London’s Boring Conference: eggs, ice cream van chimes and pothole gardens – The Voice of Russia

London’s Boring Conference: eggs, ice cream van chimes and pothole gardens
The Voice of Russia
This year’s speakers at the Boring Conference include Martin Zaltz Austwick talking about eggs. He is an academic, musician and occasional visual artist. In real life, he works at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College

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Citizen Science and GIS

Originally posted on GIS and Science:
“Citizen science is scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur or nonprofessional scientists, often by crowdsourcing and crowdfunding.” –Wikipedia Applications of geospatial technologies have already proven themselves invaluable for scientific research and understanding. But is there an opportunity for citizen scientists to leverage geospatial technologies in…

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Interactive narratives

Here is a short list of some awesome narrative based webpages using d3.js and other javascript techniques to enhance narrative-based information.  The list was compiled by Matthew French at newsdesigns.com, but I reproduce it here an hope to extend.   http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-north/the-magnetic-north/article16364070/ http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/13/russia/ http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-sea/ http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek http://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/gettysburg/ http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/tomato-can-blues/ http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/02/11/sports/sochi-2014-interactive-stories.html

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The evolution of London: the city’s near-2000 year history mapped – The Guardian


The Guardian

The evolution of London: the city’s near-2000 year history mapped
The Guardian
How did London evolve from its creation as a Roman city in 43AD to the crowded, chaotic megacity we see today? The London Evolution Animation takes a holistic view of what was built in the capital during different historical periods – what has been

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PopFest 2014 – Call for Papers

TweetWe are pleased to announce that the 22nd annual PopFest conference – the population studies conference organised by postgraduates for postgraduates – will be taking place at University College London this year.   PopFest2014 will be hosted by the UCL Department of Geography from Monday 4th to Wednesday the 6th of August 2014. The conference […]

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UK schools use web-enabled sensors to monitor environmnet – Telecompaper (subscription)

UK schools use web-enabled sensors to monitor environmnet
Telecompaper (subscription)
… ScienceScope and supported by the ‘Distance’ consortium, which includes Intel, Stakeholder Design, LogMeIn, Mission Explore, The University of Birmingham’s Urban Climate Laboratory, University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, …

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European Citizen Science Association suggestion for 10 principles of citizen science

At the beginning of April, the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) held its first Annual General Meeting in Copenhagen. In the meeting, which lasted a long afternoon and an evening many topics were covered – from membership (it’s now possible to join) to reports from the working groups. With an aim to be transparent and […]

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