The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
The south-west is known as a place where there are many second homes. In some villages, so many of the homes are empty for much of the year, or are simply holiday homes, that living there can seem even quieter than you would expect. Above is Newquay, the capital of surfing in the south-west and […]
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Cycling to work is on the increase but is at very low levels in most places in the UK – and there are very wide variations, even across towns and cities of similar size. Bristol (above) and London both see zones of high usage – typically in inner city suburbs popular with students and graduates: […]
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London is a significant destination for many people at various lifestages. One particularly popular inflow is university graduates looking for a place to live as they start their first career-minded job in the capital – coming from the other 100 or so universities in the UK outside London, or from Europe or elsewhere. It is […]
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I am happy to report that the iPad Video wall has grown up from a prototype to a fully fledged finished project. If you have been following the blog then you would have saw the prototype video of the wall’s proof of concept and watched a single movie playing over all 8 iPads. Well I’ve […]
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As part of a future ‘Easter’ themed promotion we have produced a short teaser clip around ‘cubes in the city’. The movie was produced using ESRI City Engine, 3D Max and Lumion – it is also being used as part of our Masters course on Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation…
Continue reading »This is intriguing, a new 3D package to map and explore data – Datascape, by Daden Ltd, known perviously for their work in Second Life, provides an immersive environment in which users can explore and interact with data from almost any source. David Burden, Daden’s Managing Director said “Datascape is ground-breaking and we’re…
Continue reading »Researchers here in CASA, University College London, from the TALISMAN node of the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) are working on urban simulations and procedural modelling. As part of the public outreach side of the work, they have created a Pigeon Simulator where you can fly like a pigeon…
Continue reading »The latest in the digital urban tutorial series is available as a downloadable .PDF, it looks at exploring applications for physics engines in urban modelling, the first step of which is a series of techniques to introduce gravity and mass to urban models. We produced a tutorial back in 2009 using ‘Reactor’, Autodesk no longer use this […]
Continue reading »We have a new look at digitalurban, at the moment its very much in its beta phase with the move away from blogger and into wordpress. The move allows us to set up a range of new features and portfolio type pages, for example if you click on ‘tutorials’ or any of the scrolling images […]
Continue reading »We are pleased to announce 2 fully funded PhD studentships at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. Full details below, its a unique opportunity to carry out new cutting edge research in the field of smart cities: PhD 1 – CASA and The Greater London Authority Funding Type: Impact Award Project Title: PhD Studentship: […]
Continue reading »We recently held a one day conference here at CASA called Smart Cities. For the conference we built various exhibition pieces and my contribution to the conference was the London Data Table, a projection table the shape of Greater London. The table had various visualisation projected onto the surface; from live aircraft positions, live traffic […]
Continue reading »So we are coming to the end of the first 31 days of 2012 and I’m pleased to report that I’ve won 2 separate awards for my research at UCL. The first award, which I won this week, was the UCL Provost’s Award for Public Engagement 2012. This award was really unexpected and I still can’t […]
Continue reading »London 2012 is only 1 year away! This is an exciting time for London and the UK in general. The new stadiums are nearly complete and most of the tickets for the events have already been sold. Hopefully if you applied for a ticket you got one! Behind the scenes here at BigDataToolKit and at […]
Continue reading »Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is underway and with that comes Steve Jobs famous keynote address and Apple’s lastest tech. This year saw Jobs announce iOS 5, MacOS Lion, but more importantly Apple’s MobileMe replacement, iCloud. iCloud is Apple’s offering into the cloud computing infrastructure that Google and Amazon have dominated over the past few years. […]
Continue reading »We have been working hard here at CASA lately, building tools to collect, analyse and visualise different data sets from all over the web. One piece of software that has proven quite popular over the past few months is our internal Twitter Collector. The collector mines Twitter for tweets inside a geographical radius either with […]
Continue reading »The Tweet-o-Meters are spreading! In association with JISC and the British Library’s Growing Knowledge exhibition we have installed nine custom built Tweet-o-Meters that update every 5 seconds. It is a great honor to see something that you built in a few nights get taken up by the biggest library in the UK. Ben and I […]
Continue reading »My newest creation into crowd sourcing this week has launched, the Tweet-o-Meter! Tweet-o-Meter shows twitter traffic from different cities around the world and allows you to see which city tweets the most. We are mining the data for later analysis to and are currently in the process of mapping the data. It’s all very exciting. […]
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