The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Proposed constituency boundary changes mapped – how would the alterations …The Guardian (blog)Data-mapping experts from UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis have mapped the latest proposals for English constituency boundaries, as published …
Continue reading »Proposed constituency boundary changes mapped – how would the alterations …The Guardian (blog)Data-mapping experts from UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis have mapped the latest proposals for English constituency boundaries, as published …
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Researchers here in CASA, University College London, from the TALISMAN node of the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) are working on urban simulations and procedural modelling. As part of the public outreach side of the work, they have created a Pigeon Simulator where you can fly like a pigeon…
Continue reading »This weekend (October 20th and 21st) CASA will be at large at the Bloomsbury Festival, showcasing a range of demonstrations designed to make our digital city physical, and asking what you think about them. We’ll be at the Building Centre on … Continue reading →
Since light can affect happiness, two important pieces of environmental data I add to the Mappiness data set during analysis are: (1) whether a response was made in daylight; and (2) day length when and where the response was made. To derive these, I need the date, time and location of the response, and sunrise […]
Continue reading »Since light can affect happiness, two important pieces of environmental data I add to the Mappiness data set during analysis are: (1) whether a response was made in daylight; and (2) day length when and where the response was made. To derive these, I need the date, time and location of the response, and sunrise […]
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In my first experiences of making an ABM, I’ve been surprised by how slowly a seemingly simple Java program can run. This led me to look at how to profile a running Java application to see where it’s spending most … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Just a short missive this time, to mention that I’ve sped up my “world’s dumbest Agent-Based Model” by a factor of around fifty by having the calculation of the model and the display of the model (using Processing) happen in … Continue reading →
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The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), has just awarded our team the 2012 USGIF Achievement Award for Academic Research for our pioneering work on harvesting geospatial intelligence from social media. This pioneering work has led…
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The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), has just awarded our team the 2012 USGIF Achievement Award for Academic Research for our pioneering work on harvesting geospatial intelligence from social media. This pioneering work has led…
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The use of agent-based models is now becoming widespread within the social sciences. With the maturity of these methodologies, there has been an accompanying development in applications for exploring a wide range of geographical, and more broadly, social sciences problems facing society.
The aim of this session is to bring together researchers who are using ABM within the context of Applied GIS or Spatial Modelling. Papers which explore the relationships between ABM and other related techniques such as spatial microsimulation or cellular automata, and their uses within policy frameworks of substantive applications to geographical problems, will be particularly welcome.
Specific areas of interest include the following:
Important Dates:
Organizers:
The use of agent-based models is now becoming widespread within the social sciences. With the maturity of these methodologies, there has been an accompanying development in applications for exploring a wide range of geographical, and more broadly, social sciences problems facing society.
The aim of this session is to bring together researchers who are using ABM within the context of Applied GIS or Spatial Modelling. Papers which explore the relationships between ABM and other related techniques such as spatial microsimulation or cellular automata, and their uses within policy frameworks of substantive applications to geographical problems, will be particularly welcome.
Specific areas of interest include the following:
Important Dates:
Organizers:
Week In Geek: 15-21 October 2012LondonistVIRTUAL LONDON: Our friends at CASA (UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) will unleash some of the geographic technologies on the public, with demos of a virtual London at the Building Centre, just of…
Continue reading »Week In Geek: 15-21 October 2012LondonistVIRTUAL LONDON: Our friends at CASA (UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) will unleash some of the geographic technologies on the public, with demos of a virtual London at the Building Centre, just of…
Continue reading »Jon Reades and myself gave a talk at ECCS on how we are using our Oyster Card data to simulate disruptions to the London tube system. Added Richard Milton’s real time tube and bus data and presented our ideas at … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Cities that achieve social and economic success without high car use generally have three things in common: high densities, good urban design, and successful planning frameworks that integrate land-use with public transport, walking and cycling networks. I’ve been working on an LSE Cities project that investigated two leading global cities in green transport- Copenhagen and … Continue reading →
We have an old MacBook (the original white Intel model from 2006) running EyeTV as our telly. Apple’s Magic Trackpad makes a handy remote control for this setup. Unfortunately, Bluetooth on the old MacBook is highly temperamental. Built-in Bluetooth regularly fails: out of the blue, the Mac decides that it has no Bluetooth module after […]
Continue reading »We have an old MacBook (the original white Intel model from 2006) running EyeTV as our telly. Apple’s Magic Trackpad makes a handy remote control for this setup. Unfortunately, Bluetooth on the old MacBook is highly temperamental. Built-in Bluetooth regularly fails: out of the blue, the Mac decides that it has no Bluetooth module after […]
Continue reading »We have an old MacBook (the original white Intel model from 2006) running EyeTV as our telly. Apple’s Magic Trackpad makes a handy remote control for this setup. Unfortunately, Bluetooth on the old MacBook is highly temperamental. Built-in Bluetooth regularly fails: out of the blue, the Mac decides that it has no Bluetooth module after […]
Continue reading »Telecommunication companies are sitting on a gold mine. With the prevalence of mobile devices in our every day life, for example reports from Google IO are that 400 million Android devices have been activated at a rate of 1,000,000 activations per day, the data that we generate as a collective group is phenomenal. Phone companies […]
Continue reading »Having collected large amounts of data on tubes, trains and buses over the Olympics period using the ANTS library, the first thing I’ve looked at is to plot the total number of tubes running every day. The two graphs below show the number of tubes by line and the total number of tubes running for …
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So, the focus has shifted a little bit here at CASA in London. I’m trying to design an agent-based modelling system that is as generic as possible in its construction, using Java for the Object model and Processing for the … Continue reading →
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Geospatial Science Seminar Series 2012-2013 – Tuesday 4.30pm – Pearson Building Room G07 The first seminar of the new academic year was a show and tell session. New and continuing postgraduate students, along with staff, from the Departments of Geography…
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CityEngine 2012 now supports easy-to-use editing tools for the quick sketching and texturing of 3D building models (read SketchUp): Its only towards the end of the clip that you realise that the resulting 3D geometries can be saved back to the file geodatabase, allowing proceduaural modelling of your SketchUp style models…. CityEngine…
Continue reading »… chop the thesis up, scan it, and put it online for all those who should have been reading it this past three decades but couldn’t, wouldn’t, never knew it existed and so on. Or have never read a thesis … Continue reading →
Continue reading » On 25th September, the UCL iGEM team organised an event that was dedicated to demonstrating their work with the Biohacking enthusiasts at the London Hackspace, on the rights and risks on public participation in developing a biobrick. The event raised some fundamental questions about ethics and limits of citizen science, but first, some […]
The Strata Conference is in town and one presentation that caught my eye was titled The Great Railway Caper: Big Data in 1955. John Graham-Cumming from CloudFlare gives a great overview on why some Big Data problems have been around since the early days of computing when computer filled entire rooms. Back in 1955 the […]
Continue reading »Mobile augmented reality has been introduced rapidly through various mobile applications ever since smart phones became widespread. Geographic information system applications, especially those using location based service, have adapted this new comput…
Continue reading »Mobile augmented reality has been introduced rapidly through various mobile applications ever since smart phones became widespread. Geographic information system applications, especially those using location based service, have adapted this new comput…
Continue reading »Mobile augmented reality has been introduced rapidly through various mobile applications ever since smart phones became widespread. Geographic information system applications, especially those using location based service, have adapted this new comput…
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IBM have been on the forefront of Big Data research for the last few years. Last year Watson beat 2 human competitors in a game of Jeopardy by making links between data and reasoning what the correct answer would be in fractions of a second. Now the hardware scientists are at it again. Mira, the […]
Continue reading »There are many videos from this year’s ESRC Research Methods Festival up at the website that may be of interest to Talismanistas. Leeds Geography is well represented by Dr Nick Malleson talking about geovisualisation, spatial analysis and simulation, including a look at his work on ABM crime modelling, and Professor Mark Birkin giving an overview …
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It seems like my favourite device of the moment is the iPad. First I built the QRator app which has been quite popular and well received by the UCL Grant Museum. We even won an award for the system. After a discussion with a few of my colleagues about new exhibition pieces for upcoming events […]
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