scholarly journals Big Data Analytics in Australian Local Government

Smart Cities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 657-675
Author(s):  
Richard B. Watson ◽  
Peter J. Ryan

Australian governments at all three levels—local (council), state, and federal—are beginning to exploit the massive amounts of data they collect through sensors and recording systems. Their aim is to enable Australian communities to benefit from “smart city” initiatives by providing greater efficiencies in their operations and strategic planning. Increasing numbers of datasets are being made freely available to the public. These so-called big data are amenable to data science analysis techniques including machine learning. While there are many cases of data use at the federal and state level, local councils are not taking full advantage of their data for a variety of reasons. This paper reviews the status of open datasets of Australian local governments and reports progress being made in several student and other projects to develop open data web services using machine learning for smart cities.

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (02) ◽  
pp. 119-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude E. Concolato ◽  
Li M. Chen

As an emergent field of inquiry, Data Science serves both the information technology world and the applied sciences. Data Science is a known term that tends to be synonymous with the term Big-Data; however, Data Science is the application of solutions found through mathematical and computational research while Big-Data Science describes problems concerning the analysis of data with respect to volume, variation, and velocity (3V). Even though there is not much developed in theory from a scientific perspective for Data Science, there is still great opportunity for tremendous growth. Data Science is proving to be of paramount importance to the IT industry due to the increased need for understanding the insurmountable amount of data being produced and in need of analysis. In short, data is everywhere with various formats. Scientists are currently using statistical and AI analysis techniques like machine learning methods to understand massive sets of data, and naturally, they attempt to find relationships among datasets. In the past 10 years, the development of software systems within the cloud computing paradigm using tools like Hadoop and Apache Spark have aided in making tremendous advances to Data Science as a discipline [Z. Sun, L. Sun and K. Strang, Big data analytics services for enhancing business intelligence, Journal of Computer Information Systems (2016), doi: 10.1080/08874417.2016.1220239]. These advances enabled both scientists and IT professionals to use cloud computing infrastructure to process petabytes of data on daily basis. This is especially true for large private companies such as Walmart, Nvidia, and Google. This paper seeks to address pragmatic ways of looking at how Data Science — with respect to Big-Data Science — is practiced in the modern world. We also examine how mathematics and computer science help shape Big-Data Science’s terrain. We will highlight how mathematics and computer science have significantly impacted the development of Data Science approaches, tools, and how those approaches pose new questions that can drive new research areas within these core disciplines involving data analysis, machine learning, and visualization.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.21) ◽  
pp. 335
Author(s):  
R Anandan ◽  
Srikanth Bhyrapuneni ◽  
K Kalaivani ◽  
P Swaminathan

Big Data Analytics and Deep Learning are two immense purpose of meeting of data science. Big Data has ended up being major a tantamount number of affiliations both open and private have been gathering huge measures of room specific information, which can contain enduring information about issues, for instance, national cognizance, motorized security, coercion presentation, advancing, and healing informatics. Relationship, for instance, Microsoft and Google are researching wide volumes of data for business examination and decisions, influencing existing and future progression. Critical Learning figuring's isolate odd state, complex reflections as data outlines through another levelled learning practice. Complex reflections are learnt at a given level in setting of all around less asking for thoughts figured in the past level in the dynamic framework. An indispensable favoured perspective of Profound Learning is the examination and culture of beast measures of unconfirmed data, making it a fundamental contraption for Great Statistics Analytics where offensive data is, everything seen as, unlabelled and un-arranged. In the present examination, we investigate how Deep Learning can be used for keeping an eye out for some essential issues in Big Data Analytics, including removing complex cases from Big volumes of information, semantic asking for, information naming, smart data recovery, and streamlining discriminative errands .Deep learning using Machine Learning(ML) is continuously unleashing its power in a wide range of applications. It has been pushed to the front line as of late mostly attributable to the advert of huge information. ML counts have never been remarkable ensured while tried by gigantic data. Gigantic data engages ML counts to uncover more fine-grained cases and make more advantageous and correct gauges than whenever in late memory with deep learning; on the other hand, it exhibits genuine challenges to deep learning in ML, for instance, show adaptability and appropriated enlisting. In this paper, we introduce a framework of Deep learning in ML on big data (DLiMLBiD) to guide the discussion of its opportunities and challenges. In this paper, different machine learning algorithms have been talked about. These calculations are utilized for different purposes like information mining, picture handling, prescient examination, and so forth to give some examples. The fundamental favourable position of utilizing machine learning is that, once a calculation realizes what to do with information, it can do its work consequently. In this paper we are providing the review of different Deep learning in text using Machine Learning and Big data methods.  


Author(s):  
Damminda Alahakoon ◽  
Rashmika Nawaratne ◽  
Yan Xu ◽  
Daswin De Silva ◽  
Uthayasankar Sivarajah ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin C Chou ◽  
Abel Torres-Espin ◽  
J Russell Huie ◽  
Karen Krukowski ◽  
Sangmi Lee ◽  
...  

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major unsolved public health problem worldwide with considerable preclinical research dedicated to recapitulating clinical TBI, deciphering the underlying pathophysiology, and developing therapeutics. However, the heterogeneity of clinical TBI and correspondingly in preclinical studies have made translation from bench to bedside difficult. Here, we present the potential of data sharing, data aggregation, and multivariate analytics to integrate heterogeneity and empower researchers. We introduce the Open Data Commons for Traumatic Brain Injury (ODC-TBI.org) as a user-centered web platform and cloud-based repository focused on preclinical TBI research that enables data citation with persistent identifiers, promotes data element harmonization, and follows FAIR data sharing principles. Importantly, the ODC-TBI implements data sharing at the level of individual subjects, thus enabling data reuse for granular big data analytics and data-hungry machine learning approaches. We provide use cases applying descriptive analytics and unsupervised machine learning on pooled ODC-TBI data. Descriptive statistics included subject-level data for 11 published papers (N = 1250 subjects) representing six distinct TBI models across mice and rats (implementing controlled cortical impact, closed head injury, fluid percussion injury, and CHIMERA TBI modalities). We performed principal component analysis (PCA) on cohorts of animals combined through the ODC-TBI to identify persistent inflammatory patterns across different experimental designs. Our workflow ultimately improved the sensitivity of our analyses in uncovering patterns of pro- vs anti-inflammation and oxidative stress without the multiple testing problems of univariate analyses. As the practice of open data becomes increasingly required by the scientific community, ODC-TBI provides a foundation that creates new scientific opportunities for researchers and their work, facilitates multi-dataset and multidimensional analytics, and drives collaboration across molecular and computational biologists to bridge preclinical research to the clinic.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 220
Author(s):  
Prakoso Bhairawa Putera ◽  
Rostiena Pasciana

This article aims to investigate the trend of scientific publications under ‘big data and policy’ research during the last two decades, including the dynamics of the network structure of researchers and the institutions. Bibliometrics is utilized as a tool to reveal the dynamics of scientific discussions that occur through articles, published in international journals indexed/contained in the Scopus database; meanwhile, the analysis visualization is performed by using VOSviewer 1.6.16. The search results indicate that the United States serves as the country of origin for most productive author affiliations in publishing articles, the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) serves as the home institution for most productive author affiliations, and Williamson, B., from the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom), is considered as the most prolific writer. In addition, the Swiss Sustainability Journal from MDPI is cited as the source for the most widely discussed publication topic in its journals. Further, ‘Big Data for Development: A Review of Promises and Challenges’ is regarded as the article with the most references. Additionally, the most discussed topics on ‘big data and policy’ include smart cities, open data, privacy, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science.


2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 100192
Author(s):  
Mariagrazia Fugini ◽  
Jacopo Finocchi ◽  
Paolo Locatelli

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