Individual neighborhoods within large cities can benefit from independent analysis of public data in the context of ongoing efforts to improve the community. Yet existing tools for public data analysis and visualization are often mismatched to community needs, for reasons including geographic granularity that does not correspond to community boundaries, siloed data sets, inaccurate assumptions ...

Library and museum digital collections are increasingly aggregated at various levels. Large-scale aggregations, often characterized by heterogeneous or messy metadata, pose unique and growing challenges to aggregation administrators – not only in facilitating end-user discovery and access, but in performing basic administrative and curatorial tasks in a scalable way, such as finding messy data ...

CONTEXT Foodborne illness affects 1 in 4 US residents each year. Few of those sickened seek medical care or report the illness to public health authorities, complicating prevention efforts. Citizens who report illness identify food establishments with more serious and critical violations than found by regular inspections. New media sources, including online restaurant reviews and social media p...

We conducted an exploratory study of a mobile energy monitoring tool: The Dashboard. Our point of departure from prior work was the emphasis of end-user customisation and social sharing. Applying extensive feedback, we deployed the Dashboard in real-world conditions to socially linked research participants for a period of five weeks. Participants were encouraged to devise, construct, place, and...

With the increase of visualization platforms targeting novices, researchers are now focusing on gathering insights regarding novice user practices. We describe the design and evaluation of Exploration Views (EV), a system that allows novice visualization users to easily build and customize Business Intelligence information dashboards. EV provides an intuitive environment for dynamically creatin...

This paper illustrates a case project to design a digital dashboard for governing the urban safety of an Italian city and proposes a methodology for the definition of a set of safety measurement indicators. Results show that the method is easy to be used to identify the most crucial areas of the city, in several domains of application that have been identified. The study can substantially suppo...

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) generate a wealth of finegrained student interaction data. Although it seems likely that teachers could benefit from access to advanced analytics generated from these data, ITSs do not typically come with dashboards designed for teachers’ needs. In this project, we follow a user-centered design approach to create a dashboard for teachers using ITSs.

This paper presents the method to estimate the traffic flow on the urban roadway by using car’s on-dashboard camera image. The system described, shows something new which utilizes only road traffic photo images to get the information about urban roadway traffic flow automatically. Keywords—traffic flow estimation; on-dashboard camera; computer vision.

External Posting Date: September 6, 2011 [Fulltext]. Approved for External Publication  Cloud Sustainability Dashboard, Dynamically Assessing Sustainability of Data Centers and Clouds Cullen Bash, Tahir Cader, Yuan Chen, Daniel Gmach, Richard Kaufman, Dejan Milojicic, Amip Shah, Puneet Sharma HP Laboratories HPL-2011-148 Sustainability; Clouds; monitoring; and modeling. Quantifying and underst...