OVERVIEW
Big Data Campus is an offline space that allows stakeholders from the public and private sectors and academia to access data sets, public and private, open and proprietary, in a controlled setting. It is aimed at providing advanced analytical technologies which enable cross-sectoral analysis on urban solutions.By categorizing and listing 4,000 raw data collected from the public and private sectors into nine categories, the city’s Big Data Campus provides a list of data to citizens in a easy and approachable way.
FEATURES
- Data is anonymized and analyzed over Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI).
- The program was made to comply with existing legislation, including privacy legislation, ensuring that no modification of laws would be necessary.
- Civic groups and Seoul Metropolitan Government work together on campus to propose policy suggestions and ways to solve social problems.
- The Big Data Campus provides a variety of online and offline courses on big data to enhance the awareness on bigdata among ordinary citizens.
- It provides various kinds of database and statistical analysis solutions.
KEY RESULTS
- Since its implementation until 2019, 393 analyses of data have already occurred by users from academia, NGOs, and individuals.
- Seoul Metropolitan Government deems this amount to be a success, and expects numbers to steadily increase, as the scope of datasets will increase as well.
- University students have also taken advantage of the data analysis education offered by the campus. Some categories analyzed so far include education, traffic, healthcare, the economy, and safety.
- In future expansions to the project, the city also plans to utilize the campus for human resource development in training professional data analysts.
RESOURCES
Seoul Big Data Campus (Korean)
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[asvc_table]| YEAR | Number of Appointments per year |
|---|---|
| 2011-2012 | 2.3 million |
| 2013 | 33.5 million |
| 2014 | 56.9 million |
| 2015 | 63 million |
| 2016 | 63.4 million |
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