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ECSA 2024 reflections – policy and STS attention, turbulent futures and a celebration

Posted on Monday 8 April 2024 by mukih

The ECSA conference is now over, and for me, it ended with the final excursion of the citizen science day. On a lovely spring evening, we joined the coordinators of the amphibiom project at Bednar Park, observing and hearing the story of a unique green toads community that is managing to hang on in a … Continue reading ECSA 2024 reflections – policy and STS attention, turbulent futures and a celebration →

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citizen science, Citizen Social Science, Conference, Conferences, ECSA, ECSA2024, European Citizen Science Association, FP10, Horizon Europe, News, policy, press-release, STS

“Passport Geographies” Call for Papers – AAG 2014

Posted on Wednesday 9 October 2013 by Dr Pablo Mateos

Call for Papers – Association of American Geographers (AAG) meeting 2014 April 8th -12th, 2014: Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. SESSION: “PASSPORT GEOGRAPHIES” Sponsored by the Population Specialty Group (PSP) at AAG Download Call for Papers in PDF SESSION CONVENORS: Pablo … Continue reading →

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Conferences, News

Counting Crowds

Posted on Tuesday 30 July 2013 by Hannah Fry

This month has seen some dramatic developments in Egypt, with widespread protests, Morsi deposed from power – and more recently – outbreaks of violence across the country. In the early days of […]

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News

Head squeeze – the science of winning

Posted on Tuesday 30 July 2013 by Hannah Fry

I was recently asked by the lovely chaps over at 360productions to make a little video for their youtube channel. So here I am talking about emergence, fish, traffic jams […]

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News

Most common surnames in Britain mapped

Posted on Friday 26 April 2013 by Dr Pablo Mateos

A team of geographers at University College London, led by Prof. Paul Longley and Muhammad Adnan have created a map of the most popular surnames around Britain. http://bit.ly/17NZHcD The map shows the distribution of the top three surnames by area using … Continue reading →

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ethnicity, Geography, Great Britain, News, onomap, surnames, web mapping

Deprivation, youth services and the London riots

Posted on Thursday 21 February 2013 by Hannah Fry

This video came about as a splinter project of some work I’ve been doing at UCL, trying to understand the 2011 London riots from a mathematical perspective. While we were […]

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News, Research

Plotting Every Crash on Every Road 1999-2010

Posted on Saturday 1 September 2012 by Michael Batty

Jason Dykes showed this at the GeoVisualisation Meeting in Oxford on August 30th: A map of road crashes in Great Britain (not the UK) from 1999 to 2010. It mirrors of course the road network and the density of population but it is a remarkable graphic. It was made by the BBC and first published […]

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COSMIC, Front, News, scale

Plotting and iGraph on Lion and Mountain Lion

Posted on Thursday 30 August 2012 by robin

After giving up on Gephi (again, I really should learn), I decided it was time to get to grips with Python and iGraph since I really need to produce multiple iterations of a graph. The matmos at CASA have, of course, been touting Python for ages, but I’ve just not had the time/incentive to install […]

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COSMIC, igraph, library, mac, networks, News, Projects, python, visualisation

Who says complex networks aren’t funny?

Posted on Sunday 5 August 2012 by Hannah Fry

Ok. Well maybe they aren’t. But I recently gave it a good bash at a stand-up comedy routine for UCL’s brightclub. The night is a sort of academic variety night, […]

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News

CASA: MRes Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation

Posted on Friday 13 July 2012 by Andy

The deadline is near for 2012 entry on the new MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (ASAV). The course reflects the current state of play in geographic, urban and architectural information systems with an emphasis on visualisation, analysis and modelling. Taught at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, home of digital urban, it is an […]

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2 Fully Funded PhD Studentships at CASA: Smart Cities / Smart Urban

Posted on Wednesday 11 July 2012 by Andy

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: […]

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Featured, News

TEDxUCL

Posted on Monday 9 July 2012 by Hannah Fry

UCL recently hosted their first ever TEDx event, and to my amazement (probably after seeing some seriously dodgy maths themed stand-up I did) they invited me to give a talk. […]

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News, Research

Paper on Netnography of Migration and Citizenship

Posted on Thursday 5 July 2012 by Dr Pablo Mateos

Residence vs. Ancestry in Acquisition of Spanish Citizenship: A Netnography Approach Pablo Mateos and Jorge Durand Access to a nationality from a European union (EU) country has become a key migration strategy for people from outside the eu and their families. This … Continue reading →

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@Kozinets, #NSMNSS, citizenship, discussion forum, internet, Latin America, migration, netnography, new social science methods, News, Publications, Spain

Paper published in PLOS ONE

Posted on Thursday 5 July 2012 by Dr Pablo Mateos

Forget Social Networks, our names link us together in cultural and ethnic communities worldwide Our forenames and surnames are connected into distinct global networks of cultural, ethnic and linguistic communities. These are revealed for the first time y a team … Continue reading →

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ethnicity, linguistics, names, network clustering, New Zealand, News, PLoS ONE, Publications, Social Networks, surnames, worldnames

Europe- a millennia in ten minutes

Posted on Thursday 17 May 2012 by robin

An interesting movie is currently trending visualising the last thousand years of European history and conflict. Europe resembles a large game of Risk or Civilization. Such games typically end with a single large empire, whilst the dynamics of European history show the larger empires forming only fleetingly, soon to be dissolved by the re-emergence of […]

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dynamics, News, visualisation

Focus on the positive

Posted on Wednesday 25 April 2012 by Hannah Fry

On Monday, UCL public engagement played host to a new type of event, funded by EPSRC and titled Focus On The Positive. The idea is beautifully simple – six academics […]

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News

Big Data, Complexity, Networks at the German Physical Society

Posted on Saturday 17 March 2012 by Michael Batty

Full Details of the Meeting are Here Various people from UCL and Kings are contributing to this meeting in Berlin. Mike Batty from CASA is talking on how cities and their evident complexity require big data which is rapidly becoming available, Phil Treleavan from CS at UCL is talking about experimental computational finance in […]

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COSMIC, Events, Front, News

Understanding and Managing Complex Systems, 5 March 2012

Posted on Saturday 3 March 2012 by Michael Batty

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) are organising this seminar on 5th March 2012 starting at 9-30am at Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, the Netherlands. Mike Batty is talking about Complexity in Cities: Are Cities Becoming More and More Complex?, Martin Novak is talking about […]

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Agent Based Models, COSMIC, Front, News

A New UK Output Area Classification – User Engagement

Posted on Friday 17 February 2012 by chris

A joint project has been set up between ONS and University College London to develop a new UK Output Area Classification, for which we are seeking your views and thoughts. The new Output Area Classification is planned to be created using 2011 Census data, when available, and is relevant to anyone interested in social area […]

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News

Complexity Theory in Cities

Posted on Monday 13 February 2012 by Michael Batty

Here is a new book on complexity and cities entitled “Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age: An Overview with Implications to Urban Planning and Design” edited by Juval Portugali, Han Meyer, Egbert Stolk and Ekim Tan with the …

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Agent Based Models, Front, GENeSIS, News, TALISMAN

Martin Dodge, ex-CASA, wins AAG Meridian Prize for his Book Code/Space

Posted on Friday 3 February 2012 by Michael Batty

Martin was an RA in CASA and then lecturer from 1996 to 2004. He is now Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Manchester. He coauthored the book with another friend of CASA, ROb Kitchin of NUI. Here is …

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Events, Front, News

Satellite Meeting at ECCS 2012: Complexity in Spatial Dynamics

Posted on Thursday 2 February 2012 by Jon Reades

Satellite Meeting: Complexity in Spatial Dynamics (COSMIC) Location: Brussels, 5th of September 2012 Organizers: Peter Nijkamp, Michael Batty, Stewart Fotheringham, and Emmanouil Tranos Background New bottom up, digital data collected for entire populations, has started being utilised in urban science …

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Complex Systems, Conference, COSMIC, dynamics, eccs, Models, networks, News

London (Re)generation AD: Architectural Design

Posted on Tuesday 17 January 2012 by Michael Batty

The Bartlett’s Michael Batty, Matthew Carmona, Edward Denison, Murray Fraser, Matthew Gandy, and Hilary Powell all feature in current issue of Architectural Design, a lively, thought-provoking exploration of the contemporary regeneration of London, edited by David Littlefield. Plans to …

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Events, Front, GENeSIS, News

Simulating the Spread of Infectious Diseases in Large Cities

Posted on Monday 16 January 2012 by Michael Batty

Anders Johansson, Mike Batty and colleagues’ paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases is published online today. There they are exploring how models for simulating crowds can be extended to deal with the spread of infectious diseases in high density environments. …

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Agent Based Models, Front, News

MapThing v1.0 Processing Library

Posted on Tuesday 10 January 2012 by Jon Reades

One of the objectives of the COSMIC project is to “extend our current techniques of visualising complex spatial systems… [to] enable a wide range of stakeholders to be involved both in understanding such complexity and using it in policy analysis.” Normally, …

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COSMIC, Front, library, News, processing, Resources, visualisation

The ARCADIA Employment Model

Posted on Sunday 8 January 2012 by Michael Batty

Duncan Smith, Camilo-Vargas Ruiz and myself (Mike Batty) have completed the employment model for the Arcadia Integrated Assessment Model. The model is unique in that it is built at the regional level for three UK regions – London, the South …

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Arcadia, Front, News, scale

Representing Social Flows

Posted on Thursday 22 December 2011 by Michael Batty

The flow analogy is central to our work in COSMIC, Mechanicity and related projects which argue that cities should be considered as first and foremost as flow systems, not as locational patterns. This is massive break with the past as …

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COSMIC, Front, GENeSIS, News

All I Want For Christmas …

Posted on Monday 12 December 2011 by Michael Batty

… is the biggest, fattest book I have ever contributed to, almost unknowingly. Imagine my surprise when the large parcel, almost too heavy for the postman to carry, arrived on my desk, containing a copy of the 1465 page Technical …

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Front, News, Projects, Resources, Tyndall

One Days Worth of Traffic in Milton Keynes

Posted on Wednesday 7 December 2011 by Michael Batty

Nice movie of traffic moving and link volumes in Milton Keynes by Joan Serras working on our SCALE project. Notice the peak and the fact that as is quite usual for such traffic, the morning peak is more accentuated than …

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Agent Based Models, Front, News, scale

Scaling in Social Systems

Posted on Friday 2 December 2011 by Michael Batty

A one day EPSRC-funded workshop (at which yours truly presented) in Oxford at the Complex Agent-Based Dynamic Networks group (CABDyN) at the Said Business School (1st December 2011) had five interesting speakers all talking about the new social physics of …

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Front, News, scale, TALISMAN

Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems

Posted on Friday 25 November 2011 by Michael Batty

Provides a complete reference guide for understanding how to apply ABM to geographical systems Presents the latest ideas and applications using ABM Addresses the issue of applying ABM in a spatial context. This unique book brings together a comprehensive set of papers on …

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Agent Based Models, Front, GENeSIS, News

QMRG Best Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2011

Posted on Tuesday 30 August 2011 by James Cheshire

We are pleased to announce that Tadas Nikonovas from the Department of Geography at Swansea University is the winner of this year’s QMRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. Tadas’ dissertation entitled “Artificial light emissions in Europe. Trends from a DMSP satellite fifteen year record” was applauded for its interesting and relevant topic, its use of complex quantitative […]

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News, Prize

Changing Rank-Size Distributions over 24 Hrs on London Tube and Rail

Posted on Sunday 7 August 2011 by Michael Batty

Inspired by Jon Reades’ great visualizations of flows using the TfL Oyster card data, we are now starting to examine the statistical properties of the data, beginning with an analysis of what goes on in the nodes. The data yields …

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COSMIC, Front, News

Pulse of the City

Posted on Tuesday 2 August 2011 by Jon Reades

I’ve been working with the TfL data over the past few weeks to better understand the geographical distribution of journeys and how this affects the load on individual segments across the transport network. In other words, we all know that …

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COSMIC, Front, News

Tech City ‘More than Doubled in Size’

Posted on Wednesday 27 July 2011 by Jon Reades

Perhaps it’s careless wording by the Wall Street Journal, but Eric Van der Kleij appears to be claiming that: The number of start ups in the U.K.’s Tech City has more than doubled since the government-led initiative was launched last …

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COSMIC, firms, london, News, Tech City

A Society of Simulations

Posted on Sunday 17 July 2011 by Michael Batty

An Essay by Koert van Mensvoort, from his blog http://www.nextnature.net/ where he has a lot of interesting material on Simulacra and much else besides. He begins this essay with the following quote: An interviewer once asked Pablo Picasso  why he paints such …

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Front, News

Social Networks & Access to Opportunity

Posted on Friday 1 July 2011 by Jon Reades

In my work on social networks, one thing that has been of particular interest to me is the way that social network structure seems to be correlated with access to opportunity — both for individuals, and (though I think this …

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COSMIC, News

Exploring the Historical Determinants of Urban Growth Patterns through Cellular Automata

Posted on Saturday 11 June 2011 by Michael Batty

Kiril Stanilov has adapted RIKS METRONAMICA, an established cellular automata (CA) modelling system, to simulate the historical growth of a section of a large world city. The focus is on simulating change from the late 19th century until the modern …

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Cellular Automata, Front, GENeSIS, london, Models, News, visualisation

Configuring Multiple MySQL Servers on a Single Machine

Posted on Wednesday 18 May 2011 by Jon Reades

A bit of a dry post here, but I thought I’d share my experience of trying to get two instances of MySQL (and two different versions, to boot) running simultaneously on a single piece of hardware as I’ve spent the …

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data, library, News, software

Running Spatial Interaction Models in JAVA

Posted on Friday 8 April 2011 by Camilo Vargas

Overview Recently we have been developing a Java based set of software components for the field of land use transportation modeling. The system has being designed for integrating various open source tools for the rapid assessment of urban futures. We …

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Java, Land Use Transport Modelling, library, Models, News, Resources

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