The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
One of London’s hardest challenge, the Circle Line Pub Crawl, got even harder a few years ago when Transport for London reconfigured the line to have a “tail” extending down to Hammersmith. Now, there are 35 tube stations and correspo…
Continue reading »City in the Air, Arata IsozakiCentre for Cities have put up a new City Talks podcast I did with CEO Andrew Carter, talking about cities, clusters, cluster policy tools and the Tech City programme. Later on we also go into some more nerdy stuff about po…
Continue reading »Digital poetry walk set to launch to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth The Westmorland Gazette
Continue reading »Continuing our work on shootings we recently had a paper published in Criminology and Public Policy entitled: “Responses to Mass Shooting Events: The Interplay Between the Media and the Public.” However, here we do not look at bots but instead explore …
Continue reading »In most of our work to date with respect to exploring social media, we have only looked at the text or images from online social media platforms (e.g. Twitter and Flickr) and excluded emojis from the analysis. However, this has now changed with a…
Continue reading »In most of our work to date with respect to exploring social media, we have only looked at the text or images from online social media platforms (e.g. Twitter and Flickr) and excluded emojis from the analysis. However, this has now changed with a…
Continue reading »In the first of our blogs for the new decade, we welcome this post from Hamish Robertson, University of Technology Sydney, emphasising the contribution that population geographers can make to wider discussions of multimorbidity in the context of population ageing. Population Ageing and Multimorbidity Introduction In the Population Research Group, we all know that populations … More Reflecting back and looking ahead…
Continue reading »London has a lot more rivers than just the River Thames and River Lea – but many of the rest are either very small and easily overlooked, or buried underground (culverted), typically by industrious Victorians looking to clean up channels that bec…
Continue reading »In the past we have explored how social media can be used to delineate earthquakes, locate wildfires or be used to understand urban morphology. However, recently we have also started to explore how social media and crowdsourced data can be utilized to …
Continue reading »This creation by Artur D, a volunteer at the London Transport Museum, is a faithful transplantion of the original c.1933 H.C. “Harry” Beck London tube map, the first to show the network as a diagram with rigid lines and corners – to t…
Continue reading »This is the second post about papers in the special collection of papers in the journal “Citizen Science: Theory and Practice” was dedicated to Policy Perspectives of Citizen Science. The first paper is described in this post. It is fairly rare to be able to catch an image close to the time when a concept … Continue reading How Does Citizen Science “Do” Governance? Reflections from the DITOs Project
Continue reading »I was invited by organiser Landor LINKS to the Walking and Cycling Conference which took place in Manchester last month. The conference included a good focus on bikeshare, and it was a good time for the UK-focused bikeshare industry to pause and take stock of a busy 2019. Three UK-focused bikeshare operators – Freebike, Beryl … Continue reading Walking & Cycling Innovations →
Continue reading »In early December, a special collection of papers in the journal “Citizen Science: Theory and Practice” was dedicated to Policy Perspectives of Citizen Science. I have contributed to two papers in this collection. The first one is “How Does Policy Conceptualise Citizen Science? A Qualitative Content Analysis of International Policy Documents“. The paper is led by … Continue reading How Does Policy Conceptualise Citizen Science? A Qualitative Content Analysis of International Policy Documents
Continue reading »Avid readers of this blog (if there are any) may be familiar with my routine of combing end of semester projects into a short movie and blogging about it. Well its that time again. Last semester I gave a class entitled Introduction to Computational So…
Continue reading »From August to December I was hosted at the Centre for Research and interdisciplinarity in Paris. This short term research fellowship had a focus on learning and citizen science. The recording below is from a seminar in November 2019, titled “the role of learning in citizen science and the impact of participation inequality”. The talk … Continue reading The role of learning in citizen science and the impact of participation inequality
Continue reading »Its been a while since we published a working paper, especially a CASA one, but this has now changed with the release of a new one entitled “Agent-Based Models for Geographical Systems: A Review.” In the paper Alison Heppenstall, Nick Malleson, Ed Manl…
Continue reading »This professor claims to have created a formula for finding ‘The One’ cosmopolitan.com
Continue reading »Fran Darlington-Pollock As we enter the final throes of the ‘twenty-teens’, we at the Population Geography Research Group are feeling reflective. There has been much in the past decade for population geographers to get their teeth into. For example, back in 2013, James Tyner wrote of the renaissance of ‘population’ in geography, with increasing attention … More Reflecting on the ‘twenty-teens’ and looking forward
Continue reading »The days may be short, but London comes alive in the month leading up to Christmas, with a number of Christmas Markets popping up at various scenic, tourist friendly locations, to provide a bit of mulled wine, bratwurst and handmade Christmas gifts. Li…
Continue reading »Following the original 2017 edition and a 2018 update, The East End Trades Guild have launched a new version of their specially created map of independent retail businesses in the East End of London, many of whom sell unique, locally made gifts ideal f…
Continue reading »As part of the EU-Citizen.Science project, UCL is leading on the training work package. This means that we coordinate the part of the platform that will help to store and share training material for citizen science projects, and generally for the field (such as the UCL online course). The stay at the Centre for Research … Continue reading What can we learn from analysing citizen science training materials?
Continue reading »The hidden power of mathematics Lab News
Continue reading »This is an invitation to complete a survey that is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7XN5MQG This survey will present you stories about different forms of public participation in research. Different activities within this area of public participation in research are now called “citizen science” and we would like to hear what your opinion is about each activity. … Continue reading Would you call this a citizen science activity?
Continue reading »Building upon our work with respect to how bots impact online conversations pertaining to global events and health, we have extended this research to see what role bots play in mass shooting events. In our new paper published in Palgrave Co…
Continue reading »Silicon Roundabout: did light touch policy interventions work? USAPP American Politics and Policy (blog)
Continue reading »In the past we have developed agent-based models to explore a wide variety of applications and even to explored at humanitarian assistance after a natural disaster, however we have not explored how people might decide to rebuild or not after a natural …
Continue reading »In the past we have developed agent-based models to explore a wide variety of applications and even to explored at humanitarian assistance after a natural disaster, however we have not explored how people might decide to rebuild or not after a natural …
Continue reading »Tes profile: Meet the maths champion Dr Hannah Fry TES News
Continue reading »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 »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 »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 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 »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 »Did the Tech City cluster programme actually help East London tech firms? Let’s find out.Continue reading on The Startup »
Continue reading »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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…
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