Can Smart City Data be Used to Create New Official Statistics?
| Autor: | Samuel Stehle, Rob Kitchin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Official statistics
Computer science business.industry Data management Statistics 05 social sciences Big data 0211 other engineering and technologies key performance indicators 050801 communication & media studies 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Data science HA1-4737 Metadata Open data 0508 media and communications big data Smart city Data quality transport data quality Performance indicator business environment |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Official Statistics, Vol 37, Iss 1, Pp 121-147 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2001-7367 |
| DOI: | 10.2478/jos-2021-0006 |
| Popis: | In this article we evaluate the viability of using big data produced by smart city systems for creating new official statistics. We assess sixteen sources of urban transportation and environmental big data that are published as open data or were made available to the project for Dublin, Ireland. These data were systematically explored through a process of data checking and wrangling, building tools to display and analyse the data, and evaluating them with respect to 16 measures of their suitability: access, sustainability and reliability, transparency and interpretability, privacy, fidelity, cleanliness, completeness, spatial granularity, temporal granularity, spatial coverage, coherence, metadata availability, changes over time, standardisation, methodological transparency, and relevance. We assessed how the data could be used to produce key performance indicators and potential new official statistics. Our analysis reveals that, at present, a limited set of smart city data is suitable for creating new official statistics, though others could potentially be made suitable with changes to data management. If these new official statistics are to be realised then National Statistical Institutions need to work closely with those organisations generating the data to try and implement a robust set of procedures and standards that will produce consistent, long-term data sets. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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