Getting the “pulse” of a city in real-time is a tricky job, but a team working at the Centre for Applied Spatial Analysis at UCL has come up with a dashboard for visualising key information about the place you live…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial An…
Daily Archives: Monday 23 April 2012
Mappiness app finds coasts are the most pleasing places (Wired UK)
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A massive, crowdsourced survey of happiness has shown that a person’s mood is strongly associated with the type of terrain around them…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
How data could help fix London’s transport woes (Wired UK)
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Data could be the solution to London’s stretched transport networks and shrinking development budgets, according to Jon Reades, a researcher at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (Casa) at UCL…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Model suggests earlier response could have shortened London riots (Wired UK)
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A team of spatial interaction researchers at the Centre for Applied Spatial Analysis at UCL has come up with a model of the 2011 London Riots that attempts to answer the question of how they could have been stopped quicker…See it on Scoop.it, via Sp…
One Per Cent: Flap around London with the Pigeon Simulator
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Have you ever looked at a pigeon and wished you could experience life through its beady eyes? Well now you can, thanks to the Pigeon Simulator, created by University College London researcher George Mackerron for a conference on smart cities at the uni…
18th Century shipping mapped using 21st Century technology
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James Cheshire of Spatial Analysis has visualised British, Dutch and Spanish historical shipping records to produce maps of 18th Century shipping trade routes…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Meticulous map shows every London bus journey
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Mapping experts from University College London have visualised every one of the 114,000 bus journeys that take place in London every day.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
First announcement: 7th International Conference on Population Geographies, Groningen, 25-28 June 2013
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TweetAfter six successful and pleasant previous International Conferences on Population Geographies in St Andrews (twice), Liverpool, Hong Kong, Dartmouth and Umea, the Population Research Centre of the University of Groningen is proud to present: The 7th International Conference on Population Geographies, Groningen, 25-28 June 2013 Note the dates in your agenda! Call for abstracts expected September 2012 [...]
Training courses @ University of Leeds
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TweetThe following courses will be offered by the University of Leeds as part of the TALISMAN project, a node of the National Centre for Research Methods. These training sessions are open to any interested parties; if you have any questions, please contact Amy O’Neill, TALISMAN Project Assistant @ School of Geography, Faculty of Environment, University of [...]
CityDashboard
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CityDashboard is the main project that I have been working on for the last few months. It aims to summarise quantitative data (both officially provided and crowd-sourced) for the major UK cities, in a single screen. Point data is also … Continue reading →