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City Analytics - Professor Peter Grindrod CBE

Alan Turing Institute via YouTube

Overview

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Explore city analytics with Professor Peter Grindrod CBE in this 40-minute talk from the Alan Turing Institute. Delve into scaling laws, graphs, and functional equations as they apply to urban environments. Examine citizen multiplexes, smart city concepts, and political data science. Learn how Twitter data and country-specific information contribute to understanding urban dynamics. Discover the mathematical foundations behind comparing different citizens and creating safe spaces within cities. Gain insights from Grindrod's extensive experience in mathematics R&D, environmental sciences, and retail analytics as he bridges academic research with real-world applications in city planning and analysis.

Syllabus

Introduction
Cities are the same
Scaling laws
Graphs
Disjoint unions
Functional equations
Semigroup properties
Citizen multiplexes
Comparing different citizens
Approximations
Smart City
Political Data Science
Twitter Data
Data for Countries
Safe Spaces

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Alan Turing Institute

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