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Tourism Mapping Workshop

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Actua

Friday
October 25, 2019
10:00am — 2:00pm ET

With more than eight million visitors a year, tourism represents almost 46% of the economy of Andorra. By gathering and analyzing multiple and diverse data sources such as telecom and economic transactions, we can understand the country's dynamics of tourism and commerce as well as design interventions that can improve the experience for tourists, while simultaneously exploring the cultural and environmental implications of their travel.

Join representatives from The Andorra Innovation Hub, Carto (a computing platform that provides GIS, web mapping, and spatial data science tools) and the City Science team for a workshop to explore and brainstorm new ideas to map urban flows. Participants will be provided with multiple data sets and access to Carto’s mapping software. Workshop participants can engage with data and the mapping tool or theoretically explore new ideas related to mapping tourism, Andorra’s ecosystem, and/or the culture and environment of this unique country.


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Agenda:

10am - Introduction to ongoing with the Andorra Innovation Hub, intro to Carto tools and applications, and intro to ongoing research
10:30am - Participants work in small groups to explore the following questions
12pm - Working lunch
1pm - Presentations and feedback
2pm - Event close

People with the following interests are encouraged to attend:

~Data visualization
~Dynamic urban planning
~Spatial data science
~Web visualizations for spatial data
~Behavioral patterns in urban populations
~Economy at country scale
~Telecom data at country scale
~Tourism innovation 


This event is not open to the public. If you are interested or have questions please email Maggie Church at mdchurch@media.mit.edu.

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