So welcome to section five and
this is an introduction to open data. And
in this section, I'll be introducing you to the promises the
realities and the roles of open data in your city and
what security risks a present.
So in this section 5.1. I'm
going to be introducing to the concepts and solutions of open
data and it's important to recognize that there's no shortage of data.
So globally. There we are collecting more than 9,000 exabytes
this year alone and much of the data
ends up wasting away in Black boxes. So
cities really need to start sharing data to
create new applications and solutions to solve some
of these major Urban problems.
So 90% of the world's data was created last two years.
It's a bold statement, but let's have a look.
So, here we are. Looking at the time
again, is the x axis. In this case. The y axis is
the volume and exabytes. And
you see just in the last 10
years alone. It's ruined 50 times as
much and most of the data,
the data is being collected, of course, is our from
the divided up into two sensors and devices. Social
media, of course is a big one, voiceover
IOP.
And Enterprise data. So there's a lot of
data that's being collected created and
stored. It's important now that maybe
we can start structuring that data in
a way that you can actually make it more purposeful.
So, one of the biggest data dilemmas that cities have right now, I
have personally is the usability
of the data. So very, very crudely. Speaking.
Most of the data today is underutilized. So
these are just fun facts for
everybody that just the percent of all the data is
ready for use in only 16, .05
Point. 0.5
is actually used for analysis
and that's, that's shameful.
Considering the amount of data that's available. Secondly,
the the data is unsupported. So there
are actually lots of old systems
that don't know how to support the data off of
the data, in an API, or some sort
of dashboard a platform. And it's
the data isn't useful in
the sense because it's outdated, outmoded,
and therefore needs a lot of time to curate
it in a way that has some degree of
Quality. And lastly unstructured.
So it's a horrible reality
check, but most of this data that is
does exist in as City, Hall's is
just made up of PDFs Excel sheets and Word Documents and
that's not really usable for the
types of platforms that we can be building for
tomorrow's future city.
So over the last 10 years, he's in government agencies, are offering more
and more non-protected data, in a way that
can be accessed seamlessly online. So,
this is an important kind of statement where
you see this kind of clear trend for cities to
start, not just creating data
using but offering the data to
be used in and manage the data. In a
way that local businesses institutions,
science groups research.
Is entrepreneurs, can use and that's where things get really
excited.
So let's ask the question, what is open data? And
it's important to kind of have this
discussion because open data means
that it should be open and accessible to everyone open
data should be by everyone and for everyone,
we dive a bit deeper,
so if we look at some definitions,
the data is electronically
accessible. Without any restrictions in a format that can be
processed by any other computer.
Applications is called open data. So
in other words, the public anyone has
access to the data and
can also create a kind of a service, or
application that connects that data, those machines talking to
machines that have access
to the city's data that it's reliable trustworthy.
And therefore can make some
really killer solutions to help solve many
cities problems.
So let's maybe get into some of the key characteristics of open
data. The data needs to be complete. So
the data sets do not have any missing values or
tables or properties in painter. Complete
picture that the the data has
been sourced from a original location and not edited or
modified in any form such as the primary data
timely. This is maybe the
Holy Grail of data. So it's kind of a real time data
set that we
Access to its accessible
ideally without any subscription, or
accounts that you can just download
the data as a dump or
put or connect to the data stream and
real-time data. And once you can do that, of course, maybe the
machines can process the the data. So
there's you know, popular formats like
Jason and others that can actually
produce new analysis or
Relations based on the data non-discriminatory.
That means that that any of
the there aren't any kinds of specific
fees or rights its
license free. So we're not
targeting. We're not making this only available to certain groups that
it's available to everybody, likewise not proprietary city
data. A lot of it is by us
for us as mentioned. So people shouldn't be governments,
especially should not be
Ettore making it into,
in any land, intellectual Properties, or proprietary,
kinds of conditions, and it's
license-free again, so that it's
not subject to any trademark patent or trade regulations
that is just free and
open. And these are, these are kind of core characteristics
of open data.
So the data itself is one thing but how
it becomes accessible is a different matter. There's
two kind of mean ways of doing that one. Is it? You have a
kind of dashboard. I kind of shop where
the cities can offer the data in a portal. It's
a One-Stop kind of shop to offer lots
of different types of important data
sets for the public, whether it be about safety, Budget,
Transportation health safety, but
There's an overview of what's available to people
and your city should have one of these as
the second one is an API. So, an
application programming interface, these allow third-party solutions
to safely and effectively connect
to the different data sets. And
these are kind of mostly used for energy Mobility health
and safety kinds of situations where
the real-time data can create actionable insights.
Whether they be in the form of
Triggers or alert systems or
Point systems reward systems. The
apis have become super important to build
new applications. On top of that
rely heavily on the availability of
this city data.
Why do we need open data? So
as I just mentioned with good, apis in
good data portals or webshops our
data, the shops exchange
places sees can start producing new
products and solutions.
I think it's important to be honest with
one another and there's real harsh reality check for
cities not all cities are
as mature as a damn as all kind of give
you some examples later on. But because
for obvious reasons, they're struggling with money or time
or resources to address these problems and
data isn't really kind of up there
in terms of priorities. So a
lot of times the smallest
He's or the poor cities. Won't
allocate the resources needed to share
those insights and in facts and evidence
about what's going on the city. And
that's a Pity. But I
think that open data. There's no, it's never
too early to open the first data set for your own
City.
So here are four basic principles how
you can help your city opened up their data and
the first principle is transparency. So
when you, when the data is open, this is participate
with the government's in terms of the decision making
processes. So sometimes as the government sharing
Insight, sometimes it's the citizens themselves providing
data, but you get rid of all
these kinds of emotional subjective discussions about, what
needs to be fixed, what needs to be changed.
And you go to write to the data and you can analyze that you
can replicate that and that becomes that neutralizes all
the arguments. The second one is maybe
collaboration. So when it's one
of these reliable and trustworthy, you can create whole
new products and services when you connect to that the
dataset and therefore, create a kind of more robust and
healthy collaboration model. The trust
is also super important because it becomes more transparent and
the relationships between the government, the people
Becomes more strong. And that
is very important, especially in these days, when everything
is so devices. And everything is fake news that
sometimes you need some facts
and evidence to back up your arguments. And
when citizens in the governments can do that together, you
establish a great Bond and that is trust and
and insights again. These are the
data that you're sharing, prove can be visualized. They
can be shared that can be replicated.
It and this becomes important for
a whole Litany of different stakeholders and
the public alight alike. And this goes into the policy-making to
how to create a better City.
So what happens when your city makes data
available? Here are six common examples of how
you and others can
use open data. So data Lakes is
a wonderful literally at reservoir of huge data
sets that can be accessed. Perhaps even
mixed and mash to create whole new insights. The
data can be used in simulations modeling
or visualization kinds of exercises to
Straight new kinds of concepts for City
officials are designers prediction modeling super
important in the research, especially
for example during pandemics. You
can see how health can
affect the public spaces. So prediction modeling
super important, artificial intelligence and machine
learning models. Again, the data can be used
to train these systems, become even
more intelligent and the data visualization.
In is again a way to help explain what's going
on in and around our cities, super important and
data analytics, which is obviously
one of the kind of most
important parts of the research for cities to you.
Once they have the data they can actually start performing huge
types of projects that
really dive deep into the into the data and
can start making it more informed decisions.
So, per usual, it's good to give some
examples of what kinds
of data is available to cities and
therefore, to the public data can
be used for administration. So
again, end of the year reports and Analysis, the
Mobility data can help betray,
you know, help the traffic managers become more.
Efficient and effective and sharing
things like timetables and ticketing, and things like
that. Smart ticketing for that matter. Help, tremendously tourist,
tourism data helps. Some
of these older City's historic cities deal with these the
popularity of tourists coming very cheaply
from abroad and the data
can share Trends and statistics. Another
key insights. I
use I use data for planning.
There's a lot of key data that we can find here in terms of
the allotments, the status
of ownership, the size of
the buildings themselves, maybe build years and those
become really crucial. And I'll talk about the
one of these examples. The next, the
next section environments, again, little
bit of iot, but certainly the
data tells a story about plant Health
biodiversity climate change models.
Social services. So how are
our communities doing data? Can paint a very clear
picture about how education culture and
politics play in different neighborhoods during
pandemics. Super important data is
the only thing that's beating the pandemic right now. So sharing that data is super
important commercial Commerce. So
in other words in comes market, trends sales
cycle, a sales types and
those things really do.
Help understand how healthy our
cities financially, and yeah.
Again, Finance itself. These are
the historic and future budgeting
type sizes, and growth analysis for cities to
better plan, and govern themselves.
So let's move on to some
concrete examples of open Data Solutions in the next section.