The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
The number of times you read a paper which seriously affects the way you view the world is depressingly low in the development business. Papers focus on the small-scale (does buying more text books improve test scores?) instead of the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Let me get a quick admission out of the way, before I launch into this review of the freshly-published World Development article Using Census Data to Explore the Spatial Distribution of Human Development by Iñaki Permanyer: I don’t know much … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I’m sure I’m not the only one to have had a hard time reading Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom* on the tube or in a cafe. It’s serious reading and requires a suitably contemplative atmosphere to avoid the dreaded “I’ve … Continue reading →
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I’ve been looking into whether Google’s “search result count” facility can help direct the focus of my research a little bit, by recording the result count for a series of search strings relating to different countries, in different years, and … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The first rule of academia: never talk to anyone from the ‘real world’ about your research. I was reminded of this rule yesterday when I spoke to my flatmate about what I’m trying to do with complexity science-style modelling and … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I’ve managed to get some data onto my PostGIS database, and have got my first visualisation result. Since the aid dataset is large (c. 1,000,000, source: aiddata.org, the dataset is called ‘aid data 2 short’) I’ve summed over donors and … Continue reading →
Continue reading »In the big, fat dataset I’m using to study what affects the global flow of development aid, I’ve come across a problem which researchers must have dealt with a million times from scratch, and never published the results of how … Continue reading →
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