We believe that our desires must become the insight of the world we live in.

How this can be done? We require a more profound understanding on relations; and its abstractions to networks.

What if we made it for the use of each and everyone of us by linking our cognitive perspectives with big data and analytics over sustainability?

What is it?

What is the relation between big data applications and sustainability? What is the net effect of improved efficiency versus increased resource consumption, who gets to measure this, and how?

Sustainable cities cluster is a non-profit project that aims to create algorithms using directed networks to relate cities characteristics. The algorithms will in turn be geared up by analytical software to amplify our understanding on sustainable relations among cities.

What is the project about?

Our main final product will be sets of directed networks that will include all important information of cities. Networks analysis is a formidable tool that can help to reduce cost by optimizing the execution of a business tasks and therefore saving money. This same principle can be used with any task if a directed network is captured, think about better energy services planning or best strategies to urbanize human settlements.

In a sense this project is about the research, creation and implementation on such networks.

Why are we building it?

Nowadays big data analytics is not just for big companies. With our research we want to include your desires on the insight of what big data can do to explain sustainability.

Use cases on how Big Data helps on the global trends is a worldwide goal. We are certain that urban centers are the hubs for human development; and that they have to be more resilient, safe and sustainable. Therefore our "little bit" of help is by creating this algorithms.

Cities energy consumptions amount to 80% of world energy consumption. It is emergent to begin to understand and to study urban centers. In an abstract model, cities behaviour is seen as interactions among their constituent components giving thus a sense of "smartness" or "responsiveness". By setting a well order among cities components we expect to have an decreases on the energy consumption making it more efficient. This and other ideas are presented among several groups of study around the world, like the ones located at the ETH in Switzerland.

Big Data collection and analysis serves to make the invisible visible by presenting the reality of a city. Several methods can be used to analyze the information base on the visualization, clustering and classification of data. Our proposal is to use them in conjunction with citizen science, as we wish to gain knowledge not just on what a model says is correct but on reflecting the desires of all the population. This task is not impossible and has been already done in the fields of astronomy, biology and chemistry.

Why do we need money?

We need to raise 55,700 EUR to fund an experienced team to do this right.

Sustainable Cities Cluster is a non-profit project. If successfully funded, it will be legally registered as a not-for-profit organisation. Why should you care? It means that no one owns shares of monetary value in the project. We're building it because we want to give a cognitive perspective on sustainability by big data and of course, we are making it for you. Being a non-profit means that any money sustainable cluster makes can only ever be used to re-invest in making it better. Not making shareholders rich.

This Kickstarter project is all about building the algorithms but we need to deliver it to our backers. Hence, we have to make a world-class platform so it is easy for the community to visualize sustainability indexes from the local to the global perspective. Data visualization are the new eyes to the world.

Now, some basic research is need to be done. Basically we need the calculation of the geodesic equation of a rigid torus given the induced metric. If some bright mathematician will like to help us, we will give it part of the credit -of course- but also partnership.

Our Promise.

Finally, by trying to be innovative on a software, research and entrepreneur project we assure you that all the resources, investigation and the algorithms will be made public available.

Moreover, to engage you with the research and implementation experience, more videos of mathematical and computational visualization of whatever we may found during our investigations. This will be constantly upload to our channel. Aside, we want to enhance the experience on big data analytics, this will be donne by offering our own set of data analysis and visualization webinars.

Give us the chance to help you experience the excitement of open science with sustainable cities cluster.

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