Open Data as Art: Data Windows
Ollie O’Brien and I have just dropped off our inv […]
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Open Data as Art: Data Windows
Ollie O’Brien and I have just dropped off our inv […]
Continue reading »Mapped: London’s Fire Engine Callouts
This map shows the geography of fire engine callouts ac […]
Continue reading »CASA Releases Open Weather Data Feed for London
We are providing open access to our live weather data – here at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. The station is located on the roof of 1-19 Torrington Place, off Tottenham Court Road in Central London (map link). The data is provided via a Davis Vantage…
Continue reading »In Maps We Trust
Of all the different types of data visualisation, maps* […]
Continue reading »Lives on the Line: Life Expectancy and Child Poverty as a Tube Map
Maps have always been a powerful way of highlighting L […]
Continue reading »The London Data Table
As regular readers will know we recently held a one day conference here at CASA entitled Smart Cities, Bridging the Physical and Digital. As part of the conference Steven Gray and George MacKerron built various exhibition pieces, in…
Continue reading »Introducing Citydashboard.org: A Live View of City Data
Here at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, we have just made live our latest in a series of services examining live data feeds – CityDashBoard. The system pulls in data from a variety feeds, de…
Continue reading »All the London Datastore Maps
Richard Milton here in CASA is working on our new National Centre for Research Methods funded TAILISMAN project. One aspect of the project is looking into data visualisation, here we present a guest post by Richard on the automatic visualisat…
Continue reading »All the London Datastore Maps
Richard Milton here in CASA is working on our new National Centre for Research Methods funded TAILISMAN project. One aspect of the project is looking into data visualisation, here we present a guest post by Richard on the automatic visualisat…
Continue reading »Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards
This workshop, titled “Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards” is organized jointly by Dr. Hanif Rahemtulla, Horizon Digital Economy Research and Puneet Kishor, Creative Commons. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the annual Open Source GIS Conference, June 21, 2011, Nottingham, United Kingdom, and will be held at the School of […]
Continue reading »The OpenStreetMap of London
The OpenStreetMap project started in London in 2004 and has since grown to be a huge map of the whole world. It can be thought of as the Wikipedia of…
Continue reading »Mapping London’s Population Change 1801-2030
Buried in the London Datastore are the population estimates for each of the London Boroughs between 2001 – 2030. They predict a declining population for most boroughs with the exception of a few to the east. I was surprised by this general decline and also the numbers involved- I expected larger changes from one year to …
Continue reading »Opendata+R+Google = Easy Maps
The release of the R package “googleVis” has made the production of interactive maps through Google’s Chart Tools a simple task. Ignoring the some basic data manipulation the below map was produced with these two lines of code: library(googleVis) Geo=gvisGeoMap(Map, locationvar=”Country”, numvar=”Percentage”, options=list(height=350, dataMode=’regions’)) plot(Geo) This map, although simple to produce, is nontrivial as it […]
Continue reading »Call for Papers – Open Geographic Information, RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011
Abstracts are invited for a session at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers conference 2011. The conference runs between 31st August – 2nd September 2011; the exact date of this special session is to be confirmed. The session is hosted by the GIScRG, and will be chaired by […]
Continue reading »FREE Open Data Master Classes
The past few months have seen a number of high profile announcements on the release of central and local government data for free. The Prime Minister launched the data.gov.uk portal to ‘open up data and promote transparency’ and the London Mayor announced the London Data Store to ‘give Londoners the change to find out more […]
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