SCP EP32: Bringing Data to Life, with Brian Ashton

In this episode of The Smart City Podcast, I interviewed the Director of Harvest Digital Planning Brian Ashton. Brian is passionate about creating and geospatial technology and combining these to things to help government to better engage with the community. Brian and I discuss many things mainly focused around using digital and spatial technology to better engage and integrate across all disciplines, government and community. Brian has some really big and great ideas in this space, some of these include breaking down data silos for better integration, Google Knowledge Graph for planning, testing Smart Tech in real places and thick data to bring social meaning to big data. Find the full show notes and links at www.thesmartcitypodcast.com Connect with Brian via LinkedIn or Harvest website Connect with me via email: zoe@thesmartcitypodcast.com, Twitter or Facebook @smartcitypod