The Rewards and Risks of Big Data: Urban Seminar Panelists Discuss the Open City

The inaugural IOC Urban Seminar, The Open City, examined a key question facing urban communities: How can cities take the massive influx of raw data, turn it into knowledge, and turn that knowledge into a better city?

Speakers from Boston University, Northeastern University and the City of Boston, explored the ways in which big data can be leveraged to improve the very communities from which it originates. Sucharita Gopal (Professor of Earth & Environment, BU),  Nigel Jacob (Executive in Residence at Boston University; Co-Founder, New Urban Mechanics), and Dan O’Brien (Director of Research at the Boston Area Research Initiative and Assistant Professor at Northeastern), participated in a moderated discussion led by Seminar Co-Chair Nathan Philips….MORE.