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D/Public Expenditure and reform, Government Buildings, Merrion Street, Dublin 2
Conference Room 0.2, South Block2.00pm, Wednesday 11 February 2015
Tracey P. Lauriault and Rob Kitchin Programmable City Project, NIRSA, Maynooth University
Open Data SeminarDepartment of Public Expenditure and
Reform
What can be done with Open Data?
Table of Contents
• Programmable City project• Data Management• 2 data use case examples• Transit • Homelessness
• All Island Research Observatory (AIRO)• Dublin Dashboard
The Programmable City
• A European Research Council (ERC: €2.3m) and Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI: €200k) funded• SH3: Environment and Society • Team of 11 researchers• 1 PI; 4 Pd Researchers; 5 PhD students
• Key themes: smart cities, software, ubiquitous computing, locative media, big and open data
• Primary site: Dublin; Secondary site: Boston • 5 years (started June 2013)
MIT Press 2011 Sage 2014
Aim of the ERC project is to build off and extend a decade of work
that culminated in Code/Space book (MIT Press) with a
set of detailed empirical studies
Aim
Objectives
How is the city translated into software and data? How do software and data reshape the city?
Translation:City into Code/Data
Transduction:Code/Data Reshapes
City
THE CITYSOFTWARE
Discourses, Practices, Knowledge, Models
Mediation, Augmentation, Facilitation, Regulation
Sub-Projects
Translation:City into code & data
Transduction:Code & data reshape
city
Understanding the city
(Knowledge)
How are digital data materially & discursively supported & processed
about cities & their citizens? (Tracey, PdR)
How does software drive public policy development
& implementation? (Bob /Aoife PhDs)
Managing the city
(Governance)
How are discourses & practices of city governance
translated into code?
How is software used to regulate & govern city
life? (Jim, PhD)
Working in the city
(Production)
How is the geography & political economy of software production
organised? (Alan, PhD)
How does software alter the form & nature of
work? (Leighton, PdR)
Living in the city
(Social Politics)
How is software discursively produced &
legitimated by vested interests? (Darach, PhD)
How does software transform the spatiality &
spatial behaviour of individuals? (Sung-Yueh,
PdR)
Creating the smart city Dublin Dashboard (Gavin, PdR)
Data Management Framework
Jeff Pitot de La Beaujardière, Data Management Architect at NOAAhttps://geo-ide.noaa.gov/wiki/images/9/97/Wksp3-201208_Interagency_NOAA-DM-Architecture_DeLaBeaujardiere.pdf
Public Transit Conversation
Privatizing public transport from the periphery to the centre?
• Data Sources• Dublin Bus routes considered for privatisation - 23 Dublin Bus & 5 Bus Éireann routes• CSO/AIRO maps at small area & electoral division to examine what public is served by
public transport• Data Sets:
• Population by social class – professional workers, skilled manual labour• Private Car Ownership• Deprivation Index
• Analysis• Core – periphery analysis of bus route privatization• Examine demographics of ‘orbital’ areas served by proposed privatised bus routes• Effects of frequency of service delivery to different populations
• Limitations• Absence of route-specific passenger load data
Eoin O’Mahony, Assistant Lecturer SPD/DCU & Omar Sarhan, GIS and data enthusiasthttps://irelandafternama.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/privatizing-public-transport-from-the-periphery-to-the-centre/
Transit & Demographic Data
Eoin O’Mahony, Assistant Lecturer SPD/DCU & Omar Sarhan, GIS and data enthusiasthttps://irelandafternama.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/privatizing-public-transport-from-the-periphery-to-the-centre/
Transportation Applications
http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/rtpi/sources-of-real-time-information
http://www.apps4ottawa.ca/en/apps/68
“In Transit” part of the Cabspotting program run by the Exploratorium, using data from Yellow Cab and
visualisations Stamen Design - See more at: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/12/26/m
apping-infrastructure-and-flow/#sthash.qar3OcMV.dpuf
Homelessness
• Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE) - Research and Data Advisory Committee (RDAC)• Housing Agency• DRHE• Public Health• Focus Ireland• School of Social work and
Social Policy TCD• Programmable City, NUIM• School of Business, TCD• HSE
Network of Decision makers• Homelessness Oversight
Committee• National Homeless Consultative
Committee• Dublin Joint Homelessness
Consultative Forum• 2016 Census Advisory Committee• Department of the Environment,
Community and Local Government
• Local Authorities/HSE • Charitable organizations• Housing and service providers...more
Data collection
http://www.homelessdublin.ie/pass
http://www.dublincity.ie/official-street-count-figures-rough-sleeping-winter-
2014-across-dublin-region
http://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2011reports/
homelesspersonsinirelandaspecialcensus2011report/
Data dissemination
http://www.environ.ie/en/DevelopmentHousing/Housing/SpecialNeeds/HomelessPeople/
http://www.environ.ie/en/DevelopmentHousing/Housing/SpecialNeeds/HomelessPeople/
Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness
“https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Pilot+Atlas+of+the+Risk+of+Homelessness
All-Island Research Observatory
• Spatial data portal and consultancy specializing in evidence-based planning
• Been operating since 2005 (initially as CBRRO)• Interactive mapping & graphing modules both
North/South
Partnership & Funding
• Developed (Start 2013): • The Programmable City project• All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO)
• Partnership:• Dublin City Council
• Funded:• European Research Council • Science Foundation Ireland• 2 years of funding (spread over 3 years)
The Dublin Dashboard includes:• real-time information • time-series indicator data • & interactive maps about all aspects of
the city
Benefits:• detailed, up to date intelligence about
the city that aids everyday decision making and fosters evidence-informed analysis.
Freely available data sources:• Dublin City Council• Dublinked • Central Statistics Office • Eurostat• government departments • links to a variety of existing
applications
Produced by:• The Programmable City project• All-Island research Observatory (AIRO)
at Maynooth University• working with Dublin City Council
Funded by :• the European Research Council (ERC)• Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
Why produce a Dublin Dashboard?
• To answer the following questions:• How well is Dublin performing?• What’s happening in the city right now?• Where are the nearest facilities to me?• What are the patterns of population, employment,
crime, housing, etc in the city?• What are the future development plans?• How do I report issues about the city?• How can I freely access data about the city?
Logic & principles
• Provides practical, useful, accessible city intelligence to public, government and companies to aid everyday decision making, evidence-informed debate, and policy formulation
• Pull together data about all aspects of the city – including real-time info - from as many sources as possible (e.g., DCC, Dublinked, CSO, Eurostat, govt depts)
• Select data that are: • systematic and continuous in operation and coverage• timely and traceable over time
• Data displayed through an analytical dashboard that uses interactive data visualisations that require no a priori knowledge to use
• Produced as a platform that leverages existing resources and encourages new app development.
• The data are open for others to use and re-work.
• How’s Dublin Doing?• Dublin Indicators and benchmarking
tools• Dublin Real-Time
• Real-time data from sensors across Dublin
• Dublin Mapped• Detailed Census maps for 2006 &
2011 Census, crime, live register• Dublin Planning
• Zoning and planning permissions• Dublin Near To Me
• Maps of location and nearness to public services, area profiles
• Dublin Housing• Maps of housing, house prices and
commuting patterns• Dublin Reporting
• FixMyStreet, CityWatch, FixMyArea• Dublin Data Stores
• Access to all data used in the dashboard
• Dublin Social (in progress)• Maps of social media activity
• Dublin Modelled (in progress)• Modelling and scenario tools
• Dublin Apps (in progress)• Directory of apps relevant to Dublin
• Have Your Say (in progress)• Feedback from users
Next steps
• The Dashboard is extensive, but far from finished• It is an on-going project and we are working on:• adding more real-time data• extending indicator/benchmarking data and mapping modules• opening up more datasets and encouraging new data
generation, more geo-referencing of data, and better ways to share data (APIs, machine-readable)
• adding new modules: city snapshot, social media, modelling (needs investment), links to city apps
• translating for mobile platforms (e.g. tablet/smartphone apps)• encouraging others to leverage data and add new apps
• We’re interested in working with any interested parties to help develop Dashboard further or to implement it for different places
www.dublindashboard.iehttps://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/p
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@ProgCityAcknowledgements
Programmable City project research is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Investigator award (ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY).
"Great cities embrace the data ... they are not defensive about it ... they improve" Louisville Mayor, Greg Fischer