Complex Insight - Understanding our world

A predictive data analytics team in the Mayor's Office of New York City has been quietly using data science to find patterns in regulatory data that can then be applied to law enforcement, public safety, public health and better allocation of resources. In a good interview Michael Flowers explains why applying data science to regulatory data is necessary to use city resources better. This is the other aspect of smart cities - better analytics and models informing policy and practise. Worth readig. Click on the image or headline to learn more

Totally awesome blog by James Chesire and co  at UCL CASA on spatial analysis and geo data visualization. Worth reading and learning from. Learn more...

When you build traffic models and simulations of cities and economic development, you build a natural affinity to systems that use individual data contributions to define the big picture. INRIX does this for accurate traffic data  and its awesome. See  how it works...