Abstract/Summary

We introduce the fourteen articles in the Royal Society Open Science themed issue on City Analytics. To provide a high level, strategic, overview, we summarize the topics addressed and the analytical tools deployed. We then give a more detailed account of the individual contributions. Our overall aims are (a) to highlight exciting advances in this emerging, interdisciplinary field, (b) to encourage further activity and, (c) to emphasize the variety of new, public domain, data sets that are available to researchers.