Category: data
Where London Runs
This is a screenshot of a heatmap of runs carried out i […]
Continue reading »Big Data’s Little Secrets (Part 1)
The term ‘big data’ has been getting a lot of attention recently, some of it very complimentary (see ‘The End of Theory‘), and some of it not so much (see Mark Birkin’s report on a recent AAG session). On one … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Big Data’s Little Secrets (Part 1)
The term ‘big data’ has been getting a lot of attention recently, some of it very complimentary (see ‘The End of Theory‘), and some of it not so much (see Mark Birkin’s report on a recent AAG session). On one … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Multiple MySQL Servers on a Single Machine
Note: this was previously posted at simulacra.info, but I am in the process of (re)organising my technical notes and tutorials. A bit of a dry post here, but I thought I’d share my experience of trying to get two instances of … Continue reading →
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Computer Game Sprite Map of Zone 1
Here’s a map of Zone 1 London (concentrating on t […]
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Synthetic population data for the U.S
When creating agent-based models, one question is how many agents to include and where are they located. Often we create synthetic individuals or households based on census data however, this can be a rather time consuming task. So a recent proje…
Continue reading »Synthetic population data for the U.S
When creating agent-based models, one question is how many agents to include and where are they located. Often we create synthetic individuals or households based on census data however, this can be a rather time consuming task. So a recent proje…
Continue reading »A Week in the Life of London’s Public Transit System
I’ve been meaning to post this for ages but have had a great deal on my plate (more posts and visualisations to follow in the next week I hope) so this has kept slipping, together with the six or seven other ‘draft’ posts I’ve got going. Anyway, this visualisation shows average entries at each and every Underground, […]
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Stamen Design’s Watercolour Map
Stamen Design are a bespoke design and technology compa […]
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The Index of Multiple Deprivation as a Map
“Geodemographics of Housing in Great Britain R […]
Continue reading »London Twitter Data as a Landscape
Readers will know that as part of the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation, here in CASA, we are exploring new methods and techniques for visualising data. As part of the course we are looking at collecting data from the Twitte…
Continue reading »London Twitter Data as a Landscape
Readers will know that as part of the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation, here in CASA, we are exploring new methods and techniques for visualising data. As part of the course we are looking at collecting data from the Twitte…
Continue reading »The Olympic Park – New Names, New Map
LOCOG (The London Organising Committee for the Olympic […]
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No Zone 1
Transport for London would really rather you didn’ […]
Continue reading »Mapping London Life
Mapping London Life is the title of the talk I gave at […]
Continue reading »How big is your society?
The “Big Society” features as a key part of the coalition government’s legislative programme, aiming to decentralise control of public services and to empower local communities to manage and deliver services that better meet local needs. Over the past twelve months I have been involved in an AHRC Funded Connected Communities project involving researchers at […]
Continue reading »England Riots: Offences Committed and Offenders Age
The Guardian have been keeping track of the magistrate cases and convictions resulting from the recent rioting in England. Using this data I have produced the “tree map” below. For each magistrate I have grouped each offence committed and represented it as a square. The size of the square represents the number of people who …
Continue reading »A Spatial Approach to Location Quotients
The intent of this post is not simply to uncover where the highest density of people belonging to a particular ethnic group are, but rather to use the ‘location quotient’ (LQ) technique to compare the ethnic density in any one area to the overall ethnic density in Southwark, thus providing a relative insight into where […]
Continue reading »Spatial Analysis Using the National Pupil Database
A month or so ago (again, trying to catch up here!) I spoke at the annual PLUG conference in London. As always, lots of very interesting talks about National Pupil Database applications and developments. All the talks are available on the PLUG website – link. My slides were as follows… Spatial Analysis Using the National […]
Continue reading »Configuring Multiple MySQL Servers on a Single Machine
A bit of a dry post here, but I thought I’d share my experience of trying to get two instances of MySQL (and two different versions, to boot) running simultaneously on a single piece of hardware as I’ve spent the …
Continue reading »‘Digging into Data’ challenge
JISC, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), along with five international funding bodies, invite institutions to submit proposals for the Digging into Data Challenge. The idea behind the Digging into Data Challenge is to address how “big data” changes the research landscape for the humanities and […]
Continue reading »Call for papers – JoSIS journal special issue Open Geographic Information
Journal of Spatial Information Science (JoSIS) CALL FOR PAPERS – Special Feature on Open Geographic Information Guest editors: Dr. Hanif Rahemtulla, Horizon Digital Economy Research, Nottingham University and Professor Paul Longley, Department of Geography, University College London. Call for papers This special feature aims to bring together some of the key developers, academics and writers on […]
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