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Interactive tools for making 'Big Data' make sense

Robin
March 05, 2015

Interactive tools for making 'Big Data' make sense

Slides for a presentation delivered to the Integrated Research Campus (IRC) at the University of Leeds: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/project/8CAD9E5F-46AA-4EFC-8408-859534B9B80F

Robin

March 05, 2015
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  1. Structure • A bit about me • Big data •

    AURIN • Department for Transport contract • Research impact • Discussion
  2. Various definitions • 1 Billion+ rows? • 3 or 4

    V’s? • Software needs? • Hardware needs? • Complexity?
  3. 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/
  4. Online policy planning tool we created for DfT contract •

    https://robinlovelace.shinyapps.io/fixMyPath/ • http://geo8.webarch.net:3838/pct-shiny/master/
  5. 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/
  6. 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?