Tutorial: Data analytics in the domain of smart cities and e-Government

Abstract

Information and communications technology (ICT) is becoming in a main component of urban environments and is a necessary tool for the smart cities [1,3,10]. Smart cities can benefit of the ICT, however it needs sophisticate mechanisms and appropriate software technologies to collect, store, analyze and visualize the data from the city environment and the citizens. The urban environments are of the main data generators worldwide. In the context of smart cities, there is an abundance of data that can be mined by applying data analytic techniques, in order to define services that increase citizens' quality of life. There are different data sources, like the traditional information held by public institutions (data about the traffic, the health care, etc.), the information generated by the citizens (using their smartphones, etc.), sensor systems on the city (camera networks, smart meters, etc.), in the context of the Internet of Things, etc. [1,4,10].