This is an environment which enables citizens to create and explore interactive visualizations of city-related data and arrange them into dashboards. The solution offers customization capabilities to different user-defined exploration scenarios and techniques according to specific needs and goals. The back-end data aggregator and manipulator built upon state-of-the-art technologies provides normalized access to heterogeneous data. On top of it, the front-end interface allows users to create and combine visualizations, get insights out of the data and share them with others, fostering data-driven public awareness.
Ready to install BarcelonaNow's environment? Here's how to get started on Linux.
Install Python (>=3.5):
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python3.5
Install and run MongoDB:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org
$ sudo service mongod restart
Install and run Apache:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install apache2
$ sudo ufw allow 'Apache Full'
$ sudo systemctl restart apache2
Clone this repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/DECODEproject/bcnnow.git
Install all the required dependencies:
$ pip install -r bcnnow/requirements.txt
Install Mysql libraries
sudo apt-get install python3-dev libmysqlclient-dev
pip install mysqlclient
Copy the dashboard app folder into the Apache public folder:
$ sudo cp -r bcnnow/apps/frontend /var/www/html/
Once it is installed, let's run BarcelonaNow to see your dashboards online.
Open the crontab:
$ crontab -e
Copy and save the following commands:
* * */30 * * python3 bcnnow/backend/data/collectors/pull/AsiaEventCollector.py
*/10 * * * * python3 bcnnow/backend/data/collectors/pull/BicingCollector.py
* * */30 * * python3 bcnnow/backend/data/collectors/pull/EquipmentCollector.py
* * */90 * * python3 bcnnow/backend/data/collectors/pull/IrisCollector.py
* * */30 * * python3 bcnnow/backend/data/collectors/pull/PointsInterestCollector.py
*/30 * * * * python3 bcnnow/backend/data/collectors/pull/SentiloCollector.py
*/60 * * * * python3 bcnnow/backend/data/collectors/pull/SmartCitizenCollector.py
Run BarcelonaNow's API in background (see this link for Flask deployment in production):
nohup python3 bcnnow/apps/backend/api/v0/app.py &
Open your browser at the following link:
http://localhost/
We welcome contributions. Feel free to file issues and pull requests on the repo and we will address them as we can.
For questions or feedback about BarcelonaNow, contact us at david.laniado@eurecat.org and mirko.marras@ce.eurecat.org.
If you use BarcelonaNow in your research, please use the following entries.
Mirko Marras, Matteo Manca, Ludovico Boratto, Gianni Fenu, and David Laniado. 2018.
BarcelonaNow: Empowering Citizens with Interactive Dashboards for Urban Data Exploration.
In WWW ’18 Companion: The 2018 Web Conference Companion, April 23–27, 2018, Lyon, France.
ACM, New York, NY, USA.
@inproceedings{marras2018barcelonanow,
title={BarcelonaNow: Empowering Citizens with Interactive Dashboards for Urban Data Exploration},
author={Marras, Mirko and Manca, Matteo and Boratto, Ludovico and Fenu, Gianni and Laniado, David},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2018 Web Conference Companion},
year={2018},
organization={International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2)}
}
Copyright (C) 2018 by the EURECAT - Technology Centre of Catalonia.
The European Union Horizon 2020 Programme under grant agreement N.732546 has been supporting this on-going pilot work during the DECODE (DEcentralised Citizens Owned Data Ecosystem) project.
This source code is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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