Category Archives: Big Data

The Israel Pollak Lectures at Technion

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Michael Batty

This past week I have been giving the Israel Pollack distinguished lecture series at Technion in Haifa, the School of Architecture and Town Planning, talking about smart cities and big data (PDF here), and rank clocks and scaling (PDF here). … Continue reading →

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TechniCity: The Course Begins Again

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Michael Batty

The second version of this online course starts on 26th February. Register here. I posted a comment when the course began and that is still relevant. Click for this. There is a shortish neat manual that tells you about last … Continue reading →

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Science and the City 2014

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Michael Batty

Science and the City is an annual weekend-long hackfest, co-organized by NYU’s ITP, the Interactive Telecommunications Programme, and CUSP, the Center for Urban Science and Progress. The theme is citizen science for exploring and improving our urban environment. Some of … Continue reading →

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