Urban data and city dashboards: Six key issues

Kitchin, Rob

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“…Similarly, Kitchin [ 115 ] explains urban dashboards as digital, physical or mixed interfaces that allow users to actively or passively interact in urban data monitoring and management in order to improve understanding of urban systems. Kitchin and McArdle [ 116 ] and Petit and Leoa [ 117 ] describe urban dashboards as platforms that use dynamic and interactive graphic interfaces, maps, 3D models, augmented reality, bar charts, and so on, to support urban decision-making with the aim of monitoring, analyzing and interpreting performance and trends of cities. Thus, the sensor city is generally accepted as a digital platform where users are completely immersed.…”

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Understanding Sensor Cities: Insights from Technology Giant Company Driven Smart Urbanism Practices

D’Amico

L’Abbate

Liao

et al. 2020

Sensors

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The data-driven approach to sustainable urban development is becoming increasingly popular among the cities across the world. This is due to cities’ attention in supporting smart and sustainable urbanism practices. In an era of digitalization of urban services and processes, which is upon us, platform urbanism is becoming a fundamental tool to support smart urban governance, and helping in the formation of a new version of cities—i.e., City 4.0. This new version utilizes urban dashboards and platforms in its operations and management tasks of its complex urban metabolism. These intelligent systems help in maintaining the robustness of our cities, integrating various sensors (e.g., internet-of-things) and big data analysis technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence) with the aim of optimizing urban infrastructures and services (e.g., water, waste, energy), and turning the urban system into a smart one. The study generates insights from the sensor city best practices by placing some of renowned projects, implemented by Huawei, Cisco, Google, Ericsson, Microsoft, and Alibaba, under the microscope. The investigation findings reveal that the sensor city approach: (a) Has the potential to increase the smartness and sustainability level of cities; (b) Manages to engage citizens and companies in the process of planning, monitoring and analyzing urban processes; (c) Raises awareness on the local environmental, social and economic issues, and; (d) Provides a novel city blueprint for urban administrators, managers and planners. Nonetheless, the use of advanced technologies—e.g., real-time monitoring stations, cloud computing, surveillance cameras—poses a multitude of challenges related to: (a) Quality of the data used; (b) Level of protection of traditional and cybernetic urban security; (c) Necessary integration between the various urban infrastructure, and; (d) Ability to transform feedback from stakeholders into innovative urban policies.

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Understanding Sensor Cities: Insights from Technology Giant Company Driven Smart Urbanism Practices

D’Amico

L’Abbate

Liao

et al. 2020

Sensors

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“…We suggest that the 'dashboard' has become a primary technology of government like cartography, anatomy and charts. Their ubiquity for governing cities has been studied (Kitchin et al, 2015;Kitchin and McArdle, 2018;Mattern, 2015). However, for all the seemingly accurate cartographic representations that dominate publicly available visualisations about the coronavirus pandemic such as those showcased on the Johns Hopkins University dashboard, all that they have offered, especially in early 2020, are fairly basic data and statistics mapped onto national borders (Johns Hopkins University, 2020).…”

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The birth of sensory power: How a pandemic made it visible?

Isin

Ruppert

2020

Big Data & Society

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Much has been written about data politics in the last decade, which has generated myriad concepts such as ‘surveillance capitalism’, ‘gig economy’, ‘quantified self’, ‘algorithmic governmentality’, ‘data colonialism’, ‘data subjects’ and ‘digital citizens’. Yet, it has been difficult to plot these concepts into an historical series to discern specific continuities and discontinuities since the origins of modern power in its three major forms: sovereign, disciplinary and regulatory. This article argues that the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 brought these three forms of power into sharp relief but made particularly visible a fourth form of power that we name ‘sensory power’, which has been emerging since the 1980s. The article draws on early studies of power by Michel Foucault, subsequent studies on biopower and biopolitics that expanded on them, and studies in the past decade that focused on data produced from apps, devices and platforms. Yet, despite its ambition, the article is inevitably an outline of a much larger project.

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“…Therefore, visualizations have been widely used to outline and describe datasets as they effectively expose and communicate the structure, patterns, and trends of data and interconnections between them. City dashboards utilize visual analytics that incorporate interactive graphics (e.g., gauges, bar charts, and graphs), mapping components, 3D models, and enhanced landscapes to display information on city performance, structure, patterns, and trends [11][12][13]. Key data on city resources relating to urban services and infrastructure, transport, energy, security, health, water, society, economy, environment, population, and many other components are displayed on a single screen, updated as new data are fed into the database.…”

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Triangulum City Dashboard: An Interactive Data Analytic Platform for Visualizing Smart City Performance

Farmanbar

Rong

2020

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Cities are becoming smarter by incorporating hardware technology, software systems, and network infrastructure that provide Information Technology (IT) systems with real-time awareness of the real world. What makes a “smart city” functional is the combined use of advanced infrastructure technologies to deliver its core services to the public in a remarkably efficient manner. City dashboards have drawn increasing interest from both city operators and citizens. Dashboards can gather, visualize, analyze, and inform regional performance to support the sustainable development of smart cities. They provide useful tools for evaluating and facilitating urban infrastructure components and services. This work proposes an interactive web-based data visualization and data analytics toolkit supported by big data aggregation tools. The system proposed is a cloud-based prototype that supports visualization and real-time monitoring of city trends while processing and displaying large data sets on a standard web browser. However, it is capable of supporting online analysis processing by answering analytical queries and producing graphics from multiple resources. The aim of this platform is to improve communication between users and urban service providers and to give citizens an overall view of the city’s state. The conceptual framework and architecture of the proposed platform are explored, highlighting design challenges and providing insight into the development of smart cities. Moreover, results and the potential statistical analysis of important city services offered by the system are introduced. Finally, we present some challenges and opportunities identified through the development of the city data platform.

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Urban data and city dashboards: Six key issues

Cited by 30 publications

References 21 publications

Understanding Sensor Cities: Insights from Technology Giant Company Driven Smart Urbanism Practices

Understanding Sensor Cities: Insights from Technology Giant Company Driven Smart Urbanism Practices

The birth of sensory power: How a pandemic made it visible?

Triangulum City Dashboard: An Interactive Data Analytic Platform for Visualizing Smart City Performance

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