GGRA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Smart City, Big Data, Geocoding
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Ggra03: lecture 8 - data - social media, big data, and smart city" environments. Key term #1 & #2 - public and private spaces: Public spaces: tend to be shared" spaces that exist outside the domestic sphere that anyone can access and occupy, regardless of age, gender, or socioeconomic status. Private spaces: are understood as places of property and family. It involves implementing a variety of networked information technologies to improve city services ranging from public transit to water and sewer services in order to enhance residences" use of the urban environment. Some examples of smart city infrastructure include: Data sensors on streetlamps to measure road conditions and weather, which can be used to alert individual residents of the conditions on their walk to work. Remote sensors on garbage bins used to alert solid waste collectors. Big data: refers generally to the extremely large data sets that are produced through our daily activities.
