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    The London riots of 2011

    Posted on Thursday 21 February 2013 by Hannah Fry

    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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    Blog, complexity, enfold, Research

    If you ever wanted to test drive a spatial interaction model, here’s your chance…

    Posted on Wednesday 28 March 2012 by Adam Dennett

    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 →

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    enfold, modelling

    Converting Latitude and Longitude to British National grid

    Posted on Wednesday 1 February 2012 by Hannah Fry

    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 […]

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    Blog, complexity, enfold, python, Research

    Converting British National Grid to Latitude and Longitude II

    Posted on Wednesday 1 February 2012 by Hannah Fry

    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 […]

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    Blog, complexity, enfold, python, Research

    Working paper fun

    Posted on Monday 12 December 2011 by Adam Dennett

    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 →

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    Bezier Curves

    Posted on Wednesday 16 November 2011 by Hannah Fry

    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 […]

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    Blog, complexity, enfold, python, Research

    Converting British National Grid to Latitude and Longitude I

    Posted on Monday 10 October 2011 by Hannah Fry

    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 […]

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    Blog, complexity, enfold, python

    Some stuff on the London riots

    Posted on Monday 3 October 2011 by Hannah Fry

      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 […]

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    Blog, complexity, enfold, Research

    New paper from me and the sad end of an era…

    Posted on Thursday 22 September 2011 by Adam Dennett

    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 →

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    census, enfold, migration

    Iterative Proportional Nitwit

    Posted on Thursday 28 July 2011 by Adam Dennett

    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 →

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    Research Associate and PhD Studentship on ENFOLDing

    Posted on Wednesday 8 June 2011 by baudains

    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…

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    Blog, enfold, Jobs, security

    The importance of being discrete.

    Posted on Friday 15 April 2011 by Hannah Fry

    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…

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    Blog, complexity, enfold, Research

    London Bike Share: No routing

    Posted on Monday 28 March 2011 by Martin Zaltz Austwick

    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 →

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    British Science Association Science Communication Conference

    Posted on Tuesday 22 March 2011 by Martin Zaltz Austwick

    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 →

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    Rank Clocks: showing time as time

    Posted on Tuesday 1 February 2011 by Martin Zaltz Austwick

    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 →

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