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Data Analytics Bootcamp
I have always dreamed about doing some contribution towards improving the gender balance in technology, which as you may know, is far from ideal. Fortunately the opportunity arose, when Katrina Walker has invited me to teach the “Data Analytics” bootcamp … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Platforms for citizen science
A CRI-Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle workshop: created by Anshu (CRI long term fellow) and Simon (MNHN), from a meeting at the Galaxy community in Freiburg. I joined the design process and it was structured so the museum and the CRI present the systems that are being developed, with a scope for a discussion about lessons … Continue reading Platforms for citizen science
Continue reading »The Gilded Desert
Adam Dant, artist, creates art which is often based around a geographical location, using cartography to frame a topic, often drawing out a key road or other structure into a simple geometric shape. This is particularly evident The Gilded Desert, which…
Continue reading »The Mapping London Christmas List 2019
The season for giving and receiving approaches once again. Here’s Mapping London’s guide to the best gifts for that London, or cartographical, enthusiast in your life: London Poverty Maps (Our Review / Buy on Amazon)This hardback book is an…
Continue reading »Wandsworth Arts Map
Quite a bit of creative activity is going on in the south-west London borough of Wandsworth, as this map & guide, produced late last year, illustrates well. Art hotspots are picked out subtly as numbers (with caption on the back) while illustration…
Continue reading »Swings and Silicon Roundabouts
Did the Tech City cluster programme actually help East London tech firms? Let’s find out.Continue reading on The Startup »
Continue reading »Illustrated Maps of Peckham
The FT has run a couple of articles [$] recently on housing in south-east London, and to accompany both of them, they commissioned freelance illustrator Laura Hallett to draw these illustrations of the area. We like the distinctive colour accents for t…
Continue reading »Simulating Urban Patterns of Life: A Geo-Social Data Generation Framework
At the ACM SIGSPATIAL’19 conference, Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak, Umar Manzoor, Dieter Pfoser, Carola Wenk, Andreas Züfle and myself have a paper entitled “Simulating Urban Patterns of Life: A Geo-Social Data Generation Framework.” The general idea beh…
Continue reading »Simulating Urban Patterns of Life: A Geo-Social Data Generation Framework
At the ACM SIGSPATIAL’19 conference, Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak, Umar Manzoor, Dieter Pfoser, Carola Wenk, Andreas Züfle and myself have a paper entitled “Simulating Urban Patterns of Life: A Geo-Social Data Generation Framework.” The general idea beh…
Continue reading »New Paper: Assessing the Placeness of Locations through User-contributed Content
In the past we have written about how one can use crowdsourced data to gain a collective sense of place from Twitter contributions and also from corresponding Wikipedia entries (e.g. here). In a new paper with Xiaoyi Yuan, we extend this work to explo…
Continue reading »New Paper: Assessing the Placeness of Locations through User-contributed Content
In the past we have written about how one can use crowdsourced data to gain a collective sense of place from Twitter contributions and also from corresponding Wikipedia entries (e.g. here). In a new paper with Xiaoyi Yuan, we extend this work to explo…
Continue reading »Air Pollution on the Tube
An eye-opening version the Tube Map for central London was published by the FT today (& on Twitter). The graphic, created by Steven Bernard of the FT Data team, is based on “PM 2.5” air pollution particulate matter readings, measured by…
Continue reading »ActEarly – outline paper published
ActEarly is a new project, which has started in September. The project is a 5 years “city collaboratory” in Bradford and Tower Hamlets to research early promotion of good health and wellbeing. The project is part of a set of projects that are funded under the UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) scheme, which includes an alliance of … Continue reading ActEarly – outline paper published
Continue reading »Talk: Utilizing Agent-based Models and Open Data to Examine the Movement of People and Information
Earlier this month I was invited to give a talk as part the Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center (CINA) Distinguished Speaker Series. As readers of the blog might expect, I chose to talk about how open data (e.g. OpenStreetMap, Twitter) …
Continue reading »Talk: Utilizing Agent-based Models and Open Data to Examine the Movement of People and Information
Earlier this month I was invited to give a talk as part the Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center (CINA) Distinguished Speaker Series. As readers of the blog might expect, I chose to talk about how open data (e.g. OpenStreetMap, Twitter) …
Continue reading »Charles Booth’s London Poverty Maps
Perhaps the world’s most famous historical geodemographic maps, the London Poverty Maps were created by Charles Booth over the course of a decade in the late 19th century, exhaustively colouring each individual house in the capital, on the basis …
Continue reading »Papers at CSSSA Conferece
At the 2019 Computational Social Science Society of Americas (CSSSA) Conference, we have two papers being presented which relates to our interests in urban simulation. Full citations and links to them are provided at the bottom of this post, whil…
Continue reading »Papers at CSSSA Conferece
At the 2019 Computational Social Science Society of Americas (CSSSA) Conference, we have two papers being presented which relates to our interests in urban simulation. Full citations and links to them are provided at the bottom of this post, whil…
Continue reading »Consolidating Dockless Cycles in London
A bylaw is being drafted between the 32 London borough councils (and the City of London) to introduce a coordinated approach to managing dockless micromobility sharing, such as bikeshare and (should future national legislation permit it) escootershare, across London. Currently, each council sets its own policy with regards to dockless cycle operators in their area, … Continue reading Consolidating Dockless Cycles in London →
Continue reading »Use vs Theft: Risks and Rewards for Dockless Bike Operations in London
When running a fleet of dockless bikeshare bikes, one of the potentially most costly problems is theft of the bicycles. They aren’t attached to anything if they are dockless, even if they are in a marked “hub”, and, even if the bikes are typically heavier than a personal bike, they can still be easy targets … Continue reading Use vs Theft: Risks and Rewards for Dockless Bike Operations in London →
Continue reading »Published: Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Back in October 2018, I reported on the workshop at the International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis (IIASA) about non-traditional data approaches and the Sustainable Development Goals. The outcome of this workshop has now been published in Nature Sustainability. The writing process was coordinated by Dr Linda See of IIASA, and with a distributed process that included … Continue reading Published: Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Continue reading »New paper: Does urbanization make emergence of zoonosis more likely? Evidence, myths and gaps
The final output from the Urban Zoo project is out (see the post about the previous paper, which was published in GEO). This one is a literature and analysis of the role of urbanisation in zoonosis. The paper is open access, so you can read it here. It was led by Dr Sohel Ahmed (and … Continue reading New paper: Does urbanization make emergence of zoonosis more likely? Evidence, myths and gaps
Continue reading »RGS-IBG 2019 Conference Highlights and Reflections
Population geography was a strong feature of the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in London this year with 9 sessions sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG). During a fiercely warm week in August speakers from across the globe came together to present new data and share ideas on a diverse range of population themes, including … More RGS-IBG 2019 Conference Highlights and Reflections
Continue reading »Fallen Fruit
The Fallen Fruit project, by David Allen Burns and Austin Young in the US, allows communities to map publically owned/accessible trees in their neighbourhood which are likely groaning with fruit to eat, at this kind of year. There is an online Google-p…
Continue reading »Innovative Events
Anna and I have a new CEP Discussion Paper out looking at innovation and productivity in UK firms. Read it here.It’s quite technical. Working with the data science firm Growth Intelligence, we combine rich administrative info with media text and machin…
Continue reading »Help colour in London’s buildings – ianVisits – London news and events – IanVisits
Help colour in London’s buildings – ianVisits – London news and events IanVisits
Continue reading »Help colour in London’s buildings – IanVisits
Help colour in London’s buildings IanVisits
Continue reading »Measuring the effect of innovation on productivity inside firms – USAPP American Politics and Policy (blog)
Measuring the effect of innovation on productivity inside firms USAPP American Politics and Policy (blog)
Continue reading »EU Research & Innovation Days 2019 – reflections
The previous post is more of a summary of the conference, but this one is aimed at capturing my reflections from these three days of (fairly high level) science event. This wasn’t a typical event, and it somewhat felt like Carlos Moedas (the leaving commissioner) farewell action as a commissioner, to get the research community that … Continue reading EU Research & Innovation Days 2019 – reflections
Continue reading »European Research & Innovation Days 2019
Between 24-26 September, the European Commission Directorate-General for Research & Innovation run an event in Brussels, titled “European Research and Innovation Days”. This was a large scale event, with about 3900 participants, which served several purposes. With Horizon 2020 approaching to its end and Horizon Europe starting in about a year an a half, it … Continue reading European Research & Innovation Days 2019
Continue reading »The A to Z History of London
The A to Z is a bit of an institution when it comes to London maps. It, along with the Tube Map, is probably the most famous and well known London map, and certainly the most famous atlas. We’ve reviewed a historic A-Z map of London before, but n…
Continue reading »The State of Mobility: MaaS Consolidation on the Horizon?
Mobility is a complex and important topic in geography, planning and technology. My research only touches on a small part of the field, namely automated micromobility services (aka micro-MaaS?) such as bikeshare and escootershare, so it’s always interesting to see a wider viewpoint. As such, I was interested when an acquaintance at HERE Mobility, an … Continue reading The State of Mobility: MaaS Consolidation on the Horizon? →
Continue reading »Think tank calls for development corporations to oversee green belt release around railway stations – PlanningResource
Think tank calls for development corporations to oversee green belt release around railway stations PlanningResourceGreen belt and agricultural land around railway stations should be released for development, with new “green development corp…
Continue reading »London Car Free Day Map
London is taking part in World Car Free Day, and the Mayor of London’s office has produced a special map showing the extent of road closures (to motor vehicles) or reimagined roads (to everyone else). The area covers almost the whole of the City …
Continue reading »Geographical magazine: The Future of Mapping
The Geographical magazine, which is the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, run an article about “the future of mapping“. The piece was written by Katie Burton, and it covers a range of recent developments in mapping technologies. I was interviewed for the piece, and provided information about our work with Sapelli, and also comments … Continue reading Geographical magazine: The Future of Mapping
Continue reading »New paper: Global mapping of citizen science projects for disaster risk reduction
I find it enjoyable when different strands of research come together. In many ways, research on the impacts of natural hazards on society – or Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), citizen science, and volunteer geographic information (VGI) are parallel research areas with research communities that work on each of them, and only occasionally come together. The … Continue reading New paper: Global mapping of citizen science projects for disaster risk reduction
Continue reading »What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves – The New Yorker
What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves The New Yorker
Continue reading »Communities, Bots and Vaccinations
Following on from our work on bots and health discussions in relation to online social networks (OSNs), Xiaoyi Yuan, Ross Schuchard and myself have just published a paper entitled “Examining Emergent Communities and Detecting Social Bots within the Pol…
Continue reading »Communities, Bots and Vaccinations
Following on from our work on bots and health discussions in relation to online social networks (OSNs), Xiaoyi Yuan, Ross Schuchard and myself have just published a paper entitled “Examining Emergent Communities and Detecting Social Bots within the Pol…
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