The AMS Social Urban Data Lab (SUDL) is organizing the 1st European Seminar on Urban Data Science on December 4, 2017 at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS).
With modern-day cities comes a diverse array of geosocial big data from location-aware technologies. These range from sensing devices, GPS trackers, and satellites through to social media, mobile phones, fleeting transactions, as well as massive government and public data repositories. Together, they provide an exciting reflection of the human landscape. The more knowledge we can derive from geosocial big data, the better we can address real-world urban and regional challenges.
Urban data science is a burgeoning field that has emerged in support of new, geographically-focused computing and data science. It couples theories and methods from urban planning, geography, and computer science to capitalise on the increasing demand for efficient location-based services for cities and metropolitan regions.
The seminar brings together leading experts in the fields of quantitative geography, data science, computational social science, and urban planning, from both academia and practice, to discuss the present and future of (spatial) data science applications in urban and regional contexts.
Speakers
- Prof. Licia Capra (UCL, UK)
- Prof. Chris Brunsdon (Maynooth University, Ireland)
- Prof. Alex Singleton (University of Liverpool, UK)
- Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez (EPFL, Switzerland)
- Dr. Daniele Quercia (Head of Social Dynamics, Bell Labs, Cambridge, UK)
- Dr. Marco Helbich (Associate Professor, Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
- Ger Baron (CTO, Municipality of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
- Wouter van Dijk (Lead Designer at Clever Franke)
More information on the programme and registration is available on the SocialGlass website.