The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
State of Mind (Blog) |
La matematica dell’amore: quante probabilità abbiamo di incontrare l’anima gemella?
State of Mind (Blog) Cercando di renderla semplice, nel suo libro “La matematica dell’amore” Hannah Fry, docente all’UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis di Londra, esemplifica la cosa così. Mettiamo che a una festa ci siano 3 ragazzi e 3 ragazze, e che siano tutti … |
State of Mind (Blog) |
L’amore matematico: quante probabilità abbiamo di incontrare l’amore?
State of Mind (Blog) Cercando di renderla semplice, nel suo libro “La matematica dell’amore” Hannah Fry, docente all’UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis di Londra, esemplifica la cosa così. Mettiamo che a una festa ci siano 3 ragazzi e 3 ragazze, e che siano tutti … |
Robin Edwards and myself have improved our visualisation of city size and rank over time and this is now published as a featured graphic in Environment and Planning A in their forthcoming material. It is quite hard to represent three variables in a two-dimensional … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The notion that cities produce ideas goes back to the time when cities first emerged from our nomadic existence. Indeed it appears that human ‘progress’ through development is centred around the production of new ideas or at least the evolution of … Continue reading →
Continue reading »7 great leadership lessons I learned this year Business Insider Australia
Continue reading »For the last few years one of the classes that I have given is the Introduction to Computational Social Science (CSS). This is often the first class many students take within our program and as such its objectives are:To understand the motivation for t…
Continue reading »For the last few years one of the classes that I have given is the Introduction to Computational Social Science (CSS). This is often the first class many students take within our program and as such its objectives are:To understand the motivation for t…
Continue reading »Business Insider Australia7 great leadership lessons I learned this yearBusiness Insider AustraliaFor many leaders, the end of the year represents a time to reflect and reset expectations for the year ahead. Panera Bread CEO Ron Shaich, for instance, t…
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7 brilliant leadership lessons I learned this year
Business Insider Hannah Fry, a mathematician at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis in London and author of “The Mathematics of Love”, says exploiting the Gale-Shapley matching algorithm can help you hire the best possible candidates. Essentially, the … |
We don’t have open individual building age data in the UK, unlike in some other countries (the data has been used to great effect in New York City and Amsterdam) but the Valuation Office Agency, which amongst other things decides council tax bandings for residential properties in England and Wales, has published some interesting data … Continue reading The Age of Buildings →
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Continue reading »7 brilliant leadership lessons I learned this year Business InsiderSecrets to hiring, being a great boss, and achieving your goals.
Continue reading »7 brilliant leadership lessons I learned this year Business InsiderSecrets to hiring, being a great boss, and achieving your goals.
Continue reading »7 brilliant leadership lessons I learned this year Business InsiderSecrets to hiring, being a great boss, and achieving your goals.
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This amazing map shows how urbanisation has accelerated since 1950
CityMetric Duncan Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the … |
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This amazing map shows how urbanisation has accelerated since 1950
CityMetric David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the … |
This amazing map shows how urbanisation has accelerated since 1950 | CityMetric CityMetric
Continue reading »This amazing map shows how urbanisation has accelerated since 1950 CityMetricTimes change. A hundred years ago London, New York and Paris were the biggest cities in the world. Today, all three retain cultural and economic might – but …
Continue reading »Duccio PIOVANI | Research Associate | PhD | University College London, London | UCL | Center for Advanced Spatial … ResearchGate
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How we ended up exploring a church through the windscreen of an X-Wing
CityMetric David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the … |
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Can you identify these places from a medieval map?
CityMetric David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the … |
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It’s Christmas, so here are 11 beautiful isochrone maps showing travel times …
CityMetric David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the … |
As part of the Israeli Geographical Association meeting in Jerusalem, I was asked to give a half day workshop on “Citizen Science: theory, practice and policy (with case studies from UK & Germany)”. The workshop learning objectives: Knowledge of the field of citizen science and current trends that influence it Understand the principles and practical … Continue reading Citizen Science: theory, practice & policy 
SmellyMaps reveals the “olfactory footprint of London” – the streets which are dominated by traffic fumes, the animal smells emanating out from London Zoo, and the influence of parks and greenspaces on London’s scent experience. Streets are measured for four smell groupings – emissions (coloured red on the map), nature (green), food (blue) and animals […]
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Manchester tops league table for having cars parked on pavements
CityMetric David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the … |
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This is why loads of business closures can be good for a city
CityMetric David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the … |
To celebrate one year since the release of London: The Information Capital by Mapping London co-editor James Cheshire and graphic designer Oliver Uberti, and the book recently winning the BCS Award, the authors have released a number of new excepts from the book. Here we feature “What Lies Beneath”, a map of the tunnelled sections […]
Continue reading »I’ve been making a lot of use of PostgreSQL and PostGIS for working with geo-data over the past year and, having finally gotten over my hatred of the non-standard administrative commands, I am seriously impressed with what this setup makes … Continue reading →
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USA! USA! Or – where are the biggest cities in the United States of America?
CityMetric David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the … |
Here’s an interesting graph, which combines data on total journeys per day on London’s bicycle sharing system (currently called “Santander Cycles”) from the London Data Store, with counts of available bicycles per day to hire, from my own research database. The system launched in summer 2010 and I started tracking the numbers almost from the … Continue reading London’s Bikeshare Needs A Redistribution of Stations →
Continue reading »One of the best datasets for understanding the explosive growth of cities across the world in the last 75 years in the UN World Urbanisation Prospects research, which records individual city populations from 1950 to 2014, and includes predicted populations up to 2030. I have been meaning to create an interactive map of this fascinating data for…
I’ve had the very great pleasure over the last year and a half of collaborating with Gustavo Romanillos, a PhD student based in Madrid, who has been working with a team there in Madrid Cycle Track to carry out some … Continue reading →
I presented a talk on geodemographic mapping, at a visual methods workshop “In/Visibility and Difference” which took place in Berlin at Bard College (formerly the European College of Liberal Arts). The workshop was organised by the TransformIG project at Humboldt University in Berlin, which was also the venue for the keynote part of the meeting. … Continue reading In/Visibility and Difference – Visual Methods Workshop in Berlin →
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1 Undershaft – and a selection of other skyscrapers that are not in any way …
CityMetric David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the … |
The IndependentA mathematical formula reveals the secret to lasting relationshipsThe IndependentFry, who works at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis in London, explains in her 2014 TED Talk and recently released book, "The Mathematics of…
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A mathematical formula reveals the secret to lasting relationships
The Independent Fry, who works at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis in London, explains in her 2014 TED Talk and recently released book, “The Mathematics of Love,” that the best predictor of long-lasting relationships is how positive and negative a couple … |
A mathematical formula reveals the secret to lasting relationships The Independent
Continue reading »A mathematical formula reveals the secret to lasting relationships The IndependentIf you’re fortunate enough to find someone you want to settle down with forever, the next question is: How do you achieve happily ever after? According to …
Continue reading »Research has to be ‘written up’. To some, writing comes easily – though I suspect this is on the basis of learning through experience. To many, especially research students at the time of thesis writing, it seems like a mountain … Continue reading →
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Google’s self-driving cars might have robotic arms. To make them less confusing
CityMetric David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the … Ready for the Road – YouTubeYouTube Google patent reveals how its self-driving cars may communicate with pedestriansWashington Post Cop pulls over Google self-driving car, finds no driver to ticketCNN |