Google demos its driverless cars
Google has given demonstrations of its driverless cars at the Ted2011 conference in Long Beach, California, and Danny Sullivan of Search Engine land has posted some video of his ride inside one.
Continue reading »Month: March 2011
Crime Data Visualisation
I created a Sub Regional level visualisation of Crime data, launched in december 2010. It can be viewed at http://83.170.104.41/ktpweb/PoliceAPI.aspx
Continue reading »John Snow’s Cholera Map
Embedded below is a high resolution version of John Snow’s 1854 map of the Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) cholera outbreak. Widely cited as the one of the first (and…
Continue reading »Meet Tweet-o-Meter
My newest creation into crowd sourcing this week has launched, the Tweet-o-Meter! Tweet-o-Meter shows twitter traffic from different cities around the world and allows you to see which city tweets the most. We are mining the data for later analysis to and are currently in the process of mapping the data. It’s all very exciting. […]
Continue reading »Lighting trails – Visualising urban Wi-Fi
There are a lot of hidden treasures to be found in the city. Being this some historic relicts, a great view across to a place all of a sudden becoming a landmark or a lovely coffee place. One can also find inspiration, patience or pleasure in many ways…
Continue reading »Big Data – The Strata Review from JISC
Big Data is here, and it changes everything. From startups to the Fortune 500, smart companies are betting on data-driven insight. Strata, a conference organised by O’Reilly was based on three full days of hands-on training, information-rich sessions, …
Continue reading »Augmented Reality Open Standard
This article is about an attempt to make open standard augmented reality.For the full article, click here.
Continue reading »Augmented Reality Open Standard
This article is about an attempt to make open standard augmented reality.For the full article, click here.
Continue reading »Augmented Reality Open Standard
This article is about an attempt to make open standard augmented reality.For the full article, click here.
Continue reading »Augmented Reality Open Standard
This article is about an attempt to make open standard augmented reality.For the full article, click here.
Continue reading »Floods – Changes Over Time
Australia has only just recently suffered the worst flooding in years, with large areas of the East Coast under water. Brisbane was hit very hard with high waterlevels over days. ABC-News has put together a coverage story showing in detail the impact o…
Continue reading »Lazy mapping gripe
Woo look, a google maps mash-up! Look, it shows us, er, well quite a lot of dots on a map. But look they’re all different colours! So? Well, you know, it’s really neat to put different coloured dots on a … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Redrawing the Map of Great Britain – a Network of Human Interactions
Do regional boundaries defined by governments respect the more natural ways that people interact across space? We revisit this work in-light of a meeting in a few minutes time….Coming out of CASA and the MIT Sensable City Lab, the movie below looks a…
Continue reading »Book – [on farming]
‘Bracket : architecture, environment, digital culture’ is a new book seriespublished by Actar with the first one [on farming] published in summer 2010. The series is a collaboration between InfraNet Lab and Archinect. The publications are designed by t…
Continue reading »Flattening the Earth
Flattening the Earth so that it can be easily drawn on a 2-dimensional surface is complicated. Over many years map projections have been developed to aid in this process, but they can only really estimate (albeit very accurately) the shape and dimensions of things on the Earth’s round surface. Whilst it is important to understand …
Continue reading »Visualising London Transport
Another brilliant visualisation from UCL’s CASA, this time from Anil Bawa-Cavia. It visualises trips made on the London Underground using data gathered from Oyster Cards. Each trail is a single trip between a…
Continue reading »Extreme Citizen Science – ExCiteS
Challenging Engineering is an EPSRC programme aimed at supporting individuals in building a research group and to ‘establish themselves as the future leaders of research’. As can be imagined, this is a both prestigious and well-funded programme – it provides enough resources to establish a group, recruit postdoctoral and PhD researchers, visit external laboratories and […]
Where are the Bikes? – in 3D
Adrian Short, provider of one of the main 3rd-party APIs for the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme in London – the Boris Bikes API – has taken his data and produced…
Continue reading »Glass the Future of Tomorrow – Backwards
The future is probaby the topic of the month here. Not only on the blog but deeper. We started the last week already with a vision of the future, so it goes in the tradition to continue on this. Was the ‘We are the Future’ a more social one, this one h…
Continue reading »Single Timelapsed Photography: City Skyline Day and Night
Mixing day and night images with the technique in astrophotography known as ‘star trails’ it is possible to capture a single image detailing both day and night activity. In the photograph below to the left is the moon streaking across the scene and the…
Continue reading »Getting started: the basic bits of kit
This guide should give you a good overview of the packages you’ll need to download and install to start scientific programming using Python. First, Python itself. There are later versions than the 2.6 which I use but: a) they can have some compatibility issues when installing other toolkits b) unless you really know what you’re doing, 2.6 is […]
A Week in the Life of a Tile Server
Recently, BBC Look East have been running a “Broadband Speed Survey”, asking people to use an online tester to check their broadband speed, and then enter the value, along with their postcode, into SurveyMapper. This generated 16,311 responses to the survey, but for each response people get to view the map containing the latest data, […]
Continue reading »Political Borders Time Lapse Maps
Admittedly this a slightly niche post for the weekend, but the shifting geographic boundaries in the movie below illustrates how rapidly national borders expand and contract as the result of political moves, social uprising or war:
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Continue reading »Web Links Archive as Networks – Pearltrees
Browsing the web all day long means coming across great stuff and additional branches and topics to be explored. As it is with wikipedia with the linkages you could spend days just clicking from one key word to another literally surfing on a wave of ep…
Continue reading »CASA Bike Route Map in Wired
Ollie O’Brien’s work of the now widely featured Boris bikes visualisations gain a double page spread in this months Wired magazine.Image courtesy of Adrian ShortEmbedded below is a view of Ollie’s work as a timelapse to illustrate the distinctive week…
Continue reading »Just another Python blog.
I’m Hannah Fry, I’ve been lecturing at UCL for 5 years, trained as a mathematician and now working as a fully fledged academic on a global dynamics and complexity project. Now that I’ve finished my PhD, I thought it was time to grow up and learn a proper programming language. Python, in its similarities to […]
Twitter City Classification: The Mexican Bean Effect
Over the past few years one of the PhD students I supervise here in CASA has been working on the way cities ‘tick’. Fabian Neuhaus is examining the temporal aspects of global cities and the results are interesting.One recent piece of work that caught o…
Continue reading »The Travelling Football Clubs of London
Two interesting maps of football clubs and London: First, Dean of The Londonist has mapped out the various locations of London’s football clubs over time. Many of them have moved…
Continue reading »Think BIG – Copenhagen
Copenhagen is growing fast and with its 539,542 citizens and about 1.2 million in the metro area its a rather busy place. One of the very famous examples in the Copenhagen planning history is the Finger Plan of 1947. Quite interesting how the formal sh…
Continue reading »Barclays Cycle Hire – Using the Data
I presented today, to a meeting of the OBIS Project (a grouping of the cities around Europe that have or are implementing bike share schemes) some of the innovative ways that developers have used the data from the Barclays Cycle … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Book – Typology+ an Atlas
Categorisation of architecture into different groups with similar characteristics is something invented in the seventies, maybe a bit earlier. Together with the interest in architecture of sociologists the type of building gained importance. One of the…
Continue reading »Sneak Peak: QRCodes and iPads in The Grant Museum
Here at University College London, the Grant Museum of Zoology, which contains some of the rarest extinct animal specimens in the world, is to re-open on 15 March, 2011 after an eight-month renovation and moving period. Over the past few months we have been working here in CASA with the…
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Continue reading » Sneak Peak: QRCodes and iPads in The Grant Museum
Here at University College London, the Grant Museum of Zoology, which contains some of the rarest extinct animal specimens in the world, is to re-open on 15 March, 2011 after an eight-month renovation and moving period. Over the past few months we have…
Continue reading »Orientation the All Weather Way – Crumple Your Map
Navigation in al Weather conditions is something not only trained survivors do, but citizens on a daily basis do as part of the urban migration taking place day after day. The scene goes like this: poring rain, in a hurry, forgot to look up the route d…
Continue reading »Worldnames
The UCL’s world family name mapping website (www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames) uses many new and up to date sources to tell you where in the world people with your family name are found. Additionally, this provides lots of interesting facts and figures about …
Continue reading »OACoder (An open source Software)
The OAC classification has previously been disseminated by the ONS at the Output Area Level. For a lot of users this has been problematic given that address records typically consist of lists of unit postcodes. A recent development at the …
Continue reading »Augmented Reality Applications
There are couple of interesting augmented reality applications.1. 3D Balls GameGreece-based telecommunication company Cosmote made an augmented reality 3D game.This augmented reality game allows you to play with a group of people.Cosmote 3D “Balls” Gam…
Continue reading »Augmented Reality Applications
There are couple of interesting augmented reality applications.1. 3D Balls GameGreece-based telecommunication company Cosmote made an augmented reality 3D game.This augmented reality game allows you to play with a group of people.Cosmote 3D “Balls” Gam…
Continue reading »Augmented Reality Applications
There are couple of interesting augmented reality applications.1. 3D Balls GameGreece-based telecommunication company Cosmote made an augmented reality 3D game.This augmented reality game allows you to play with a group of people.Cosmote 3D “Balls” Gam…
Continue reading »Augmented Reality Applications
There are couple of interesting augmented reality applications.1. 3D Balls GameGreece-based telecommunication company Cosmote made an augmented reality 3D game.This augmented reality game allows you to play with a group of people.Cosmote 3D “Balls” Gam…
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