Transforming Urban Living with AI and Digital Twins
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When
Monday 11 November - Wednesday 13 November 2024
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Time
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Where
Senate Room, Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow
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This Turing Urban Analytics Meeting held in Glasgow will focus on Transforming Urban Living with AI and Digital Twins
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Healthy and equitable cities prioritise social inclusion and fairness for all its citizens by ensuring access to healthcare, clean air, green spaces, housing, education, transportation etc. There is a huge opportunity for leveraging AI and data science to create robust urban digital twins that can shape future sustainable urban planning, and work towards reducing health disparities and inequalities.
About the event
The Alan Turing Institute and the Urban Big Data Centre (Glasgow) will host the annual all-hands Turing Urban Analytics meeting at the University of Glasgow. Under the theme of Transforming Urban Living with AI and Digital Twins, this event will feature a combination of lightening talks, keynotes, panel discussions, and workshops.
This event offers the rare chance for this community of researchers to gather, especially for early career researchers; there will also be many opportunities to network and meet informally to enable future collaboration.
Dates
ECR pre-event session
1500 – 1800, Monday 11th November 2024
Main Workshop
0900 – 1730, Tues 12th November 2024
0900 – 1300, Weds 13th November 2024
Dates for receiving lightning talk abstracts: Friday 27th September
Decision communicated: Friday 4th Oct
Call for Lightning Talks
We would like to invite lightning talks on topics that falls within the theme of the workshop or on topics aligned with Urban Analytics more broadly. We particularly invite abstracts from PhD students and early career researchers.
Lightning Talks are as they sound; short, sharp and impactful. We’re looking for a range of speakers to present for around 5 – 7 minutes.
If you're interested in presenting a Lightning Talk, please apply during the registration process via Eventbrite. We will ask you for your proposed title and a short brief. The deadline for lighning talks is Friday 27th September.
Bursary
All participants can apply for travel and accommodation bursary in their registration application. Preference will be given to those presenting a lightning talk and early career researchers.
Provisional timetable
Monday 11th November
Pre-event session for ECRs and PhD students (in-person only, limited space available)
1500 – 1800: Panel discussions about early career development
1800 – 2000: Social and hang-out
Tuesday 12th November
0900 – 0930: Arrive, registration, refreshments
0930 – 1000: Welcome and introduction
1000 – 1100: Keynote 1
1100 – 1130: Break
1130 – 1230: Session A – Lightning talks
1230 – 1330: Lunch
1330 – 1430: Panel discussion
1430 – 1545: Session B: Lightning talks
1545 – 1615: Break
1615 – 1715: Session C: Lightning talks
1730 – 1830: University/Main Building tour (30 mins)
1900 – Dinner (venue tbc)
Wednesday 13th November
0900 – 1000: Keynote 2
1000 –1200: Workshop
1200 – 1230: Summing up and what comes next in UA
1230 – 1300: Lunch and departure
Organisers
This is a joint event between The Alan Turing Institute and the Urban Big Data Centre, Glasgow and your registration data will be accessed by both parties for the following purposes of travel fund, lightning talks. Decisions on lightning talks will be made jointly between the institutions, and decisions about travel bursaries will be made by The Alan Turing Institute.
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Training Resources
UBDC How to Guides - YOLOv4 Object Detection Model
In this guide, Data Analyst Maralbek Zeinullin shows you how to install and run customised YOLOv4 Object Detection Model using GPU.
UBDC How to Guides - Multimodal Transport Routing for the UK with R
In this two-part guide, Rafael Verduzco from the Urban Big Data Centre shows you how to analyse transport routing in the UK using travel-time matrices.
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UBDC How to Guides - Building a Time Series Chart
In this step-by-step guide, Andy Clarke from the Urban Big Data Centre shows you how to build a time series chart using React, D3 and Material UI.
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Short Term Lets - Big Data and Policy
A new licensing scheme for short-term lets came into effect in Scotland on 1 October 2022. Through the scheme, the Scottish Government aims to 'ensure consistent safety standards while reinforcing the positive reputation of Scottish tourism and hospitality'.
Public transport accessibility in Great Britain: An open dataset
Understanding how access to amenities by public transport varies across space is important in a wide variety of urban research, e.g., unemployment risks, property and land valuation, or gentrification issues.
UBDC Employment Data User Group webinar: Adzuna Jobs Listings data
This event, led by Heather Sinclair (UBDC Information Services Officer), focussed on Adzuna job listings data and is relevant for current and prospective users of the Adzuna dataset.
Triangulating Novel Mixed-Method Educational Data to Develop Effective, Evidence-Based Policy
UBDC has 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 education.
Practical approaches for web scraping for research
The web offers deep insights into people’s beliefs, opinions, transactions, movements and many other aspects of their lives. For social science academics and data scientists, the UK’s legal environment provides opportunities to capture these data at scale in service of research goals.
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