Category Archives: Big Data

Complexity-Aided Design

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Michael Batty

“In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin. It will use the Internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its sensations. This skin is already being stitched together….. “. This comment from Harvard’s Cherry Murray, Dean of Engineering … Continue reading →

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Disruption in Large Transit Systems

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Michael Batty

Jon Reades and myself gave a talk at ECCS on how we are using our Oyster Card data to simulate disruptions to the London tube system. Added Richard Milton’s real time tube and bus data and presented our ideas at … Continue reading →

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Visualisation and Visual Analytics

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Michael Batty

Gave a talk today to the Market Research Society’s meeting on “Generating Value from the 2011 Census: How business can benefit from the new free Census data”. The talk was a compilation of ideas developed by Ollie O’Brien, Steven Gray, … Continue reading →

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