Month: December 2014
Mapping for Change community-led air quality studies
As part of the citizens observatories conference, I represented Mapping for Change, providing an overview of community-led air quality studies that we have run over the past 4 years. Interestingly, as we started the work in collaboration with London Sustainability Exchange, and with help from the Open Air Laboratories programme the work can be contextualised within the […]
Visualising Ranks and Size in Space and Time
Alluvial diagrams were first proposed to represent changes in network structure over time. Robin Edwards from CASA has implemented the tool and has several examples from social and political arrays which he shows in his blog GeoTheory. Rosvall and Bergstrom’s popularisation of … Continue reading →
Continue reading »London: The Open Data Capital
This has been cross-posted from a guest blog post I wro […]
Continue reading »Sen. Warner to host Virginia Science Summit at National Academy of Sciences – Augusta Free Press
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Sen. Warner to host Virginia Science Summit at National Academy of Sciences
Augusta Free Press mark warner On Friday, December 5, U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) will bring together a cross-section of Virginia’s leaders in science on Friday for the second annual Virginia Summit on Science, Engineering and Medicine, co-hosted by Sen. Warner, the … |
All the Tweets
Cross-posted from Mapping London, edited slightly. This is a map of geolocated Tweets for the whole world – I’ve zoomed into London here. The map was created by Eric Fischer of Mapbox, who collected the tweets over several years. The place where each tweet is posted from is shown by a green dot. There are […]
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All the Tweets
This is a map of geolocated Tweets for the whole world […]
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Citizens Observatories: Empowering European Society
A citizens observatory is a concept that evolved at EU policy circles, defining the combination of participatory community monitoring, technology and governance structures that are needed to monitor/observe/manage an environmental issue. About two years ago, the EU FP7 funded 5 citizens observatory projects covering areas from water management to biodiversity monitoring. A meeting at Brussels was […]
JSON to GeoJSON with jq
A lot of people and institutions have already made the jump of providing data in JSON, which is great, since it is an inter-operable standard and a semi-structured form of data. However when it comes down to geographic data, standards … Continue reading →
At the Crossroads of Urban Growth
A spectre is haunting urban growth relating to how development is financed. My current editorial in Environment and Planning B (December 2014, issue 6) discusses the increasing disconnect between demand and supply of new buildings using the example of Wuhan … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Big Data in the Real World
Seminar given at UCL on 2/12/14.
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