I had an interesting experience contributing to a publication for The Journal of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee – All-Party Parliamentary Group, communicating the potential of geographic data science for policy making and the some of work we have done at the Geographic Data Science Lab (GDSL).
I use digital footprint data from Meta Facebook to identify the patterns of population displacement in Pakistan in near-real time.
We describes a dataset which introduces the concept of functional signatures - contiguous areas of a similar urban function delineated based on enclosed tessellation cells (ETC) - and applies it to the area of Great Britain
This paper develops the notion of “open data product”.