Top 10 Twitter languages in London visualised
How diverse is London? A map of 3.3m tweets shows the most popular languages used for tweeting and where they are used in the city.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
How diverse is London? A map of 3.3m tweets shows the most popular languages used for tweeting and where they are used in the city.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »How diverse is London? A map of 3.3m tweets shows the most popular languages used for tweeting and where they are used in the city.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Smart cities: Bridging Physical and DigitalCisionWire (press release)Researchers at the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy, University of Leeds, and the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, have been developing a range o…
Continue reading »IN 1995 GEORGE GILDER, an American writer, declared that “cities are leftover baggage from the industrial era.” Electronic communications would become so easy…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »IN 1995 GEORGE GILDER, an American writer, declared that “cities are leftover baggage from the industrial era.” Electronic communications would become so easy…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »This colour-coded graphic pinpoints the location and language of tweets sent from the British capital and shows how linguistic groups are clustered in the city’s various districts.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »This colour-coded graphic pinpoints the location and language of tweets sent from the British capital and shows how linguistic groups are clustered in the city’s various districts.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Further to my last post and various requests, I’ve published the complete list of languages detected within the whole collection of geolocated tweets in London. The list contains the full counts ranked for each language (excluding Tagalog), as wel…
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The EconomistOpen-air computersThe EconomistAndrew Hudson-Smith, director of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, thinks that within five years or so police forces will be able to predict and prevent some crimes by wat…
Continue reading »It’s a networking city hailed as a global village. And now London’s diversity has been mapped, courtesy of Twitter.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »I pulled together this interactive map of Proposed Constituency Boundary Changes in England, after the information was released by the Boundary Commission for England last week. My colleague James Cheshire highlighted that this kind of map could be illuminating, particularly … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Another week gone sees the emergence of a pattern in my research: loads of great ideas, loads of terrible software design decisions, and loads of late nights trying to implement the former despite the latter. This week’s Agent-Based fun has … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Taalkaart van Londen via tweetsTwittermaniaVoor hun project onderzochten Ed Manley en James Cheshire van UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) de tweets die in en rond Londen verstuurd werden tijdens de Olympische Spelen afgelopen zomer…
Continue reading »Twitter Map Shows London's LanguagesLondonistIt was put together by Ed Manley and James Cheshire at UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) using tweets collected during the Olympic period this summer. In some cases, the clusters are …
Continue reading »Twitter Map Shows London’s Languages LondonistThis map shows the locations of 3.3 million geolocated tweets in the London area during the summer of 2012. That’s impressive in its own right, but the points …
Continue reading »While GeoMason is still undergoing development. Mark Coletti has put together a Cookbook for ‘recipes’ for using GeoMason. The Cookbook is available from here.It gives examples of how to read and write geospatial data along with using geospatial …
Continue reading »While GeoMason is still undergoing development. Mark Coletti has put together a Cookbook for ‘recipes’ for using GeoMason. The Cookbook is available from here.It gives examples of how to read and write geospatial data along with using geospatial …
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Continue reading »Over the last couple of weeks, and as a bit of a distraction from finishing off my PhD, I’ve been working with James Cheshire looking at the use of different languages within my aforementioned dataset of London tweets. I’ve been handling the data …
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It was a CASA trip out this weekend as me, Steven Gray, Hannah Fry, Rob Levy, Pete Ferguson and Goldsmiths’ Francisco Dans showed off CASA’s Pigeon Sim, London Data Table and Roving Eye at The Building Centre on Store Street. … Continue reading →
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Continue reading »After a long while playing with Google’s excellent Building Maker, a time-wasting toy for crowd-sourcing Google World’s 3D building library, I’ve completed my first attempt at rendering the offices of UCL CASA. The results are laughably poor, but mainly because, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The Spatial Data Infrastructure Magazine (SDIMag.com) is a relatively new e-zine dedicated to the development of spatial data infrastructures around the world. Roger Longhorn, the editor of the magazine, conducted an email interview with me, which is now published. In the interview, we are covering the problematic terminology used to describe a wider range of activities; the […]
Continue reading »The NationSimulator allows you to explore cities like pigeonThe NationThe research is part of work into urban simulations and procedural modelling undertaken by a team from the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College …
Continue reading »Researchers are beginning to analyse the 1.2 billion Oyster card transactions that hold the key to London’s transport success…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Data-mapping experts from UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis have mapped the latest proposals for English constituency boundaries…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »University of London researchers have combined the Google Earth flight simulator with a motion sensitive controller to allow people to fly around the city using bird movements.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Our friends over at the Londonist spotted this project from UCL’s Centre of Advanced Spatial Analysis and we just had to share it with you.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Flying through the air with the greatest of ease… Pigeon simulator to give …Daily Mail… them to dive and twist to the left and right to change direction. The research is part of work into urban simulations and procedural modelling undertaken by a…
Continue reading »Daily MailFlying through the air with the greatest of ease… Pigeon simulator to give …Daily Mail… them to dive and twist to the left and right to change direction. The research is part of work into urban simulations and procedural modelling under…
Continue reading »Daily MailFlying through the air with the greatest of ease… Pigeon simulator to give …Daily MailThe research is part of work into urban simulations and procedural modelling undertaken by a team from the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis…
Continue reading »TweetPopFest is an annual population studies conference for postgraduate students, organised by fellow postgraduates. This conference will provide an ideal environment for researchers to present and discuss their work with others in the field as well as an excellent networking opportunity. The University of Southampton is pleased to host PopFest from the 8th to the […]
Continue reading »Flying through the air with the greatest of ease… Pigeon simulator to give the public a chance to… Daily Mail
Continue reading »Flying through the air with the greatest of ease… Pigeon simulator to give the public a chance to explore cities from above Daily Mail
Continue reading »It’s been a frantic few days here at CASA in London. After several post-eleven o’clock ends to the working day, I’ve finally managed to get a slightly more interesting version of my agent-based model up and running. This time the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Metcalfe, M. (2012), The Bounds of Rationality, UP Magazine, May, Issue 5: 40-43.
Continue reading »Quinn, K. (2012), Visualizing the Invisible:GMU Pioneers a New Approach to Harvesting GEOINT, Trajectory Magazine, Fall, 11-12.
Some of this work has been feated in UPMagazine and Trajectory Magazine:
Metcalfe, M. (2012), The Bounds of Rationality, UP Magazine, May, Issue 5: 40-43.
Continue reading »Quinn, K. (2012), Visualizing the Invisible:GMU Pioneers a New Approach to Harvesting GEOINT, Trajectory Magazine, Fall, 11-12.
This weekend (20th and 21st Oct) my colleagues at CASA and I will be presenting at an event in central London called the Bloomsbury Festival. There we’ll be taking some of the fancy visual and interactive research work we do … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The OpenABM website is a great resource for agent-based modelers, I often suggest to my students to visit the site to see the range of possibilities to which agent-based models can be used for.Recently it was announced that the winner of CoMSES Net Mod…
Continue reading »The OpenABM website is a great resource for agent-based modelers, I often suggest to my students to visit the site to see the range of possibilities to which agent-based models can be used for.Recently it was announced that the winner of CoMSES Net Mod…
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