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Writing for impact: how to craft papers that will be cited
For the past few years I’ve co-taught a professional development course for doctoral students on completing a thesis, getting a job, and publishing. The course draws liberally on a book I co-wrote...
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Big Data Series: Critical Analysis of the Irish Big Data Skills Report
Introduction to a series of blog posts on big data: By Tracey P. Lauriault, Programable City Project. My area of research on the Programmable City Project examines how digital data materially and...
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Mapping Openness and Transparency
by: Tracey P. Lauriault I attended the European Regional Meeting of the Open Government Partnership at the Dublin Castle Conference Centre in May of this year. The meeting was a place for performance...
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Hailo, Uber and the deregulation of Ireland’s taxi industry
This afternoon’s black cab blockade of London comes in response to car ride apps that are changing the character of the city’s taxi industry. While there has been little visible backlash against...
View ArticlePredictive analytics in the city
Predictive analytics is a way of responding to and taking advantage of historical and emerging, large datasets by using “a variety of statistical, modeling, data mining, and machine learning...
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Outsmarting the Smart City
In May 2014 Ubisoft released a new computer game called Watch Dogs. Having sold over 4 million copies in the first week of sales it is tipped to be the game of the year. In the game, Chicago City is...
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Hacking for Transport Apps
Buses in real time As part of the Programmable City project, some of our research involves looking at hackathons, hack nights, and their role in city governance. Hackathon’s are increasingly being...
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Sketching the Open Data Landscape in Ireland
by: Tracey P. Lauriault Note – I have received some feedback since last night and have updated the post accordingly. Thanks to those who provided it! The Republic of Ireland, Department of Public...
View ArticleDigital Geography
Last Friday I acted as a discussant for three sessions (no. 1, no. 2, no. 3) on Digital Geography presented at the RGS/IBG conference in London. The papers were quite diverse and some of the...
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Wearing the Self
The world (or just fanboys) will soon be waiting with baited breath as Apple launches its entry into the wearable technology market with the release of the iWatch. Apple’s HealthKit interface With the...
View ArticleHype, hubris, hope, heads in the sand, and some very cool stuff: A report on...
A chunk of the Programmable City team attended the Web Summit in Dublin last week. I was fortunate to be asked to MC the Machine Stage for Tuesday afternoon (on smart cities/smart cars), and also...
View ArticleOpening up smart cities: A report on the Smart City Expo World Congress
A couple of weeks ago I attended the Web Summit in Dublin, a large, tech entrepreneur event (my observations on the event are posted here). This week I spent three days at the Smart City Expo World...
View ArticleAyona Datta, ‘Fast Cities: New Utopias of Smart Urbanism in India’
A few weeks ago Ayona Datta, a senior lecturer in “Citizenship and Belonging” at the University of Leeds, spoke to an audience in Maynooth about the emergence of smart urbanism in India and the...
View ArticleDreaming about the Cloud in rural Ireland
Late last week I, and many others I would presume, were left further behind in the digital era at the stroke of a pen. What my monthly bill cheekily termed broadband was officially no longer! In fact I...
View ArticleIndustrial Heritage: Software enabled preservation of dispersed and fragile...
Developments in software and digital technology have had wide ranging impacts on our leisure time, from movies on demand on our mobiles, internet on public transport and the ‘selfie’ saturated world...
View ArticleTowards geographies of and produced by data brokers
Today, Rob Kitchin participated in a panel session on spatialized information economies at the Association of American Geographers in Chicago, organized by Jeremy Crampton and Agnieszka Leszczynski....
View ArticleThe politics and praxis of urban data: Building the Dublin Dashboard
Earlier today Rob Kitchin presented a paper jointly written with Gavin McArdle and Sophia Maalsen at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Chicago titled: The politics and praxis of urban...
View ArticlePopulation, automation and the death drive of capitalism
Two of the plenary sessions at this year’s Association of American Geographers meeting in Chicago (April 21-25) — Heidi Nast’s Dialogues in Human Geography forum and Paul Robbins’ Progress in Human...
View ArticleOpen data talks at Dublinked event
On Thursday two members of the ProgCity team – Rob Kitchin and Tracey Lauriault – presented at the Open Data Summit organized by Dublinked. Rob presented a paper entitled ‘Open data: An open and shut...
View ArticleDublin as a smart city?
The soft launch of Smart Dublin, a website showcasing the city’s foray into becoming a smart city, was launched in October. It has been accompanied by the four local authorities actively collaborating...
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