The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
As many of us know more people are now living in cities than ever before. Over half (3.3 billion people) of the world’s population are located in urban areas and this proportion is predicted to increase to over 75 percent by the year 2100 (United Na…
Continue reading »As many of us know more people are now living in cities than ever before. Over half (3.3 billion people) of the world’s population are located in urban areas and this proportion is predicted to increase to over 75 percent by the year 2100 (United Na…
Continue reading »National Geographic magazine has published a tag map of US surnames compiled by geographers at University College London (UCL), James Cheshire, Paul Longley and Pablo Mateos. The February 2011 issue of National Geographic (page 22-23) includes a double spread with … Continue reading →
Continue reading »At the end of 2010, UCL’s Office of the Vice-Provost (Enterprise) ran an internal competition to identify several Knowledge Transfer (KT) Champions across the institute. ‘KT Champions will distinguish themselves as leaders of knowledge transfer and research impact within their field, and contribute to UCL’s enterprise strategy as a whole… The activities of a KT […]
The National Geographic Surname Map has generated a lot of discussion both online and via email. The response has been overwhelmingly positive but some people, unsurprisingly, have suggested improvements. A recent post on the great Junk Charts blog acts as a good summary of the comments I have received. For the purpose of this post I have …
Continue reading »Cities can be considered “flows of information, vehicles and people” (Sheller, 2007) transported along diverse urban networks. In the Flowprint of London below, the city’s extensive bus network is used to sketch an animated portrait of the living city,…
Continue reading »Many OAC User Group members will be delighted to learn that not only has ONS coded its Wealth and Assets Survey with OAC, but there’s a paper “Exploring the geographical distribution of wealth using the output area classification” in the latest Economic & Labour Market Review (Jan 2011). http://www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/elmr/elmr-jan11.pdf – pages 59-78. You’ll see some […]
Continue reading »The IGU Commission on Population Geography plans once again to sponsor and actively promote some themed sessions at the bi-annual international population conference to be held in Umeå, Sweden in 2011. The Commission proposes three themed sessions linked to the commission’s core interests in ‘Population and Difference’ and ‘Population and Vulnerability’. A. Population and Difference […]
Continue reading »I came across an interesting article by John Allen Paulos (via @timharford) on Scientific American claiming that your friends are probably more popular than you. This idea goes nicely together with some of the theory behind complex networks which I … Continue reading →
This is an updated version of my Making Maps with R tutorial. I think the code is lot simpler and it also includes some data for you to play around with. Background: Spatial data are becoming increasingly common, as are the tools available in R to process it. Of course one of the best ways […]
Continue reading »Spatial data are becoming increasingly common, as are the tools available in R to process it. It takes a little time to understand how R handles spatial data; this tutorial is designed to help get people started. It outlines how to create a simple spatial points object from as csv file, load and export a […]
Continue reading »Google Earth has become a popular way of disseminating spatial data. KML is the data format required to do this. It is possible to load almost any type of spatial data format into R and export it as a KML file. In my experience R seems much quicker at doing this than many well-known GIS […]
Continue reading »We have been sitting back recently and watching the various XBox Kinect hacks with interest. It was only a matter of time – 3D room scanning and model construction:
I find it amazing that you can pop into your local retail outlet and purchase a 3D s…
Continue reading »Yesterday, for the first time, I came across the phrase ‘GIS Systems’ in an academic paper, written by geographers (not GIS experts). I have also noticed that the term is being used more often in recent times when people talk about packages such as ArcGIS or Mapinfo. On the face of it, talking about a […]
The government is set to release a bill detailing how it is they expect the proposed GP Consortia to work. GP Consortia, groups of GPs working together, are set to replace the current structure of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) as the mechanism through which primary healthcare is provided to the […]
Continue reading »University College London – UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial AnalysisFull TimeThe appointment will be on UCL Grade 8, salary range will be £39,510 – £46,635 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, home of Dig…
Continue reading »RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011 London, 31st August to 2nd September CALL FOR PAPERS Diversity in transitions to adulthood and implications for residential mobility Convenors: Nissa Finney (University of Manchester) and Naomi Tyrrell (University of Plymouth) Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group and the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group Migration has long […]
Continue reading »Google spreadsheets are a commonly used way of making data publicly available – for example a lot of the data from the Guardian Datablog is exposed in this way. They can be viewed using a standard web browser – but suppose you wish to do something more with the data than just view it? For example […]
Continue reading »The release of the R package “googleVis” has made the production of interactive maps through Google’s Chart Tools a simple task. Ignoring the some basic data manipulation the below map was produced with these two lines of code: library(googleVis) Geo=gvisGeoMap(Map, locationvar=”Country”, numvar=”Percentage”, options=list(height=350, dataMode=’regions’)) plot(Geo) This map, although simple to produce, is nontrivial as it […]
Continue reading »Londoners ‘afraid’ to use Barclays hire bikes BikeRadar.com
Continue reading »Thanks to some help from Richard Milton and Ollie O’Brien at CASA I have now managed to produce a google maps mash-up of the Migration Classification I developed as part of my thesis. The full interactive map can be accessed … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The paper “How Many Volunteers Does It Take To Map An Area Well? The validity of Linus’ law to Volunteered Geographic Information“ has appeared in The Cartographic Journal. The proper citation for the paper is: Haklay, M and Basiouka, S and Antoniou, V and Ather, A (2010) How Many Volunteers Does It Take To Map […]
Ooh look, two of my favourite things in the same place – the Census and Secularism. The latest social attitudes survey suggests around 43% of people in Britain say they have no religion – in the 2001 Census this figure … Continue reading →
Continue reading »EveryAware is a three-year research project, funded under the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project’s focus is on the development of Citizen Science techniques to allow people to find out about their local environmental conditions, and then to see if the provision of this information leads to behaviour change. The abstract of the […]
Population Footprints 25-26 May 2011, The Mermaid Conference Centre, London EC4V 3DB 1st Announcement & Call for Poster Abstracts www.populationfootprints.org We would like to bring to your attention this major UCL and Leverhulme Trust symposium on human population growth and global carrying capacity to be held in London on Wednesday 25 & Thursday 26 May 2011. The symposium will […]
Continue reading »Interesting talk from Mike Goodchild in a lecture at the US NSF entitled ‘From Community Mapping to Critical Spatial Thinking’. This talk is a good overview of VGI and links it to the understanding of spatial concepts and integrating them into teaching and research. The interesting issue raised in the talk is the link between […]
*Update*
Thanks to everyone who retweeted and entered the competition, we are pleased to announce the 3 winners:
elliothartley
mschartley &
urbanorienteer
If the winners could email us their address we will ship the books out a…
Continue reading »We have just fallen in love with Google SketchUp all over again, we are slightly late to the table on this one but Google Building Maker is now fully integrated into SketchUp 8. It has the genius of Canoma with the addition of all the editing…
Continue reading »The QMRG is pleased to be co-sponsoring a session at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011 with the GIScRG on: Early Careers Research in Quantitative Geography and Geographic Information Science. It is convened by James Cheshire (GIScRG) and Alex Singleton (QMRG). The abstract is as follows: The data and tools that are used for analysing, visualising […]
Continue reading »2th – 5th September 2011 – Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Special sessions:
A. Quantitative methods in health geography
B. Networking the World: Concepts, methods, data
Deadline for abstracts – March 30th 2011
More details can be fo…