I’m very excited to report the publishing of our new book on Agent-based Modelling and Geographic Information Science in January 2019! Co-authored with Andrew Crooks, Nick Malleson, and Alison Heppenstall, the book aims to provide a broad and practical overview of building spatial agent-based models. It includes a vast set of example models, written in …

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Data Cities: how post-internet technology is changing the way we design our world  Foreground[This is an abridged extract from Davina Jackson’s book Data Cities: How satellites are transforming architecture and design (Lund Humphries 2019). C…

Most of the time when I teach a class instead of setting a final exam, I ask the students to carryout an end of semester research project. In my Introduction to Computational Social Science class this project entails the development of a computation…

I was in Paris just before Christmas, taking part in a workshop at IFSSTAR (Université Paris-Est) on innovations in flow visualisation – GFlowiz. I talked/demonstrated some old and new ways that I and others have shown commute journeys in the UK on the web, looking both at The Great British Bike to Work and TubeCreature … Continue reading A Glimpse of the Future in Paris →

21st Nov 2018 PGRG Blog #15 Nik Lomax In our paper “Estimating the outcome of UKs referendum on EU membership using e-petition data and machine learning algorithms“, recently published in the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, we use novel e-petition data and machine learning algorithms to estimate the Brexit leave vote percentage for UK parliamentary constituencies. … More Mapping Brexit votes using novel e-petition data and machine learning

Fostering university-public sector partnerships in the development of smart cities | News  Perspectives@SMU“What are the challenges in integrating technical and social disciplines into a single research project?” “How can the ASEAN Smart Citi…

15th November 2018 PGRG Blog #14 Lili Xiang Attending the Third International Conference on Geographies of Education (GoE III) was really a memorable and inspiring experience for me. I am a final year PhD student from the School of Geography, University of Leeds. Before starting my PhD, I worked as a geography teacher and form … More The family get together for education geographers

Next in BIM: City Information Modelling (CIM)  Planning & Building Control TodayBIM has radically changed the way we think about building design in terms of collaboration and visualisation. Can City Information Modelling do the same for …

12th November, 2018 PGRG Blog #13 Jacob Fairless Nicholson   Jacob Fairless Nicholson is a postgraduate researcher in his third year at King’s College London. His work charts the geographies of ‘Black education spaces’ in London 1960-1990. Jacob visited the three-day Third International Conference on Geographies of Education at Loughborough University (Monday 3rd September to … More Impressions from the Third International Conference on Geographies of Education

Technology is changing what it means to be creative – here’s how  Wired.co.ukInnovation is changing what it means to be creative. Here, some of the world’s top thinkers discuss how to blend technology with creativity for the benefit of …