The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Layers of London, which has just launched, aims to be a platform for geolocating and documenting the local history of the capital. It works by allowing historical facts, comments and memories to be attached to pins on a map. The pins are grouped together as projects, or collections. The map itself can be adjusted, from […]
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Weather Flow Shield – Fusion 360 Model Render The Weather Flow ‘Smart Weather Station‘ is arguably one of the most innovative weather sensors on the market. Launched via a kickstater campaign in 2017, the system is now shipping to backers and will be made available for general sale shortly. Air,…
Readers of the blog might know we have an interest in volunteered geographic information, social media and Web 2.0 technologies and how they can be used to explore urban systems. Recently however, we turned our focus on how such information and technol…
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Geographical location of the South Omo Zone of EthiopiaWhile many of the recent posts on the site have focused on social media, social networks and volunteered geographical information, we have not forgotten or moved away from agent-based modeling (as …
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You’ve done the Circle Line Pub Crawl. Now try the Circle Line Food Crawl. Or use this special “Food Tube Map”, produced by Wren Kitchens (they write about it here), to visit unusual gastronomic experiences anywhere inside the Zone 1 area marked out by the Circle Line. The 25 restaurants and eateries included in this […]
Continue reading »Around July, Linda Doyle got in touch with me, with a request for an interview for a mini-series of podcasts on citizen science as part of the Science Disrupt podcasts. The Science Disrupt series got plenty of interesting episodes – a mini-series on Responsible Science, DIY Bio, Crowdfunding research, and many other topics. The specific … Continue reading Citizens Disrupt podcast on Extreme Citizen Science
Continue reading »About a year ago, the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, hosted the PPGIS 2017 workshop (here are my notes from the first day and the second day). Today, four papers from the workshop were published in the journal Quaestiones Geographicae which was established in 1974 as an annual journal of the Faculty of Geographical and Geological … Continue reading Papers from PPGIS 2017 meeting: state of the art and examples from Poland and the Czech Republic
Continue reading »Having travelled to both Milan and Singapore in the last few weeks, it’s worth a note on the bikeshare provisions there. Milan has BikeMi, a long-serving dock-based bikeshare system, which is one of the nearly 400 city systems that I have mapped in Bike Share map. It covers a big part of the city. There … Continue reading Bikeshare Snapshot – Milan and Singapore →
Continue reading »While I started blogging during my PhD (actually the first real post was from February 21st 2006), for some reason I only started recording statistics about the blog in May 2010. This month marks the milestone of over 1,000,000 page views. So I thought…
Continue reading »Summary of the session on Digital Representation of Place at the RGS-IBG conference in Cardiff. The session aim was to address the following challenge: “Over the last few decades, our cities have become increasingly digital. Urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape our geographic interactions: impacting how we perceive, move through, … Continue reading Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice
Continue reading »I never knew that with respect to the European Research Council (ERC), I belong to a (small) group called “Dual role incumbents”. Not until I’ve read “Europe’s New Scientific Elite: Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area” – A book by Barbara Hoenig which came out in 2017. The way I heard about … Continue reading Barbara Hoenig’s “Europe’s New Scientific Elite”
Continue reading »Yext Adds Dr. Hannah Fry and Executives from Boston Market, Inspire Brands, EXPRESS, and T-Mobile to …IT Business Net (press release)Dr. Fry is a lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College …
Continue reading »Yext Adds Dr. Hannah Fry and Executives from Boston Market, Inspire Brands, EXPRESS, and T-Mobile to …PR Newswire (press release)… in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. She is also a …
Continue reading »Yext Adds Dr. Hannah Fry and Executives from Boston Market …Markets InsiderNEW YORK, Aug. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT) the leader in Digital Knowledge Management (DKM), today announced major additions to …and more »
Continue reading »It’s now about two months since the intensive 10 days at the beginning of June, which included attending the workshop Science and Dissent, the ECSA conference, the follow-up COST Action on citizen science meeting, and the Ecsite conference. Shortly after, I attended the UNECE 22nd Working Group of Parties to the Aarhus Convention. June ended … Continue reading Communities of practice of citizen science – workshops, meetings, and conferences
Continue reading »In some ways, docker can be viewed as the holy grail of DevOps: develop locally, ship everywhere. Although it is still a relatively recent technology, docker’s adoption curve has been so steep that it has become almost a standard-de-facto in … Continue reading →
Continue reading »TfL is keen to get people travelling on the tube when it’s not so busy, and also beyond Zone 1. With this in mind, they’ve commissioned these line maps, in conjunction with Time Out magazine. Each line (except the Waterloo and City) gets one, with the most interesting sections of each line converted into a […]
Continue reading »The first outcome of the December 2016 workshop on apps, platforms, and portals for citizen science projects was the open access paper “Defining principles for mobile apps and platforms development in citizen science“, which came out in October 2017. The workshop, which was organised by Soledad Luna and Ulrike Sturm from the Berlin Museum for Natural History, has … Continue reading Developing mobile applications for environmental and biodiversity citizen science: considerations and recommendations
Continue reading »The Open GeoPortal is a Free and Open Source framework for rapidly discovering, previewing and retrieving curated geospatial data from multiple repositories. It implements a modular architecture, including a database, a search engine and several web applications. While it can … Continue reading →
Continue reading »If you ask me which sort of women are coders, I would say any. It is a fact that despite recent efforts, women are still under represented in IT. Although I think that to change this it is essential to … Continue reading →
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Tired of London? Samuel Johnson said you are then tired of life. But sometimes, there are attractions in living outside the capital, while continuing to work in the centre. Such as a nice big garden, and being away from the “urban heat island” that makes London hotter than the surrounding regions. To do that, you […]
Continue reading »July 23rd, 2018 PGRG Blog #12 Kate Botterill Sophie Cranston We are delighted to announce a series of exciting sessions sponsored by the PGRG at the 2018 RGS-IBG annual conference in Cardiff. A question PGRG members are often asked is what is population geography? People often mistake population geography for demography, the statistical analysis of changing … More So, what is population geography?
Continue reading »The new book by Mark Nieuwenhuijsen and Haneen Khries “Integrating Human Health into Urban and Transport Planning” have just come out. The Mark and Haneen approached me with a request for a chapter on community-led air quality monitoring, and this provided an opportunity to join forces with Irene Eleta, who was doing her Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship in … Continue reading On the front line of community-led air quality monitoring – new paper
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Continuing on our work of exploring health related issues in social media, Xiaoyi Yuan and myself had a paper accepted at the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society. In our paper entitled: “Examining Online Vaccination Discussion and …
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Continuing on our work of exploring health related issues in social media, Xiaoyi Yuan and myself had a paper accepted at the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society. In our paper entitled: “Examining Online Vaccination Discussion and …
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The Sensory City Philosopher
CityLab “I don’t think that the answer lies in any of the smart devices or computers or networks we currently have,” said Michael Batty, an emeritus professor of planning at University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. “The issues are … |
Broadway WorldDialogue Starters Announced for Upcoming Arena Civil DialoguesBroadway WorldAfter completing his PhD dissertation, he held a position of an Affiliate Academic at the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University of London, College of L…
Continue reading »London’s been sweltering under a heatwave for the last couple of weeks. Mapping London co-creator Dr James Cheshire has created this map from the latest (29 JUne) Landsat 8 thermal imagery of the capital. ExCeL is a particular hotspot – its large, flat, metallic roof was showing a temperature of 38°C, having been baked by […]
Continue reading »BuildingMy Digital life: the smart cities expertBuildingI developed an interest in smart cities, data science and future cities, and the company funded me to do another degree at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College L…
Continue reading »The Digital Geographies Research Group of the RGS-IBG held the annual symposium at the University of Sheffield, under the theme “Justice and the Digital”. These are partial notes from the day The symposium opening session focus on the important question “What’s Justice got to do with it?” Jeremy Crampton covered three issues – practices of surveillance in the context … Continue reading Justice and the Digital symposium notes
Continue reading »This is a map of Hackney Borough, from the perspective of its old, wealthy houses, and the discovered and undiscovered treasures buried under them. It was drawn by Adam Dant, and is one of the maps featured in his book “Maps of London & Beyond” which was published last month and we reviewed. The map […]
Continue reading »At the upcoming Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS) workshop, we have a paper entitled “The MASON Simulation Toolkit: Past, Present, and Future” in which we discuss MASON’s development history, its design and (probably more interesting) where MASON is …
Continue reading »At the upcoming Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS) workshop, we have a paper entitled “The MASON Simulation Toolkit: Past, Present, and Future” in which we discuss MASON’s development history, its design and (probably more interesting) where MASON is …
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Forging quality partnerships with leading universities in Europe
Perspectives@SMU … student and faculty exchange programmes at all levels. PDF icon CASA signs partnership with Singapore Management University and celebrates with joint seminar _ The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis – UCL – London’s Global University.pdf. |
July 2nd, 2018 PGRG Blog #11 Nissa Finney It was recently remarked to me that I am the first female Chair of the RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group. I was struck by this comment and turned to the archives of the Research Group in Area and the Royal Geographical Society files of AGM minutes to … More Where are all the female population geography professors?
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Just published: a special Issue of Philosophical Transactions B (The Royal Society) on ‘Interdisciplinary approaches for uncovering the impacts of architecture on collective behaviour’. My own contribution is ‘open access’ and you can read it and print it from the web … Continue reading →
This conference is the seventh in a by-now very well established meeting held each June in Cambridge UK, which brings together those working on land use transport interaction/integration models (LUTI models) in the narrower sense and more generally on urban … Continue reading →
A lot of Londoners are currently focused on the World Cup in Russia at the moment, so Mapping London is taking a look eastwards, thanks to the latest boutique map created by productive cartographers Blue Crow Media. The map is essentially a Moscow version of their London Underground Architecture & Design Map and features the […]
Continue reading »June 21, 2018 PGRG Blog #10 Lisa Thalheimer Extreme weather and migratory events have been topics of great interest for decades. In recent years, extreme weather events such as droughts or floods often result in widespread displacement. The 2011 drought in East Africa – a region, which has historically been using migration as coping strategy … More Extreme Weather Events And Population Movement In The Era Of Climate Change
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The GeoSim’18 workshop focuses on all aspects of simulation as a general paradigm to model and predict spatial systems and generate spatial data. New simulation methodologies and frameworks, not necessarily coming from the SIGSPATIAL community, are …
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