Fabien Girardin from the Near Future Laboratory presented a talk titled Sketching with urban data at the Smart City World Congress in Barcelona.
"I could not help but contribute to the congress with my experience on the field in making urban data work. My discoursed focused on the necessity to treat data as a living material that must be crafted and manipulated at the different stages of knowledge and service production. I name that “sketching with data” and as with any creative work with digital technologies, it comes with tools and an undisciplinary process. Here are the slide deck + notes of my talk:"
"The process of innovating with urban data demands several clear steps, each with their own set of questions and answers: From the data access and collection techniques, that feed data to obfuscations algorithms and big data management systems that are interrogated by basic data mining operation or advanced statistical inquiries. Information visualization techniques are then used to build evidences and indicators used to interrogate further the data"
A PDF of the presentation with notes can be viewed here: http://www.girardin.org/fabien/presentations/girardin_smartcity_expo_2011_final.pdf
