Urban Analysis for the XXI Century: Jornadas BigDataCyL 2013

URBAN ANALYSIS FOR THE XXI

CENTURY:

Enrique Frias-MartinezTelefonica Research, Madrid, Spain

[email protected]

Smart Cities have been recently pointed by experts as an emerging market with enormous potential, which is

expected to drive the digital economy forward… “The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states, the 21st century will be a century of cities”

Wellington E. Webb, former mayor of Denver

Unprecedented Historic Moment

Digital Footprints For the first time in human history, we have

access to large-scale human behavioral data at varying levels of spatial and temporal

granularities

Collecting large volumes of real data about human urban

behavior is a challenging yet high value problem

Call Detail Records

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URBAN 1-4km²

Big Data Sources

City Modelling

Robust Land Use Characterization

of Urban Landscapes using Cell Phone Data

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Cluster 1: Industrial & Offic e

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Cluster 2: Business & Commerc ial

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Cluster 3: Nightlife

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Cluster 4: Leisure & Transport

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Cluster 5: Residential

Combining mobility and social Networks

City Modelling

Estimating Commuting PatternsUsing Pervasive Infrastructures

OD Matrix

Can we estimate thew OD Matrix with the pervasive infrastructure provided by TEF?

Problem Formulation

Data: October 2009

Mobility and Natural Disasters