Book Review: The Mathematics of Love – Livemint
Book Review: The Mathematics of Love LivemintCan the optimal stopping theory help in a quest to find the perfect partner? Hannah Fry’s new book has some answers.
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Book Review: The Mathematics of Love – Livemint
LivemintBook Review: The Mathematics of LoveLivemintThe idea for this book began with a TEDx Talk that Fry, professor at the University College London Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, gave in March 2014 at the Binghamton University, New York, US. …
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Seeing Red: 15 Ways the Boris Bikes of London Could be Better
I’ll be gradually tweaking this article to add/amend sources, clarifications and develop some of my arguments. A big announcement for the “Boris Bikes” today, aka Barclays Cycle Hire. London’s bikeshare system, the second largest in the western world after Paris’s Velib and nearly five years old, will be rebranded as Santander Cycles, and the bikes … Continue reading Seeing Red: 15 Ways the Boris Bikes of London Could be Better →
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Continue reading »Anti-Semitism is in the very marrow of conspiracy theory – Little Atoms
Anti-Semitism is in the very marrow of conspiracy theoryLittle AtomsThe dead were not yet in their graves when the conspiracy theorists began to pick over the Charlie Hebdo killings. The murders at Charlie Hebdo and the Hypercacher supermarket and the …
Continue reading »Geographic Data Science and School Markets
A workshop talk given at “Agent-based Modelling for Economics and Finance”, Oxford-Man institute, University of Oxford. 23/2/15.
Continue reading »J. Courtney Sullivan – Little Atoms
J. Courtney SullivanLittle AtomsJ. Courtney Sullivan is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Commencement, Maine and The Engagements. Maine was named a Best Book of the Year by Time magazine, and a Washington Post Notable Book for 2011. …
Continue reading »Downtime
Various websites I’ve built, and mentioned here on oobrien.com from time to time, are down until Monday lunchtime, due to a major power upgrade for the building that the server is in. This affects the following websites: DataShine CDRC Bike Share Map Tube Tongues OpenOrienteeringMap (extremely degraded) Some other smaller visualisations However the following are … Continue reading Downtime →
Continue reading »Gravity Models Circa 1846
Once in a while along comes a wonderful piece of historical research that again illustrates that in most fields, there is little new under the sun. Andrew Odlyzko’s recent paper entitled “The forgotten discovery of gravity models and the inefficiency … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Citizen Science 2015 – reflections
The week that passed was full of citizen science – on Tuesday and Friday the citizen Science Association held its first Board meeting, and with the Citizen Science 2015 conference on Wednesday and Thursday, and to finish it all, on Friday afternoon a short meeting of a new project, Enhancing Informal Learning Through Citizen Science explored the directions […]
DataShine and GeoJSON
A recent addition to DataShine’s functionality is the ability to drag and drop geoJSON (and KML) files onto the web map. This video tutorial shows how you can use the excellent geoJSON.io website to create a file for use on DataShine. I created the tutorial for a first year undergraduate field class (so I refer … Continue reading DataShine and GeoJSON →
Continue reading »CSV 2 GeoJSON
Recently I had another challenge, which I believe has the characteristics to be a common problem. I have a table with attributes, in CSV format, one of which is geospatial. CSV is a structured format for storing tabular data (text … Continue reading →
Neil Denny’s five of the best: science podcasts – Little Atoms
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Neil Denny’s five of the best: science podcasts
Little Atoms WNYC’s Radiolab describes itself as “a show about curiosity, where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience”. Presented by NPR veteran Robert Krulwich and sound designer and composer Jad … |
Neil Denny’s five of the best: science podcasts – Little Atoms
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Neil Denny’s five of the best: science podcasts
Little Atoms WNYC’s Radiolab describes itself as “a show about curiosity, where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience”. Presented by NPR veteran Robert Krulwich and sound designer and composer Jad … |
Citizen Science 2015 (second day)
After a very full first day, the second day opened with a breakfast that provided opportunity to meet the board of the Citizen Science Association (CSA), and to have a nice way to talk with people who got up early (starting at 7am) for another full day of citizen science. Around the breakfast tables, new […]
Village Model
What now seems like a very long long time ago, when I was getting up to speed with Agent-based modeling and GIS, I came across a great edited book entitled “Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes”….
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Village Model
What now seems like a very long long time ago, when I was getting up to speed with Agent-based modeling and GIS, I came across a great edited book entitled “Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes”….
Continue reading »Book Provides Progress Report on Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures in Europe – Spatial News (press release)
Book Provides Progress Report on Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures in EuropeSpatial News (press release)He currently is a visiting professor at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. Crompvoets is an associate profes…
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San Jose is the location for the first citizen science association meeting, on the 11th and 12th February. The level of enthusiasm to citizen science by researchers and practitioners was palpable, even before the conference with an overwhelming number of submissions and abstract. In the end, the conference run with 7 parallel sessions, and many […]
Book Provides Progress Report on Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures in Europe – GISuser.com (press release)
Book Provides Progress Report on Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures in EuropeGISuser.com (press release)He currently is a visiting professor at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. Crompvoets is an associate profess…
Continue reading »Book Provides Progress Report on Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures in Europe – DirectionsMag.com
Book Provides Progress Report on Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures in EuropeDirectionsMag.comHe currently is a visiting professor at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. Crompvoets is an associate professor at KU L…
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Book Provides Progress Report on Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures in Europe GISuser.com
Continue reading »You’ve Got Mail… like heaps of it. – Australian Women’s Weekly
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You’ve Got Mail… like heaps of it.
Australian Women’s Weekly In her book, The Mathematics of Love, Fry – a mathematician and complexity scientist from University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis – has applied mathematics to explore themes like stages of romantic journey, chatting people up … The mathematical formula for loveBBC News |
You’ve Got Mail… like heaps of it. – Australian Women’s Weekly
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You’ve Got Mail… like heaps of it.
Australian Women’s Weekly In her book, The Mathematics of Love, Fry – a mathematician and complexity scientist from University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis – has applied mathematics to explore themes like stages of romantic journey, chatting people up … |
Geosimulation and Big Data: A Marriage made in Heaven or Hell? Schedule
Do you like big data and geosimulation and wondering when to book flights or which sessions to attend at the forthcoming AAG Annual Meeting, If so, you might like our sessions entitled “Geosimulation and Big Data: A Marriage made in Heaven or Hel…
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Geosimulation and Big Data: A Marriage made in Heaven or Hell? Schedule
Do you like big data and geosimulation and wondering when to book flights or which sessions to attend at the forthcoming AAG Annual Meeting, If so, you might like our sessions entitled “Geosimulation and Big Data: A Marriage made in Heaven or Hel…
Continue reading »The mathematical formula for love – BBC News
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The mathematical formula for love
BBC News Looking for the ideal partner? Wondering if your relationship will last? They’re common questions as Valentine’s Day approaches – so how do you find the right person and keep them? Hannah Fry, author of The Mathematics of Love, says three things make … You’ve Got Mail… like heaps of it.Australian Women’s Weekly |
Venice 3.0: Venice Dashboard: the real-time pulse of the city – Blogger
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Continue reading »The mathematical formula for love – BBC News
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Continue reading »The mathematical formula for love – BBC News
The mathematical formula for love BBC NewsLooking for the ideal partner or wondering if your relationship will last? Hannah Fry, author of The Mathematics of Love, says three things make the magic …
Continue reading »The mathematical formula for love – BBC News
The mathematical formula for love BBC NewsLooking for the ideal partner or wondering if your relationship will last? Hannah Fry, author of The Mathematics of Love, says three things make the magic …
Continue reading »The mathematical formula for love – BBC News
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The mathematical formula for love
BBC News Looking for the ideal partner? Wondering if your relationship will last? They’re common questions as Valentine’s Day approaches – so how do you find the right person and keep them? Hannah Fry, author of The Mathematics of Love, says three things make … You’ve Got Mail… like heaps of it.Australian Women’s Weekly |
Two Lecturer / Senior Lecturer Posts in Social Statistics, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
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Continue reading »Deadline for Abstracts: International Conference on Population Geographies 2015
TweetThe deadline for receipt of abstracts for the 8th International Conference on Population Geographies is fast approaching. We look forward to receiving your proposal by Monday 16th February 2015 and welcoming you to the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, from 30 June to 3 July 2015. We invite papers from all fields of population geography […]
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Little Atoms Dr Hannah Fry is a mathematician and complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Fry also regularly presents the Number Hub strand of BBC Worldwide’s YouTube channel, and regularly appears on radio and … |
nQuire-it/Sense-it – discovering sensors in your phone
The Open University, with support from Nominet Trust and UTC Sheffield have launched the nQuire-it.org website, which seem to have a great potential for running citizen science activities. The nQuire platform allows participants to create science inquiry ‘missions’. It is accompanied by an Android app called Sense-it that exposed all the sensors that are integrated in a smartphone and let […]
London in Miniature: Mogg’s 1806 Pocket Map
From Geographicus, a US map dealer, by way of a tweet b […]
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