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Rhythmanalysis of Urban Events: Empirical Elements from the Montreux Jazz Festival

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Lucien Jean Delley, Nils Hamel

This article proposes an original approach to urban events mapping. At the theoretical level, the article is based on rhythmanalysis and recent research on urban rhythms. It contrasts with previous research by departing from everyday rhythms to tackle the ...

2020

Time- and Space-Efficient Spatial Data Analytics

Mirjana Pavlovic

Advances in data acquisition technologies and supercomputing for large-scale simulations have led to an exponential growth in the volume of spatial data. This growth is accompanied by an increase in data complexity, such as spatial density, but also by mor ...

EPFL2019

A Method for Converting Current Data to RDF in the Era of Industry 4.0

Damiano Nunzio Arena, Ioannis Tourkogiorgis

In the past two decades, the use of ontologies has been proven to be an effective tool for enriching existing information systems in the digital data modelling domain and exploiting those assets for semantic interoperability. With the rise of Industry 4.0, ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

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The very shallow geothermal potential (vSGP) is increasingly recognized as a viable resource for providing clean thermal energy in urban and rural areas. This is primarily due to its reliability, low-cost installation, easy maintenance, and little constrai ...

SPRINGEROPEN2019

Macroecology in the age of Big Data - Where to go from here?

Recent years have seen an exponential increase in the amount of data available in all sciences and application domains. Macroecology is part of this "Big Data" trend, with a strong rise in the volume of data that we are using for our research. Here, we sum ...

2019

Introduction to the Swiss Data Custodian

Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss, Olivier Verscheure

Trust in the use of sensitive data is not nearly widespread. Even though there is no shortage in tools and methods to address the digitisation of our society and industries, the acquisition and access to non-open data represent the greatest challenge. In t ...

2019

Architecture in the Data-driven City

Frederick Peter Ortner

In the last ten years, new sources of urban big data have made it possible for algorithms to increasingly control how the city is perceived, understood and managed by its inhabitants; this is the data-driven city. New efforts in the social sciences, like ...

EPFL2019

Privacy - Preserving Data Exchange and Aggregation in Healthcare

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Medical data are often scattered among multiple clinics, hospitals, insurance companies, pharmacies, and research institutions that store and process personal healthcare information. The use of information and communication technologies for health (eHealth ...

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Understanding building occupant activities at scale: An integrated knowledge-based and data-driven approach

Andrew James Sonta

Buildings are our homes and our workplaces. They directly affect our well-being, and they impact the natural global environment primarily through the energy they consume. Understanding the behavior of occupants in buildings has vital implications for impro ...

2018

Interactive Visual Exploration of Spatio-Temporal Urban Data Sets using Urbane

Anastasia Ailamaki, Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou, Haoqiong Bian

The recent explosion in the number and size of spatio-temporal data sets from urban environments and social sensors creates new opportunities for data-driven approaches to understand and improve cities. Visual analytics systems like Urbane aim to empower d ...

2018