The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
In May 2011 the UK Government asked the British public if they wanted to change the way they vote in election. It turns out that they didn’t but during the run up to the event we collected data from Twitter relating to the referendum. This presentation was given at Manchester University with some of our […]
Continue reading »This week I feature on the 4th Episode of the Global Lab podcast. The podcast is a great new initiative led by Martin and Steve from CASA where they talk about cities, global connectivity and the impact of technology on people’s lives. Episode four features some horrendous physics jokes, Einstein’s Garden at the Green Man festival …
Continue reading »This is a presentation I gave at the UCL Public Engagement Symposium on the QRator project, 22nd June 2011. Presentation was in the style of ‘ignite’ – 20 slides, 20 seconds each slide, and in that vain, the slides are purposely image heavy and text light.
Continue reading »Harvesting the crowd is such a large and complex process but we can learn some interesting events happening just from looking at Geo-located Tweets. This seminar concentrates on what we sense we can make from the collective tweets of a city. Slides from seminar given to Oxford DTC e-Research Center, Oxford University, Jun 2011
Continue reading »A workshop on “Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards” organized jointly by Dr Hanif Rahemtulla, Horizon Digital Economy Research and Puneet Kishor, Creative Commons in conjunction with the annual Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS), June 21, 2011, Nottingham, United Kingdom. The workshop will be held at the School of Geography/Centre for Geospatial […]
Continue reading »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 jointly hosted by the GIScRG and the Geography of […]
Continue reading »Click here for FULL DETAILS. The organising committee for the European Colloquium of Quantitative and Theoretical Geography (ECQTG2011) would like to invite submissions of abstracts for their 17th conference, to take place at the Harokopio University of Athens, Greece, from the 2nd – 5th September 2011. The conference is formally organised by the Greek Society for […]
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