Rob Kitchin is a professor and ERC Advanced Investigator at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. His research interests include open and big data, data infrastructures, mapping and spatial media, software and everyday life, and smart cities. He is principal investigator of the Programmable City project, the Dublin Dashboard, the All-Island Research Observatory, and the Digital Repository of Ireland.He has published widely across the social sciences, including 23 books and over 150 articles and book chapters, including "The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and