The Urban Big Data Centre in collaboration with the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research and Administrative Data Research Centre for Scotland, hosted a 1-day event on Tuesday 29th November 2016 to showcase Scotland's research strengths, support services and opportunities in cross-sectoral data linkage.

Yeran Sun, UBDC Research Associate will be attending the #NSMNSS / SRA Conference as a speaker on 11 October in London.  He will be presenting ‘How to use R and QGIS to find out tourism hotspots in cities’. His presentation will focus on how to use open source tools to identify tourism attractions in cities from photo-sharing social media Flic...

The next PASCAL International Conference will be held at the University of Glasgow this June: Learning Cities 2040 - Global, Local, Connected, Sustainable, Healthy and Resilient. It will focus on future directions for Learning Cities at a time of considerable challenge and opportunity for cities, with significant development in their role and c...

This event is being held for members of PASCAL’s Learning Cities Network as a prelude to the 13th annual PASCAL conference. It will allow 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), a major investment o...