The Dublin Dashboard provides access to 100s of interactive maps, graphs and apps about Dublin City.

1. Dublin Dashboard
www.dublindashboard.ie
feedback@dublindashboard.ie
@dublindashboard
#dubdash
+ real-time information
+ interactive maps
+ indicator trends
+ open data

2. 11:00-11:05 Mr Owen Keegan, Chief Executive, Dublin City Council
Welcome on behalf of Dublin City Council
11:05-11:10 Prof Bernard Mahon, Vice President of Research, Maynooth University
Welcome on behalf of Maynooth University
11:10-11:15 Prof Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University, The Programmable City
Introduction to the Dashboard
11:15-11:35 Dr Gavin McArdle, Maynooth University, The Programmable City
Dublin Dashboard Demonstration
11.35-11.45 Prof Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University, The Programmable City
Smart cities and the Programmable City project
11:45-11:55 Mr Peter Finnegan, Dublin City Council
Smart City initiatives in DCC
11:55-12:05 Mr Dominic Byrne, Fingal County Council & Dublinked
Dublinked and Open Data for Ireland
12:05-12:10 Prof Rob Kitchin
Next steps and conclusion
12:10- Close Q and A
www.dublindashboard.ie @dublindashboard #dubdash

3. Why produce a Dublin Dashboard?
• So that the following kinds of questions can be
easily answered via one site:
• How well is Dublin performing?
• What’s happening in the city right now?
• Where are the nearest facilities to me?
• What are the patterns of population, employment,
crime, housing, etc in the city?
• What are the future development plans?
• How do I report issues about the city?
• How can I freely access data about the city?

4. Logic & principles
• Provide practical, useful, accessible city intelligence to public,
government and companies that aids everyday decision making,
evidence-informed debate, and policy formulation
• Pull together data about all aspects of the city – including real-time
info -- from as many sources as possible (e.g., DCC,
Dublinked, CSO, Eurostat, govt depts)
• Selected data that are:
• systematic and continuous in operation and coverage
• timely and traceable over time
• Display the data through an analytical dashboard that uses
interactive data visualisations that require no a priori knowledge
to use
• Produce as a platform that leverages existing resources and
encourages new app development. The data used is open for
others to use and re-work.

5. • How’s Dublin Doing?
• Dublin Indicators and benchmarking
tools
• Dublin Real-Time
• Real-time data from sensors across
Dublin
• Dublin Mapped
• Detailed Census maps for 2006 &
2011 Census, crime, live register
• Dublin Planning
• Zoning and planning permissions
• Dublin Near To Me
• Maps of location and nearness to
public services, area profiles
• Dublin Housing
• Maps of housing, house prices and
commuting patterns
• Dublin Reporting
• FixMyStreet, CityWatch, FixMyArea
• Dublin Data Stores
• Access to all data used in the
dashboard
• Dublin Social (in progress)
• Maps of social media activity
• Dublin Modelled (in progress)
• Modelling and scenario tools
• Dublin Apps (in progress)
• Directory of apps relevant to Dublin
• Have Your Say (in progress)
• Feedback from users

6. Partnership & Funding
• The Dublin Dashboard has been developed by The
Programmable City project and the All-Island Research
Observatory (AIRO) at Maynooth University, working in
partnership with Dublin City Council
• It has been funded by the European Research Council and
Science Foundation Ireland
• 2 years of funding (spread over 3 years)
• Started November 2013

7. The Programmable City project
and All-Island Research Observatory

8. The Programmable City
• A European Research Council (ERC: €2.3m) and
Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI: €200k) funded
• SH3: Environment and Society
• Team of 11 researchers
• 1 PI; 5 postdocs; 5 PhD students
• Key themes: smart cities, software, ubiquitous
computing, locative media, big and open data
• Primary site: Dublin; Secondary site: Boston
• 5 years (started June 2013)

9. Objectives of Programmable City Project
How is the city translated into software and data?
How do software and data reshape the city?
Discourses, Practices, Knowledge, Models
Translation:
City into Code/Data
SOFTWARE THE CITY
Transduction:
Code/Data Reshapes City
Mediation, Augmentation, Facilitation, Regulation

10. Sub-Projects
Translation:
City into code and data
Transduction:
Code and data reshapes city
Understanding the city
(Knowledge)
How are digital data generated
and processed about cities and
their citizens? Tracey (PDR)
How does software drive public
policy development and
implementation? Bob (PhD) /
Aoife (PhD)
Managing the city
(Governance)
How are discourses and practices
of city governance translated
into code? Sophia (PDR)
How is software used to regulate
and govern city life? Jim (PhD)
Working in the city
(Production)
How is the geography and
political economy of software
production organised? Alan (PhD)
How does software alter the
form and nature of work?
Leighton (PDR)
Inhabiting the city
(Everyday Life)
How is software discursively
produced and legitimated by
vested interests? Darach (PhD)
To what extent does software
change how places function and
how people behave? (Sung-Yueh,
PDR)
Creating the smart city: Dublin Dashboard Gavin (PDR)

11. All-Island Research Observatory
• Spatial data portal and consultancy specializing in
evidence-based planning
• Been operating since 2005 (initially as CBRRO)
• Interactive mapping & graphing modules both North/South

12. Next steps

13. Next steps
• The Dashboard is extensive, but far from finished
• It is an on-going project. Working on:
• adding more real-time data
• extending indicator/benchmarking data and mapping modules
• opening up more datasets and encouraging new data
generation, more geo-referencing of data, and better ways to
share data (APIs, machine-readable)
• adding new modules: city snapshot, social media, modelling
(needs investment), links to city apps
• translating for mobile platforms (e.g. tablet/smartphone
apps)
• encouraging others to leverage data and add new apps
• We’re interested in working with any interested parties
to help develop Dashboard further or to implement it for
different places

14. "Great cities embrace the data ... they
are not defensive about it ... they
improve" Louisville Mayor, Greg Fischer
Rob.Kitchin@nuim.ie
@robkitchin
Gavin.McArdle@nuim.ie
www.dublindashboard.ie
@dublindashboard
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/progcity
@progcity