportation Analytics in Shanghai, China, jointly organized by Purdue University and Tongji University, Shanghai, China, July 16-17, 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Invited talk at the University of Seoul (Introduction to Urban Big Data Centre and transport case studies) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited talk at the University of Seoul. About 20 people attended webinar. Due to the pandemic restriction, only 7 people attended in person and others joined through the Internet. In the presentation, I introduced Urban Big Data Centre at the University of Glasgow and some transport case studies. The University of Seoul has just established big data centre and, we talked about future collaborations briefly after the presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHBzK_ZO1i4&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | Invited talk by Co-I Dr Konstantinos Ampountolas: A Sociotechnical Systems Approach for Energy-Efficient Mobility in Smart Cities, July 8-9, 2019, Philadelphia, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at Workshop on Control for Networked Transportation Systems (CNTS), July 8 - 9, 2019, Philadelphia, USA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://cnts.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ |
| Description | Invited talk by Co-I Dr Konstantinos Ampountolas: Workshop on Traffic Flow Modelling and Control, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Jul 28-29, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at Workshop on Traffic Flow Modelling and Control, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Jul 28-29, 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited talk in Shenzhen University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A invited talk to introduce Urban Analytics programme and Research activities in UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited talk in the Alan Turing Institute Urban Analytics Programme Collaborative Workshop: Building a future for the urban analytics blueprint |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Day 1 and 2 (16 and 17 October) form the core of the "Building a Future" event. In these two days, we expect attendees from a variety of institutions and career stages to come together to review, revise, and improve our Urban Analytics programme vision statement & strategic plan. This will mainly be oriented around short research talks, breakout sessions to discuss and critique the vision statement, collaborative writing to improve the statement, and networking events to foster introduce and connect workshop participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/building-future-urban-analytics-blueprint |
| Description | Invited talk in the Alan Turing Institute Urban Analytics Programme Collaborative Workshop: Towards Urban Analytics 2.0 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Lighting talk has been given for the Turing workshop and it represents a strong interest for Glasgow to be part of the Turing agenda in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/towards-urban-analytics-20 |
| Description | Invited talk: Mobile phone analysis of 52 of Glasgow's open spaces |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This is an invited presentation to Glasgow City Council park policy and management leaders by Dr Michael Sinclair. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited talk: Spatial Statistics and Spatial Analysis Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is an online invited talk given to Chinese research community for my most recent research paper: Optimization of tree locations and spatial arrangements to reduce human heat stress in an urban park. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Itzhak Benenson Seminar: The use of big urban data for a human view of accessibility and equity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC hosts this seminar from visiting professor Itzak Benenson, Israel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Jennifer Evans-Cowley Seminar at UBDC: The Technology Enabled City |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "The Technology Enabled City Jennifer Evans-Cowley Professor of City and Regional Planning, The Ohio State University; Vice Provost for Capital Planning and Regional Campuses, Knolton School of Architecture Wednesday, 8th July 12:00pm - 1:00pm Urban Big Data Centre, Conference Room 7 Lilybank Gardens, University of Glasgow G12 8RZ" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Jing Yao Presentation at Nankai University on UBDC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jing Yao presents on the UBDC's research and services to an audience at Nankai University in Tianjin, China. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | KE & Impact Conference - University of Glasgow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This event was attended by several UBDC staff to improve their understanding of delivery of KE and Impact, and to network with people within the University of Glasgow. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Keynote address at Annual meeting of the International Association of Chinese Planners. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote address at Annual meeting of the International Association of Chinese Planners. The title of my keynote was "Urban Informatics and Aspirations for Evidence-Based Decision Making and Community Engagement in a Post-Pandemic World." The keynote address was given virtually to over a thousand attendees worldwide on September 10, 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Keynote in Advanced Workshop of Urban Studies and Smart Cities, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Emerging Data Sources and Urban Informatics: Examples, Prospects and Challenges. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The keynote was a part of a workshop to help establish a presence in Urban Informatics and Smart Cities in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. the keynote was supported by Strategic Development Fund, Faculty of Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong as well as Department of Geography and Resource Management Urban Studies Programme, Institute of Future Cities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | LARIA Spring Webinar Series 4 2022 16/6/22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey presented 'capturing urban mobility through mobile phone data' at the LARIA Spring Webinar Series 4 on 16 June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-spring-2022-webinar-4/#!event-register/2022/6/16/laria-spring-w... |
| Description | LDN Big Data Conference 2018 - Rod Walpole and Obinna Anejionu |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Scientific Computing Officers, Rod Walpole and Dr Obinna Anejionu, attended as delegates to the Big Data LDN (London): a two-day combined conference and exhibition focusing on how to build dynamic, data-driven systems held on the 13-14 November 2018. The conference and seminar programme is a blend of strategic guidance and actionable technical insights on how to tackle Big Data projects with talks by experts using real-world case studies to introduce new tools and techniques. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Launch of CBS Urban Data Centre (Heerlen), and Award of Platinum City Certification (World Council on City Data) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior IT and Data Servcies Manager, Dr Andrew mcHugh, was invited to attend this event by Statistics Netherlands, Municipality of Heerlen, Heerlen, Netherlands. Aim was relationship building with Statistics Netherlands for UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Life in Data - Data Literacy Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC is part of the #LifeinData Network through our education Research Team. We co-hosted a data literacy workshop in the Glasgow School of Education. People attended there from Education Scotland, SQA, Scottish Government, Edinburgh Council and Zero Waste (Stirling). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Lifelong Learning, Learning Cities and Smart Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC's Professor Mike Osborne took part in a panel session on 'insights on learning and training for livable cities' at this Asian Development Bank (ADB) and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) webinar on the 2nd of December 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/lifelong-learning-learnin... |
| Description | Local Gov Press Coverage: Data sharing 'crucial' to how councils managed pandemic, study reveals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Loca Gov's press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.localgov.co.uk/Data-sharing-crucial-to-how-councils-managed-pandemic-study-reveals/52388 |
| Description | Macroscopic traffic flow modelling and control of heterogeneous cities with multi-sensor data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Co-I Kostas Ampountolas was invited to give this talk at the Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Macroscopic traffic flow modelling and control of heterogeneous cities with multi-sensor data. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Macroscopic traffic flow modelling and control of heterogeneous cities with multi-sensor data. School of Civil Engineering & School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology & Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China, July 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://en.scut.edu.cn/detail.jsp?id=40257 |
| Description | Making data readable - dashboards, information visualisation and accessible evidence (UBDC Webinar) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Through a series of invited talks - including internal UBDC speakers and a contribution from Public Health Scotland - participants learned how to most effectively capture or share information needs and align these with available data and appropriate methods of information presentation. The session also covered practical aspects of producing attractive, accessible, and interactive dashboards and data platforms. The session was adminsistered on Zoom with participants also joining via YouTube. Around one hundred attendees participated across the platforms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/making-data-readable... |
| Description | Manchester Big Data Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Hosted by CMIST at University of Manchester. This seminar will give an overview of the UBDC's research, data services and the data products you can expect to have access to as we continue to develop our offer during 2015: Programme 09.30 Registration and coffee 10.00 Welcome from the chair Sarah King-Hele (Data, Services and Skills, CMIST, University of Manchester) 10.05 Introduction to the UBDC: A Data Services Overview Stefanie Lewis (Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow) 10.40 Q&A 10.50 Break 11.10 Research Projects in the UBDC Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka (Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow) 11.50 Q&A 12.00 Close 12.05 Lunch and networking" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Meeting of the RDA IG on Urban Quality of Life Indicators: Urban Data Informatics and Delivery. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC PI and Director, Prof Thakuriah, presented at this Workshop on 'Understanding the city using unstructured data sources'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting on Centre for Big Data Statistics / UBDC Collaboration Potential |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mirela Causevic, a data scientist at Statistics Netherlands (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek or CBS) visited UBDC as part of a SASNet Fellowship. In this meeting she discussed some of the work being carried out at Statistics Netherlands, mainly in the context of the CBDS - the Centre for Big Data Statistics. She also touched upon possible directions for collaboration between CBDS and UBDC and potential mutual research interests based on her knowledge gained through her brief visit here. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Audit Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey UBDC Director Co- I met with Nichola Williams, Senior Auditor to discuss analysis of health and social care data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with CEO, CityLets [private letting agency] |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On 6 Dec 17 Prof Nick Bailey (UBDC Co-Director) met with Thomas Ashdown, CEO, CityLets [private letting agency] in connection with UBDC housing work stream and data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Care Monitoring 2000 to discuss data sharing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The HE / industry collaborations group Interface put us in touch with CM2000 (Care Monitoring 2000) at their request to discuss ways in which we might support them in their business of providing electronic and digital monitoring of various health and social care related services. We met with them on 20/4/17 and various options for supporting their data collection and use, and for them potentially providing their data for research, were discussed, and followed up afterwards by email. This activity has not yet resulted in impact as at March 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Delegation from Chinese Tianjin Eco City and Bluepath Consulting - Andrew McHugh, David McArthur, Rod Walpole & Obinna Anejionu |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Andrew McHugh, UBDC Senior Data Science Manager, David McArthur, UBDC Associate Director - Training and Capacity Building, Rod Walpole & Obinna Anejionu, UBDC Scientific Computing Officers met with the consultancy company to explore opportunities to deploy big data management standards to facilitate city developments on the 23/05/18. This relationship came through BSI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with Head of Data Science, DWP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 21 July 17 Prof Nick Bailey (UBDC Co-Director) met with Charlie Boundy, Head of Data Science, DWP regarding Zoopla data from our data collections, and UBDC's remit more generally. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Head of Sheffield Data Science Hub, DWP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 15 Aug 17 Prof Nick Bailey (UBDC Co-Director) met with Billy Blyth, Head of Sheffield Data Science Hub, DWP regarding recruitment needs for data scientists (in connection with development of new MSc planned by UBDC). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010,2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Homes for Good re UBDC data and housing research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On 11 Oct 17 Prof Nick Bailey (UBDC Co-Director) met with Sue Aktemel, Homes for Good [private letting agency and landlord], in connection with the UBDC housing work stream. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Housing, Greater London Authority |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On 12 Oct 17 Prof Nick Bailey (UBDC Co-Director) met with James Gleeson, Senior Policy Officer - Housing, Greater London Authority, in connection with UBDC housing work stream and data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with John Pullinger, UK National Statistician |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The UK National Statistician John Pullinger visited UBDC for a day-long workshop style meeting on 4/9/17 to gain an understanding of the work UBDC does, and discuss mutual affordances with his work and ours. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Private Rental Sector Stakeholder Lead, Valuation Office Agency (VOA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 12 Oct 17 Prof Nick Bailey (UBDC Co-Director) met with Gary Trent, Private Rental Sector Stakeholder Lead, Valuation Office Agency, in connection with UBDC housing work stream and data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Rotherham City Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC University of Sheffield team members had a meeting with senior members of Rotherham City Council to showcase their work and discuss possibilities for future collaboration, including the prospect of funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Scottish Association of Landlords |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On 3 Nov 17 Prof Nick Bailey (UBDC Co-Director) met with Mike Campbell, Scottish Association of Landlords in connection with UBDC housing work stream and data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Transport Scotland GIS team to discuss data sharing and other mutual activities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Transport Scotland GIS team visited UBDC on 2/10/17 for a half-day workshop and discussion looking at ways in which we could work together in the future, including data sharing and their interest in using our SUDS platform. This meeting resulted in an invitation to the OSMA Management Board to present our work and discuss data sharing and our research with various data collecting/owning bodies within the Scottish public sector, such as Police Scotland. That meeting is recorded in ResearchFish also. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with the Improvement Service (Scotland) re small area datasets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 7 Sept 17 Prof Nick Bailey (UBDC Co-Director) met with the Improvement Service - Iain McKay, re collaboration on small area datasets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Michael Keith Seminar: The Future of the Future City? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a free seminar hosted by UBDC with Michael Keith, Director of COMPAS, Co-ordinator of Urban Transformations (The ESRC portfolio of investments and research on cities), and Co-Director of the University of Oxford Future of Cities Programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/michael-kei... |
| Description | Michael Keith Seminar: The Future of the Future City? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This capacity-building seminar was provided by guest speaker Michael Keith, Director of COMPAS, Co-ordinator of Urban Transformations (The ESRC portfolio of investments and research on cities), and Co-Director of the University of Oxford Future of Cities programme. The talk considered the historical contingency of claims made around urban futures and the manner in which we might measure the 'future city' with its deterministic dimensions, emergent forms and ethical dilemmas. There were requests from Glasgow City Council to engage further with Michael Keith on his views of the future of urbanisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/michael-kei... |
| Description | MoHeap 2021: Virtual Workshop on Mobility, Health, and Place, University of Zurich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | This is an online webinar and I presented our recent research about "Understanding the interaction between human activities and physical health under extreme heat environment in Phoenix, Arizona." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://sites.google.com/view/moheap/home?authuser=0 |
| Description | MoSSFest |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Lido and Kate Reid attended under UBDC affiliation. MoSSFest, the Middle of Scotland Science festival is a pop-up family science festival with fun science events for all ages on the 30/09/18. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.froglife.org/event/drop-in-consultation-stall-2-2/ |
| Description | Mobile Phone and Social Media Data for Human-Nature Research 22/07/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This session, lead by Michael Sinclair aims to provide a venue for studies that use social media and mobile phone data for the assessment of human-nature interactions and preferences towards the natural environment. It will contain six state-of-the-art papers describing recent applications of big data to understand human-nature interactions. The session is split into two sections. The first will showcase three applications of social media data, the second, three applications of mobile phone data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/mobile-phone-and-social-... |
| Description | Modelling City Centres - LGA event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a workshop for reps from local governments (60 attendees from LGA and 20 from academia). Work relating to modelling the growth of the high street was presented by researchers from BLG. This workshop led to the development of a project with Cambridge City Council re town planning and smart cities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Modelling World Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "DATA AND VISUALISATION - India Room 2:30pm Chair: Luis Willumsen, ?Independent Consultant, Transport Planning, Demand Modelling and Forecasting Big data analytics and visualisation to optimise transit operations and planning Matt Pettit, Citilabs/Urban Engines Urban informatics and urban modelling with big data Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka, Urban Big Data Centre, Glasgow University Predictive models and decision support tools Miguel Picornell,Technical Manager, Kineo/Nommon Integrating data and models for urban planning and design Eime Tobari, Associate Director, Space Syntax Title: Urban informatics and urban modelling with big data The conference was really big but at my presentation maybe there was about 150-200 people." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://landor.co.uk/modellingworld/2016/speakers.php |
| Description | Mudbloods, Muggles and the Magic of Integration (public lecture) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC University of Sheffield Co-Investigator, Prof Gwilym Pryce, gave a public lecture organised by Sheffield Central Library as part of their Harry Potter 20th Anniversary Exhibition. Sparked lots of interest and discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mudbloods-muggles-the-magic-of-social-integration-tickets-37727709595... |
| Description | Multimodal Transport Solutions for Wales - launch of a a white paper on Developing Sustainable, Agile Multimodal Transport Solutions for Wales |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC researcher Dr David McArthur attended this launch event on behalf of UBDC and networked with Welsh Assembly and others, discussing potential use of our transport research and data. Event description on the South Wales Chamber of Commerce website: "On April 5th 2017 our member Furrey+Frey are publishing a white paper on "Developing Sustainable, Agile Multimodal Transport Solutions for Wales" that will be launched at the National Assembly for Wales and sponsored by an Assembly Member that sits on the Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee for Wales. There will be speeches from the Arts and Education Sector with the focus on transport infrastructure being the key to connecting communities to allow access to employment, education, health, arts, sports, etc The event is free to attend." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://southwaleschamber.co.uk/furrerfrey/ |
| Description | Multiscale Measures of Segregation Data - ESRC Research Methods Festival 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Convenors of the Multiscale Measures of Segregation Data Session, Professor Richard Harris (University of Bristol) and Dr David Manley (University of Bristol). The purpose of this session is to showcase and to discuss new data, software and methods for the methods of segregation. The focus is on moving away from measuring (ethnic) segregation at a single scale, using traditional indices, to treating segregation as a multiscale phenomenon. Various methods have been advocated including multilevel, geostatistical and 'egocentric' approaches, and software has been developed, including the multilevel index of dissimilarity (MLID) package for R, MLwiN, and Equipop. Gridded population data provide opportunity for scale effects to be considered independent of the varying size and shapes of Census tracts and areas held on the 14 July 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2018 |
| URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/RMF2018/programme/session.php?id=E4 |
| Description | NECTAR: Big data: a new opportunity for urban transport and mobility policies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) is organising a special NECTAR (Network of European Communications and Transportation Academic Researchers) Cluster 8 meeting in Seville (Spain). The meeting is organised to bring together leading researchers from a number of disciplines related to big data to discuss research outcomes that may contribute to a better design of sustainable mobility policies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.nectar-eu.eu/cluster-8-workshop-10-11-march-2016-seville-spain/ |
| Description | NERC Constructing a Digital Environment Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The workshops aim to bring together the 'digital environment' community, including (but not limited to) environmental science, computer science, informatics, statistics, social science, data science, policymakers and members of industry, and follows on from the first workshop held in Manchester earlier in 2019. The workshops will include presentations from the NERC Digital Environment Team and the Constructing a Digital Environment Champions Ron Corstanje and Steve Hallett and other project partners. The days will primarily focus on networking and discussions around specific digital environment themes ahead of a future funding opportunity. The themes discussed will be suggested by participants via a well-sorted.org study for which participants will be sent a link within three days of expressing interest. Each participant will need to fill out a response to a key question which will feed in to the workshop content. The responses will be grouped together to establish our discussion sessions. Please note that within three days of your EoI you will receive an email from us containing a link to the relevant Well Sorted study. If you have not received it, please check your junk/spam folder. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://nerc.ukri.org/innovation/activities/environmentaldata/digitalenv/news/workshops/ |
| Description | New Mobility Perspectives in the era of Wearable Sensors |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Research Associate, Dr Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka, presented this free public Royal Statistical Society (RSS) seminar in Edinburgh on 3/10/17.Abstract: Human mobility is vital for understanding expansion processes in urban areas, the establishment of transportation services and the spatial distribution of facilities. Until recently, exploring human mobility in detail was challenging because personal trip data collection methods consisted of expensive and time consuming methods. The development of sensors such as GPS trackers or other wearable devices equipped with various sensors that capture movement data in real-time and at detailed spatial and temporal scales has transformed our ability to collect mobility data. However, even though GPS trackers record an individual's location and movement very accurately, they do not record essential characteristics of travel behaviour such as travel mode or trip purpose. What can be done to enhance raw movement trajectories in order to uncover these mobility characteristics? And what can be done to publish the data without breaching individuals' privacy? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.statslife.org.uk/events/eventdetail/990/-/new-mobility-perspectives-in-the-era-of-wearab... |
| Description | New Sources of Data for Social Science Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SASNet helped bring together the major UK ESRC data and methods services to host an event in Glasgow aimed at researchers interested in updating their knowledge about social science research using these new forms of data. These services included: The Administrative Data Research Network, BLGDRC, CALLS-Hub, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, CDRC, CLOSER, NCRM, UBDC, UK Data Service and Understanding Society. After introducing the audience to these services and their specialisms, there were 3 themed interactive sessions that covered new data advancements in Administrative, Biomarker and Big Data. Following the success of this popular event, it was repeated in the same format in London in early 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/new-sources... |
| Description | New and Emerging Forms of Data for Policy Making: Transport, Health and Air Quality Management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Director Vonu Thakuriah, attended this one-day mini-conference which explored the way in which new and emerging forms of data (aka 'big' data - such as mobile phone data, social network data, geo-tagged data, image data) are contributing to innovation in: -Individual Mobility and Exposures -Understanding individual mobility patterns -Estimating the health burdens of different kinds of exposure related to mobility -Quantification of personal pollution exposure -Determining exercise-related benefits of active transport (walking and cycling) Policy Assessment and Implementation Models and tools for public policies Incentivisation for adopting more sustainable forms of transport Development of air quality management plans Spatio-temporal modelling Ethical guidelines for data management Identifying and addressing social inequalities related to transport The free event held on the 24/04/18 consisted of expert presentations which will describe forms and application of new and emerging data, networking opportunities and a panel discussion on opportunities and implications of these new data forms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | New sources of data for social science research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Aimed at researchers from academia or elsewhere who want to know more about new sources of data are that are available for social sciences research in the UK, this free half-day event provided an opportunity to catch up with new sources of data for social science research. Presentations covered examples of research use cases and ways to access each of the following sources of data in the UK: • Administrative data • Biomarker and genetics data • Consumer data For each of these sources of data there was an overview and consideration of how they can be used to extend options for exploring social science research questions. This event was hosted by the UK Data Service and organised collaboratively by the Administrative Data Research Network, BLG, CALLS-Hub, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, CDRC, CLOSER, NCRM, UBDC, UK Data Service and Understanding Society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://events.ucl.ac.uk/event/event:pt-jc1vr284-b43wrz/closer-event-new-sources-of-data-for-social-s... |
| Description | Noreen McDonald Seminar: Evolving Mobility Patterns of Young Adults |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Today's young adults - the millennials - drive less than previous generations and these declines have been documented in the UK, US, and Europe. This seminar will use data on time use and travel of Americans to: · highlight how travel has changed across generations, · explain the causes of the decline, and · consider the evolution of these trends. The seminar will conclude with a conversation on the policy impacts of sustained shifts in the travel of young adults on transport planning and finance." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://curs.unc.edu/researchers/curs-staff-researchers/noreen-mcdonald/ |
| Description | ONS / UBDC Hack Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The ONS Public Policy Division and UBDC put on a data hackday for ONS staff, supported by UBDC data collections and attended by Rod Walpole, UBDC Geospatial Data Scientist, who providedsupport to participants. The event was exploratory and capacity building for ONS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | ONS Data Science Campus meeting to discuss data sharing and other activities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Staff from the ONS Data Science Campus visited UBDC for a day-long workshop/meeting to introduce each other to our work and data collections, followed by discussion on actvities to work together more closely on. Activities resulting include our support for the ATI Data Dive they were partners in, supplying them with Zoopla data to investigate the use of big data in compiling official statistics, and more broadly supporting and reaching out to their counterparts in other countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news/2017/october/how-much-does-it-cost-to-rent-a-private-property-in-your-area/ |
| Description | ONS and Cabinet Office: Mobile Data Order Group 08/07/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey was invited to attend a meeting convened by ONS and Cabinet Office, titled 'Mobile Data Order Group', which was held on the 8th of July 2021. The group discussed their plans to put together a coordinated bid to buy mobile data for UK Government use. Nick gave a talk on the possible academic interests and reported on the work that UBDC has been doing with Glasgow City Council. It was agreed that UBDC will give a formal presentation of their work at a forthcoming meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | ONS using machine learning to identify caravans in Zoopla data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | ONS has a data sharing agreement with UBDC to use Zoopla data in its various studies on the use of big data in official statistics. One use was to explore using Zoopla data anbd machine learning to identify uses of caravans in campsites - residential or holiday homes? ONS published this blog and also linked to their GitHub where they have made their findings publicly available, We are currently discussing with ONS any impacts this may have had and future work we can collaborate on. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://digitalblog.ons.gov.uk/2017/06/21/happy-campers-using-machine-learning-to-identify-caravans-... |
| Description | OSMA Management Board Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior IT and Data Services Manager, Dr Andrew McHugh, and UBDC Research Associate Yeran Sun, were invited to attend this regular meeting of the One Scotland Mapping Agreement (OSMA) Management Board to take forward collaboration between UBDC and members of OSMA. Discussed UBDC interactions with UK and Scottish Government on spatial data, and Yeran Sun presented on research linking incidences of crime and road traffic accidents. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/public-sector/mapping-agreements/soslo.html |
| Description | Ohio State University - 2014-15 Geography Colloquium Series: Data-Driven Public Transportation and Operations (Prof. P. Thakuriah) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Thakuriah presented this colloquium, enhancing UBDC's international reputation. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://geography.osu.edu/sites/geography.osu.edu/files/Thakuriah%20Piyushmitia.pdf |
| Description | On the Spatial Statistical Analysis of Urban User-Generated Geodata |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr René Westerholt, Junior Professor for Spatial Modelling at the Department of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University (Germany), gave a presentation titled, 'On the spatial statistical analysis of urban user-generated geodata' at UBDC's Research Seminar held on the 29 March 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/on-the-spatial-statistic... |
| Description | Open Data Meetup with the Open Knowledge Foundation hosted by UBDC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | "The Urban Big Data Centre in partnership with the Open Knowledge Foundation Scotland, will host its second Open Data Meetup in Glasgow this year. Speakers include Ian Stuart from GLOW, the national digital learning environment for Scottish Schools." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Open Data Meetup: November 2015 (UBDC hosted) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | UBDC will be hosting the next quarterly Open Data Meetup in Glasgow with the Open Knowledge Foundation, Michael Comerford will help facilitate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Open Data and Data Literacy Roundtable Meeting (Scottish Government) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Andrew McHugh attended an Open Data and Data Literacy Round Table Meeting hosted by the Scottish Government and chaired by Roger Halliday, Chief Statistician & Data Officer, Scottish Government On 31 January 2019, Scotland's Scotland's Open Government Action Plan 2018-2020 was launched. This contains a series of detailed commitments. One of these commitments is to improve the way information and data are used, in particular around developing data literacy within Scottish society. We recognise that giving greater access to information alone is not sufficient. The ability to find and filter databases and datasets, identify and isolate noteworthy information from raw data, and turn this into insights to inform decision making all remain out of reach for most citizens. Thus, data literacy must be developed in order to foster citizen empowerment through the use of data. Aims of this round table meeting were: • To scope out, identify and seek agreement on what the Scottish Government and its partners can do to tackle the issues of data literacy. • To secure agreements from delegates about what can be achieved in the context of Scotland's Open Government Action Plan and how we can measure success in an sustainable manner. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-data-and-data-literacy-roundtable-meeting-tickets-58283588783# |
| Description | Open Data for Scotland (UBDC hosted stall and Des McNulty gave talk) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Des McNulty will provide a 15-minute lightning talk on "Using open data to inform city policymaking." Hana Ros will be in attendance to host a UBDC exhibition stand with promotional materials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Open Data: Enabling Transparency, Empowering Communities and Creating Economic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey participated in a discussion panel session at the online or in-person inaugural Scottish AI Summit, titled Open Data: Enabling Transparency, Empowering Communities and Creating Economic Opportunity on the 30th March 2022. Scotland's AI Strategy was launched in March 2021 with the vision for Scotland to become a leader in the development and use of Trustworthy, Ethical and Inclusive AI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.scottishaisummit.com/ |
| Description | Open For Business: Harnessing the Power of Social Media Streams |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Social media provide a rich seam of data on people, newsworthy events, social and professional networks, customers, brands, and opinions which researchers and companies are beginning to unlock. This was the first of a series of industry engagement events to find out about the innovative techniques that researchers at Glasgow University's School of Computing Science are using to uncover new value from social media, and discover the commercial opportunities emerging from this space. UBDC's Computer Science researchers, Peter Triantafillou, Iadh Ounis, Joemon Jose, and Craig Macdonald all attended and spoke at this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-for-business-harnessing-the-power-of-social-media-streams-tickets-... |
| Description | Open Knowledge Foundation Scotland - Open Data Meetup |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Urban Big Data Centre is hosting the next Glasgow-based Open Data Meet-up in conjunction with the Open Knowledge Foundation. Please join us for a presentation from UBDC staff and an informal discussion regarding open data in Scotland over refreshments and snacks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | PASCAL Learning Cities Network Pre-Conference Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This event was for members of PASCAL's Learning Cities Network as a prelude to the 13th annual PASCAL conference. It allowed cities within the network to share their progress, and for the five networks of LCN to meet. It is hosted by the PASCAL Observatory in collaboration with the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC). The following cities/regions/communities were represented: Acireale, Arbroath, Australian Learning Communities Network, Beijing, Bristol, Cork, Dohuk, Espoo, Essen/Changzhou, Erbil, Glasgow, Karlsstad, Modi'in, Pecs, Peshawar, Swansea and Taipei. The event included awareness raising for UBDC and iMCD. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2016/pascal-lear... |
| Description | PASCAL Workshop on Cities Learning Together: Public administration as domain for smart solutions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Mike Osborne, Co-I on UBDC's Education Research Programme, gave a talk called 'Why Lifelong Learning? Why Learning Cities?', at the PASCAL Workshop Tampere, Finland in collaboration with the Finnish Association of Local Government Studies, 12 June 2014. Introduced UBDC to Finnish academic collaborators and city administrators of Tampere and Helsinki. Mike also led several working groups at the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.kunnallistiede.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Programme_12_13_2014.pdf |
| Description | Panel Discussion in national conference 'Share Scotland' organised by Socitm |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The engagement activity consisted of a 45min panel discussion which was part of a two-day national conference 'Share Scotland' organised by Socitm. Socitm is an organisation of more than 2,500 professionals with a national reach helping to shape and deliver place-based public services. The panel discussion entitled 'Data needs, capabilities and uses' was structured around the research findings and recommendations published in our research report (May 2021) on Scottish local government's data response in the context of COVID-19. The discussion was chaired by Sam Smith (President and Director of IT & Digital Services, Socitm) and joined by Tom McHugh (Strategic Partnerships Lead, NHS NSS) and Justine Gangneux (UBDC). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://socitm.net/events/share-scotland-2022/ |
| Description | Participation in delegate visit and talk on Urban Big Data Centre and Prospective Tianjin Eco-City/Smart City Collaboration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Spoke to delegation members regarding potential collaboration on data infrastructure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Participation in external engagement at DemoFest 2019 (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Attendance as an exhibiting partner at the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) DemoFest 2019 event. This is an annual knowledge exchange event, aimed at bringing together researchers in data science and the computational sciences and industry, public sector and governmental bodies. Representatives from the Urban Big Data Centre attended a keynote from the Head of Data and AI at InnovateUK and demonstrated the work of the Urban Big Data Centre throughout the exhibition. The activity was aimed at raising the profile of the Centre among the aforementioned groups and led to a number of discussions with potential collaborators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Partnerships That Drive Innovation - VentureFest Feeder Workshop 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Urban Big Data Centre exhibited at Partnerships That Drive Innovation, an official Feeder Event for Venturefest Scotland 2017 - Scotland's innovation summit. This workshop was intended to enable attendees to build better partnerships that are able to win Innovate UK funding. This workshop was aimed at companies across all technology sectors, academics who want to build partnerships with industry that will effectively translate their inventions to the market. This workshop had broad applicability but was orientated towards Innovate UK funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/partnership... |
| Description | Pathways through Care: Using administrative and survey data to understand care in older age |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof Alasdair Rutherford from Stirling: Scotland is at the forefront of using linked administrative and social survey data to understand health and social care usage. In this talk I will discuss two current projects making use of the emerging potential for greater use of administrative data on service-use. "Pathways through Care" uses hospital records and prescription data linked to social care records for older people to understand the interaction of different care services, and how these might differ for different cohorts of older people. Healthy AGing In Scotland (HAGIS) is a pilot longitudinal study of ageing for Scotland currently in development that plans to make innovative use of linked administrative and survey data to better understand survey non-response and attrition, while providing a longitudinal sample of older people in Scotland to address a range of substantive research questions. More information at http://hagis.scot/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.findaphd.com/search/projectdetails.aspx?PJID=54874 |
| Description | Potential of big data sources on active travel research, Invited talk at IIT Ropar, India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Varun Raturi was invited to give a talk at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India, by Dr Rahul T.M, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, whose area of expertise is non-motorised transport planning and sustainable transportation planning. During the talk, Dr Varun shared insights on how we can leverage big data from various sources to better understand and encourage active travel. He presented his current work on active travel using Strava Metro data and highlighted the usefulness and limitations of these data sources and discussed various other work streams in the Urban Big Data Centre and talked about the acquisition of new mobile phone location data by the centre, as well as potential research directions related to the available data. The audience was a good mix of several professors, research staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students, in a hybrid session of around 60-70 people, who were particularly interested in the potential of big data to transform urban mobility and transportation. Overall, the talk was well received, and had a good level of engagement and interest from the audience. It was clear that the attendees were passionate about the potential of big data to address the challenges of urban mobility and transportation. Due to our aligned research interests, this talk provided an excellent opportunity to discuss potential areas of collaboration between our two institutes. IIT Ropar has recently built a transportation lab under the leadership of Dr Rahul and is looking to explore new directions for research in sustainable mobility and acquire new data sources. Our team at the Urban Big Data Centre has extensive experience in handling large data sets to derive insights, making it the perfect platform to build on. Dr Varun, also discussed where various potential research ideas could be undertaken collaboratively to advance the field of active travel and urban mobility and looks forward to continuing the conversation and exploring opportunities for further collaboration between our two institutes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Practical approaches for web scraping for research - using Airbnb as an example data provider |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Referencing UBDC's project and open-source software platform to scrape short-term-let data from Airbnb, this webinar provided practical guidance on how researchers, technologists and data scientists can approach web scraping, from the selection of online sources to the planning, conceptualisation, governance, risk management and implementation of technical approaches. Participants received practical training and code examples, developing an understanding not only of how scraping works but also how to systematise approaches to scale up data collection while avoiding common pitfalls. Throughout the session, a series of practical examples covered data scraping using UBDC's established scraping method from Airbnb's online platform. Session format The webinar included a series of short talks. These punctuated the main content of the webinar - a sequence of practical demonstrations with UBDC's web scraping platform being introduced, installed, configured and deployed. Following completion of this webinar attendees were able to: -Describe and latterly recreate within their own environment the installation, configuration and deployment of UBDC's open-source web scraping platform -Explain what web scraping means and describe the variety of approaches available -Outline the legal, ethical and data governance issues that must be considered when designing a web scraping project (including coverage of relevant intellectual property, c-contract and privacy law) -Summarise limitations on data use and sharing -Identify and select appropriate datasets for web scraping -Explain what an API (Application Programming Interface) is and query APIs to retrieve data -Explain how to negotiate technical barriers to scraping (including managing call limits and avoiding blacklisting) -Systematise, scale and optimise approaches, including planning for wide geographical or temporal data coverage |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/practical-approaches-for-... |
| Description | Predictive Data Analytics Workshop with Scottish Government (UBDC hosted in partnership with Scottish Government) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC is hosting this workshop in collaboration with the Scottish Government and ADRC. Attached is the programme of the event and delegate list. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://s3.amazonaws.com/SmartsheetB1/0a448651c414472195c76bde72a26de2?response-content-disposition=... |
| Description | Presentation at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC PI and Director Prof. Thakuriah was invited to give a talk on 'Emerging Data Sources and Urban Informatics: Examples, Prospects and Challenges'. Heinz College of Business. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation at Commonwealth Future Cities Business Networking Event, 24th July, University of Glasgow (Prof. P. Thakuriah) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Informed senior academics, companies, agencies, and Scottish Government representatives of the UBDC's remit and plans. Principal of Glasgow University gave a warm endorsement of UBDC in opening talk. None. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/event-commonwealth-future-cities-business-networking-event/ |
| Description | Presentation at Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering and the Institute for Transportation, Iowa State University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Vonu' presented "Public Transportation and Move towards Big Data" at the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering and the Institute for Transportation, Iowa State University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation at Research Data Alliance 8th Plenary Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior IT & Data Services Manager Andrew McHugh gave a talk on UBDC's 'Spatial Urban Data System (SUDS) - Implications for Data Sharing' to the Quality of Urban Life Indicators Interest Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.rd-alliance.org/ig-quality-urban-life-indicators-rda-8th-plenary-meeting |
| Description | Presentation at Rotterdam Erasmus University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC PI and Director Prof. Thakuriah was invited to Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, September 16, 2016, to give a talk on 'Big Data, Urban Informatics and the City'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation at Shanghai University: China's urban and real estate big data (Wenjie Wu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Co-I Wenjie Wu presented recent big data work in an international conference (China's urban and real estate big data) at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 17 April. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation at Short Term Lets workshop "Exploring the impacts of rising Short Term lets on Housing" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Yang Wang, presented our work using scraped Airbnb data to examine the impact of the growth of STLs on the Private Rental Market |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/short-term-lets-big-... |
| Description | Presentation at Smart Campus event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Snook have been commissioned by the Future Cities Catapult to organise an event with the University of Glasgow around the new Smart Campus as test bed for smart city innovation. This event will take place on Thursday 19th May from 4pm - 6pm at Cottiers, 93-95 Hyndland Street. It aims to raise awareness of the new Smart Campus and strengthen relationships between SMEs, University of Glasgow and support organisations around it. We are working with key stakeholders from within and outside the University to shape the event and maximise its impact. Would you or someone else within the Centre have some time to talk to us about where you're at and how your work feeds into the smart city. Data being at the heart of smart cities approach, we're keen to have this aspect well represented." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://futurecities.catapult.org.uk/ |
| Description | Presentation at the ACSP conference, October 25-28, 2018, Buffalo, NY, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented my work in the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. The paper was published in Transportation (Jinhyun Hong, David McArthur & Mark Livingston. (2019) The evaluation of large cycling infrastructure investments in the Glasgow Clyde Valley planning area before, during and after the Commonwealth Games: The use of crowdsourced data (Strava), Transportation.) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at the ADRN research conference - Belfast, Northern Ireland (Nick Bailey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attending/networking at the ADRN research conference and Prof Nick Bailey spoke to an audience of approx. 100 about the UBDC, mostly composed of academics from UK Universities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation at the TRB conference, Jan 13-17, 2019, Washington DC, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented my work in the TRB conference (The largest International transport conference). Title: The role of numeracy and financial literacy skills in the relationship between information and communication technology use and travel behaviour (currently under review in Travel Behaviour and Society) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation by Prof. N. Bailey on UBDC to University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences MSc students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | MSc students made aware of potential for working with big data in their studies, and what the UBDC has to offer. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Presentation given at the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR) network meeting (D.Brown) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented work on investigating health outcomes for care experienced children. Was asked to share details of the project, initial findings and challenges with the data linkage. Around 25 SCADR network members (academics, SG, eDRIS) participated, and the presentation generated discussion around networking and future work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation in the SICSA conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Saeed Maadi presented our work (CAV simulation by using closed-loop approach) in the interdisciplinary session on 'Developing the Future of Transport' at the SICSA conference on Oct 1st. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation on UBDC and big data at UALL Conference 2015: Making the Lifelong Learning University a Reality (Des McNulty) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Des McNulty spoke about the UBDC and "How Big Data can Support the Learning City" Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.uall.ac.uk/news/uall-2015-annual-conference-glasgow-a-great-success.html |
| Description | Presentation to Data Task Force's Advisory Board 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC mobile data team presented work on the potential of new forms of spatial big data to the Data Task Force Advisory Board. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation to Datafest event organised by Data Lab. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A presentation was given by the study team showcasing early results from our collaboration with Environmental Assets, North Lanarkshire Council. A presentation was also given by Nicole Paterson | Head of Environmental Assets, NLC to the event in which she confirmed the value of the research to her department and to the relevant committee in relation to thinking about the distribution of resources to support the environmental amenity of neighbourhoods in the council. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation to MSP's - Mark Livingston |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Mark Livingston, UBDC Lead - Housing and Neighbourhoods, presented a breakfast briefing to MSPs and parliamentary researchers reporting on the conclusion of the collaboration with the Scottish Parliament information centre on the 24.10.18. The purpose of the briefing to members was to communicate the substance of the detailed briefing paper on the on data available on the private rental sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://digitalpublications.parliament.scot/ResearchBriefings/Report/2018/11/14/Private-renting-refo... |
| Description | Presentation to Ordnance Survey's Lunch and Learn event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bin Chi presented on our work on the integration of UPRNs to both the Energy Performance Certificate Data and the Land Registry's Price Paid Data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation to education departments and research groups from universities in Glasgow about UBDC (Prof. P. Thakuriah, Prof. M. Osborne, Dr. C. Lido) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | UBDC staff presented to Education Groups in the Glasgow area about what the UBDC can offer, primarily to raise awareness. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/our-services/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2014/ubdc-information-sess... |
| Description | Presentation to promote the UDBC and UDBC's Diversity of Research Interests - Yang Wang |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Yang Wang, Research Associate in Transport Modelling and Informatics (Urban Big Data) presented her research interests to a group of Chinese delegates from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on the 14/11/18. The purpose, to promote the UDBC and UDBC's diversity of research interests to a wider group of academics. Good contacts has been made out from it. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation to visiting delegation from National Bureau of Statistics, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey, UBDC Director, presented research on work and health in Scotland on the 16 Oct 2018 Details in attachments: PRC National Bureau of Statistics ADRC-S visit 16 October 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Press release announcing UBDC grant to Glasgow University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | International audience informed of UBDC. Information and news items about UBDC on websites, newsletters and blogs around the world. Gained interest from potential staff, collaborators and projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_306335_en.html |
| Description | Principles of Visualising Data in R |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dan Olner, Research Associate, University of Sheffield, ran a workshop on the 22.02.19 to UoS social science PhDs, "principles of visualising data in R." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Privacy, Trust and Security in Internet of Things (IOT) (1 - 3, December 2019, Ardoe House Hotel & Spa, Aberdeen, UK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Varun Raturi presented our work on the impact of privacy regulations on the quality of crowdsourced data (STRAVA). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Prof. Mark Stephen Fox (University of Toronto) Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Mark S. Fox Professor of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science Director, Centre for Social Services Engineering Senior Fellow, Global Cities Institute University of Toronto msf@eil.utoronto.ca; www.eil.utoronto.ca Cities use a variety of metrics to evaluate and compare their performance. With the introduction of ISO 37120, which contains over 100 indicators for measuring a city's quality of life and sustainability, it is now possible to consistently measure and compare cities, assuming they adhere to the standard. The goal of this research is to develop theories, embodied in software, to perform longitudinal analysis (i.e., how and why a city's indicators change over time) and transversal analysis (i.e., how and why cities differ from each other), in order to discover the root causes of differences. The first phase of this project focuses on the creation of standard representations of city knowledge (i.e., Vocabularies and Ontologies) that can be used to represent indicators and their supporting data and publish them on the Semantic Web. The second phase focuses on the development of consistencyn axioms that automate the determination of whether a city's indicators and supporting data are consistent with the ISO 37120 definitions, and whether they are longitudinally and transversally consistent. The third phase focuses on the development of diagnostic algorithms that identify the root causes of longitudinal and transversal differences. Due to the heterogeneity of the supporting data, the applicability of classical diagnostic techniques is limited. This seminar will summarize the progress to date of all three phases." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Prof. Nick Bailey, Associate Director, attended ONS working group on data on unregulated businesses, London. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Became better informed of issues and raised UBDC profile. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Prof. Osborne presentation on UBDC and big data at ASEM Education and Research Hub for Lifelong Learning (Indonesia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Raised awareness of UBDC and big data research issues for lifelong learning research. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/our-services/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2015/asem-education-and-re... |
| Description | Prof. P. Thakuriah provided written input on big data and cities to the UK Government Dept of Business Innovation and Skills on a Consultation on Proposals for Long-Term Capital Investment in Science and Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to UK BIS document: THE ALLOCATION OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH FUNDING 2015/16. None. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/332767/bis-14-750-science-... |
| Description | Prof. Thakuriah Workshop on Transport Informatics at University College Dublin Colloquium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Thakuriah spoke at the University College Dublin, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, regarding Transportation Informatics: Examples from the Glasgow Urban Big Data Centre. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/our-services/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2015/transportation-inform... |
| Description | Prof. Thakuriah made speech to Scottish Parliament on the Science of Running SMART Cities, 12 November 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Positive social media amplification. Raised awareness at Scottish Government level of UBDC, urban data issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Prof. Thakuriah presented on UBDC at a HATII Research Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Raised awareness of UBDC with HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute) audience. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.google.com/calendar/render?eid=bWNwbWg5a2hpM3JwOWtydW04ZDg2aDE0cjggdGpubGNhNnQ3MDFqOWVuM... |
| Description | Prof. Thakuriah spoke at ESRC BDN2 Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Connections made with interested policymakers. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Public Health Product Forge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Product Forge is a publicly funded Scottish organisation that organises hackday style events (called Product Forges) designed to bring together various sectors in Scotland to develop data-based and other technological innovations of use to practitioners, businesses etc. In January 2017 UBDC supported them with a Public Health Product Forge by supplying data from our collections and assistance onsite with use of the data (including an introductory presentation on UBDC). While this partnership didn't lead to any direct innovations this time, we have plans to work with them on future Product Forges with different aims. Description from the Product Forge site: 'Help find digital remedies for public health challenges - Product Forge is back with a public health hackathon from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th January 2018 at the Biscuit Factory in Edinburgh. In collaboration with the NHS Information Services Division, the Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme, Canon Medical Research Europe and Scottish Health Innovations Limited, the Public Health Product Forge will unite the wider technology community, entrepreneurs and medical professionals to create digital innovations that tackle population health issues to ultimately improve the health of people and their communities. The event will cover a variety of themes including childhood obesity, addiction, and mental illness. If you work in public health, are a developer, designer, or are interested in the subject, then this hackathon is for you! Whether you already have an idea that you would like to prototype or you would just like to make new connections, we invite you to come along and meet people with a shared goal of finding digital remedies for challenges surrounding public health. Use this opportunity to develop your career, gain new skills, network with professionals, meet potential employers or even kick-start your own company.' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://productforge.io/events/public-health-product-forge/ |
| Description | Public Health Product Forge - Christina Boudidou and Rod Walpole |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A public health hackathon run by Product Forge at the Biscuit Factory in Edinburgh in collaboration with the NHS Information Services Division, the Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme, Canon Medical Systems Europe and Scottish Health Innovations Limited. The Public Health Product Forge will unite the wider technology community, entrepreneurs and medical professionals to create digital innovations that tackle population health issues to ultimately improve the health of people and their communities. The event will cover a variety of themes including childhood obesity, addiction, and mental illness. UBDC provided Strava Metro and iMCD household survey and travel diary data for the event and Christina Boudidou, UBDC Scientific Computing Officer - Research Data Scientist and Rod Walpole, Scientific Computing Officer, presented to the participants on these data sets and acted as mentors to the teams in the event held on the 25th to 27th January 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://productforge.io/events/public-health-product-forge/#public-health-partners-sponsors-and-data... |
| Description | QUT Brisbane Lecture: "The Environmental Data Deluge - Sinking or Swimming." |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "ACEMS Co-sponsors a QUT Lecture featuring University of Glasgow Professor, Marian Scott. The lecture was titled, "The Environmental Data Deluge - Sinking or Swimming." Before her lecture, she met with ACEMS students at QUT. She stressed to them the importance of their study of statistical research. "As data certainly begins to claim more of a political and economic agenda," Professor Scott said, "that statisticians have a very important role to play and that we should not be shy about being part of the whole process." The lecture was co-sponsored by QUT's Institute for Future Environments." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=f803219e730a9904dda0d20b1&id=bf67655192 |
| Description | RCUK/Innovate UK Urban Living Partnership - Engagement Workshop (Mark Mitchell & Keith Dingwall participated in workshop) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Participating in the engagement workshops - consultation event with other city leaders, business leaders, urban policy-makers, representatives, etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | RDA (Research Data Sharing) Sixth Plenary Meeting Paris (Vonu Thakuriah and Sila Nowicka presented) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Vonu and Sila are presenting in the 6th plenary meeting, session titled: Home IG Quality of Urban Life: Progress and Next Steps for Quality of Urban Life Indicators - P6 meeting session |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/sixth-plenary/programme.html |
| Description | RGS Annual Conference - BDN2 Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC attended this conference to network and raise awareness of the Centre, alongside the two other BDN2 Centres. Title: What can Big Data tell us? Description: Each transaction, tube journey or tweet now adds to the enormous volume of data we generate in near real time. These data get collated in enormous databases that offer a rich resource for those wanting to better understand human behaviour. Such data can now be used by a dizzying array of organisations to better plan transport networks for our daily commute, send offers from our favourite retailers or target help to those living in fuel poverty. In our exhibition we will showcase research and interactive maps that tell us anything and everything about you and your surroundings - come and explore what big data says about you. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | RSS 2017 Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Annual Conference is a three-day professional and academic conference with a mix of keynote presentations and talks/workshops. UBDC delivered a panel session on Data Science of Urban Movement and contributed to a session on Data Science for Public Good organised by ONS. We also had an exhibition stand throughout and inserts in conference delegate bags. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/rss-2017-an... |
| Description | Radio 4 Interview - Prof Gwilym Pryce |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 5th Oct 2017, UBDC University of Sheffield Co-Investigator, Prof Gwilym Pryce, was interviewed by Douglas Alexander, former Secretary of State for International Development, for Radio 4 on his team's work on segregation and inequality. An excerpt from the interview was later broadcast in the Radio 4 Culture of Encounter documentary. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09dxz1b/broadcasts |
| Description | Real-time Optimisation of Mobile Facilities in Public Service Delivery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Capacity-building seminar delivered by Dr Soheil Davari, Lecturer in Supply Chain Management at Hertfordshire Business School on 'Real-time Optimisation of Mobile Facilities in Public Service Delivery'. The hour-long seminar presented the speaker's research into how mobile communication devices such as smartphones improve real-time decision-making and response rates using examples from healthcare and security public services. This event was attended by people from transportation organisations and university researchers and students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2016/sasnet-semi... |
| Description | Registers of Scotland Open Data Agenda |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC was invited to attend a Registers of Scotland Statistics and Users day, in order to present a case for open day in a general sense, but more specifically to articulate a basis under which Registers of Scotland's data (currently available on a commercial, paid basis only) could be made more openly available. This has led to follow up conversations which are ongoing within which we continue to present the benefits of a more open approach to data availability (particularly for academic audiences). Andrew McHugh presented at the initial event on 26th November 2019. This overall activity has the opportunity to be extremely impactful - that Registers of Scotland's price paid data is not already open is a point of some contention - the equivalent Land Registry data in England and Wales is available under an Open Government Licence. One result is that the Scottish data has remained fairly inaccessible to academic researchers, due to its prohibitive pricing. UBDC's agreement to facilitate access incurs significant costs, which themselves largely rule out more exploratory work, and impose additional governance burdens in the evaluation of proposals. Open Scottish Land Registry data would be a great enabler to a range of research activities and may be a spark to significant innovation within the property domain. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | Research at the Urban Analytics Lab at the National University of Singapore 08/02/22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Filip Biljecki - Assistant Professor in Geoinformatics at the National University of Singapore, gave a presentation on the activities of the NUS Urban Analytics Lab, a multidisciplinary research group established by Dr Filip Biljecki, focusing on urban data science and 3D city modelling at UBDC's Research Seminar held on the 8 February 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/research-at-the-urban-an... |
| Description | Robert J. Stimson Seminar: Big Data, Smart Cities and Urban Research Infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Robert J. Stimson Seminar: Big Data, Smart Cities and Urban Research Infrastructure at University of Glasgow |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Rotherham Community Engagement Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | On 20th June 2017, UBDC's university of Sheffield team took part in the Rotherham Community Engagement Workshop jointly with the ESRC Imagine Project. There was an international audience including a group from New Zealand. They gave a presentation of 3D data sculptures on segregation and related social issues in Rotherham along with Powerpoint data visualisation. Our work stimulated dialogue with a range of community workers and local authority policy makers. This led to us being invited to meet with senior member of Rotherham Council the following month. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.imaginecommunity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Imagine-Rotherham-Event-2017-Report-Fi... |
| Description | Royal Statistical Society Conference on Poverty and Deprivation: Prof. Bailey on Statistics for Action in London - Places: What are the Local/Devolved Administration/UK Needs? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Bailey raised profile and scientific reputation of UBDC. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.statslife.org.uk/features/1398-conference-on-poverty-statistics-meeting-report |
| Description | SASNet Training Seminar:Complex Networks Approaches to Supply Chain Management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In this training course, Dr Guven Demirel and Professor Vania Sena gave an introductory overview of supply chain management, and provided an introduction to basic network concepts and measures, illustrating how these can be used on real-life data. They discussed how complex networks approaches can provide insights on the relationships between the supply chain network structure and the response to disturbances and disruptions. They investigated dynamical as well as structural properties of supply chain networks and their implications for stability. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.blgdataresearch.org/sasnetseminarsupplychain/ |
| Description | SCVO and Civil Society Data Partnership event: Think data! Better data, healthier lives (Mirjam Allik attended) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | "Can better data improve how the third sector delivers and plans health services? This free event at the Gathering provides a space where health and social care organisations in the third sector can join public sector partners including the NHS, and academic experts, to discuss and explore issues around using and sharing health and social care data. As well as getting new conversations started, we hope this session will spark off ideas, collaborations and practical projects that participants can then take forward." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://gatherscotland.org.uk/events/think-data-better-data-healthier-lives/ |
| Description | SCVO and Civil Society Data Partnership event: Think data! Better data, healthier lives (Mirjam Allik participated) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | "Can better data improve how the third sector delivers and plans health services? This free event at the Gathering provides a space where health and social care organisations in the third sector can join public sector partners including the NHS, and academic experts, to discuss and explore issues around using and sharing health and social care data. As well as getting new conversations started, we hope this session will spark off ideas, collaborations and practical projects that participants can then take forward." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://gatherscotland.org.uk/events/think-data-better-data-healthier-lives/ |
| Description | SHAPING DATA STANDARDS FOR FUTURE CITIES - Urban Transformations Event report |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Urban Transformations featured this detailed report by UBDC Business and Communications Offcier Rhiannon Law on their blog. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/blog/2017/shaping-data-standards-for-future-cities/ |
| Description | SICSA DemoFest 2017: Bringing Research to Life |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | SICSA DemoFest is the annual technology showcase of leading Informatics and Computer Science research from Scottish Universities. It creates an environment for industry partners and academics to come together and identify opportunities. UBDC had a free exhibition stand at this event, and spoke with dozens of participants directly. Many more took leaflets and other information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/events/sicsa-demofest-2017/ |
| Description | SICSA Future Cities: The Economy of Collaboration - Smart Data Collection by Citizens. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC researcher Dr Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka presented at this one-day event, which follows on from the SICSA Future Cities "Bottom-Up" Workshop 2014, exploring current and future initiatives in grassroots future cities, focussing the role of digital technologies and the collaborative economy: the mobilisation and infrastructuring of communities for engagement, resource sharing, empowerment, and innovation. Presentation title: Smart Data Collection by Citizens. Understanding of the data, related privacy issues and possible applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/events/sicsa-research-challenge-future-cities-economy-collaboration/ |
| Description | SILC Event: Showcase for data linkage research in Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC co-hosted this event with The Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research and Administrative Data Research Centre for Scotland showcasing Scotland's research strengths, support services and opportunities in cross-sectoral data linkage. Prof. Nick Bailey presented on: 'Urban Big Data Centre: an introduction' and 'Tracking the growth of private renting and assessing its consequences'. PhD student David Henderson presented on his UBDC project: 'Using linked data to understand the relationships between Multimorbidity and the use of Health and Social Care'. UBDC also had an exhibition stand, including a screen showing the Glasgow in Motion visualisation, for promoting UBDC activities and networking with delegates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.farrinstitute.org/events-courses/event/data-linkage-scotland-showcase-2016 |
| Description | SIRE Workshop "Using Administrative Data for Economic Research" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Using Administrative Data for Economic Research" to be held at the University of Stirling on 12th May 2016. The workshop is organised by Dr Tanya Wilson (Economics Division) and sponsored by the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE). The aim of this event is to showcase opportunities that administrative data provides to further economic research, with the aim of promoting wider engagement of economic researchers with the rich information available in administrative data, and to encourage innovative research that creates high-impact evidence to inform policy." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.stir.ac.uk/management/research/economics/seminars/sire12 |
| Description | School visit (University of Seoul: June 13th, 2019 - and KAIST: June 17th, 2019 ) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was invited a talk and presented my work in UBDC to faculty members and graduate students in both University of Seoul and KAIST. Very positive and strong interests in UBDC and our transport work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Scoping study participation re: Gambling Aware data management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Andrew McHugh invited to formally consult on The University of Leeds' commissioned study (by Gamble Aware) to assess options and provide recommendations as to how best an independent repository of gambling industry data should be established and maintained - to provide maximum access to data for researchers, benefits to policy-makers and industry, with the appropriate safeguards for consumers and gambling operators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Scotland Policy Conferences Keynote Seminar - Next steps for digital infrastructure in Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior IT & Data Services Manager, Dr Andrew McHugh, attended the event which explored aspects of comms infrastructure rollout in Scotland, particularly focused on mobile and broadband. Information gathering and networking for UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.scotlandpolicyconferences.co.uk/forums/agenda/digital-infrastructure-scotland-2016-agenda... |
| Description | Scotland's Way Ahead Event by Scotland's Low Carbon Infrastructure Task Force (Keith Dingwall attended) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Scotland's Way Ahead Event by Scotland's Low Carbon Infrastructure Task Force. Keith Dingwall attended on behalf of UBDC for networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Scotlands Towns Partnership meeting to discuss data sharing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The HE / industry collaborations group Interface put us in touch with Scotland's Towns Partnership (STP) at their request to discuss ways in which we might achieve data sharing to both our benefit. We met with them on 21/4/17 and various options for supporting their data collection and use, and for them potentially providing their data for research, were discussed, and followed up afterwards by email. As at February 2018 we supplied them with Zoopla data for their www.usp.scot tool. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.usp.scot/ |
| Description | Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference: Financial Literacy Session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC researcher, Dr. Catherine Lido, will be representing Prof. Mike Osborne and presenting the work of the Integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) project and its links with financial literacy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Scottish Household Survey User Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Mark Livingston, Lead - Housing and Neighbourhoods, attended the consequences of private rental re-growth for more deprived neighbourhoods', Scottish Household Survey User Day, held in Edinburgh on the 29 March 2018, with an audience of around 50 policy makers and researchers from public, private and voluntary sectors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance 'SICSA and the Sustainable Society Conference 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation titled "Doing Data Science for Sustainable Societies" focusing on the work of the Urban Big Data Centre at the University of Glasgow. Established in 2014, the UBDC is a multi-disciplinary collaboration of social scientists and data scientists. It is both a research centre and part of the UK's national data infrastructure. From our efforts over the last six years, we have amassed a wide experience in the challenges of delivering research and analysis to support policies for Sustainable Societies. This presentation reflects on that experience and, in particular, the many challenges in doing effective, impactful urban data science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://sicsaconference.org/conference-sessions/ |
| Description | Scottish Insight Event: Big Data and the Third Sector |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey, UBDC Associate Director gave a presentation on UBDC at this Scottish voluntary sector organisations' event on data analysis and visualisation. Nick spoke to a group of academics, policymakers and practitioners about big data and the third sector, raising the profile of the UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2014/scottish-in... |
| Description | Scottish Local Government during COVID-19: Report launch 27/05/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux presented the launch of the Scottish Local Government during COVID-19 report, highlighting the findings of a six-month research project on Scottish local authorities' data engagement conducted by the Urban Big Data Centre, which took place on the 27 May 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkqL92bBTTg |
| Description | Scottish Parliament Data Exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Data Visualisations and Slides were showcased at this Scottish Parliament event on 8, 9 and 10 November 2016. UBDC was also invited to a reception with MSPs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Scottish Power Energy Networks Exploration Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | c. 30 attendees, a mix of UBDC and University of Glasgow academic and data staff and Scottish Power Energy Network senior staff and data practitioners met to explore three main challenges: - Data Strategy Development - Predicting and managing demand for infrastructure constraints - New datasets to support the movement to net zero These led to proposals for further work and ongoing collaborative engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Scottish Transport Emissions Partnerships (STEP) Annual Conference (Marian Scott attended) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Co-I Marian Scott is attending this conference with a key partner STEP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Secondary Data Analysis Initiative (SDAI) Showcase, London (Keith Dingwall attended) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "On 29th February 2016 the ESRC will be holding 3-6pm at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, 12 Great George St, London to showcase the Secondary Data Analysis Initiative (SDAI) to government policymakers. The event will demonstrate the exciting potential for the SDAI to generate policy insights through showcasing the impacts of previous projects. There will also be thematic breakout sessions where delegates will have an opportunity to discuss their research priorities and how SDAI could be used as a mechanism to address them. The aim is to develop ideas for future research themes and proposals that could be submitted to the SDAI in the future in collaboration with partner organisations. The sessions will be led by the interests of attendees but are likely to cover themes such as: Health, Wellbeing and Ageing; Education; Economics and Business; Equality and Social Mobility; Politics and Governance; and International Development." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Seminar at Sheffield University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | David McArthur presented the work Vonu, Orhan and he have been doing on the SUDS project relating to labour market accessibility. He discussed some of the issues involved in constructing such measures and summarised our work so far. He also mentioned the UBDC and made people aware of the iMCD data which will soon be available. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.506534!/file/PenfoldMounceAbstract.pdf |
| Description | Seminar of Spatial Econometrics in honour of Professor Jean Paelinck, Dijon (Bernard Fingleton presented) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Fingleton, B, Le Gallo J, Pirotte A (2015) 'Panel Data Models with Spatially Nested Random Effects' 8th edition of the Seminar of Spatial Econometrics in honour of Professor Jean Paelinck, October 23-24, Dijon (France) presented by J Le Gallo |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Seminar: "The Union of Big Data and Social Science Research -- If anyone objects to this marriage let them speak or forever hold their peace..." |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Gwilym Pryce spoke at the Information School, University of Sheffield to other academics. ABSTRACT: For many social scientists "Big Data" equals "Big Rubbish". The gulf between Big Data and meaningful, substantive, theoretically-informed, social inquiry is too cavernous to bridge, the links too tenuous to hold. Others argue it is how social research will be done in the future, convinced that the rising sun of Big Data will herald the dawn of a new renaissance of social science. So is the union of Big Data and "proper" social science a union made in heaven or an arranged marriage destined for divorce? Is the entire endeavor a red herring or golden opportunity? In this seminar Gwilym will survey the mixed metaphors and argue that, while the disconnects are real, so too are the opportunities. But how do we get this troubled relationship onto a sure footing? The seminar will explore the role of intermediates such as the SMI (Sheffield Methods Institute) as match makers -- ways of forming a nexus between methods, big data and social theory. He will then pose the question of how we make this happen in practice, drawing on practical examples from his own research to illustrate the kind of challenges perhaps best faced together. What God has joined, let no man put asunder! |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Seminar: Prof. Peter Brandon, University at Albany, State University of New York, on Socio-Economic Disparities in the Nature and Context of Pre-School Childcare in the State of New York: Some Findings, Plus Some Implications for Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Co-organised this seminar with the University of Glasgow Urban Studies Dept., improving links and mutual collaboration possibilities. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/our-services/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2015/prof-peter-brandon/ |
| Description | Series of tutorial films on collaborations between Universities and Government |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We have produced a series of short tutorial videos highlighting the benefits of identifying opportunities for collaboration between academic researchers and local authorities on projects that utilise urban data. These presentations were recorded and produced as a result of a UBDC organised workshop in March 2020 on "Effective Models for Data-driven Collaborations Between Universities and Government". We have produced this series off films to extend the reach and impact of the event and they are freely available to view on the UBDC web site and YouTube channel. The films give real-world examples of collaborations between researchers and local authorities and provide detailed insight into building successful collaborative partnerships. The films include: An overview of the series; An overview of UBDC/Glasgow City Council CCTV collaboration; An overview of UBDC/North Lanarkshire Council collaboration; and Building experiences with Government data-owners |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/online-learning/online-tutorials/working-with-government... |
| Description | Shaping Cities through Urban Analytics: An Urban Big Data Centre Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This showcase event on the 28/11/18 will reflect on the Urban Big Data Centre's fantastic achievements throughout the first phase of the centre and look ahead to the next five years. The morning session offers a look at the impact our work has achieved to date. There will be a parallel presentation session across four of our key research strands: Transport and Mobility, Education, Skills and the Labour Market, Housing and Neighbourhoods and Urban Analytics. In the afternoon, Tom Smith, Managing Director of the ONS Data Science Campus, will provide a keynote followed by responses from an expert panel and then an open discussion with attendees - around 120 senior stakeholders from academia, industry, the public sector, and the third sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2019/january/showcasing-data-for-improving-cities/ |
| Description | Shaping Data Standards for Future Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | the Urban Big Data Centre, in collaboration with the British Standards Institution (BSI) - hosted a workshop event to highlight how data standards can support the widespread adoption of common approaches to the implementation of products and services in future cities. The audience at 'Shaping Data Standards for Future Cities' heard presentations on how standards are developed, the new data sharing framework for UK smart cities, and the role of the citizen in guiding smart city standards. There were also case studies from Peterborough, Glasgow, Eindhoven and Helsinki. The presentations sparked lively discussions on topics such as data sharing and access, the role of citizens, smart city leadership and the Internet of Things. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news/2017/june/shaping-data-standards-for-future-cities/ |
| Description | Sheffield Data for Good Data Hack |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Dan Olner Dan Olner, Research Associate, University of Sheffield, participated in a community engagement data activity: Sheffield Data for Good data hack, working with homelessness charity Roundabout and many other local organisations held on the 26.01.19. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/7754-sheffdataforgood-homelessness-focus-data-hack/ |
| Description | Sheffield Migration Research Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Gwilym Pryce helped foster research collaboration between UBDC and the Sheffield Migration Research Group and presented UBDC research there, and meet again with the group in September 2018 to discuss potential research grant collaboration to take the work further. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2018 |
| Description | Sheffield Migration conference: "Making a Consistent Dataset for Country of Birth Across Time in Great Britain" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC University of Sheffield team member gave a conference presentation to a migration-themed group of people spanning many different disciplines and institutions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Sheffield R Users Group: Spatial R - the magic and the messiness |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In December 2016, UBDC's University of Sheffield researcher Dan Olner presented at a Sheffield R Users Group Meet-up on the power of using R for spatial analysis. The Group includes a mix of academic and industry people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.meetup.com/SheffieldR-Sheffield-R-Users-Group/events/235618485/ |
| Description | Smart Campus Industry Engagement Event (UBDC hosted stall) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Keith Dingwall attends as UBDC representative, UBDC will have exhibition stand and promotional materials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Smart Campus Interactive Digital Media - Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior Business Manager Keith Dingwall attended this workshop on the interactive media and visualisation technologies being used in University smart campus development, to establish possible future collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Smart Campus Lunch - Research Opportunities around the Development of the New Campus (University of Glasgow) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior Business Manager Keith Dingwall attended this event to gather information, network and raise awareness for UBDC. Joint research opportunities within the University of Glasgow were a focus. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Smart Cities Scotland Launch (attended by Keith Dingwall) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Keith Dingwall attends the event in place of Vonu Thakuriah, to build relationships with Scotland's 7 cities / Alliance. Held at Technology and Innovation Centre, Glasgow, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Smart Cities World Press Coverage: Data sharing critical to rapid response of the pandemic in Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Smart Cities World's press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/smart-cities-news/data-sharing-critical-to-rapid-response-of-the-pa... |
| Description | Smart Cities event (Helsinki) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Co-Is Vonu Thakuriah, Mike Osborne, Kostas Ampountolas all presented at this Smart Cities event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Smart Cities: Securing Innovation Through Better Data Sharing (organised by the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Justine Gangneux took part in the CDEI panel discussion at Leeds Digital Festival on the 28th of September 2021. The group discussed better sharing of smart cities data, whether it is held by public or private bodies, has the potential to spur local innovation, create efficiencies for local government and crucially improve services for residents. But how do we address existing challenges while also innovating in an ethical and trustworthy way? Throughout the pandemic, the CDEI has been working in partnership with local authorities, including Bristol City Council and Great Manchester Combined Authority, to help them maximise the benefits of data and data-driven tech by building trustworthy governance that earns the confidence of citizens over the long term. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://leedsdigitalfestival.org/ |
| Description | Smart Mobility and Smart Cities - Access and Opportunities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Carla Bailo, Assistant Vice President of Mobility Research and Business Development at Ohio State University, gave a talk introducing her leading work on sustainable mobility and transport innovation with particular focus on OSU's role in the huge $140M City of Columbus project. The presentation detailed the vast future policy, legal and wider societal implications of these advances in Smart technology for mobility with reference to the Columbus project's ongoing pilot testing of autonomous vehicles. Following the presentation there was discussion among the varied group of attendees (including postgraduate students, councillors and transportation company representatives) over potential UK impacts on these advances. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/smart-mobil... |
| Description | Smart Statistics 4 Smart Cities Conference, Kalamata, Greece - Konstantinos Ampountolas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Konstantinos Ampountolas, UBDC Associate Director gave a presentation on Industrial Engagement Developing Smart Statistics for Urban Mobility: Challenges and Opportunities at the Smart Statistics 4 Smart Cities Conference, Kalamata, Greece held from the 5-6 October 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10442/15822 |
| Description | Smarter tourism: solving the data problem to boost tourism and create better cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Steve McGinty wrote a detailed blog post about an event that UBDC presented at, 'Smarter Tourism: Shaping Glasgow's Data Plan', part of DataFest 2017, on The Knowledge Exchange blog, in April 2017. The blog mentions Keith Dingwall's presentation on UBDC's services, particularly the iMCD data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://theknowledgeexchangeblog.com/2017/04/03/smarter-tourism-solving-the-data-problem-to-boost-to... |
| Description | Social Data Science in Evidence-Based Policymaking Event 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey attended this two day event organised by ESRC on the 11/07/18 in London UK. The ESRC and Alan Turing Institute hosted the event exploring Social Data Science in Evidence Based Policy Making. The event explored the opportunities and challenges for social data science to address diverse social and economic issues in the areas of: Cities and Public Services; Health and Wellbeing; Economy and Trade; Crime and Security held on the 11th-12th September 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://ubel-dtp.ac.uk/2018/08/14/social-data-science-in-evidence-based-policy-making-event-co-hoste... |
| Description | Social Policy Association Conference 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey, UBDC Director, gave a presentation on the divisions within 'Generation Rent': poverty and the re-growth of private renting in the UK.at the Social Policy Association conference, University of York, 11-13 July 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.social-policy.org.uk/conferences/2018_conference/conference2018/ |
| Description | Society for Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Data Scientist, Dr Mirjam Allik, attended this conference to present on 'Ethnic Differences in ill health and in socioeconomic inequalities in health: Population study using 2011 Scottish Census', and promoted UBDC there through networking and information given in her presentation about the Centre, as well as distributing material. Around 30 people attended her presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://jech.bmj.com/search/volume:71%20issue:Suppl+1%20sort:first-page%20direction:ascending?facet%5... |
| Description | Spatial Analysis and Urban Big Data in Agricultural Land Use Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC researcher Jing Yao was invited to present at the Beijing Agriculture and Forestry Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Spatial Reconfigurations of Work in Cities - seminar presentation by Jinhyun Hong |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jinhyun Hong was invited to present at a seminar at the University of Portsmouth: Spatial Reconfigurations of Work in Cities: Re-conceptualising Urban Landscapes of Work. The workshop was held on 20-21 April 2017. The presentation was entitled 'How does Internet use influence commuting behaviour in the Greater Glasgow area?'. The seminar was funded by the Urban Studies Foundation in series entitled 'Reconceptualising Urban Landscapes of Work'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/activities/spatial-reconfigurations-of-work-in-cities(74... |
| Description | Spatial Signatures: understanding (urban) spaces through form and function |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Research Seminar on "Spatial Signatures: understanding (urban) spaces through form and function", presented by guest speaker Dr Arribas-Bel, senior lecturer in Geographic Data Science at the Department of Geography and Planning of the University of Liverpool. This seminar introduced the notion of "spatial signatures", a characterisation of space based on form and function designed to understand urban environments. How the building blocks that make up cities are spatially arranged influences social, economic and environmental outcomes. The talk attracted a global audience, sparking interesting discussion. This was the first UBDC Research Seminar that has been opened up to an external audience and it attracted delegates from across the globe and from a wide range of sectors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/spatial-signatures-r... |
| Description | Spatiotemporal Analyses of Urban Fires and Optimizing Fire Station Locations: An Initial Study on Smart Fire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | "Jing Yao was invited to present at Liverpool University. One-hour semiar on the following: Fire and rescue services are one of the fundamental public services provided by government in order to protect people, properties and environment from fires and other disasters. Understanding spatiotemporal dynamics of fire incidents enables better fire risk estimation and thereby can assist with future allocation of prevention resources and strategic planning of mitigation programs. Data-intensive analyses and modelling in the era of big data has become an efficient way to approach Smart Fire. Using a 12-year (2002-2013) dataset, this research explores the spatiotemporal dynamics of urban fires in Nanjing, China, with a range of exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) approaches and tools. Based on the identified spatiotemporal distributions of fire incidents, spatial optimization models are developed to site the fire stations so that the urban residents can be provided with the best fire service coverage." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/events/event/?eventid=82312 |
| Description | Strava Metro - Better Data for Better Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brian Riordan, Customer Success Lead from Strava Metro joined the UBDC to provide an overview of the data, methods of preparation for multiple forms of analysis, and time to discuss ideas for using it in urban research. David McArthur, Lecturer in Transportation at University of Glasgow then followed with discussion around potential urban research uses for the Strava data. The 3hr seminar was attended by an audience of around 35 made up of people from transport organisations, private companies and academic researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2016/strava-metr... |
| Description | Summer of Data 2017 - Location-based Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Research Associate, Dr Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka, presented at this St Andrews University Institute for Data-Intensive Research (IDIR) on New Aspects of Mobility in the Era of Big(ger) Data. is a series of meetings to be held at the University of St Andrews in 2017. The Summer of Data 2017 meetings aimed to bring together researchers and scholars from different disciplines with expertise in data science. Dr Sila-Nowicka promoted the UBDC's research and data services as part of her talk. Abstract: Human mobility is vital for understanding expansion processes in urban areas, the establishment of transportation services and the spatial distribution of facilities. Until recently, exploring human mobility in detail was challenging because personal trip data collection methods consisted of expensive and time consuming methods. The development of sensors such as GPS trackers or other wearable devices equipped with various sensors that capture movement data in real-time and at detailed spatial and temporal scales has transformed our ability to collect mobility data. However, even though GPS trackers record an individual's location and movement very accurately, they do not record essential characteristics of travel behaviour such as travel mode or trip purpose. What can be done to enhance raw movement trajectories in order to uncover these mobility characteristics? And what can be done to publish the data without breaching individuals' privacy? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.idir.st-andrews.ac.uk/event-summer-data-2017/ |
| Description | Support Development Action Plan with Digital Office's Data Tasforce |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Series of meetings with the Digital Office's Data Taskforce to discuss and support the development of an Action Plan drawing on the 15 policy and practice recommendations highlighted in the project report (Scottish Local Government during COVID-19: data needs, capabilities, and uses). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Taking the Carbon Out of Transport: How might data help us? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr David McArthur, Associate Director for Training and Capacity Building at UBDC and Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies at the University of Glasgow, and Rafael Verduzco, PhD Researcher, delivered a keynote at this event to celebrate 10 years of the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science on the 4th November 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/taking-the-carbon-out-of-... |
| Description | Talk by Nick Bailey in Session Three of The Big Data Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey, UBDC Associate Director, speaks for 20 minutes on "Using data to identify and tackle societal problems" in the Session Three: The Big Data Society. Full agenda on website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://bigdata.holyrood.com/ |
| Description | Telephone Interview for "Smart Cities in the Making" - Andrew McHugh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The ESRC ""Smart Cities in the Making"" programme is centred on exploring the various form of support needed by citizens, policymakers, and any other organizations engaging with big-data infrastructures. Research Alan Valdez approached UBDC to learn more about its data services and the training and outreach activities provided. Throughout the course of a 30 minute telephone interview he explored with Andrew McHugh, Senior IT and Data Services Manager, two main areas of interest: to understand the labor and practices required to make data useful and accessible, and how data centers relate to their local contexts. This covered the following topics: -We understand that various public and private bodies - community organisations, health service providers, etc - use data from the UBDC catalog. If this is correct, could you list some of the key groups that you are aware of? -Could you give me a rough outline of the process through which you support organizations developing smart solutions, starting from the initial contact and up to the deployment of the solution and any follow-up actions? -I see you have a data sourcing service. Have any user groups found necessary to acquire data that were not originally in the collections? How has your interaction with users shaped the data, and your analytical toolkit? -I see that you have datasets from a wide range of organizations. Do you know if the datasets were created specifically for smart city projects? Or are there any datasets from before the 'smart city' movement? -Are there any formal or informal links between the UBDC and the Future City Demonstrator? What is the impact of the demonstrator on the 'smart ecosystem' in Glasgow (availability of infrastructures, development of skills, formation of a 'smart culture', etc) -Many smart city projects are focused on a specific city, but the UBDC does not have that strictly local scope. What are the challenges of collecting data from and developing solutions for a variety of places with different infrastructures, policies and local challenges? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The Academy of Urbanism Coffee Break 20/05/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr David McArthur, Associate Director for Training and Capacity Building at UBDC and Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies at the University of Glasgow, gave a presentation on 'The Academy of Urbanism Coffee Break' outlining some of UBDC's work using CCTV cameras in Glasgow to derive pedestrian counts and also some of the planned applications of the data on the 20/05/21. These sessions are hosted and organised by a group of Young Urbanists in Scotland and are open to all. If you have never been to an AoU event before, or are thinking about joining, you are welcome to join the discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/the-academy-of-urban... |
| Description | The Alan Turing Institute Urban Analytics Data Dive |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC supported the ATI Urban Analytics Data Dive held 25-26 July 2017, in collaboration with the ONS Data Science Campus and the Satellite Applications Catapult. UBDC's main role was to provide data from our collections that participants in the Data Dive (a hackathon / KE style event for UK-based PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and early career researchers in data science). We also sent our Geospatial Data Scientist, Rod Walpole, to assist the organisers and teams onsite. Abstract: Spend two intensive days designing data science solutions to real world challenges facing society today. Convinced that data science can change the world? So are we. The Alan Turing Institute is joining forces with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Data Science Campus, to host our first policy-focused Data Dive. This Data Dive will have a particular focus on problems faced in an urban setting and data will be provided by the Satellite Applications Catapult, the Urban Big Data Centre and ONS. Successful applicants will collaborate in interdisciplinary teams of six, to address one of three challenges. You will draw on all your data science skills to identify possible solutions, using a range of data sources provided by the Satellite Applications Catapult, the Urban Big Data Centre and ONS. The event will give you an opportunity to work with governmental stakeholders to explore how data science can help tackle problems faced by society today. It will also help you network with other data science researchers with a strong interest in using data science for public good. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/urban-analytics-data-dive/ |
| Description | The Data Lab (Scotland) Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The objective of the workshop was to bring together the Scottish Data Lab Innovation Centre together with key public sector organisations who share remits to provide support to businesses for R&D/innovation. The aim was to maximise alignment across these organisations, to ensure each organisation plays its full and correct role, to reduce the complexity of funding support, and generally to develop collaborative strategies and ways of working which will maximise the opportunity for economic impact in Scotland. The discussion included market opportunity, demand stimulation, development of high quality business led projects and collaborative project delivery. UBDC Senior Business Manager Keith Dingwall presented from UBDC's perspective. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | The Gaitherin at the Tontine Building, Glasgow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior Business Manager gave a 5 minute pitch to audience of business representatives about UBDC Data Service. The University of Glasgow's College of Social Sciences Research Support Office runs this event series, "The Gaitherin", in conjunction with the Glasgow City Council. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | The Scottish Qualifications Authority's 2020 Alternative Certification Model - The Deprivation Impact |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The aim of this blog is not to rehash the controversy surrounding this year's Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) results day. It is to explain the context behind the decision-making, the implications of results in terms of inequalities, and the broader consequences for the Scottish education system. To do this, Barry Black draws upon Free Schools Meals data gathered as part of his PhD research, alongside recently available secondary SQA data (obtained from Freedom of Information requests). Barry does this to illustrate what the real-world implications of results day were, and might have remained, had these moderated results not been withdrawn. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/october/the-sqa-s-2020-alternative-certification-model-the-dep... |
| Description | The World News Press Coverage: Pandemic spurs city data innovation in Scotland Today - Connecting the world's urban leaders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The World News press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://theworldnews.net/gb-news/pandemic-spurs-city-data-innovation-in-scotland-today-connecting-th... |
| Description | The environmental data deluge- sinking or swimming - Seminar at Academica Sinica in Taiwan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Prof Marian Scott, of UBDC's Maths & Stats research group, gave a seminar to the Academica Sinica in Taiwan about big data called 'The environmental data deluge- sinking or swimming' (and used a couple of examples from UBDC) as exemplars on 23-27 October 2017. There were 25 people in audience, senior and junior academics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statnewsite/seminar/download/2235/ |
| Description | The pop-up reality for youth on the urban fringe: Their spaces; their times, and their futures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Event Description The Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), in collaboration with the Centre for Research & Development in Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL) at the University of Glasgow, will host a seminar with Prof. Margaret Robertson, La Trobe University, whose longstanding research includes youth studies and cross-cultural differences." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.latrobe.edu.au/staff-profiles/show-profile-remote-content.php?uname=M2Robertson |
| Description | Tomorrow's City Centre Conference (Glasgow, UK) (Jenny Ryall attended) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Attended event to spread awareness of UBDC amongst those interested in urban issues. Senior Business Manager Jenny Ryall networked with interested people, gave information on UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://glasgowchamberofcommerce.com/media/1086/tds-tcc-frontpage.html |
| Description | Tracking Lockdown, Supporting Recovery: The Potential and the Pitfalls of Big Data 01.05.2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey has written a blog on the Government's response to the COVID-19 crisis is being influenced by a wealth of data, including novel analyses using new forms of data. Downing Street briefings illustrate the potential of big data to provide timely information to guide public policy. But they also underline the pitfalls of relying on statistics where we have no control over their production. In this blog, Nick Bailey argues that we need a stronger public infrastructure to support policymakers at this critical time and highlights how the Urban Big Data Centre is contributing to this challenge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/may/tracking-lockdown-supporting-recovery-the-potential-and-th... |
| Description | Traffic monitoring and control with connected/automated cars and big data. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Traffic monitoring and control with connected/automated cars and big data. ITS sensing, monitoring and control, Russell Group-China workshop on Intelligent Transport Systems, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China, July 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://english.bupt.edu.cn/ |
| Description | Transforming Data into Actionable Intelligence: Health and Social Care |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was designed to explain and showcase NHS Scotland's Information Services Division (ISD) and their innovative ways of utilising data and information to support operational and strategic areas and to empower and increase health and well-being for the people across Scotland. A large attendance including academics, healthcare professionals and statisticians from the Scottish Government learn how ISD are linking data and information from a variety of sources both locally and nationally to support the improvement of health and well-being. Discussion followed where examples were cited from data used by attendees from the session and how they could better link and make use of ISD's resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/transformin... |
| Description | Transport Data Modelling, Simulation and Big Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Capacity-building seminar consisting of two 1-hour sessions presented by Devrim Kara, Director, PTV Group UK, covering the use of 'Big Data' for improving transport networks and research into the implications of autonomous vehicles in cities and the value of transport simulations. Dr Wei Liu, Lecturer in Transportation Engineering at the University of Glasgow then presented his research into use of parking simulations to demonstrate possible improvements in efficiency and strategic planning. This event was attended by approximately 35 people from transportation organisations, urban planners, an energy provider and university researchers and students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2016/transport-d... |
| Description | Transport Liability Group meeting in UBDC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussions about how the new forms of data can improve transport solutions in different cities held on February 2018. As a result of this event Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka, UBDC Researcher was invited to give a talk in Google Academy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Transport Smart Class - Andrew McHugh & David McArthur |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | TRANSPORT Smart Classes are collaborative, half day lead generation and knowledge exchange events which show key Smart City-Region buyer-side stakeholders how they can deploy the latest digital technology-enabled solutions and best practices to tackle their transport sector challenges (e.g. around congestion, traffic flows, air pollution and emissions, energy, noise, first and last mile mobility, passenger/customer experience, accessibility, cost effectiveness, connecting transport networks, managing and maintaining assets and infrastructure etc) and deliver a transport system that will allow passengers to travel efficiently, safely and with minimal impact on the environment. Delegates include commissioning, procurement, trialling and partnering leads, senior influencers and strategic decision makers from progressive city, borough, district and county councils; public transport operators/service providers (inc. train, bus, tram, ferry); sub-regional transport bodies, combined authorities, integrated transport authorities and passenger transport executives; DfT and supporting national transport agencies; prime contractors etc. Disruptive technologies, open data and data driven insights are central to these events and core themes range from on-demand transport and MaaS applications, predictive traffic management, smart parking and enforcing CAZs and LEZs, to analysing people movements, new ways of visualising data, connected and autonomous vehicles, intelligent street lighting, real-time transport modelling, contactless payments, smart ticketing and fare collection. David McArthur, UBDC Associate Director - Training and Capacity Building, summarised work using crowdsourced mobility data to understand active travel and joined Andrew McHugh, UBDC Senior Data Science Manager, in roundtable discussions exploring opportunities for collaboration and further work on the 27/09/18. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://smartclasses.co/events/transport-smart-class-scotland-2018/ |
| Description | Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (Washington D.C.) (Prof. P. Thakuriah presented) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Thakuriah attended this meeting, presented and networked with a high-level international group on behalf of UBDC, including attending meetings of various TRB sub-committees. Connections made with various transport-related groups. Informed international audience about UBDC leading to requests for further information and potential collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting2015/AnnualMeeting2015.aspx |
| Description | Trust in Digital Sector - Knowledge Exchange Workshop 26/02/19 - Andrew McHugh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Andrew McHugh, UBDC Senior Data Science Manager, attended the event on the 26/02/19 which was designed to build research partnership between academics at the University and the digital technology sector. The main industry partner for the event is the Digital Product Development Team at Arnold Clark Automobiles. Interactions led to discussions and collaborative possibilities around big data management and analytics and privacy management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UALL/ TUSEM conference hosted by Ege University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UALL/ TUSEM conference hosted by Ege University on 'Workshop on Knowledge based regional development: Promoting Strategies for Lifelong Learning in Universities', 11-12 May Izmir, Turkey (Programme attached). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leesa_Wheelahan2/publication/29464400_What_are_the_implications... |
| Description | UBDC / Strava Active Travel Data Challenge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The UBDC offers a range of data drawn from the Strava app, an app widely used by cyclists and other athletes around the world. These data collections are known as Strava Metro, and we have an arrangement with Strava to make this data freely available for use in research of all kinds within the UK. For the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2017, UBDC ran a data challenge, where we asked people to use Strava Metro data to develop apps, tools, linked datasets or anything else they could think of to promote cycling. We said that tools developed could be of direct use to cyclists and communities, or they could help from the perspective of enabling transport planners and the like to make cycling easier for citizens. The independent judging panel selected two excellent finalists out of this Challenge, who were invited to present at our Active Travel Demo Day (recorded in ResearchFish separately as it became a broader event). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news/2017/december/come-on-get-active-encouraging-cycling-with-strava-metro-data/ |
| Description | UBDC Active Travel Demo Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In 2017, as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, the UBDC 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 (the Data Challenge has its own ResearchFish entry). We then hosted an Active Travel Data Demo Day in November 2017 to show off the Challenge finalists' entries, alongside a range of other interesting active travel data developments. One aim for the day was to gather some useful insights from participants that we could pass on to cycling groups and urban planners to enhance their future developments. With a range of other presentations and two break-out discussions, the event was a huge success, attracting around 40 participants from cycling activist groups Go Bike! and Critical Mass Glasgow; third sector organisations Sustrans, Cycling Scotland, Cycling UK and Bike for Good; consultancies Plan for Bikes, mBd Associates, and PJJK; multinational planning firms Arup and Sweco; public bodies Nestrans, Scottish Government Statistics, Transport Scotland, the Glasgow Centre for Population Health, and Interface; and a number of universities, along with representatives from BBC Scotland, Strava and ESRC themselves. This event led to further discussions for future activities with Strava, Transport Scotland and Sustrans, as well as focus group outcomes shred more widely via a blog post summarising the day. We had follow-up from several organisations wishing to collaborate and use our data collections, including Arup and Sweco, and there have been a number of individual blog posts submitted by participants for the UBDC blog to give more detail on cycling promotion activity and data use. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news/2017/december/come-on-get-active-encouraging-cycling-with-strava-metro-data/ |
| Description | UBDC Call for Expressions of Interest: Webinar Info Session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Webinar session to explain UBDC services and the first UBDC Call for Expressions of Interest, with Q&A. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jduApotPZHA |
| Description | UBDC CoI Iadh Ounis on DataLab Launch Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Raise awareness of UBDC and make contribution to Data Science community. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.thedatalab.com/?q=the-data-lab-launch-event-videos-john-swinney-and-neil-logan |
| Description | UBDC Data Workshop Series: Integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | No other information given https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2018/ubdc-data-workshop-series-integrated-multimedia-city-data-imcd/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2018/ubdc-data-workshop-s... |
| Description | UBDC DataFest Fringe Event: Effective Models for Data-Driven Collaborations between Universities and Government |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC organised this workshop as part of The Data Lab's annual DataFest - a two-week festival across Scotland focussing on Data Innovation. Approximately 30 delegates attended, from Local Government, Third-Sector, Academia and Business. The event aimed to explore and identify opportunities for data-driven collaborations between academia and Government. The event featured specific case studies about successful collaborations between UBDC and local Government bodies, including Glasgow City Council and North Lanarkshire Council. Following the talks, delegates were involved in a range of interactive exercises which examined the key issues around developing collaborations between academia and Government. The event proved to be very successful, facilitating much discussion. The event was also effective as a profile-raising exercise for UBDC, introducing the work of the Centre and some examples of its successful collaborations to a range of new contacts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2020/effective-models-for... |
| Description | UBDC Director appointed Co-Chair of the RDA Urban Quality of Life Indicators Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | International profile of UBDC raised, and contribution of UBDC to international standards initiated. Ongoing activity - development of international standards anticipated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://rd-alliance.org/groups/urban-quality-life-indicators.html |
| Description | UBDC Launch Panel Discussion, 30 September 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Awareness raised of UBDC and urban big data issues in UK. Interest in future collaboration and use of services sparked. Video of panel discussion available online (and blog post), continuing to reach audience. UBDC service use and collaborations anticipated. Scottish Parliament meetings planned. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/blog/2014/october/ubdc-launch-reception-keynote-and-panel-discussion |
| Description | UBDC Launch Workshop, 30 September 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Queries re UBDC services and potential collaborations resulted. Future researchers using UBDC services expected. Collaboration and MoUs expected, including with NICTA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | UBDC Lecture from Visiting Fellow, Dr. Paul Thomas - Watching Online Behaviours to Improve Government Services |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Paul Thomas - Visiting SISCA Industry Fellow and research scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) gave a lecture to ca 20 academics, hosted by the UBDC. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/our-services/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2015/watching-online-behav... |
| Description | UBDC Lunchtime Seminar: Prof. Tim Johnson on Sampling Hard-to-Find Populations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Johnson gave talk to local researchers, strengthening links between the UK and University of Illinois, Chicago. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/our-services/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2015/sampling-hard-to-find... |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Body Worn Cameras and Public Services in Scotland" Body-worn video, body-worn cameras, public services, CCTV, privacy, data protection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://crisp.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/scottish-privacy-forum/ |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session - Automatic Extraction of Damaged Buildings in Earthquakes from Remote Sensing Images - Dr Xuemei Bi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Xuemei Bei, a Visiting Scholar at UBDC, presented on using remote sensing to extract real-time earthquake information. This presentation marked the end of a year-long visit to UBDC having worked closely with Dr Jing Yao. She is an associate research fellow at the Center of Earthquake Emergency Technical Support in the Chinese province of Jiangsu. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session - Data User Dr Jim Uttley on his Road Lighting Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jim Uttley, a researcher at the Sheffield School of Architecture's Lighting Research Group, has been working closely with the UBDC Data Team on acquiring difficult-to-access road lighting data from local authorities, as well as obtaining access to Strava cycling data for matching cities from the UBDC's data collections. Dr Uttley visited the UBDC and gave a Methods Session looking in detail at his research methods and use of data for this research. This event was attending by both scientific computing officers/data scientists and academics with an interest in this area, including post-grads. There was much discussion at the end as others' shared related research and tips and ideas about working together or sharing other data were exchanged. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session - June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Greg Erhardt, Doctoral Student from CASA, UCL is a guest speaker, presenting: Developing a longitudinal data fusion tool for the empirical evaluation of transport investments" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session - Methods for Map Matching, Stop Detection and Semantic Annotation (Yang Wang) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC and Catch! project researcher Yang Wang discussed the GPS anonymisation methods carried out as part of the ongoing Catch!: Citizens At The City's Heart project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session - Multi-level semantic modelling of 3D urban building space by Xuan Sun |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Xuan Sun presented after first making contact through interest in the UBDC's SASNet Program. He has an extensive history of work with UBDC's Jing Yao and Wenjie Wu and is seeking further collaboration with UBDC on his two international ESRC and NSFC research projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session - November 2015 (Mark McCann) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Mark Mccann on the topic of 'Considering the practicalities and ethics of using smartphone apps to collect longitudinal survey data' (thank you to Nick for the suggestion). Mark (a Research Fellow from the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow) will be specifically presenting on: 'The smartphones study, funded under the ESRC's transformative research funding stream, aimed to assess the functionality and acceptability of using smartphone apps as a data collection tool for social research, and to assess ethical issues with their use. The project involved developing a smartphone app to conduct a study of drug and alcohol use and leisure activities among adolescent school pupils, as well as a thematic analysis of ethics committee opinions on this study from various disciplines. The seminar will explore the practical, cultural and social barriers to using this method and make recommendations for using apps to collect social research data.'" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session - Supersensors: Raspberry Pi Devices for Smart Campus Infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jeremy Singer and Lito Michala from the University of Glasgow's School of Computer Science gave a talk about their new sensors prototyping exercise as part of their ongoing work on smart campus development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session - Western Norwegian Research Institute (WNRI) initiatives in the area of big data research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Visiting scholar Dr Otto Andersen from the Western Norwegian Research Institute (WNRI) visited UBDC for three months to continue his research on transport and the environment and to explore potential collaboration opportunities with UBDC. In this session he discussed some initiatives in the area of big data research that WNRI is currently engaged in: "Leveraging Big Data to Manage Transport Operations (LeMO)", a proposal recently submitted to H2020 and a new project "Ubiquitous Data-Driven Urban Mobility (UBIMOB)" financed by Research Council of Norway. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session: (Additional) March 2016 (Charis Chanialidis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Charalampos Chanialidis' work with Marian Scott, ' R-shiny applications created to model area crime data in Glasgow and Chicago'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session: Anonymisation In Image Data: Challenges & Solution Approaches |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Data Scientist Mesut Yucel and UBDC Researcher Dr Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka held a seminar and focus group on anonymisation of lifelogging data, covering the progress being made in UBDC's iMCD Liofelogging Data, and people's interpretations of what consitutes privacy in relation to this type of data. About 15 people attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session: April 2015 (Catherine Lido) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Lido spoke on Structural Equation Modelling with EQS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session: Dr Jon Minton |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jon Minton spoke on Creating Data Sculptures using r2stl, with two case studies and seven 'props' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session: February 2016 (Jing Wang) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introduction: China Institute of Land Surveying and Planning, research on Chinese land surveying by Dr. Jing Wang. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session: January 2016 (Sean Moran) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sean Moran on the iMCD Data Services |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session: Life-logging Data and the iMCD Project (Soum Chowdhury and Sadek Ferdous) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Informed researchers and technical data staff about early "life-logging" data issues. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session: March 2016 (Colin Birchenall, Glasgow City Council) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colin Birchenall from Glasgow City Council spoke on case studies from the Future City Demonstrator. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session: May 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sara Day Thomson, Project Officer, Digital Preservation Coalition will speak on Preserving Social Media: a Technology Watch Report. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.infodocket.com/2016/03/07/digital-preservation-coalition-releases-new-tech-watch-report-o... |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session: Minecraft and Urban Planning (Mark Mitchell) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk informed participants of the potential use of Minecraft as a data visualisation tool, available at the UBDC. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session: The City in 3D, Modelling Cities with GPS Trajectories (Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Research Associate in Urban Methods, Modelling and Simulations, Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka, presented to mixed audience of local researchers and technical staff. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Session: The Pitfalls of Working with Large Datasets (Dr Gijsbert Stoet) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Visiting academic Dr Gijsbert Stoet spoke to an academic audience at UBDC on the pitfalls of working with large datasets (using examples of PISA data from OECD in Education). Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | UBDC Methods Sessions - December 2015 (Dan Olner) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and roundtable discussion: The role of data in human organisation: past, present future? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | UBDC Open House and Tour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of UBDC's launch week, we offered and Open House from 12pm - 2pm, offering an opportunity to drop-in and meet with Centre Staff and take an informal tour of our new premises at 7 Lilybank Gardens. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | UBDC Research Seminar: Research at the Urban Analytics Lab at the National University of Singapore |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Filip Biljecki - Assistant Professor in Geoinformatics at the National University of Singapore gave a presentation on the overview activities of the NUS Urban Analytics Lab, a multidisciplinary research group established by Dr Filip Biljecki, focusing on urban data science and 3D city modelling. The Lab is spearheading research lines such as new means to generate and analyse high-resolution data of the urban form and developing novel instruments to assess and support urban sustainability. For example, the group recently developed the first open registry of sustainable rooftops around the world, which will be presented in this talk UBDC research seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/research-at-the-urban-ana... |
| Description | UBDC Training Webinar: Doing Research on Data Uses, Needs & Capabilities with Local Authorities 15/06/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Drawing on an ongoing research project led by Dr Justine Gangneux and Professor Simon Joss of UBDC and in collaboration with the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government, this webinar discusses and shares learning on researching data uses, needs and capabilities with local authorities. https://urbanbigdatacentre.co.uk/media/2217/research-with-local-authorities-webinar-150621.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/doing-research-with-... |
| Description | UBDC Training Webinar: Exploring and analysing open transport data (with a focus on SCOOT data and bikeshare data) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this webinar, led by UBDC's Dr Chau Man Fung, we introduced some open transport data commonly used in transport research. We used two examples (Glasgow traffic counts and shared-bike availability and rental records) to demonstrate how to access the data using simple tools. In addition, we illustrated how these datasets relate to some UBDC research. The first example was a visualisation of changes in traffic counts over an extended period of time covering pre-lockdown to present. The second example was our study which takes the Glasgow Subway closure in July 2016 as a natural experiment to evaluate the effect of subway closure on bike-sharing trips. This webinar was aimed to help transport students, professional practitioners and the public explore open transport data and expand their usable datasets for research projects. The webinar attracted an international audience of over 100 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/exploring-and-analys... |
| Description | UBDC Training Webinar: Introduction to Adzuna Job Market Data 25/05/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this webinar, UBDC researchers provided an overview of how they intend to use the data and the Adzuna data owners will give additional background information and perspective about the creation of the data held on the 25th of May 2021. Adzuna is a new dataset available from the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC). Adzuna searches thousands of websites and brings together millions of advertisements on their website. Adzuna aims to be the most abundant classified ads site on the web. The dataset consists of full point-in-time snapshots with details of all advertisements listed on Adzuna's website. Content includes data about the job market, including job titles, full job descriptions, salary information, location, companies and contract types. The Adzuna data can be used to research changes in the job market. As UBDC will also facilitate access to data covering the period from 2017 until Spring 2022, the data can be used to analyse changes before, during and after COVID-19. There are many potential applications for the dataset. It can be used for analysis of new vacancies, overall vacancy levels, vacancies by region or job type. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/introduction-to-adzu... |
| Description | UBDC Training Webinar: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis Using Python Tools and Adzuna Data 03/06/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In this training webinar, the Adzuna dataset will be used to demonstrate how to perform typical GIS tasks in the Python environment. Following on from the Introduction to Adzuna job market data webinar, which took place on 25th May, this session will cover how to read and write spatial data, perform a simple geospatial analysis, create map and cartographic visualisations using GeoPandas and other Python geospatial libraries. Webinar link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhQe_Kpoaks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/introduction-to-geos... |
| Description | UBDC Training Webinar: Practical Approaches for Web Scraping for Research - Using Airbnb as an Example Data Provider 22/06/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Referencing UBDC's project and open-source software platform to scrape short-term-let data from Airbnb, this webinar provides practical guidance on how researchers, technologists and data scientists can approach web scraping, from the selection of online sources to the planning, conceptualisation, governance, risk management and implementation of technical approaches. Participants will receive practical training and code examples, developing an understanding not only of how scraping works but also how to systematise approaches to scale up data collection while avoiding common pitfalls. Throughout the session, a series of practical examples will cover data scraping using UBDC's established scraping method from Airbnb's online platform. Session format: The webinar included a series of short talks. These punctuated the main content of the webinar - a sequence of practical demonstrations with UBDC's web scraping platform being introduced, installed, configured and deployed. Following completion of this webinar attendees were able to: -Describe and latterly recreate within their own environment the installation, configuration and deployment of UBDC's open-source web scraping platform -Explain what web scraping means and describe the variety of approaches available -Outline the legal, ethical and data governance issues that must be considered when designing a web scraping project (including coverage of relevant intellectual property, c-contract and privacy law) -Summarise limitations on data use and sharing -Identify and select appropriate datasets for web scraping -Explain what an API (Application Programming Interface) is and query APIs to retrieve data -Explain how to negotiate technical barriers to scraping (including managing call limits and avoiding blacklisting) -Systematise, scale and optimise approaches, including planning for wide geographical or temporal data coverage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/practical-approaches... |
| Description | UBDC Training Webinar: Using Daily Airbnb Web Scraped Data to Provide Spatial and Temporal Understanding of Short-Term Lets Activity 24/06/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this training webinar, led by Dr Yang Wang and Dr Mark Livingston we introduced using daily Airbnb web scraped data to provide spatial and temporal understanding of short-term lets activity. http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/media/2227/using-airbnb-web-scraped-data-webinar-240621.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/media/2227/using-airbnb-web-scraped-data-webinar-240621.pdf |
| Description | UBDC Webinar: Triangulating Novel Mixed-Method Educational Data to Develop Effective, Evidence-Based Policy 28.09.21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Members of UBDC/School of Education's Educational Disadvantage & Place (ED&P) research group presented a webinar to over 20 participants on the use of data triangulation to create research impact for knowledge exchange and policy change. The webinar session illustrated how the ED&P group have employed a spectrum of complementary quantitative and qualitative methods to address educational inequalities, to inform the development of more effective policy solutions to the educational attainment gaps at all stages of life-long/life-wide education in Scotland and elsewhere. Our research involves multiple, large, diverse and/or novel linked datasets, facilitating the use of mixed-method approaches such as: 1) Novel data linkages 2) Multivariate regression 3) GIS mapping 4) Searchable Twitter dashboards 5) Lived experience interviews These were demonstrated with reference to three projects with demonstrable impact in academic, media and government policy domains: 1) Integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) as applied to adult learning and greenspace in Learning Cities 2) Gendered Journeys in Higher Education (inequalities in STEM) 3) Social enterprise partnerships (Food Train for older adults) The use of these diverse data strands illustrates the value of holistic and integrated solutions to Learning City issues and urban inequalities. In a subsequent discussion, participants engaged in exploring how policy briefs and social media coverage of their research could be developed to ensure it had great impact. Participants expressed their satisfaction with the thought-provoking content of the webinar and felt that the ideas would inform their work in future. Link to webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuVLVmVGJyA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/triangulating-novel-mixed... |
| Description | UBDC and CBDS Research Collaboration Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mirela Causevic, who visited UBDC for a 3 week fellowship, presented a session where she discussed work being carried out at Statistics Netherlands, mainly in the context of the CBDS - the Centre for Big Data Statistics. She described the findings from the exploratory project that she was engaged in during her visit leading to some comparisons of UBDC's UK-based travel and mobility data with official statistics and data resources available to CBDS in the Netherlands. The talk then provided the opportunity for more general discussion on possible directions for collaboration between CBDS and UBDC, and potential mutual research interests based on her knowledge gained through her brief visit here. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/corporate/2017/46/urban-big-data-center-glasgow-and-cbs-sharing-expertise |
| Description | UKRI Cross-cutting themes Infrastructure Roadmap Event - Andrew McHugh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Andrew McHugh, UBDC Senior Data Science Manager, attend the workshop on the 06/02/1/9 which was an opportunity to explore in greater depth a range of cross-cutting topics for UKRI research infrastructure which have been highlighted so far in discussions with stakeholders. These include issues around skills and training, data, interdisciplinarity, and working with government and business. Provided feedback on the work to date to help shape the final Roadmap report. This is due to be published in Spring 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UNESCO/PASCAL Observatory Webinar 'Learning Cities' COVID-19 recovery: from research to practice - The challenge of inclusion 17/06/20 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Mick Osborne, gave a presentation at the UNESCO/PASCAL Observatory Webinar 'Learning Cities' COVID-19 recovery: from research to practice - The challenge of measurement, planning, and evaluation on the 17th June 2020. Link to summary: https://uil.unesco.org/lifelong-learning/learning-cities/unescopascal-observatory-webinar-learning-cities-covid-19-recovery |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6_zxWuFVO4 |
| Description | UNESCO/PASCAL Observatory Webinar 'Learning Cities' COVID-19 recovery: from research to practice The challenge of measurement, planning and evaluation 08/07/20 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Lido hosted the UNESCO/PASCAL Observatory Webinar titled 'Learning Cities' COVID-19 recovery: from research to practice - The challenge of measurement, planning and evaluation, on the 8th July 2020. Link to summary: https://uil.unesco.org/lifelong-learning/learning-cities/unescopascal-observatory-webinar-learning-cities-covid-19-0 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ofcl5YEfw&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | Understanding Local Modelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Capacity-building training seminar on the concepts and processes for local modelling of spatial data. 'Understanding Local Modelling' was provided via our SASNet Fellowship Programme and consisted of two presentations from Stewart Fotheringham, Professor of Computational Spatial Science in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University. The seminar began with 'Local Modelling' - A short course introducing the importance of local modelling and when to choose such models and was followed by 'My model's bigger than yours' a lecture describing the speaker's ongoing research using two similar modelling types. An audience of around 30 were in attendance made up of transport and city planners as well as university researchers and students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2016/understandi... |
| Description | Understanding Urban Mobility During the Pandemic 27/05/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC colleagues gave presentations on a range of areas of work to capture urban mobility using new forms of data on the 27th of May 2021. The pandemic has brought an unparalleled focus on mobility in urban areas. Initially, the interest was in compliance with social distancing measures, then later in understanding transmission risks for the virus and guiding policies on easing restrictions. Looking ahead, the interest is shifting again to using mobility to provide rapid feedback on how cities are recovering - which areas and which activities bounce back, and which do not. Longer-term, a better understanding of mobility will be key to achieving more sustainable urban forms. Capturing mobility using conventional research methods is challenging. Big data from sensors and apps offers great potential but also many challenges. There are technical challenges in managing and analysing the volumes of data involved. At least as important, however, are the socio-legal challenges of securing access to data and the privacy issues raised by high precision locational information. And there are important ethical issues about the representativeness of different sources - whose activities, demands or perspectives are captured or amplified, and whose are omitted or marginalized. A number of private firms have provided public access to data and analyses, with Google and Apple offering near-global coverage for example, but we are unable to scrutinise or validate their methods and there is no guarantee of continuity. Valuable as these sources may be in the short term, they are not a substitute for a more public data infrastructure. This seminar, therefore, looks at a number of alternative approaches which have been employed over the last year to capture different aspects of mobility using big data. It reports on several strands of work conducted by the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) as well as work in the US using large-scale access to mobile phone data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/understanding-urban-... |
| Description | Understanding the Impacts of COVID-19 on the Glasgow City Region Economy - gauging impacts through big data? 06.05.2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog on understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on the Glasgow City Region economy - gauging impacts through big data? In this blog, which is reposted from the Policy Scotland website, Dr David Waite from Policy Scotland and UBDC's Dr David McArthur examine the economic impacts of COVID-19 in the Glasgow City Region & explore the potential for using local big data to fill the gaps in our understanding |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/may/understanding-the-impacts-of-covid-19-on-the-glasgow-city-... |
| Description | Uni Glasgow Urban Studies Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of research on Scottish deprivation measures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/research/faculty-research/social-exclusion-deprivation-and-crime/ |
| Description | Universitas 21 Seminar at University of Glasgow: Cities and Citizen Engagement in the Digital Age |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | "University of Glasgow: Cities and Citizen Engagement in the Digital Age, Seminar by UBDC Director, Prof Vonu Thakuriah to a large international audience of students. About Universitas 21 Summer School: The Universitas 21 Summer Schools for undergraduate students are an excellent way for students from all disciplines to come together to study and share ideas. Starting in 2004, the Summer Schools are still as popular as ever, and nearly all participants enthuse about the exciting and diverse range of people they have met, the shared experiences they have had and the challenging concepts they have discussed and developed. Each host chooses a theme to base the week of activtiy around and many take the opportunity to introduce a topic that is of importance to the host university, region or country, thus making it a culturally-relevant experience for foreign students and an opportunity for local students to gain international perspectives on "home" issues." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Universities Association of Lifelong Learning Annual Conference 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Catherine M. Lido presented on the work of the Educational Disadvantage and Place Research team at UBDC. She also gave a talk on 'Inclusion in Glasgow's Learning City: An investigation of older adult engagement in all forms of learning across the urban context', based on research done with the iMCD data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia - Konstantinos Ampountolas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Konstantinos Ampountolas, UBDC Associate Director for Industrial Engagement, attended a patient group workshop at the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, from the 2-6 July 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | University of Edinburgh's Administrative Data Research Centre Annual Retreat |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended and presented at this event: Transportation Policy Applications using Confidential Data Linkage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | University of Glasgow Big Data in the Social Sciences Workshop (Presentation by Prof. N. Bailey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk informed social sciences academics of the Urban Big Data Centre's plans and goals. Initial interest from some academics in engaging with the UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/events/bigdataworkshopjune2014/ |
| Description | University of Glasgow Digital District - Panel Discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior Business Manager Keith Dingwall attended this Panel on behalf of UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | University of Glasgow Knowledge Exchange and Impact Conference (UBDC held stall) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Opportunity for us to have a stand at the University KE and Impact conference on 5th October, opportunity to let the wider University community know who UBDC are and what we do. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | University of Glasgow Research Staff Conference 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The two main aims of this conference are to give people a chance to hear about research that's going on around the university and do some networking, and also to let them see an effective public engagement activity. UBDC attended to promote our data services to researchers in general, and the Glasgow in Motion app as an exemplar of public engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | University of Illinois at Chicago / NSF - Workshop on Big Data and Urban Informatics, 11-12 August 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talks and meetings sparked interest in new international collaborations with UBDC. Potential for several new international collaborations and MoUs arose. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://urbanbigdata.uic.edu/ |
| Description | University of Sheffield seminar by Prof. Pryce: The Union of Big Data and Social Science Research - if anyone objects to this marriage let them speak or forever hold their peace... |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Pryce led this seminar designed to promote and encourage engagement with big data in the social sciences at University of Sheffield - and promoted UBDC as well. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Urban Big Data Center Glasgow and CBS sharing expertise - Statistics Netherlands news item |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In 2017, Statistics Netherlands published this detailed online news article on their collaboration with UBDC (available in Dutch and English). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/corporate/2017/46/urban-big-data-center-glasgow-and-cbs-sharing-expertise |
| Description | Urban Big Data for Trusted Smart Statistics, Eurostat, Luxembourg - Konstantinos Ampountolas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Vonu Thakuriah, Director of UBDC, Konstantinos Ampountolas, UBDC Associate Director for Industrial Engagement, Andrew McHugh, UBDC Senior IT and Data Services Manager and Nikos Ntarmos Lecturer (School of Computing Science) attended a one day training programme to Eurostat officers on smart and trusted statistics on the 22.02.18. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Urban Collaboratories Workshop (Newcastle, UK) (Prof. G. Pryce and Jenny Ryall attended) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Pryce and Jenny Ryall attended workshop in Newcastle, networking on behalf of UBDC. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Urban Data Science Conference Session Organizer and Convener in the AAG 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | More than 100 AAG conference participants joined the AAG virtual urban data science session in April 2020 and we organized 6 talks for 2 sessions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202020/sessions-gallery/25255 |
| Description | Urban Data Science Conference Session Presenter, Organizer and Convener in the AAG 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | About 50 AAG conference participants joined the AAG virtual urban data science session in April 2021 and we organized 10 talks for 2 sessions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/Submissions/6/ViewSession?sessionId=27313 |
| Description | Urban Data Science Conference Session Presenter, Organizer and Convener in the AAG 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | About 50 AAG conference participants joined the AAG virtual urban data science session in April 2022 and we organized 5 talks for 1 session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://aag-annualmeeting.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/19/sessiongallery/2891 |
| Description | Urban Housing Markets After the Pandemic - A UK Perspective |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation at the ENHR - European Network for Housing Research Seminar 'Changing spatial preferences through Covid-19', titled Urban Housing Markets After the Pandemic - a UK perspective held on the 17th February 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Urban Informatics and Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This 90 minute capacity building course was delivered by Prof Vonu Thakuriah, Director of UBDC to an audience at the Business and Local Government Data Research Centre in Essex. The course described emerging sources of urban Big Data, and their use in Urban Informatics, along with the challenges that arise. It was attended by an audience of university researchers and students who were subsequently provided with research papers and further reading materials in the days following the course. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2016/urban-infor... |
| Description | Urban Studies Lunchtime Workshop (University of Glasgow) - Dr. David McArthur on Transportation Infrastructure as a Regional Policy Tool in Norway. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Lecturer Dr. David McArthur presented on transport in Norway. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/our-services/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2015/transportation-infras... |
| Description | Urban Studies Lunchtime Workshop (University of Glasgow): Experiments with a Venue-Centric Model for Personalised and Time-Aware Venue Suggestion (Dr. Craig MacDonald) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Craig MacDonald of UBDC's iMCD Project (based in Computer Science) presented this lunchtime workshop. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/our-services/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2015/experiments-with-a-ve... |
| Description | Urban Studies Lunchtime Workshop (University of Glasgow): From GPS trajectories to Spatial Interaction (Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Research Associate, Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka, presented this workshop in collaboration with the Urban Studies Dept. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/our-services/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2015/from-gps-trajectories... |
| Description | Urban Studies Lunchtime Workshop (University of Glasgow): Spatiotemporal Analysis of House Prices in Fife, Scotland, 2003-2012 (Dr. Jing Yao) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Lecturer, Dr. Jing Yao, presented this lecture in collaboration with the Urban Studies Dept. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/our-services/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2015/spatiotemporal-analys... |
| Description | Urban Studies Lunchtime Workshop: Sustainable Transport and ICT (UBDC PhD Students presented) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC PhD students, Chris Wu and Ashwini Venkatasubramaniam, will be presenting at the 5th October session of the Urban Studies Lunchtime Workshops. Their presentation will focus on Sustainable Transport and ICT: Implications from household survey data, and spatial-temporal methods of clustering for traffic data from heterogenous sources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Urban Studies Lunchtime Workshop: UBDC Data Service (Vonu Thakuriah presenting) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Director of the Urban Big Data Centre, Prof. Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah, will be presenting at the 16th November session of the Urban Studies Lunchtime Workshops. Her presentation will focus on the Urban Big Data Centre's data services. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Urban Studies Seminar: Travel Recommendations Using Social Media Images |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Popular photo-sharing Social media, such as Flickr, Panoramio and Instagram, provide a huge amount of geo-tagged images generated by users. The majority of these geo-tagged images record historic footprints of travellers accurately. The slides will present how to use Flickr geo-tagged images to measure popularities of tourism sites (landmarks) and streets. Furthermore, the slides will demonstrate how to make a travel recommendation comprised of two popular landmarks and the optimal route between them. Selection of the optimal route takes account of both the popularity and length of the route. Finally, potential of social media images for tourism research will be discussed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Urban informatics and ICT entrepreneurship for data-driven public transport planning and operations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Imperial College, London. Talk on 'Urban Informatics and ICT Entrepreneurship for Data-Driven Public Transport Planning and Operations'. Imperial College Centre for Transport Studies (CTS) Seminar Series, London, Nov. 19, 2014. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/engineering/cts/eventssummary/event_2-... |
| Description | Urban traffic congestion: store-and-forward modelling and mitigation approaches |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Co-I Kostas Ampountolas was invited to present on 'Urban traffic congestion: store-and-forward modelling and mitigation approaches' at the New Directions in Mathematical Approaches for Traffic Flow Management. Workshop III: Traffic Control, at the Institute of Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM), University of California, Los Angeles, October, 2015. http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/workshops/workshop-iii-traffic-control/ and https://mathinstitutes.org/videos/videos/2040 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/workshops/workshop-iii-traffic-control/ |
| Description | Use Environmental Data Responsibly Conference 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC researcher Professor Marian Scott, Professor of Environmental Statistics at University of Glasgow, will be speaking at this event organised by Environmental Protection Scotland (EPS) on the 08/10/18. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Using Cycling Flow Data to Analyse Injury Risk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Rachel Aldred, a reader in Transport at the University of Westminster, visited UBDC to talk about her research insights into cycling injury risk using data such as Strava. Rachel introduced the use of the case-control method to study cycling injury risk, comparing this to case-crossover approaches. After outlining some examples, she described her pilot case-control study of cycling injury risk in London in 2013-4, including dataset issues and results and then discussed strengths and weaknesses of the methods. Following the seminar, Rachel stayed in Glasgow to meet with research groups within UBDC and with UBDC's collaborators including the Centre for Population Health, Glasgow City Council and MRC to discuss possible next steps in the expansion of this research. Current plans are to develop some joint research proposals and pursue access to London Strava data via TFL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/outreach-plus-training/events-workshops-training-more/past-events-2017/using-cycli... |
| Description | Using New Forms of Spatial Big Data for Urban Mobility Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC's mobile phone data group were invited to give a presentation to the S&SR Environments and Spaces Group on using new forms of spatial big data for urban mobility research to a wide network of public health professionals. This talk was arranged to introduce and foster collaboration on the UBDC's mobile data collection for research into urban human mobility. The walk generated a large amount of interest in their new data sources and their future potential. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Using new forms of data to analyse cycling activity - October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is the webinar about the use of new forms of cycling data for cycling studies. It includes both presentation and tutorial sessions. Several questions were raised from different audiences with the increased data requests through UBDC channel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/online-learning/online-tutorials/interactive-data-dives/ |
| Description | Using spare CCTV capacity to monitor activity levels during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Blog about using CCTV pedestrian and vehicle counts to monitor changing activity in Glasgow City Centre |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/using-spare-cctv-capacity-to-monitor-activity-levels-du... |
| Description | VentureFest Scotland Innovation Summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior Business Manager Keith Dingwall attended this Summit to raise awareness of and network for UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/news/664-venturefest-scotland-2016-innovation-summi... |
| Description | VentureFest Scotland at Glasgow Science Centre (UBDC represented by Des McNulty) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | UBDC is one of the organisations featured at VentureFest Scotland at the Glasgow Science Centre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://s3.amazonaws.com/SmartsheetB1/3fdc5b930baf41caa87ce49cee50b9d7?response-content-disposition=... |
| Description | Venturefest Scotland 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Venturefest Scotland is a national business innovation summit designed to help high-growth SMEs and ambitious early-stage companies to grow through innovation. Taking place annually in September at the Glasgow Science Centre, the event connects business owners, entrepreneurs, investors and innovators and provides a platform for growing companies to find the tools, advice, funding and contacts they need to take their businesses to the next level. UBDC had a stand in the exhibition centre and spoke with dozens if not 100s of people, who also took UBDC literature and merchandise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://venturefestscotland.co.uk/ |
| Description | Video Series - Effective Models for Data-driven Collaborations Between Universities and Government (Building experiences with government data owners) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Urban Big Data Centre has built a strong track-record of closely working with UK, devolved and local government, delivering valuable data and analysis to support policy and practice in the governance of urban environments. We have produced a range of knowledge-sharing presentations, which aim to highlight the benefits of identifying opportunities for collaboration between academic researchers and local authorities on projects that utilise urban data. They also explain the need for effective models for cooperation, so that all parties can benefit from the potential rewards of these partnerships. In this session we explain how the Urban Big Data Centre provides access to data and other support through our data services. You will also hear about other opportunities to collaborate within the context of our wider programme of data-driven urban research. Presented by: Dr Andrew McHugh, Senior Data Science Manager, Urban Big Data Centre |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kusGRI0x62s&ab_channel=UrbanBigDataCentre |
| Description | Video Series - Effective Models for Data-driven Collaborations Between Universities and Government (Introduction) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Urban Big Data Centre has built a strong track-record of closely working with UK, devolved and local government, delivering valuable data and analysis to support policy and practice in the governance of urban environments. This short film highlights the benefits of identifying opportunities for collaboration between academic researchers and local authorities on projects that utilise urban data. It also explains the need for effective models for cooperation, so that all parties can benefit from the potential rewards of these partnerships. The video features commentary from: Professor Nick Bailey, Director, Urban Big Data Centre Kimberley Hose, Head of Business Intelligence, Glasgow City Council Dr Mark Livingston, Lead - Housing & Neighbourhoods, Urban Big Data Centre Professor Annette Hastings, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow Josie McGregor, Portfolio Manager, Economic and Social Research Council Morven Fraser-Walther, Programme Co-ordinator, College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OqQ6TTetLE&ab_channel=UrbanBigDataCentre |
| Description | Video Series - Effective Models for Data-driven Collaborations Between Universities and Government (UBDC and North Lanarkshire Council's exploration of access to public services in the digital age) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Urban Big Data Centre has built a strong track-record of closely working with UK, devolved and local government, delivering valuable data and analysis to support policy and practice in the governance of urban environments. We have produced a range of knowledge-sharing presentations, which aim to highlight the benefits of identifying opportunities for collaboration between academic researchers and local authorities on projects that utilise urban data. They also explain the need for effective models for cooperation, so that all parties can benefit from the potential rewards of these partnerships. In this session we explore how research on unequal access to public services can be brought into the digital age, comprising an analysis of data from within North Lanarkshire Council's customer relationship management (CRM) system, focusing primarily on environmental and maintenance provision. After watching this video you will have an understanding of how reported issues data reveal information about levels of demand and types of engagement and actions data offer perspectives on the Authority's responses, which may include provision of additional services or resources, or changes to policy or practice. You will also learn how people living in North Lanarkshire neighbourhoods will benefit from the work through improvement to their environmental quality. Presented by: Professor Annette Hastings, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow Dr Yang Wang, Research Associate, Urban Big Data Centre Nicole Paterson, Head of Environmental Assets, North Lanarkshire Council |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOnqXyWf0r8&ab_channel=UrbanBigDataCentre |
| Description | Video Series - Video Series - Effective Models for Data-driven Collaborations Between Universities and Government (UBDC & Glasgow City Council's CCTV Object Detection Project) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Urban Big Data Centre has built a strong track-record of closely working with UK, devolved and local government, delivering valuable data and analysis to support policy and practice in the governance of urban environments. We have produced a range of knowledge-sharing presentations, which aim to highlight the benefits of identifying opportunities for collaboration between academic researchers and local authorities on projects that utilise urban data. They also explain the need for effective models for cooperation, so that all parties can benefit from the potential rewards of these partnerships. In this session collaborators from Glasgow City Council and UBDC describe their efforts to apply novel image detection methods to data from Glasgow's existing CCTV network in order to automatically count pedestrians and vehicles. After watching this video you will have an understanding of how this project offers perspectives on mobility habits throughout the city, minimising costs and offering scalability across space and time. You will also learn how open count data enables researchers, the local authority and interested third parties to assess the impact of recent infrastructural developments within the city, and also helps inform subsequent investments. Presented by: Dr Mark Livingston, Lead - Housing & Neighbourhoods, Urban Big Data Centre Kimberley Hose, Head of Business Intelligence, Glasgow City Council |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uuQzyhFDdM&ab_channel=UrbanBigDataCentre |
| Description | Vonu Thakuriah Talk: Frontiers of Research on Urban Informatics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Association of American Geographers. Frontiers of Research on Urban Informatics. Chair of panel organized by AAG 2015 Symposium on CyberGIS for Fostering New Frontiers of Geographic Research and Education, Chicago, IL, USA, April 21, 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Vonu Thakuriah presents at Edinburgh International Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Vonu speaks at the festival on "Big Solutions in Big Data" - Audience ranges from 14 years + |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Wave Break Media Ltd Press Coverage: Pandemic spurs city data innovation in Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Wave Break Media Ltd Press Coverage press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://cities-today.com/pandemic-underpins-a-new-era-for-smart-city-data/ |
| Description | Web data affords desirable view of local rents - article in The National Statistical |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | After working with Zoopla data from the UBDC's data collections, Nigel Henretty of the ONS Public Policy Division wrote a blog post about his investigations into using this data to potentially compile official statistics on housing. This blog post was made available both on UBDC's blog and here on the ONS blog 'National Statistical: News and insight from the Office for National Statistics'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2017/10/13/web-data-affords-desirable-view-of-local-rent/ |
| Description | Webinar: Wake of Covid-19: Supporting Older People to Eat Well, Age Well & Live Well 05/10/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | During the UK Malnutrition Awareness Week showcases recent research by the University of Glasgow in partnership with Food Train / Eat Well Age Well around how older people are living and ageing. Catherine Lido gave a presentation at the Wake of Covid-19: Supporting Older People to Eat Well, Age Well & Live Well webinar, which was held on the 5th of October 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2HFYcyzHpA&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | Westminster Policy Forum - Transport in Northern Powerhouse |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior Business Manager Keith Dingwall attended this event on behalf of UBDC to gather information, network and raise awareness of UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Westminster Policy Forum event on Transport Strategy for London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior Business Manager Keith Dingwall attended on behalf of UBDC to network, gather information, seek potential data sources, and raise awareness of UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Why is segregation important and what causes it? (Plenary talk at the ESRC Summer School: Analysing Segregation: Applied Statistical Methods for Analysing Segregation & Inequality, 1-4 August 2017, University of Sheffield) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC University of Sheffield Co-Investigator, Prof Gwilym Pryce, gave this lecture as part of a summer school aimed at postgrads, policy researchers and professionals, explaining the theory behind some of the new methods developed, leading to deeper understanding of segregation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi/conferences-and-events/esrc-summer-school-analysing-segregation-ineq... |
| Description | Women in Tech Scotland Meet-up (Glasgow) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The first meetup of Women in Tech, Scotland gave a chance to hear from women working in a range of tech roles in Scotland and for discussion on topics, speakers and venues for future events. UBDC Senior Project Manager Sarah Currier presented on UBDC to raise awareness and attract new projects and data users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.meetup.com/Women-in-Tech-Scotland-Meetup/events/228521249/ |
| Description | Workshop at Alan Turing Institute (Led by Vonu Thakuriah) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Vonu leads a workshop on Urban Mobility and Big Data at the Alan Turing Institute in London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Workshop at Institution of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Jing Yao spoke) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The topic of the workshop is "Spatial-temporal Big Data and Advances in Geographical Information Sciences". My talk is "Spatial Analysis and Urban Big Data Research@UBDC, Glasgow". I'll introduce our centre and the research projects at UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Workshop at the International centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Marian presented at the International centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh, at a big data workshop: Marian Scott (University of Glasgow) The environmental 'data deluge' and statistical challenges it presents Adrian presented: Adrian Bowman (University of Glasgow) Modelling surface anatomy: lots of data, lots of structure |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.icms.org.uk/workshops/solvingbigdata |
| Description | Workshop on "Freight Transport of the Future", Mahidol University, TH |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Konstantinos Ampountolas, UBDC Associate Director for Industrial Engagement, presented UBDC in the workshop on "Freight Transport of the Future", jointly co-organised by NewRail, Newcastle University (NU) and Mahidol University (MU), Bangkok, Thailand from the 21-27 Jan 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eg.mahidol.ac.th/egmu_eng/news-events/events/155-researcher-links-workshop |
| Description | Workshop on Short Term Lets "Short-Term Lets - Big Data and Policy" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We organised a Seminar on the impact of Short Term Lets on the private rental market with the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence. It was attended by about 60 people, from a wide range of areas, including academia, policy makers, and practitioners. There were two presentations on the current evidence of the impact of STL on the private rental sector, one from Dr Agustin Cocola-Gant from the University of Leeds and one from Yang Wang a researcher at the Urban Big Data Centre. This was followed by a panel discussion with a panel including Ken Gibb from Cache, Dr John Boyle. and a Louise Dickens, representative of the Short Term Let community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/short-term-lets-big-... |
| Description | Workshop on data processing and analytics of smartphone and GPS data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UBDC researchers Yang Wang and David McArthur attended 'Workshop on data processing and analytics of smartphone and GPS data' held 11-12 September 2017 in Tartu, Estonia. They presented a paper on 'Understanding urban mobility using crowdsourced GPS data' and promoted UBDC through networking with participants and giving information about the Centre and its research and data services in their presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://geoeco.ut.ee/sites/default/files/geoeco/files/workshop_on_data_processing_and_analytics_of_sm... |
| Description | Workshop on the Analysis of Movement Data - International Conference on Geographic Information Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Research Associate, Dr. Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka, presented her research at the International Conference on Geographic Information Science in Montreal, Canada in September. Her presentation was part of the Workshop on the Analysis of Movement Data and focused on: A route map to calibrate spatial interaction models from GPS movement data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://giscience.geog.mcgill.ca/?page_id=258 |
| Description | Workshop on the use of data to support social justice policy analysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Associate Director, Prof. Nick Bailey, attended this event at the Government Office for Science representing UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Workshop to discuss the GLA's scoping study: Understanding social integration using digital and online data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Mark Wong attended a GLA event in London on behalf of UBDC on the 21 January 2019, to give feedback on their report on social integration measures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop: 'Using secondary administrative data to explore civil society' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | "In collaboration with Scottish Civil Society Data Partnership. In collaboration with Scottish Civil Society Data Partnership. Invited speaker tbc - ""The landscape of research opportunities with admin data"" {or similar background} Alasdair Rutherford (Univ. Stirling) ""Aspects of undertaking research with admin data"" Diarmuid McDonnell (Univ. Stirling) ""Administrative data resources on the Third Sector/Civil Society"" Networking/Review: Opportunities in using admin data as a TSO researcher Invited speaker tbc - Showcase: Civil Society Research based on administrative data Paul Lambert (Univ. Stirling) - Close/ discussion/reflections" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Workshop: People-centric Urban Management and Analytics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC researchers, Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka and Dr. Yashar Moshfeghi, presented at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Futures programme workshop on People-centric Urban Management and Analytics. The interdisciplinary workshop involves practitioners (planners), industrialists and academics who are interested to explore research questions and state-of-the-practice in this field, with the aim to provide inputs to the STFC Futures programme planning and decision-making as well as the RCUK urban living debate, which STFC is party to. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | iASSIST Annual Conference (Minneapolis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC Senior IT Manager, Mark Mitchell, presents at the IASSIST Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Wednesday, 3rd June. The topic of this year's conference is The Data Divide: Data in the International Context. Mark will be speaking in a session on Enabling Public Use of Public Data, drawing from the infrastructure and services provided by the Urban Big Data Centre. "Presented on our work today. It was well received and I have made further connections with the UKDS, Cornell University, MIT and Queens in Canada" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | iMCD Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "On the 12th April, UBDC researchers Dr. Mark Livingston, iMCD Programme Manager, and Research Associate, Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka (Sila), led an online webinar for over 30 participants about the UBDC's innovative integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) project. The webinar was hosted in collaboration with the UK Data Service as part of a series showcasing research using new and novel forms of data. The webinar consisted of a 30-minute presentation, in which Sarah King-Hele introduced Phase 2 of the Big Data Network and highlighted the research opportunities and potential of the data available through the Network. Mark and Sila continued by providing an overview of the iMCD Project: Linking multimedia city data. Participants then engaged in a Q&A with Mark and Sila. Attached is the participation list." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/imcd-data/ |
| Description | iMCD workshop - Mark Livingston |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mark Livingston, UBDC Lead - Housing and Neighbourhoods, gave a presentation to a variety of researchers from a broad selection of backgrounds on the iMCD project (one of the centres data sets ) on the 01.10.18. The purpose was to communicate the scope of the project and to indicate to users and potential users the possibilities from the innovative data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://pascalobservatory.org/pascalnow/pascal-activities/events/ubdc-data-workshop-series-integrated... |