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    Virtual Landscape and a Peak for the London 2012 Olympic Park

    Posted on Wednesday 5 September 2012 by Fabian Neuhaus

    I will be speaking at the Society of Cartographers 48th Annual Conference today. The talk will focus on the New City Landscape maps under the title New City Landscape Maps: Urban Areas According to Tweet Density. The maps are visualising location based…

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    Morphology, ncl, NCLm, olympics, presentation

    Virtual Landscape and a Peak for the London 2012 Olympic Park

    Posted on Wednesday 5 September 2012 by Fabian Neuhaus

    I will be speaking at the Society of Cartographers 48th Annual Conference today. The talk will focus on the New City Landscape maps under the title New City Landscape Maps: Urban Areas According to Tweet Density. The maps are visualising location based…

    Continue reading »
    Morphology, ncl, NCLm, olympics, presentation

    Virtual Landscape and a Peak for the London 2012 Olympic Park

    Posted on Wednesday 5 September 2012 by Fabian Neuhaus

    I will be speaking at the Society of Cartographers 48th Annual Conference today. The talk will focus on the New City Landscape maps under the title New City Landscape Maps: Urban Areas According to Tweet Density. The maps are visualising location based…

    Continue reading »
    Morphology, ncl, NCLm, olympics, presentation

    Temporal Aspects of the City

    Posted on Thursday 26 January 2012 by Fabian Neuhaus

    I am giving a presentation to the MRes course at CASA, UCL today. There are two part to this lecture. The first part is covering the PhD research with a focus on the city and an overview of the methods of investigation that have been used. It is organi…

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    map, ncl, presentation, visualisation

    Temporal Aspects of the City

    Posted on Thursday 26 January 2012 by Fabian Neuhaus

    I am giving a presentation to the MRes course at CASA, UCL today. There are two part to this lecture. The first part is covering the PhD research with a focus on the city and an overview of the methods of investigation that have been used. It is organi…

    Continue reading »
    map, ncl, presentation, visualisation

    Digital Media – Alphaville Festival

    Posted on Friday 23 September 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    This weekend from today the Alphaville Festival is under way providing a platform for digital media and art to be shown, discussed and explored across different venues in East London. It is the third year for this growing digital-media platform and thi…

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    ncl, presentation, visualisation

    New City Landscape – Singapore – one Island

    Posted on Friday 9 September 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    Singapore is an city state with about 5’076’700 inhabitant according to the 2010 census. The society is very technology interested and electronics make a lot of their business.Digital elements have a strong presence in everyday life, including online s…

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    ncl, NCLm, Singapore, timeRose, tweetography, twitter

    CRESC Annual Conference 2011 – Framing the City

    Posted on Wednesday 7 September 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    The CRESC annual conference 2011 ‘Framing the City’ is now taking place from today, 07 September through to Friday 09 September in Manchester at the Royal Northern College of Music. It is organised by Sophie Watson (Chair), Gillian Evans, Elizabeth…

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    Conference, ncl, ncln, presentation

    RGS Annual Conference 2011

    Posted on Thursday 1 September 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    The Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2011 is under way this week in London. It opened yesterday under the topic The Geographical Imagination and is chaired by Stephen Daniels, University of Nottingham.javascript:void(0)As ever…

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    ancl, ncl, ncln, place, presentation, social network, tweetography

    London aNCL

    Posted on Wednesday 24 August 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    London was the first city we collected Twitter data for when we started to create the New City Landscape (NCL) project, monitoring location based Twitter activity in urban areas. This was back in May 2010 and since we have collected data for a lot more…

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    animation, london, ncl, tweetography, twitter

    Barcelona New City Landscape

    Posted on Friday 22 July 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    Barcelona is in terms of twitter activity one of the cities that has a strong central core of high activity. Very similar to for example the London NCL or the Paris NCL maps. The highest point is just over the Placa de Catalonia with a steep slope down…

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    ancl, animation, Barcelona, ncl, tweetography, twitter

    New City Landscape – Calgary

    Posted on Thursday 14 July 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    Calgary was established in 1875 as Fort Brisebois by the North-West Mounted Police, located at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers in what is now Calgary, Alberta. Today Calgary is the largest city in Alberta and directs an oil and gas empire, m…

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    Calgary, ncl, tweetography, twitter

    New City Landscape – Calgary

    Posted on Thursday 14 July 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    Calgary was established in 1875 as Fort Brisebois by the North-West Mounted Police, located at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers in what is now Calgary, Alberta. Today Calgary is the largest city in Alberta and directs an oil and gas empire, m…

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    Calgary, ncl, tweetography, twitter

    New City Landscape – Mapping Urban Twitter Usage

    Posted on Wednesday 6 July 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    I am at CUPUM presenting a paper on the ongoing New City Landscape location based Twitter message mapping project. The paper gives an overview of a whole range of aspects this project is working with. Rangin from data collection, ethical discussion of …

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    ncl, presentation, twitter

    New City Landscape – Mapping Urban Twitter Usage

    Posted on Wednesday 6 July 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    I am at CUPUM presenting a paper on the ongoing New City Landscape location based Twitter message mapping project. The paper gives an overview of a whole range of aspects this project is working with. Rangin from data collection, ethical discussion of …

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    ncl, presentation, twitter

    A Week on Foursquare and Twitter

    Posted on Thursday 9 June 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    The news papers are currently not only fueling the data mining trend, they are pushing it themselves. The New York Times is leading the way with the data viz lab, but also the Guardian with the data blog is very active. Now the Wall Street Journal is p…

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    Foursquare, ncl, twitter, visualisation

    A Week on Foursquare and Twitter

    Posted on Thursday 9 June 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    The news papers are currently not only fueling the data mining trend, they are pushing it themselves. The New York Times is leading the way with the data viz lab, but also the Guardian with the data blog is very active. Now the Wall Street Journal is p…

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    Foursquare, ncl, twitter, visualisation

    New City Landscape – Geneva

    Posted on Friday 20 May 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    Geneva is the Swiss city with the most important international connections. In Geneva a lot of international organisations have a headquarter such as UNO, WHO, UNHCR, ILO, WIPO and the Red Cross. But there are also other institution of international si…

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    Geneva, ncl, tweetography, twitter

    NCL Bern – Centres

    Posted on Monday 9 May 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    The Capital of Switzerland is with a population of 131,000, the fourth most populous city in Switzerland. The wider area covered by the standard NCL 30km radius here is covering quite a lot of other centres, from Solothurn to Thun and from Murten to La…

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    Bern, ncl, tweetography

    NCL Basel – Clusters

    Posted on Monday 2 May 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    Basel, the city at the ‘Rheinknie’, marks the northern gateway to Switzerland. The ‘Dreiländereck’ (three country corner) is an important fix point in the port of Basel, where the borderlines of France, Germany and Switzerland touch. The resulting ‘tr…

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    Basel, ncl, tweetography

    NCL Zuerich – Activity Islands

    Posted on Friday 15 April 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    Zuerich is the an important commercial centre for Switzerland. The city and the regio is home to a lot of international companies, a banking hub and as well as destination for a lot international celebrities or otherwise rich people to enjoying their w…

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    ncl, tweetography, Zuerich

    New City Landscape – Seoul

    Posted on Monday 11 April 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    Seoul is the capital and largest city of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is one of the largest cities in the world. Seoul proper is noted for its population density, which is almost twice as concentrated as New York and…

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    ncl, Seoul, tweetography, twitter

    NCL San Francisco – Update

    Posted on Thursday 7 April 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    Following the SFO aNCL, an update to the earlier San Francisco map was needed. The slight redesign of the map islands with changed key and added graphs of temporal elements. The exclusive islandification of the area is enforce with a new frame. This pr…

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    ncl, san francisco, timeRose, tweetography, twitter

    San Francisco is Busy – aNCL Series

    Posted on Wednesday 6 April 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    San Francisco is busy tweeting and this new animation of location based tweets in the Bay Area show actually how busy it is. Geo located tweets are shown as yellow circles that fade away by time, and re-tweets are shown as small yellow points moving on…

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    animation, ncl, san francisco, tweetography, twitter

    NCL Bogotá – the Cut

    Posted on Friday 1 April 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    The Columbian capital is quite an active spot with tweeters. In general the twitter platform is very popular in South America and Bogota is no exemption. However it is in terms of overall numbers behind fanatic tweeters such as Sao Paulo and Rio, but i…

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    Bogota, Landscape, ncl, tweetography, twitter

    NCL World View – Update

    Posted on Wednesday 23 February 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    The NCL raw data collection has been running continuously over the past few weeks and data has been collected for cities around the world. It seems time to update the world map from is previous version. So far we have covered 67 cities. However they ar…

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    mapping, ncl, tweetography

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