The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
By way of a warm up to future blogging pleasures, I thought I’d post some mapping work I did for actual fun last year. As Christmas gifts for family I decided to make some custom maps of Winnipeg, Canada (location not chosen randomly, they’re actually from there). Don’t know Winnipeg? Well… It’s a city of nearly 700000 in …
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I haven’t written much on this blog about the work I’m currently doing at UCL CASA. As a Research Associate working on the Mechanicity with Mike Batty, I’m tasked with drawing meaning out of a massive dataset of Oyster Card tap ins and tap outs across London’s public transport network. The dataset covers every Oyster …
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I think many of us are familiar with the 2007 UK housing market crash. Over the course of a few months at the end of 2007, the bottom dropped out of the market, with the number of transactions plummeting from 127491 nationwide in August 2007 to just 49462 a year later. Even now, in 2014, while the …
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I think many of us are familiar with the 2007 UK housing market crash. Over the course of a few months at the end of 2007, the bottom dropped out of the market, with the number of transactions plummeting from 127491 nationwide in August 2007 to just 49462 a year later. Even now, in 2014, while the …
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Over the last month or so I’ve been involved in some consultancy work for the Evening Standard. The task was to develop a map to communicate the extension of the newspaper’s distribution network, a plan that was announced on their website and went into action last week. The work involved the production of three maps, …
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Over the last month or so I’ve been involved in some consultancy work for the Evening Standard. The task was to develop a map to communicate the extension of the newspaper’s distribution network, a plan that was announced on their website and went into action last week. The work involved the production of three maps, …
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Following the interest in our Twitter language map of London a few months back, James Cheshire and I have been working on expanding our horizons a bit. This time teaming up with John Barratt at Trendsmap, our new map looks at the Twitter languages…
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In case you hadn’t noticed, the ONS released their latest tranche of Census 2011 results today. The data has received considerable fanfare in the media already, looking set to dominate political debate over the coming days. One big story that appe…
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Further to my last post and various requests, I’ve published the complete list of languages detected within the whole collection of geolocated tweets in London. The list contains the full counts ranked for each language (excluding Tagalog), as wel…
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Over the last couple of weeks, and as a bit of a distraction from finishing off my PhD, I’ve been working with James Cheshire looking at the use of different languages within my aforementioned dataset of London tweets. I’ve been handling the data …
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