Professor Nick Bailey, Associate Director of the Urban Big Data Centre will be speaking on 'Using data to identify and tackle society problems'. His presentation will explore how: Big data presents exciting opportunities for policy makers and social researchers interested in understanding and addressing societal problems. But it is policy an...

UBDC Director Professor Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah will chair a session at the AAG 2015 Symposium on CyberGIS for Fostering New Frontiers of Geographic Research and Education. Session: Frontiers of Big Data and Urban Informatics A suite of panel and paper sessions will address new frontiers of geographic research and education enabled by cut...

UBDC Director, Professor Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah, will present on 'Big Solutions in Big Data' at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

UBDC researcher, Dr Catherine Lido, will be representing Professor Mike Osborne and presenting the work of the Integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) project and its links with financial literacy at the Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference.