The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
The Prudential RideLondon weekend takes place this year on August 3-4. One of the events is Freecycle, when some of central London’s biggest roads are closed to motor traffic, and anyone with a bike can enjoy seven miles of wide roads with just t…
Continue reading »The Urban Zoo project focused on the issues of transfer of disease from animals to humans, in particular in the context of Nairobi, Kenya. This is mostly a medical study, but through the involvement of UCL Development Planning Unit (DPU), issues of urban planning and urban studies were integrated. The new paper “Participatory mapping and food‐centred … Continue reading New paper: Participatory mapping and food‐centred justice in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
Continue reading »Notes for the workshop “Open Science by Design: Practical Commitments for Implementation by (Young) Universities – New Indicators — FAIR Data — Citizen Science” this is part of the series “Focus on Open Science” and took place at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid on 8th July 2019. The opening was provided by Prof. Juan José Vaquero. Vice-President … Continue reading Notes: Focus on Open Science, Madrid
Continue reading »SES diagram with examples of topics thathave been researched using social media dataWhile I have written about how one can use social media data to study cities, health issues etc… more recently we have been looking into how such data can be used to …
Continue reading »SES diagram with examples of topics thathave been researched using social media dataWhile I have written about how one can use social media data to study cities, health issues etc… more recently we have been looking into how such data can be used to …
Continue reading »We featured a map showing London’s North Bank earlier in the summer – just in time for the peak holiday season, the rivals across the Thames now have a new map of their own! “South of the River” aims to map everything of tourist…
Continue reading »These are the notes from an event at UCL on 1st July 2019 part of Scaling (H2020 project) – innovations in Living Labs. The chair was Jack Stilgoe – Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies, University College London. The second part of it emerged from Tom Wakefield at the ETC group which is looking at early … Continue reading Experiments outside the laboratory: Who should decide? (notes)
Continue reading »Over the last couple of years we have been working on generating synthetic human populations with realistic social networks with respect to the New York mega-city and surrounding region. This is being done for a variety of modeling applications such a…
Continue reading »Over the last couple of years we have been working on generating synthetic human populations with realistic social networks with respect to the New York mega-city and surrounding region. This is being done for a variety of modeling applications such a…
Continue reading »Two bicycle sharing systems have launched in London in the last fortnight, joining four systems already on the streets of central London and two more on the edge of the capital: Freebike launched a system based in the City, Islington, Hackney, Camden, Kensington, Chelsea and parts of Lambeth and Wandsworth along the river. Essentially, central … Continue reading Then There Were Eight →
Continue reading »This map shows how different parts of London have over/underperformed with respect to the capital as a whole, with a 1995 baseline. Green areas have increased in price by more than the London median, while pink areas have underperformed, increasing by a smaller percentage from their 1995 baseline price, compared with the rest of London. … Continue reading House Price Performance Variations in London Over 23 Years →
Continue reading »I wrote about a new dataset from the ONS, HPSSA (House Prices for Small Statistical Areas), a few years ago. The dataset has continued to be updated quarterly, and more recently, ONS started publishing the data at a more fine-grained spatial resolution, namely LSOAs (Lower Super Output Areas). LSOAs typically each contain a population of … Continue reading House Prices →
Continue reading »This last Spring semester I taught a class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of my courses, students were expected to complete a end of semester project, in this case, develop an agent-based model t…
Continue reading »This last Spring semester I taught a class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of my courses, students were expected to complete a end of semester project, in this case, develop an agent-based model t…
Continue reading »This map, dating from 1875, appears on the back of a “Guinea season ticket” for entry to Alexandra Palace, in north London. The palace was recently restored and public entrance is now available to some areas for free. It’s a nice, vin…
Continue reading »The George Mason University, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science (GGS), in the College of Science invites application for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position beginning August 1st, 2019. The project, which is supported by the Defense …
Continue reading »The George Mason University, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science (GGS), in the College of Science invites application for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position beginning August 1st, 2019. The project, which is supported by the Defense …
Continue reading »The 2nd International Workshop on Geospatial Simulation (GeoSim) focuses on all aspects of simulation as a general paradigm to model and predict spatial systems and generate spatial data. New simulation methodologies and frameworks, not necessarily …
Continue reading »The 2nd International Workshop on Geospatial Simulation (GeoSim) focuses on all aspects of simulation as a general paradigm to model and predict spatial systems and generate spatial data. New simulation methodologies and frameworks, not necessarily …
Continue reading »JUMP, Uber’s electric-assist dockless bikeshare, arrives in London today, with a 350-bike trial in Islington borough. The organisation is also looking to expand to other London boroughs later this summer. We’ve had quite a few dockless bikeshare operations trying to crack the London market, with its huge potential, but fragmented cooperation/approval process split between 33 … Continue reading JUMP Leaps Into London – Now It Gets Interesting →
Continue reading »Over the last few years we have seen spatial agent-based modeling beginning to bridge the gap from cautious early adoption towards general acceptance within the geographical sciences. One of the key features that has contributed to this is its abili…
Continue reading »Over the last few years we have seen spatial agent-based modeling beginning to bridge the gap from cautious early adoption towards general acceptance within the geographical sciences. One of the key features that has contributed to this is its abili…
Continue reading »The public may not be able to visit Tottenham Court Road station’s Crossrail concourse or platforms yet, thanks to the well-publicised delay across the wider project, but the station was one of the most complete in the central section, a year ago…
Continue reading »The weather’s lovely at the moment – the last thing you want to do is spend that time deep down in the bowels on London, on the deep tube network, surely? Or maybe at least, how about alighting one stop early and walking the last bit? But h…
Continue reading »7th May 2019 PGRG Blog #17 Albert Sabater While a key issue in geography is to investigate how spatial and social polarisation interact to produce residential segregation, particularly in terms of social class, race or ethnicity, the term ‘segregation’ is barely associated with how space and age relations intersect and develop into processes of generational … More The nexus between housing (un)affordability and residential age segregation
Continue reading »‘Tardis’ phone boxes connect children to games of the past The GuardianTime machines to rival Doctor Who’s Tardis are landing across the country this spring. Children who enter a series of specially adapted red telephone boxes can dial up th…
Continue reading »‘Tardis’ phone boxes connect children to games of the past The GuardianThe Time Telephone offers a glimpse into the archive of songs, games and rhymes built up by Peter and Iona Opie.
Continue reading »The Computational Foundry at the Swansea University organised two days “Festival of Ideas” as part of the activities to celebrate its opening. The first day was organised by Ben Shneiderman and focused on aspects of AI, while the second day, curated by Jenny Preece, focused on citizen science. The summary here is from the second day, … Continue reading Citizen Science @ Computation Foundry, Swansea
Continue reading »Figure 1: Relation of computational social science of disasters (CSSD) with other fields.Past posts have discussed or demonstrated how computational social science (CSS) (i.e. the study of social science through computational methods) can be uti…
Continue reading »Figure 1: Relation of computational social science of disasters (CSSD) with other fields.Past posts have discussed or demonstrated how computational social science (CSS) (i.e. the study of social science through computational methods) can be uti…
Continue reading »Discover London’s urban trees by joining poetry walk around Hampstead Heath Evening StandardA digital poetry walk around Hampstead Heath encouraging visitors to slow down and discover more about London’s urban trees opens this week. It will …
Continue reading »BBC star to host CISI Paraplanner Conference Financial Planning TodayBroadcaster, mathematician and author Hannah Fry has been unveiled as the keynote motivational speaker at this year’s CISI Paraplanner Conference. The…
Continue reading »BBC maths guru to speak at CISI Paraplanner Conference Financial Planning TodayBroadcaster, mathematician and author Hannah Fry has been unveiled as the keynote motivational speaker at this year’s CISI Paraplanner Conference. The…
Continue reading »Following the publication of a paper in Nature Communications on the use of eBird data for conservation planning, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) dedicated a segment of their “The Current” programme to the role of citizen science. The section explored “How citizen science is changing the research landscape? Online communities and new technology are making it easier … Continue reading CBC – The Current – How citizen science is changing the research landscape?
Continue reading »Algorithms should take into account, not ignore, human failings The EconomistAS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) worms its way into many areas of life, society will need to become comfortable with algorithms, not people, making …
Continue reading »Open Future Algorithms should take into account, not ignore, human failings The EconomistAS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) worms its way into many areas of life, society will need to become comfortable with algorithms, not people, making …
Continue reading »This is the second part of the plenary element of the DITOs final event and again, I’m reblogging Alice Sheppard’s notes (and editing them lightly): The second part of the This is a continuation after the morning’s sessions. The session is based on a panel of other projects that have done work in Europe separately from … Continue reading DITOs final event (2): Doing It Together beyond DITOs
Continue reading »This is a reblogging of the reporting from DITOs final event, which was blogged by Alice Sheppard (which I’ve edited, lightly): Introduction to the day Camille Pisani, the Director of RBINS praises numerous volunteers and collaborators who have worked together, and the way different activities have been aimed at reaching many different audiences. There have … Continue reading Doing It Together Science (DITOs) final event talks (part 1)
Continue reading »This map, “Hooking Up”, was produced by the Evening Standard newspaper as part of their Future London project, in association with Source London, a service provider/lobbyist of charging points in London, and Zap-Map, who hold a comprehensiv…
Continue reading »You know about London’s South Bank – the other side of the river has been looking on at envy at the pedestrian utopia over there and has created this guide and walking map to the “Northbank” – the area stretching from Traf…
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