Walking with the Snowman
We’ve long liked temporary “parade” sculpture trails in London – they make exploring a neighbourhood even more interesting, if around the corner is one of
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Massive Trajectory Data Based on Patterns of Life
Following on from the last post, we (Hossein Amiri, Shiyang Ruan, Joon-Seok Kim, Hyunjee Jin, Hamdi Kavak, Dieter Pfoser, Carola Wenk and Andreas Zufle and myself) have a paper in the Data and Resources trac…
Continue reading »Synthetic Geosocial Network Generation
In the past the blog has explored the creation of social networks for models. Keeping with this vain of research, I was fortunate to work with Ketevan Gallagher, Taylor Anderson and Andreas Züfle to consider the role of locatio…
Continue reading »How to Make a Lightsaber Realtime Wind Speed Gauge
Imagine wielding the power of the Force, not to fight Sith Lords, but to display real-time data – in our case, wind speed, but the code/build can be adapted to any data feed. Using a NeoPixel strip inside a lightsaber tube,…
Continue reading »Geographically Synthetic Populations for ABM: A Gallery of Applications
Often we are building geographically explicit agent-based models we spend a lot of time creating the synthetic population to instantiate our artificial world. We have tired to overcome this with creating methods to generate such populations (see this o…
Continue reading »Evaluating the incentive for soil organic carbon sequestration from carinata production
Over the years we have developed several agent-based models that have explored various aspects of farming, ranging from farmers selling their land for development to that of water reuse. Keeping with this theme, we have a new paper with Kazi Ullah and …
Continue reading »Can the Green Belt be Developed Sustainably to Ease London’s Housing Crisis?
The housing crisis in London has become increasingly severe in the last decade with much higher prices, rents, and largely static incomes, while housing development volumes have remained consistently below targets. Green Belt reform is often cited as a solution to boost development, though this has been off the agenda during the last 13 years … Continue reading Can the Green Belt be Developed Sustainably to Ease London’s Housing Crisis?
Continue reading »Leveraging newspapers to understand urban issues
In the past, this blog has explored several aspects of Detroit, such as how well its covered with Volunteered Street View Imagery or how through the use of agent-based models one can explore issues with urban shrinkage. Keeping up with the theme of shr…
Continue reading »INCENTIVE/TIME4CS EU policy roundtable – institutional adoption of citizen science
The roundtable took place on 18th September 2023, at the European Commission in Brussels. The people who participated include people from research funders, people with interest at local, national and European level, people who are involved in the engagement of civil society. Policies can be at universities, municipalities, R&I organisations, national bodies and European. Georgios … Continue reading INCENTIVE/TIME4CS EU policy roundtable – institutional adoption of citizen science
Continue reading »Call for Abstracts: Geosimulations for Addressing Societal Challenges
As part of the The 10th Anniversary Symposium on Human Dynamics Research which will take place at the 2024 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii between Tuesday, April 16 – Saturday, April 20, 2024 we are or…
Continue reading »New paper: do creative clusters lead to gentrification?
© The Wick 2020A lot of cities try to promote creative activity as a tool for economic growth. A lot of creatives — and activists — worry that arts districts and the like are simply the first step to gentrification, pushing out the original artists as …
Continue reading »Agent-Based Modeling of Consumer Choice
At the upcoming International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023) Boyu Wang and myself have a new paper entitled “Agent-Based Modeling of Consumer Choice by Utilizing Crowdsourced Data and Deep Learning.” In the paper we explo…
Continue reading »ABM Online Courses
Often I get asked about how to learn about agent-based modeling (ABM). While we have a book on this with respect to GIS and ABM, the other day, Jiaqi Ge posted a question about free ABM online courses on the SIMSOC mailing list and I though it would be…
Continue reading »Crypto Cities
Summer is a good time for academics to catch up on reading, and I’ve finally found time to go through this v interesting post on Crypto Cities by Vitalik Bukterin, who is always worth your time. (It’s also helpful for the Smart Cities course I teach at…
Continue reading »Sunath presented advances in the use of data science to improve … – Nates’s Crest
Sunath presented advances in the use of data science to improve … Nates’s Crest
Continue reading »Reimaging the traditional Weather House with Open Data, Laser Cutting and 3D Printing
Traditional German weather houses are small, decorative structures that are popular in Germany and other parts of Europe. They are often made from wood and used to predict the weather.
A Traditional Weather House
The way the wea…
Continue reading »Writing 500 Words a Day – The Pomodoro Technique
Back in 2013, I wrote a blog post on 500 Words a Day, Academic Writing. Noting that its not something many academics admit – but writing is hard, not for all, there are some academics who simply flow words but for many its …
Continue reading »Male stereotypes drive some countries to overestimate navigation ability – Phys.org
Male stereotypes drive some countries to overestimate navigation ability Phys.org
Continue reading »MQTT Scroller for the Pimoroni Stellar Unicon: THE: Time, Headlines and Envivronmental Information
Pimoroni make a range of LED matrix displays with Pi Pico W’s built in – previously we have used the large scale Pimoroni Galatic Unicorn and added a series of…
Continue reading »Juste RAIMBAULT | Research fellow | PhD | University College London, London | UCL | Center for Advanced Spatial … – ResearchGate
Juste RAIMBAULT | Research fellow | PhD | University College London, London | UCL | Center for Advanced Spatial … ResearchGate
Continue reading »Hannah Fry Battling With Cervical Cancer: Illness And Health Update 2022 – Trung Tâm Đào Tạo Việt Á
Hannah Fry Battling With Cervical Cancer: Illness And Health Update 2022 Trung Tâm Đào Tạo Việt Á
Continue reading »All the Docks 2
Yes, we did it again. All the Docks 2 took place in London on 9 July. Five teams (up from three last time) each cycled between a fifth of the Santander Cycles docking stations in London. I again did the routes, splitting up the ~800 docking stations into 5 routes of 160 docking stations apiece. […]
Continue reading »Esra Suel – Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University … – Columbia | SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy
Esra Suel – Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University … Columbia | SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy
Continue reading »Things We Don’t Want to Know?
The Thick of It, BBC TV (2012)As researchers and policymakers, we all say we want evidence-based policy; so why is there little good evaluation evidence about, and why do many decision-makers seem reluctant to use it?I’m back from a trip to Paris, wher…
Continue reading »Building Data
Seven years ago, I wrote “We don’t have individual building age open data in the UK” – but that is no longer true! The MLUHC (for England Wales) and the Scottish Government via the Energy Saving Trust have been publishing individual Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), for both residential and non-residential buildings, for several years now, […]
Continue reading »Hannah Fry Illness: What Illness Does Hannah Have? – AmbrSoft
Hannah Fry Illness: What Illness Does Hannah Have? AmbrSoft
Continue reading »Editorial: Urban analytical approaches to combating the Covid-19 pandemic
While there has been a lot written about COVID-19 Angela Yao, Bin Jiang, Jukka Krisp, Xintao Liu, and Haosheng Huang and myself have just recently wrapped up a special issue in Environment and Planning B and how it can be studied through the lens…
Continue reading »Editorial: Urban analytical approaches to combating the Covid-19 pandemic
While there has been a lot written about COVID-19 Angela Yao, Bin Jiang, Jukka Krisp, Xintao Liu, and Haosheng Huang and myself have just recently wrapped up a special issue in Environment and Planning B and how it can be studied through the lens…
Continue reading »Governments could use supercomputers to mount crisis response, say Aberdeen scientists – FutureScot
Governments could use supercomputers to mount crisis response, say Aberdeen scientists FutureScot
Continue reading »13 Bridges Challenge
The 13 Bridges Challenge, organised by SSAFA (the Armed Forces charity) is taking place on Saturday 24 June (this Saturday) and participants will be walking
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Continue reading »New £4m digital hub to tackle antimicrobial resistance – Mirage News
New £4m digital hub to tackle antimicrobial resistance Mirage News
Continue reading »New Geospatial Strategy to boost UK’s standing as location … – GOV.UK
New Geospatial Strategy to boost UK’s standing as location … GOV.UK
Continue reading »C*Sci 2023 and the new name of the (US) Citizen Science Association
At the end of May, the Citizen Science Association (CSA) celebrated its 10th year anniversary in its conference – C*Sci 2023, held at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Arizona. The conference (22-26 May) provided the opportunity to meet face-to-face colleagues in the area of citizen science, which I haven’t had a chance to talk … Continue reading C*Sci 2023 and the new name of the (US) Citizen Science Association
Continue reading »GEOINNO 2024: send us your papers!
GEOINNO has become an essential conference for the large community of researchers working at the intersections of urban economics, networks / complexity analysis, economic geography and the economics of innovation. I’m very happy to see Manchester host…
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London, April 2020.New/old paper news: I’m very happy to have the lead article in this Urban Studies special issue on COVID-19 and cities. It’s open access!Many thanks to Scott Orford, Yingling Fan and Phil Hubbard for having me.This article is a time …
Continue reading »A Comprehensive Illustrated Map of Modern Medicine – Laughing Squid
A Comprehensive Illustrated Map of Modern Medicine Laughing Squid
Continue reading »World Population Density Map Update with GHSL 2023
The European Union JRC recently released a new 2023 update of the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) data. This update has greatly improved the GHSL data, with a 10m scale built-up area dataset of the entire globe which has been used to create a 100m scale global population density layer. The level of detail for … Continue reading World Population Density Map Update with GHSL 2023
Continue reading »Simulation & Optimization Techniques for the Mitigation of Disruptions to Supply Chains
Our last paper at the Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) is entitled “Simulation and Optimization Techniques for the Mitigation of Disruptions to Supply Chains” where we (Raj Patel, Abhisekh Rana, Sean Luke, Carlotta Domeniconi, Hamdi K…
Continue reading »Simulation & Optimization Techniques for the Mitigation of Disruptions to Supply Chains
Our last paper at the Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) is entitled “Simulation and Optimization Techniques for the Mitigation of Disruptions to Supply Chains” where we (Raj Patel, Abhisekh Rana, Sean Luke, Carlotta Domeniconi, Hamdi K…
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