The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
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
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 Sun
Continue reading »What time is Question Time on tonight and who’s in the line up? The Scottish Sun
Continue reading »While in previous posts we have discussed machine learning (ML) with respect to social media analysis, we have also been exploring how one can use it in agent-based modeling. One of the first examples of this is a new paper with Paul Cummings which has…
Continue reading »While in previous posts we have discussed machine learning (ML) with respect to social media analysis, we have also been exploring how one can use it in agent-based modeling. One of the first examples of this is a new paper with Paul Cummings which has…
Continue reading »Digital 3-D models of London chart path to lower emissions Tech Xplore
Continue reading »In a previous post from a few years ago we looked at how the workplace the layout might impact subordinates interactions with managers. Now turning to work employee satisfaction within the workplace, at the forthcoming International Conference on Socia…
Continue reading »In a previous post from a few years ago we looked at how the workplace the layout might impact subordinates interactions with managers. Now turning to work employee satisfaction within the workplace, at the forthcoming International Conference on Socia…
Continue reading »Continuing our work on Emojis, at the forthcoming International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (or SBP-BRiMS for short) we (Melanie Swartz, Arie Croit…
Continue reading »Continuing our work on Emojis, at the forthcoming International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (or SBP-BRiMS for short) we (Melanie Swartz, Arie Croit…
Continue reading »Just a short post to say that over the summer saw us move from Northern Virginia to Buffalo to start a new chapter in our lives and research. More specifically I have become a Professor in the Department of Geography and a member of the REN…
Continue reading »Just a short post to say that over the summer saw us move from Northern Virginia to Buffalo to start a new chapter in our lives and research. More specifically I have become a Professor in the Department of Geography and a member of the REN…
Continue reading »Here is a short video I did for the Royal Geographical Society to show how new satellite data can reveal the daily changes to nitrogen dioxide (and other pollutants) in the atmosphere in unprecedented detail. For a longer version of the video and furt…
Continue reading »Here’s a video I filmed with the Financial Times to help explain the importance of gerrymandering to the outcomes of elections.
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