Microsoft’s Office 365 now contains a powerful tool to understand how you spend your time throughout the week. MyAnalytics was added to Office 365 suite this year. It gives you personalised information on how you have been working focusing on these areas: Network – who you have communicated with and patterns around these communications CollaborationContinueContinue reading “Understand how you spend your time with MyAnalytics”
Category Archives: Digital
Top Planning Apps for 2019
Planetizen in the US recently published this article on the best mobile apps to use in planning work. I thought this was a great article to share. Note it builds on an earlier article they published with a long list of “the best planning apps” – link here. This latest article discusses both the lackContinueContinue reading “Top Planning Apps for 2019”
Planning Memes
Memes are one of the universal languages of the internet – using popular cultural /image references to create a shared understanding of a concept, attitude or life experience. I use a Pinterest board to collect planning memes I come across. Check out the board here. While these memes have been made by planners in all sortsContinueContinue reading “Planning Memes”
Tech Terms: Chatbots
The final post in this month’s Tech Terms series is Chatbots. This post continues from the post on Natural Language Processing so check out that post if you want some further background. There is a lot of hype about robots taking jobs and chatbots are a good early representation of that possibility. Chatbots are computer programs designedContinueContinue reading “Tech Terms: Chatbots”
Tech Terms: Sentiment Analysis
For most planning processes, it is a real challenge to get engagement and input from the public. It is also common to only hear from certain groups, leaving many communities unheard, especially marginalised groups. It’s now possible to capture not only qualitative data from the public as they use and move through urban spaces, weContinueContinue reading “Tech Terms: Sentiment Analysis”
Tech Terms: Natural Language Processing
In the old days, you had to know how to speak the language of computers in order to use one. The dedicated few learnt precise commands in order to get a computer to undertake a task. Jump forward a few decades, and we have moved much further along the continuum of human-computer communication. Computers canContinueContinue reading “Tech Terms: Natural Language Processing”
Tech Terms: AR, VR, MR, XR
These tech terms all refer to technologies which provide immersion into a combined real and virtual environment, but what does each specific term actually mean? And are these technologies just for gaming and entertainment or will they be part of our work toolkit in the future? XR – Extended/Cross Realities XR is the umbrella termContinueContinue reading “Tech Terms: AR, VR, MR, XR”
Tech Terms: Digital Twin
A digital twin is a digital representation of a real world physical resource. A digital twin is used to represent a complex real life system, such as a factory’s manufacturing plant, an infrastructure network, a building and even a city. The digital twin is more than a model, it is a replica of the originalContinueContinue reading “Tech Terms: Digital Twin”
Tech Terms: BIM
BIM is not actually a new term, but it is a term which not all planners are familiar with, so it is worth covering as part of this series, especially as next we will look at the related term Digital Twin. BIM stands for Building Information Modelling. It is an information system to support theContinueContinue reading “Tech Terms: BIM”
Tech Terms: Geofence
A geofence is a virtual perimeter around a real world area. Geofence technology can be used to identify when someone or something enters or leaves the geofenced area. This then triggers some form of action. For example, Countdown supermarkets use geofence technology for their Click and Collect service. A geofence applies to the area withinContinueContinue reading “Tech Terms: Geofence”
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