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    44. Competing models? Deconstruct into building bricks?

    Posted on Monday 8 August 2016 by geojeff

    Models are representations of theories. I write this as a modeller – someone who works on mathematical and computer models of cities and regions but who is also seriously interested in the underlying theories I am trying to represent. My … Continue reading →

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    43. Lowering the bar

    Posted on Tuesday 28 June 2016 by geojeff

    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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    42. Best practice

    Posted on Thursday 2 June 2016 by geojeff

    Everything we do, or are responsible for, should aim at adopting ‘best practice’. This is easier said than done! We need knowledge, capability and capacity. Then maybe there are three categories through which we can seek best practice: (1) from … Continue reading →

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    41 Foresight on The Future of Cities

    Posted on Monday 16 May 2016 by geojeff

    For the last three years (almost), I have been chairing the Lead Expert Group of the Government Office for Science Foresight Project on The Future of Cities. It has finally ‘reported’, not as conventionally with one large report and many … Continue reading →

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    39: Competing models

    Posted on Thursday 5 May 2016 by geojeff

    My immediately preceding blog post, ‘Truth is what we agree about’, provides a framework for thinking about competing models in the social sciences. There are competing models in physics, but not in relation to most of the ‘core’ – which … Continue reading →

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    39: Abstract modes, generalised costs and constraints: exploring future scenarios

    Posted on Wednesday 27 April 2016 by geojeff

    I have spent much of the last three years working on the Government Office for Science Foresight project on The future of cities. The focus was on a time horizon of fifty years into the future. It is clearly impossible … Continue reading →

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    38. Truth is what we agree about?

    Posted on Thursday 21 April 2016 by geojeff

    I have always been interested in philosophy. I was interested in the big problems – the ‘What is life about?’ kind of thing with, as a special subject, ‘What is truth?’. How can we know whether something – a sentence, … Continue reading →

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    37: The ‘Leicester City’ phenomenon: aspirations in academia.

    Posted on Monday 18 April 2016 by geojeff

    Followers of English football will be aware that the top tier is the Premier League and that the clubs that finish in the top four at the end of the season play in the European Champions’ League in the following … Continue reading →

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    How to do research (11)

    36: Block chains and urban analytics

    Posted on Thursday 14 April 2016 by geojeff

    I argued in an earlier piece that game-changing advances in urban analytics may well depend on technological change. One such possibility is the introduction of block chain software. a block is a set of accounts at a node. This is … Continue reading →

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    Urban Modelling (9)

    35 Big data and high-speed analytics

    Posted on Thursday 17 March 2016 by geojeff

    My first experience of big data and high-speed analytics was at CERN and the Rutherford Lab over 50 years ago. I was in the Rutherford Lab part of a large distributed team working on a CERN bubble chamber experiment. There … Continue reading →

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    Urban Modelling (9)

    36. Test #2

    Posted on Thursday 10 March 2016 by geojeff

    A test to see if subscribers get notified automatically

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    35. Test Blog

    Posted on Thursday 10 March 2016 by geojeff

    This is a test for blog notification.

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    34. What would Warren Weaver say now?

    Posted on Thursday 10 March 2016 by geojeff

    Warren Weaver was a remarkable man. He was a distinguished mathematician and statistician. He made important early contributions on the possibility of the machine translation of languages. He was a fine writer who recognised the importance of Shannon’s work on … Continue reading →

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