The Atlas of Opportunities is an open-source project delivered as a free decision-support website that aims to help entrepreneurs, companies, governments and other interested audiences identify business opportunities.
The project combines multiple data sources, processed with spatial data science and Artificial Intelligence algorithms. Advanced scientific methods from management, statistics and computer science are translated into an interactive, accessible platform, focused on job creation and sustainable economic development.
The Atlas of Opportunities – Brazil is coordinated by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), which is part of an international collaborative research network enabled by its main partner, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The project started with a South Australia version and is growing to other countries and regions, such as Rochester, New York.
“Explore the power of data science and turn your ideas into action.” Go to the Atlas
Explore the territory. Decide with data.
Tap, hover and try each feature. The data in the examples is illustrative.
Ask questions in natural language and get support to interpret the data and identify business opportunities, without having to browse through tables.
Pick a scale and watch the map zoom in: from Brazil, to the municipalities of a state, and finally to the census tracts of a city. The smaller the unit, the more precise the decision. The units in the example are illustrative.
Each theme is a data layer over the same territory, organized by the Smart Cities classification from Urban Systems (2018). Turn layers on and off to see how the combined index changes. The layers and variables in the example are illustrative.
Select a source to see what it brings to the Atlas.
Multiple research sources are analyzed, processed and delivered at different geographic levels, using spatial data science and artificial intelligence.
Fourteen institutions, six countries.
The Brazilian version is part of a collaborative network.
| INSTITUTION | COUNTRY | ROLE |
|---|---|---|
| →UFRGS | Brazil | Coordination |
| →MIT | United States | Partner |
| →Harvard | United States | Partner |
| →Northeastern | United States | Partner |
| →University of Michigan | United States | Partner |
| →FGV | Brazil | Partner |
| →UFG | Brazil | Partner |
| →UFCG | Brazil | Partner |
| →PUCPR | Brazil | Partner |
| →PUCRS | Brazil | Partner |
| →Sabancı University | Turkey | Partner |
| →Cambridge | England | Partner |
| →Government of South Australia | Australia | Partner |
| →Grenoble École | France | Partner |
- CONTACT
- Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) School of Business, Rua Washington Luis, 855 Porto Alegre/RS/Brazil, 90010-460
- www.ufrgs.br/gpmc
- [email protected]
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