The London riots of 2011
Today saw our new paper on the London Riots published as part of the nature series in Scientific Reports. The work began a few months after the events of summer […]
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If you ever wanted to test drive a spatial interaction model, here’s your chance…
TweetHello blog, we haven’t seen each other for a while – I’ve been meaning to call, but you know how it is, just been so busy with work and all that… What do you mean I only visit when I … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Converting Latitude and Longitude to British National grid
This code reads in a .csv file called LatLon, expecting two columns with headers – Latitude and Longitude (in WGS84, decimal form). If the script is run in the same […]
Continue reading »Converting British National Grid to Latitude and Longitude II
A few months ago, I wrote a python script to convert British National grid coordinates (OSGB36) to latitude and longitude (WGS84). A fellow blogger Andrzej Bieniek very kindly pointed out that the algorithm […]
Continue reading »Working paper fun
TweetJust to prove that I’ve not been twiddling my thumbs for the last 12 months, here’s the first (of hopefully many) working papers to come out of the ENFOLDing Migration stable… Alan Wilson and I have been working on a … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Bezier Curves
I wonder how long I can carry on working at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis and still manage to avoid learning any GIS. This week: Bezier curves, how to […]
Continue reading »Converting British National Grid to Latitude and Longitude I
EDIT: Andrzej Bieniek brought to my attention that this version is correct to 100m. For a more accurate script (accurate to 5m) see my new post. I have recently started to […]
Continue reading »Some stuff on the London riots
In the past few weeks our mathmo team: Toby Davies, Peter Baudains and myself, have been looking into some of the reasons why the London riots happened. If we […]
Continue reading »New paper from me and the sad end of an era…
TweetYes, British migration classification fans, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for – publication of the CIDER Migration Classification paper! *Cue delirious cheering, whooping, hollering and cries of ‘get in the hole!!’* This most recent product of my blood, sweat and … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Iterative Proportional Nitwit
TweetIterative Proportional Fitting? That old chestnut? Haven’t people been banging on about that for hundreds of years?! Well, about 70, but I guess some of the old ones are the best ones… (Deming and Stephan for all those pub quiz … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Research Associate and PhD Studentship on ENFOLDing
Applications are now being invited for two positions on the ENFOLDing project, based within the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL: a Postdoctoral Research Associate within the Department of Security and Crime Science and a PhD Studentship wit…
Continue reading »The importance of being discrete.
If we’re being accurate, the title should really be “The importance of using appropriate temporal spacing when applying a discretisation to a continuous time scale”. But I felt the above…
Continue reading »London Bike Share: No routing
Nothing too new here, just a version of our London Bike Share video with no routing. While the transport experts amongst us will find little use for the straight-line travel model, I think it helps enormously in seeing tidal patterns … Continue reading →
British Science Association Science Communication Conference
An early plug, then, for the British Science Association Science Communication Conference, taking place over the 25th and 26th of May here in London. The theme for this year is “online engagement”, featuring high-profile figures like Cory Doctorow talking about … Continue reading →
Rank Clocks: showing time as time
Showing data as a time series enables us to see “data paths” – to simultaneously observe past, present and future, and to begin to spot trends. However, sometimes overloading an already complex graphic with a persistent time series will make … Continue reading →