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Sometimes there is a need to step back and do things as simply as possible. EInk / Epaper screens are amazing, they carrying on showing…
Continue reading »Following on from our Little Book of Connected Environments and the Internet of Things we have a new publication – The Little Book of Public…
Continue reading »While we are witnessing a growth in the world-wide urban population, not all cities are growing equally and some are actually shrinking (e.g., Leipzig in Germany; Urumqi in China; and Detroit in the United States). Such shrinking cities pose a signific…
Continue reading »At The Connected Environment Lab, part of The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, here at University College London we are designing and building a…
Continue reading »We’ve all had plenty of to explore our local areas, over the last year, with several lockdowns and other movement restrictions meaning that our local village, town or part of London is our exercise arena. With this in mind it’s always nice …
Continue reading »The Hidden Geography of Ecommerce | by Philip Wilkinson | The Shadow | Jan, 2021 Medium
Continue reading »As part of the Annual Modeling & Simulation Conference (ANNSIM 2021), Philippe Giabbanelli, and myself are organizing a tract entitled “Humans, Societies and Artificial Agents (HSAA)” which now has a call for papers out. Track descripti…
Continue reading »As part of the Annual Modeling & Simulation Conference (ANNSIM 2021), Philippe Giabbanelli, and myself are organizing a tract entitled “Humans, Societies and Artificial Agents (HSAA)” which now has a call for papers out. Track descripti…
Continue reading »New ‘healthy streets’ data map for London aims to help planners ‘improve liveability’ PlanningResource
Continue reading »Over 1.4 billion people exposed to significant flood risk; PH ranks 8th – The Manila Times The Manila Times
Continue reading »Continuing our work on bots, Ross Schuchard and myself have a new paper in PLOS ONE entitled “Insights into elections: An ensemble bot detection coverage framework applied to the 2018 U.S. midterm elections.” Our motivation for the work came from…
Continue reading »Continuing our work on bots, Ross Schuchard and myself have a new paper in PLOS ONE entitled “Insights into elections: An ensemble bot detection coverage framework applied to the 2018 U.S. midterm elections.” Our motivation for the work came from…
Continue reading »How do we enable agile digital infrastructure for education and research? Jisc launches Networkshop49 FE News
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Continue reading »Its been a while since (to say the least), that we wrote a position paper about agent-based modeling. But with agent-based modeling becoming more widely accepted and the growth of machine learning within the geographical sciences we thought we wo…
Continue reading »Its been a while since (to say the least), that we wrote a position paper about agent-based modeling. But with agent-based modeling becoming more widely accepted and the growth of machine learning within the geographical sciences we thought we wo…
Continue reading »This is the recording from earlier this month from a meeting of the Citizen Science Association (CSA) meeting of the law and policy working group which was dedicated to Aarhus convention and its relevance to citizen science. The main speakers in the session were Lea Shanley, who co-chair the group, Anna Berti Suman (check her … Continue reading CSA law and policy group: the Aarhus Convention and Citizen Science →
Continue reading »The DITOs escalator was developed as part of the “Doing It Together Science” project and represent a conceptual framework that positions citizen science within the wider set of activities that we can consider as public engagement in science – from the act of reading an article about scientific discovery in a newspaper to developing your … Continue reading New paper: Exploring factors associated with participation in citizen science among UK museum visitors aged 40–60 →
Continue reading »The maps above were created for an article in The Conversation entitled Next slide please: data visualisation expert on what’s wrong with the UK government’s coronavirus charts in it I argue that there needs to be better data visualisations in government briefings. I give a particular example about how maps can appear differently depending on the…
Continue reading »Building on past posts about our work with respect to generating large scale synthetic populations for agent-based models, we have a new paper entitled “Integrating Social Networks into Large-scale Urban Simulations for Disaster Responses” that was acc…
Continue reading »Building on past posts about our work with respect to generating large scale synthetic populations for agent-based models, we have a new paper entitled “Integrating Social Networks into Large-scale Urban Simulations for Disaster Responses” that was acc…
Continue reading »This text and video is reblogged and edited from https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/2020/10/29/launch-week-summary/ Last week marked the launch of the UCL Office of Open Science & Scholarship which is part of the library at UCL. The office includes support for citizen science activities at UCL, and as such, marks an important milestone in the institutional support for such … Continue reading UCL Office of Open Science & Scholarship launch – citizen science webinar →
Continue reading »London has a long and gruesome history – indeed part of its tourist industry is focused on tours and attractions based on the “Jack the Ripper” cases, so there was always going to be plenty of London-related content in this new book w…
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Continue reading »The Citizen Science and Sustainable Development Goals (or in its full name “Knowledge for Change: A decade of Citizen Science (2020-2030) in support of the SDGs” was held on 14 and 15 October 2020 as a hybrid conference in Berlin and online, using the Hopin platform. I attended the conference in person, as I was … Continue reading Citizen Science & SDG, Berlin 14-15 Oct – a hybrid conference →
Continue reading »In the past we have written about using agent-based modeling to study human resources management issues and how workplace the layout might impact subordinates interactions with managers but with growing amounts data we can explore how employees communi…
Continue reading »In the past we have written about using agent-based modeling to study human resources management issues and how workplace the layout might impact subordinates interactions with managers but with growing amounts data we can explore how employees communi…
Continue reading »In the past I have mentioned Mesa, an agent-based modeling framework in Python is several posts but not really discussed it in detail. This is about to change with this post. The reason being is that we have a paper at the forthcoming International …
Continue reading »In the past I have mentioned Mesa, an agent-based modeling framework in Python is several posts but not really discussed it in detail. This is about to change with this post. The reason being is that we have a paper at the forthcoming International …
Continue reading »IET announces 16 Honorary Fellows to mark 150th year Plant & Works Engineering magazine
Continue reading »IET announces 16 Honorary Fellows to mark 150th year Design Products & Applications
Continue reading »Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE Awarded Honorary Fellowship from the Institution of Engineering and Technology FE News
Continue reading »Continuing our work on machine learning and agent-based modeling, at the upcoming Computational Social Science (CSS 2020) annual conference, Dale Brearcliffe and myself have a paper entitled: “Creating Intelligent Agents: Combining Agent-Based Mo…
Continue reading »Continuing our work on machine learning and agent-based modeling, at the upcoming Computational Social Science (CSS 2020) annual conference, Dale Brearcliffe and myself have a paper entitled: “Creating Intelligent Agents: Combining Agent-Based Mo…
Continue reading »The Post-Normal Science 5 symposium moved, like many other scientific meetings this year, to an online meeting. If you haven’t come across the term, it is worth looking into – post-normal science (PNS) is, for me, one of the foundations for how citizen science can be integrated into policy processes. PNS is a conceptual framework … Continue reading Citizen Science & Post-Normal Science zones
Continue reading »Will coronavirus cause a big city exodus? A long read.Continue reading on Medium »
Continue reading »This is a recording of a seminar from early September, which was part of the a session that organised by the Social science and Humanities in ionising radiation Research (SHARE) in their RICOMET 2020 conference. Radon, which is a radioactive gas and that under some condition can accumulate in houses (and especially basements) and is … Continue reading Investigating the potential of citizen science for effective radon measurement and mitigation
Continue reading »In early February 2019, Lucy Robinson, the then vice-chair of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) asked me to join the conference organising committee on behalf of the ECSA board. The journey finished last Friday afternoon, with the end of the side events of the conference – as always, a long journey, made longer due … Continue reading Reflections on ECSA 2020 conference
Continue reading »What time is Question Time on tonight and who’s in the line up? The Irish Sun
Continue reading »What time is Question Time on tonight and who’s in the line up? The Sun
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