What Exactly is Big Data?

How can we begin to better understand and explain what big data is? Everyday we read in newspapers and social media the words ‘big data’ as it applies to businesses and systems of analysis and data aggregation. While it may seem like a marketing ploy, a critical approach to…

Business Intelligence: Making Data Deliverable

Citizens Take the Lead in the Evolution of Smart Cities

The concept of a smart city is no longer just an idea. More and more cities have adopted and adapted new technologies to improve and enhance the way in which we live. Challenges facing cities are tangible: aging infrastructure, rapid…

Clustering location history records: How and Why

Motivation

If you have an Android phone with location services turned on, whenever your phone is connected to the Internet it sends location history records to Google’s servers, one per minute. This is true of…