Editorial

摘要

In recent years, fuelled by continuing technological advances, there has been an explosion in the creation and publication of visualisations of what has come to be called 'big data'. In the last editorial (Batty, 2012), we wrote about how the rise of the smart city through its routine instrumentation is leading to a generation of enormous real-time datasets-big data-that have the potential for providing us with entirely new information to reveal the functioning of cities at fine scale and over very short time periods.