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. Refreshments and snacks will be available during a break from the meeting between 6:45pm - 7:15pm in the a...

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 this May. Abstract In a smart city environment, c...

Advances in information technologies are opening new ways to approach research and policy analysis for cities and regions. This is being driven in part by what is now referred to as ‘big data’ and also by the emergence of policies that are championing the ‘creative commons’ and ‘open data’. Harnessing the opportunities presented by these innova...

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.