Hacking the Smart City
13 November 2013
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CASA held its first hackathon on 7-9 Nov at UCL as part of ESRC’s Festival of Social Science and the Talisman project. CASA researchers Steven Gray, Richard Milton, Ed Manley and James Cheshire were part of a team that led seven smart city challenges. These challenges were tackled by teams of 4 to 10 people each, which included the development of a well-being indicator for the city of London; analysis of big data on cycling; mapping Twitter data; the development of a flood alert system; mobile gaming in the city; new functionality for Pigeon Sim; and a portal for the NHS that brings together multiple data streams.
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Participants learned a range of new skills, made new contacts and were exposed to the kinds of technologies and visualisations that represent ongoing research in CASA.
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The code and solutions developed at the hackathon will be made available via the hackathon Google Group:https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/casa-hackathon. Join to find out more.
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