Data Science for the World of Moving Things

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Dr Damon Wischik - Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
• Wednesday 08 February 2017, 16:15-17:15
• Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact David Greaves.

Trains, buses, taxis, cars, deliveries. These exist in three networks simultaneously: the physical network of roads and train lines, the data network of sensing and analytics and control, and the social network of people who make use of them.

I will tell the story of a data science startup, where my colleagues and I spent five years making sense of these networks. We started with incentive schemes, paying and persuading commuters to shift their habits. We moved on to dashboards and full-resolution reconstruction of the transit network, to see where there was congestion and whom we needed to target. We built a new type of database, for rich and high-speed processing of spacetime data; and we designed a visual querying language to make the system accessible to urban planners and transit agencies. And, in the end, we joined the Google Maps team.

We learnt some hard lessons about how to interact with data visually and tangibly. I believe that over the next decade it will become easy to understand and argue with big datasets, as easy as Excel is today; and I will discuss the way ahead.

This talk is part of the Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• All Talks (aka the CURE list)
• Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)
• Cambridge talks
• Chris Davis' list
• Department of Computer Science and Technology talks and seminars
• Graduate-Seminars
• Guy Emerson's list
• Interested Talks
• Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory
• School of Technology
• Trust & Technology Initiative - interesting events
• Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology
• bld31
• computer science
• ndk22's list
• ob366-ai4er
• rp587
• se393's list

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.