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Researchers say looters make rational decisions about how far they’re willing to travel to steal what they want.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

Who speaks which language on Twitter in New York?See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

5 percent of Tweets out of the city are in a language other than English.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

Researchers say looters make rational decisions about how far they’re willing to travel to steal what they want.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

London Underground’s Tube map has been used as a metaphor for everything from the shape of the galaxy to famous footballers.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

Data engineers examined more than 3 million tweets to create this sprawling linguistic cartography.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

Data experts have used Twitter to map out the diverse range of languages spoken by people in London.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

A map using information from London’s twitter community shows the true diversity of the UK’s capital city.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

Using Twitter, a pair of London-based academics have created a map of the city’s linguistic diversity.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

Academics have used Twitter to create a map showing London’s linguistic diversity.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

How diverse is London? A map of 3.3m tweets shows the most popular languages used for tweeting and where they are used in the city.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

IN 1995 GEORGE GILDER, an American writer, declared that “cities are leftover baggage from the industrial era.” Electronic communications would become so easy…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

This colour-coded graphic pinpoints the location and language of tweets sent from the British capital and shows how linguistic groups are clustered in the city’s various districts.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

It’s a networking city hailed as a global village. And now London’s diversity has been mapped, courtesy of Twitter.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

Researchers are beginning to analyse the 1.2 billion Oyster card transactions that hold the key to London’s transport success…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

Data-mapping experts from UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis have mapped the latest proposals for English constituency boundaries…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

University of London researchers have combined the Google Earth flight simulator with a motion sensitive controller to allow people to fly around the city using bird movements.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

Our friends over at the Londonist spotted this project from UCL’s Centre of Advanced Spatial Analysis and we just had to share it with you.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

James Cheshire, a geography lecturer at the University College London, mapped common surnames in London.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

Over the fortnight of the Olympic Games, London became a bastion of cultural diversity.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

The London Olympic Games organisers called on Londoners to get ahead of the Games and it looks like they have.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

Atlantic cities features the maping london blog.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

Further disussion of Oliver O’Brien’s Booth style maps. See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

REVEALED: Map shows how EastLondonLines boroughs were hit hardest by bus strike | EastlondonlinesSee it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

Compared to those near stations in poorer areas, residents near some London Tube stops are likely to live 20 years longer.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

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James talks to World Service about the Life Expectancy Tube Map (from 47 minutes).See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

The world is coming to London .As the UK capital flings open its doors this week to the globe’s finest athletes and their followers, the city labelled “the greatest in the world” by Boris Johnson, its ebullient mayor, is primed to sh…

A map of the London Underground system is produced to show how life expectancy varies from station to station.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

New tube map shows London’s life expectancy in an innovative way…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

A new interactive map plots life expectancy and child poverty by different London Underground stations, highlighting the wild differences in outlook between children born only minutes apart on the tube.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

A new interactive map plots life expectancy and child poverty by different London Underground stations, highlighting the wild differences in outlook between children born only minutes apart on the tube.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

Jon Reades talks about the use of big dataSee it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

CityDashboard includes a live feed and a map detailing what’s happening in eight cities across Britain.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

CityDashboard aggregates real-time data for cities around the UK and presents the information on a webpage and map. The project was created by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. The dashboard of live feeds displays a…

This column previously covered a neat experiment that was using open data for London’s air quality to point out automatically areas of iffy air quality on Twitter.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

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Urban well-being could be boosted thanks to lessons learned from tracking people through a city’s underground travel network…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis