Project: Integrated data visualisation and decision making solutions to forecast and manage complex urban challenges

Acronym	UrbanData2Decide (Reference Number: 4099940)
Duration	01/09/2014 - 31/10/2016
Project Topic	In an increasingly complex environment, cities and urban areas have to continuously deal with unprecedented challenges. Therefore, one of the most important tasks of city governments is to be aware of new challenges, problems and conflicts and to identify them when making operational or strategic decisions to prevent serious damage or disruption. Still lacking in this context are modern solutions, which make use of state of the art technology to support local governments in this demanding task. This project will explore the potential of such tools by designing an integrated and multi-dimensional model that combines vital information sources. These sources will be mainly comprised of public social media content and open data libraries. Building on these information pools a high-performance monitoring framework to process, filter and combine these data will be developed. The framework will extensively use data mining, sentiment analysis and visualization techniques and lead to the development of a proof-of-concept demonstrator to present the output using intuitive and clear dashboards. This technical solution will be complemented by an expert module where, once key topics and challenges have been identified by the automated mechanisms, input from external experts can be added to the system.
Network	JPI Urban Europe
Call	JPI Urban Europe 2nd Call

Number	Name	Role	Country
4099940	SYNYO GmbH	Coordinator	Austria
4116035	Zentrum für Soziale Innovation	Partner	Austria
4116101	University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute	Partner	United Kingdom
4149988	Malmö University - Dept. of Urban Studies	Partner	Sweden
4152598	Open Data Institute	Partner	United Kingdom
4162544	IT University of Copenhagen - Research Department	Partner	Denmark