13 October 2014, launch at 3pm, Woodward Conference Centre, Level 10 Law Building, University of Melbourne, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton
- Can Townsville secure the water and power to needed sustain a doubling in population?
- Where are the hotspots for mortgage stress and the locations of affordable housing in Sydney?
- What makes a walkable neighbourhood in Perth?
- Can we plan new suburbs that work for residents, councils, and developers in our major cities?
- What makes Melbourne the “world’s most liveable city”?
- How can employment issues be managed in Adelaide as the industrial sector restructures?
A new national urban intelligence initiative is giving researchers, planners and policy-makers access to the numbers to answer these questions. AURIN, the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network, gives access to thousands of data sets—from Australian Property Monitors (Domain.com.au) to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, from Geoscience Australia to city councils. It allows researchers to jump in and ask big questions of big data without first spending years getting access to the data. Making sense, visualising and mapping big data will be made easier through AURIN’s online analytical tools.
This $24 million Australian Government research infrastructure investment will be launched by Dr Ron Sandland, AO and Mr David Gray, Chair of AURIN. [Read more…] about Big data for urban intelligence