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INSIGHTS Virtual Lectures: Quantifying the impact of Covid-19 on city systems by Professor Phil James

Professor Phil James, Professor of Urban Data, Newcastle University

Date/Time: Tuesday 26 May 2020, 17:30 - 18:00

Phil James is Professor of Urban Data at Newcastle University. He works at the interface between engineering and computer science and since developing a database system on the BBC Micro for ‘O’ level computer studies has had an abiding interest in data.

In this lecture Professor James will share real-time data from the Urban Observatory, exploring the impact that Covid-19 has had on the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

For more information and to access the data yourself visit the Newcastle Urban Observatory webpage.