Interactive tools for making 'Big Data' make sense

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Robin Lovelace Researcher, CDRC Interactive tools for making 'Big Data' make sense @robinlovelace, CDRC Researcher

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Structure • A bit about me • Big data • AURIN • Department for Transport contract • Research impact • Discussion

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Where I'm coming from

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Where I've been (UK)

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Thesis: Geography of transport energy use

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Australia trip

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Wollongong http://smart.uow.edu.au/events/UOW186628.html

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Canberra

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Melbourne

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What is Big Data?

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Various definitions • 1 Billion+ rows? • 3 or 4 V’s? • Software needs? • Hardware needs? • Complexity?

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AURIN • http://aurin.org.au/ http://aurin.org.au/

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Coastlines in 3000 AD? http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-map

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DfT contract Spatial microsimulation applied to transport modelling problems. See Lovelace et al. (2014) http://www.cedar.iph.cam.ac.uk/research/modelling/npct-tool/

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Modelling!

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Online policy planning tool we created for DfT contract • https://robinlovelace.shinyapps.io/fixMyPath/ • http://geo8.webarch.net:3838/pct-shiny/master/

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Research Impact Some examples online: • Datashine: http://datashine.org.uk • Flows: http://commute.datashine.org.uk/ • Decc tools: http://2050-calculator- tool.decc.gov.uk/, http://my2050.decc.gov.uk/ • DfT tool I'm building! http://geo8.webarch.net:3838/pct- shiny/master/

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NREL Transportation Secure Data Centre http://www.nrel.gov/transportation/secure_tr ansportation_data.html

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Discussion Can we leverage interactive online visualisations for public engagement and impact? What do we need to do so? Who will do it? What do we need to 'skill up' in? Server capacity? Technologies?

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Thanks! @robinlovelace