21st century cities as
platforms for development
qualicidades seminar/ rio de janeiro / 2016
ricardo alvarez / senseable city lab / mit
[i] work here
Urban imagination and
social innovation through
design & science
1900 / .23 BN
2011 / 3.6 BN
2050 / 6.3 BN
un world urbanization prospects 2012
Forms of traditional settlement
Organic Gridded
conceptual
space
real space
physical
space
industrial post-industrial information knowledge
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1985 2015
digital sensor
an electronic or electrochemical
sensor, where data conversion and
data transmission are done
digitally.
- microphone
- camera x 2
- fingerprint
- capacitive multi-touch panel
- photometer
- proximity
- gps sensor
- magnetometer
- accelerometer
- 3-axis gyroscope
- barometer
- wireless
5,000,000,000 GB
48 HOURS
- 2003
Source: Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt
(http://http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/schmidt-data/)
Symbol from The Noun Project collection.
data particular
context
scale
t
personal
urban
…high quality
visualisations
designer research
engineer
data scientist software
developer
+ + +
1st order 2nd order
vs.
26 million streetlights
in the United States 64
MSE of inter frames thermal values variations
MSE of inter frames thermal values variations
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dele
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Training: R=0.98
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Target NO2
Mo
dele
d N
O2
Validation: R=0.55
30 40 50 60
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35
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45
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Target
Mo
dele
d N
O2
Test: R=0.84
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od
ele
d N
O2
All: R=0.82
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