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Nikolai Kondratieff, a Soviet-era economist in the 1920s, developed a theory of the economy where technological innovations drove the business cycle. This looked a little too like the way the capitalist world explained itself and for these sins, Stalin sent … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Let us begin by asserting that any piece of research is concerned with a ‘system of interest’ – henceforth ‘the system’ (cf. Systems thinking). We can then make a distinction between the ‘science of the system’ and the ‘applied science … Continue reading →
Continue reading »In human systems, defining any of the objects or attributes we work with is plagued with ambiguity. Defining cities is one of the classic problems and here we use percolation theory to ultimately define cities as connected clusters at a … Continue reading →
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Crowds ‘could be counted’ with phone data
The Daily Star Dr Ed Manley is a lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. He said this technique had a lot of potential and that people should be “optimistic but cautious” about using phone data in this way. “We’ve got these … |
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Kerumunan orang ‘dapat dihitung’ dengan data telepon
BBCIndonesia.com Dr Ed Manley adalah pengajar di Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis di University College London. Dia mengatakan teknik ini memiliki potensi dan kita harus bersikap “optimis namun berhati-hati” menggunakan data ponsel untuk itu. “Kita memiliki data … |
Crowds ‘could be counted’ with phone and Twitter data BBC News
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Continue reading »Crowds ‘could be counted’ with phone and Twitter data BBC NewsIt may be possible to estimate the size of a large crowd based on geographical data from mobile phones and Twitter, according to a new study. Warwick …
Continue reading »Crowds ‘could be counted’ with phone and Twitter data BBC NewsA study tests the idea that large crowds can be counted using data from mobile phone usage and Twitter.
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Crowds ‘could be counted’ with phone and Twitter data
BBC News Dr Ed Manley is a lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. He said this technique had a lot of potential and that people should be “optimistic but cautious” about using phone data in this way. “We’ve got these … |
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Crowds ‘could be counted’ with phone and Twitter data
BBC News Dr Ed Manley is a lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. He said this technique had a lot of potential and that people should be “optimistic but cautious” about using phone data in this way. “We’ve got these … |
With the spring semester over, I thought I would show some of the final agent-based modeling projects that were carried out in CSS 645: Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions. As always I was quite impressed the models and we had …
Continue reading »With the spring semester over, I thought I would show some of the final agent-based modeling projects that were carried out in CSS 645: Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions. As always I was quite impressed the models and we had …
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It’s now a week since my viva, which flouted all my expectations in every possible way. I could not have prepared myself for so many of the questions I was asked or being so lost for words. I will forever be grateful to my examiners for reading my thesis and their suggestions/corrections;…
After featuring a number of data maps and navigation-fo […]
Continue reading »The COST Energic network is progressing in its 3rd year. The previous post showed one output from the action – a video that describe the links between volunteered geographic information and indigenous knowledge. The people who came to the meeting represent the variety of interest in crwodsourced geographic information, from people with background in Geography, … Continue reading COST ENERGIC meeting – Tallinn 21-22 May
LocalGovHigh-tech headset unlocks city travel for visually impairedLocalGovSupport for the project has also come from businesses and researchers including Nokia Lumia, Arup, the University of Nottingham and the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Anal…
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The Tube Map is probably London’s most famous con […]
Continue reading »Asked by Built Environment to review this some 18 months after it was first published, the world of smart cities has moved on so fast at the level of how we use personal devices to navigate, shop, search etc. that Anthony … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I was Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council for 6 years up to December 2013. Like the other research councils, and like most universities, we always said that we funded research that is ‘excellent’ and ‘world class’. However, … Continue reading →
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Continue reading »The COST Energic network has been running now for 3 years, and one of the outputs from the network is the video below, which explore a very valuable form of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). This is information that is coming from participatory projects between researchers and indigenous communities, and this short film provide examples from Bolivia, British Columbia, … Continue reading VGI and indigenous knowledge – COST Energic Video
Dr. Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal | City Center – TAU Research Center for Cities and Urbanism | Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University
Continue reading »By the end of this century, we will all be living in Cities but what does this really mean? I have given various talks and written various editorials on this prospect but have never really thought much about what this … Continue reading →
Continue reading »One route into urban research is to reflect on the well known and very real challenges that cities face. The most obvious ones can be classified as ‘wicked problems’ in that they have been known for a long time, usually … Continue reading →
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The COST Energic network (see VGIBox.eu ) is running a 2 day geolocated twitter chat, titled ‘Volunteered Geographic Information Day’ so the hashtag is #VGIDay. The conversation will take place on 14th and 15th May 2015, and we are universalists – join from anywhere in the world! Joining is easy – and require 3 steps: Follow the … Continue reading Spatial Conversation – #VGIday #COSTEnergic
When I first moved to UCL CASA back in 2010, the first online map I created from scratch was one showing swings in the general election that year. So it seemed fitting to update the old code with the data from the 2015 general election, which took place last week. You can see the resulting … Continue reading General Election Maps for 2015 →
Continue reading »As part of the activities of the Citizen Science Special Interest Group of the British Ecological Society (BES), Michael Pocock organised “A training event for citizen science: What you need to know, but no one told you!”. I was asked to lead a 30 minutes discussion on ethics and citizen science. This is a wide area, and … Continue reading Citizen Science and Ethics session (British Ecological Society – Citizen Science SIG)
This time I’m at the Workshop: “Data Visualization from Different Universes”, presenting some work regarding the visualization of Tweets, using a combination of machine learning and GIS.
There have been many great interactive maps and graphic […]
Continue reading »Certainly one of the best books ever on transport modelling. We have been waiting for this sort of book for a long time. Anyone who wants to figure out the reasons why different kinds of transport model have been developed … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Tweet Dear All, We would like to invite you to submit a paper to our cross-disciplinary stream on: ‘Mobility and Organizing in the Global and Local: The space of creation and constraint within, between and beyond organizations.’ More details of the stream are available here. This stream is part of the APROS/EGOS conference […]
Continue reading »Tweet Lecturer in Geographical Information Science Population, Health & Wellbeing Location: Highfield Campus Salary: £31,342 to £45,954 Full Time Permanent Closing Date: Friday 05 June 2015 Interview Date: See advert Reference: 562415WR We are seeking to appoint an outstanding Lecturer specialising in Geographical Information Science. We particularly invite applications from candidates whose […]
Continue reading »An appropriate ambition of the model-building component of urban science is the construction of the best possible comprehensive model which represents the interdependencies that make cities complex (and interesting) systems. To articulate this is to spell out a kind of … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The imminent UK General Election is fascinating for a host of reasons, not least because of the challenge to the long established dominance of the two main parties, Conservatives and Labour. Their share of the vote has been steadily in decline for over 50 years, from a high of 97% in 1951 to 65% in 2010-…
Above is an excerpt of a large, coloured-dot based graphic showing the locations of street trees in Rotherhithe, part of the London Borough of Southwark in London, as released by them to the OpenStreetMap database back in 2010. You can download the full version (12MB PDF). Street trees are trees on public land managed by … Continue reading Street Trees of Southwark →
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This is a cross-post from oobrien.com. Above is an exce […]
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