Future Cities Hackathon London

Talks

• "Dog fouling, parking violations, anti social behaviour - more interesting than ultra smart sensors???"
• Open data is

1. available raw
2. in modifiable form
3. redistributable
4. can be re-used
5. anyone can access
6. is free

• "We have to be aware that the data scientists at the hack day can analyse the info freely to come up with patterns, scenarios or conclusions outside of our control"

• Future Cities Catapult is funded by Technology Strategy Board - organiser of this event
• Catapult's main role sounds like it is neutral, matching projects to funding and grants, finding spaces, cleaning up data, making datasets available, etc

• NEUL - paul egan - "do machines dream of their own network?" - machine-2-machine communication, frictionless IoT / NaaS Network as a Service / Sensor deployment
• in 2013 the OeD has added IoT into the dictionary.
• Internet of Things: "A proposed development of the internet in which everyday objects have network connectivity, allowing them to send and receive data."

Datasets

• https://dslfuturecities.hackpad.com/Data-Science-London-Future-Cities-Hackathon-5th-6th-October-oRdxVEBocjZ
• http://lsir.epfl.ch/research/datasets/datafusion/

submission

• projects@datasciencelondon.org
• name of team
• brief desc solution
• send code + links + github
• sunday 1pm

• #hackfc