In an age of data-driven urban science, we need to remember how Jane Jacobs gave voice to the multiple languages, meanings, experiences and knowledge systems of a vibrant city.
How can we get more doctors using better data?
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Analyzing electronic data from many doctors’ experiences with many patients, we can move ever closer to answering the age-old question: what is truly best for each patient?
Don’t just look where the streetlight shines.
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Big data studies often use easily available user-generated data from the Internet. Researchers assume that this data offers a window into reality. It doesn’t necessarily.
Genomes don’t translate easily into an understanding of disease.
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Improving data quality and accessibility will provide an important platform for business, policy innovation and academic research.
The ‘Lose Yourself in Melbourne’ ad was onto something: instead of being directed to the fastest or shortest route, some people might want to take a diverting detour.
'It's Easy to Lose Yourself in Melbourne', Tourism Victoria
If smart cities run on big data and algorithms that channel only ‘relevant’ information and opinions to us, how do we maintain the diversity of ideas and possibilities that drives truly smart cities?
The ABS has announced that it will retain the names and addresses collected in the 2016 Census.
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By linking censuses through time or by combining other information with the census, many more important policy questions can be answered than if we used one dataset alone.
Computers are getting better and better at the jobs that previously made sense for researchers to outsource to citizen scientists. But don’t worry: there’s still a role for people in these projects.
Scientists today are inundated with data.
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Political campaigns today are presented as products of bottom-up participation, not top-down direction. But even if a campaign appears grassroots-driven, it’s likely to be run from the centre.
Traffic jams in cities, such as this one in Atlanta, have economic costs, including lower productivity.
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