The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Building upon our work on volunteered geographical information (VGI) and ambient geographic information (AGI) and how such data (e.g. social media) can be used to understand place, Xiaoyi Yuan, Andreas Züfle and myself have a new paper entitled: “A Th…
Continue reading »Building upon our work on volunteered geographical information (VGI) and ambient geographic information (AGI) and how such data (e.g. social media) can be used to understand place, Xiaoyi Yuan, Andreas Züfle and myself have a new paper entitled: “A Th…
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Regular readers of this site might of noticed that we have an interest in slums. In the past this has focused on modeling them from an agent-based perspective, comparing volunteered geographical information to more authoritative data on slums, to that …
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Regular readers of this site might of noticed that we have an interest in slums. In the past this has focused on modeling them from an agent-based perspective, comparing volunteered geographical information to more authoritative data on slums, to that …
Continue reading »Regular readers of this site might of noticed that we have an interest in slums. In the past this has focused on modeling them from an agent-based perspective, comparing volunteered geographical information to more authoritative data on slums, to that …
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Figure 1: Map Mashup of Twitter data, where eachdotrepresents a tweet, the text corresponds to the selected tweet marked with a starIn the recently released “The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technolo…
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Figure 1: Map Mashup of Twitter data, where eachdotrepresents a tweet, the text corresponds to the selected tweet marked with a starIn the recently released “The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technolo…
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Following on with our GeoSocial Analysis work, we recently had a paper published in PLOS ONE entitled “Crowdsourcing A Collective Sense of Place.” In the paper we discuss and showcase how one can take a quantitative approach to derive a collectiv…
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Following on with our GeoSocial Analysis work, we recently had a paper published in PLOS ONE entitled “Crowdsourcing A Collective Sense of Place.” In the paper we discuss and showcase how one can take a quantitative approach to derive a collectiv…
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As regular visitors will know, we have been developing our ability to collect and analyze social media. To this end we have just received word from Transactions in GIS that our paper entitled “Triangulating Social Multimedia Content for Event Localizat…
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As regular visitors will know, we have been developing our ability to collect and analyze social media. To this end we have just received word from Transactions in GIS that our paper entitled “Triangulating Social Multimedia Content for Event Localizat…
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We recently contributed a chapter to Geocomputation (2nd edition) entitled “The Evolving GeoWeb”. What is interesting is the marked difference between the first edition (which was published in 2000) and the second. For example, in the latest edition, t…
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We recently contributed a chapter to Geocomputation (2nd edition) entitled “The Evolving GeoWeb”. What is interesting is the marked difference between the first edition (which was published in 2000) and the second. For example, in the latest edition, t…
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We recently contributed a chapter to “Big Data: Techniques and Technologies in Geoinformatics” entitled “Geoinformatics and Social Media: A New Big Data Challenge” where we explore how social media and ambient geographic information is transforming geo…
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We recently contributed a chapter to “Big Data: Techniques and Technologies in Geoinformatics” entitled “Geoinformatics and Social Media: A New Big Data Challenge” where we explore how social media and ambient geographic information is transforming geo…
Continue reading »A paper I recently co-authored with Anthony Stefanidis and Jacek Radzikowski from George Mason University entitled “Harvesting ambient geospatial information from social media feeds” is now available in GeoJournal. The abstract …
Continue reading »A paper I recently co-authored with Anthony Stefanidis and Jacek Radzikowski from George Mason University entitled “Harvesting ambient geospatial information from social media feeds” is now available in GeoJournal. The abstract …
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