The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
A startup with a billion dollar asset. This is how HERE’s new CEO Edzard Overbeek describes the location services company that is making a striking pitch for being the third major digital mapping and location platform alongside Google and Apple. HERE has had an interesting recent history. Originally NAVTEQ, one of the major cross-world road … Continue reading Inside HERE →
Continue reading » As part of the Esri User Conference, Dawn Wright, Esri Chief Scientist, organised a Science Symposium that gave an opportunity for those with interest in scientific use of Esri GIS to come together, discuss and meet. Dawn Wright opened and mentioned that the science symposium is aimed to bring people people from different areas: … Continue reading Esri User Conference – Science Symposium
During the past spring semester I taught a class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of my courses, students were expected to complete a end of semester project, in this case, develop an agent-based mo…
Continue reading »During the past spring semester I taught a class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of my courses, students were expected to complete a end of semester project, in this case, develop an agent-based mo…
Continue reading »A few weeks ago, I attended a British Academy workshop on ‘Urban Futures’ – partly focused on research priorities and partly on research that would be useful for policy makers. The group consisted mainly of academics who were keen to … Continue reading →
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Continue reading »The main Esri User conference starts with a plenary day, where all the participants (16,000 of them) join together for a set of presentation from 8:30 to 3:30 (with some breaks, of course). Below you’ll find some notes that I took during the day: The theme of the keynote was GIS – Enabling a Smarter … Continue reading Esri User Conference 2016 – plenary day
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Brexit: What’s the most pro-European city in Britain?
CityMetric It reminds me of this piece of work, by James Cheshire and Oliver O’Brien – two researchers at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis – which plots life expectancy by tube station. The shading shows reflects deprivation in individual areas:. |
Last year’s 2015 general election revealed a Britain that was increasingly fractured between nations, between the north and south of England, and between more prosperous metropolitan and deprived areas. But GE2015 has now proved to be only a staging post in the UK’s splintering. The momentous vote for Brexit in last week’s EU referendum threatens economic and political … Continue reading Fracturing Britain: the end of the United Kingdom? →
I’ve been working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) since 1988. During the first 2 years, I wasn’t even aware that what we were doing was GIS – it was a mapping/inventory system that run on second generation PC (80286 processors) and was used to map facilities. Once I’ve discovered that this was a GIS, the … Continue reading Esri Education Conference 2016 – day 1
The slides below are from my keynote talk at the Esri Education User Conference 2016. The conference focused on creativity and its relevant to education and the utilisation of GIS (especially Esri software) at different levels of education. My talk explored the area of citizen science and extreme citizen science and the way geographical technologies … Continue reading Esri Education User Conference talk: Citizen Science & Geographical Technologies: creativity, learning, and engagement
London boasts over 300 different spoken languages – more than any other city in the world. The capital’s lingua franca, of course, remains English: 78% of Londoners cited it as their ‘main’ language in the 2011 Census. The other 22% speak in different tongues, including Urdu, Somali and Tagalog. This map from London: The Information Capital celebrates […]
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I was kindly invited, earlier this week, to take part in “insideHERE” in Berlin, a small event run at the HERE HQ in Berlin. HERE, being born out of the ashes of Navteq and Nokia Maps, is now owned by a consortium of German car companies. For the special event, HERE’s developers and engineers opened … Continue reading Testing Map-Based UIs for Self-Driving Cars: HERE’s Knight Rider →
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At the forthcoming 2016 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. we will be presenting a paper is entitled “The Geography of Conflict …
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At the forthcoming 2016 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. we will be presenting a paper is entitled “The Geography of Conflict …
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Hannah Fry: ‘There’s a mathematical angle to almost anything’
The Guardian Far from being a mere pop scientist, however, Fry is a much-published researcher and a lecturer at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), where she specialises in the mathematics of urban and social systems. After gaining her PhD in fluid … |
Who is Dr Hannah Fry? Radio Times
Continue reading »Who is City in The Sky presenter Dr Hannah Fry? Meet the scientist behind The Mathematics of Love Radio Times
Continue reading »Who is City in The Sky presenter Dr Hannah Fry? Meet the scientist behind The Mathematics of Love Radio Times
Continue reading »Who is Dr Hannah Fry? Radio TimesMeet the mathematician and co-host of BBC2’s City in The Sky.
Continue reading »Hannah Fry: ‘There’s a mathematical angle to almost anything’ The GuardianPolitics, the badger cull, trainspotting, the psychic powers of Paul the octopus – maths comes into it all, says the TV and radio presenter.
Continue reading »Hannah Fry: ‘There’s a mathematical angle to almost anything’ The GuardianPolitics, the badger cull, trainspotting, the psychic powers of Paul the octopus – maths comes into it all, says the TV and radio presenter.
Continue reading »Who is Dr Hannah Fry? RadioTimes
Continue reading »Hannah Fry: ‘There’s a mathematical angle to almost anything’ The GuardianPolitics, the badger cull, trainspotting, the psychic powers of Paul the octopus – maths comes into it all, says the TV and radio presenter.
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Who is Dr Hannah Fry?
Radio Times She’s probably best known for writing a book about The Mathematics of Love. In the book, Fry discusses patterns in human behaviour on dating sites, divorce, sex and marriage, among other things. Here’s the very cool TED talk that inspired it. |
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Let the hunger games begin: UberEats, the Uber for food delivery, has launched in London
CityMetric In my humble opinion, one of the best things about living in a city is that, with a few jabs at my phone, I can order most sorts of food directly to wherever I am. No calling and painstakingly reading out numbers from a paper menu. No leaving the house. London Food Delivery – UberEATSUberEATS |
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Podcast: Crossing continents
CityMetric It’s brilliant, so you should all subscribe to it.) Finally, our map of the week – which, I’ll be honest, we do no justice to whatsoever – is this magnificent piece of work by Duncan Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced spatial Analysis. It shows, at a … |
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Podcast: Crossing continents
CityMetric Finally, our map of the week – which, I’ll be honest, we do no justice to whatsoever – is this magnificent piece of work by Duncan Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced spatial Analysis. It shows, at a glance, the growth of all the world’s major cities … |
Podcast: Crossing continents CityMetricIf you live in Britain – and if you don’t, I sort of envy you right now – you’ll know that it’s a pretty torrid time in politics right now. Next Thursday, there’s a …
Continue reading »Students from our MRes in Spatial Data Science and Visualisation led a workshop this weekend at the London Transport Museum on “the bus stop of the future” – how data feeds about the immediate area could be brought to life … Continue reading →
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We kind of love this new, circular take on the Paris metro map
CityMetric Finally, our map of the week – which, I’ll be honest, we do no justice to whatsoever – is this magnificent piece of work by Duncan Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced spatial Analysis. It shows, at a glance, the growth of all the world’s major cities … |
At the beginning of the Challenging Risk project, the project team considered that before we go out and develop participatory tools to engage communities in earthquake and fire preparedness, we should check what is available. To achieve that, we have commissioned Enrica Verrucci to help us with the review, and later on other members of the … Continue reading New paper: Digital engagement methods for earthquake and fire preparedness
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Bonus podcast: Fear and loathing in Miami
CityMetric It reminds me of this piece of work, by James Cheshire and Oliver O’Brien – two researchers at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis – which plots life expectancy by tube station. The shading shows reflects deprivation in individual areas:. |
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Podcast: Fear and loathing in Miami
CityMetric Finally, our map of the week – which, I’ll be honest, we do no justice to whatsoever – is this magnificent piece of work by Duncan Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced spatial Analysis. It shows, at a glance, the growth of all the world’s major cities … |
The Painting Connections project is looking for artists to produce work on the theme of “the sharing economy” for an exhibition in Hackney Wick at the end of July. The works, preferably from artists based in Hackney Wick and … Continue reading →
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How could London’s new “Night Tsar” improve the city?
CityMetric It reminds me of this piece of work, by James Cheshire and Oliver O’Brien – two researchers at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis – which plots life expectancy by tube station. The shading shows reflects deprivation in individual areas:. |
London has a great collection of grand buildings, famous bridges and other urban objects that delight tourists and residents alike, but there’s quite a few impressive structures that haven’t made it to 2016. Here is a map of a London that you can’t see. The premise is simple – it shows some of London’s distinctive […]
Continue reading »UCL Professor Mark Lythgoe appointed chair of the Times Cheltenham Science FestivalScience BusinessThe Festival, which starts this year on 7 June, is a six-day celebration of science, engineering and the arts, delivering a mix of cutting-edge research,…
Continue reading »UCL Professor Mark Lythgoe appointed chair of the Times Cheltenham Science FestivalScience BusinessThe Festival, which starts this year on 7 June, is a six-day celebration of science, engineering and the arts, delivering a mix of cutting-edge research,…
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Alexander Brett has created this interactive map of London using the D3 visualisation framework and its “Force Layout” view. This places the data points (London ward centroids) at their geographic origin, and then applies a series of competing forces, as if the points are connected by a mesh of springs, to subtly adjust the locations […]
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