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Thomas Pynchon’s Entropy
The concept of entropy has arisen periodically during the course of my PhD study, both as an analog to thermodynamics operationalised by Alan Wilson in his ‘family’ of spatial interaction models and to Shannon’s entropy as formalised spatially by several scholars including Mike Batty. Alan Wilson’s models of urban systems work because modelling an entropy […]
Continue reading »iCloud: My Thoughts
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is underway and with that comes Steve Jobs famous keynote address and Apple’s lastest tech. This year saw Jobs announce iOS 5, MacOS Lion, but more importantly Apple’s MobileMe replacement, iCloud. iCloud is Apple’s offering into the cloud computing infrastructure that Google and Amazon have dominated over the past few years. […]
Continue reading »‘Compactness’ in Zoning: the circle as the ideal.
I saw a thought provoking presentation recently, given by Wenwen Li of the University of California Santa Barbara, the talk was a wide ranging insight into Cyber Infrastructure, its uses for geospatial information, and some of the computational techniques that underpinned the project. One element of the project involved zone design for the greater Los […]
Continue reading »Spatial Design for GP Consortia?
The government is set to release a bill detailing how it is they expect the proposed GP Consortia to work. GP Consortia, groups of GPs working together, are set to replace the current structure of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) as the mechanism through which primary healthcare is provided to the […]
Continue reading »Frozen Britain and No Central Heating?
I liked Ben Hennig’s population cartogram of the UK under snow, but I thought it could perhaps show something a little more serious than simply where the people are. To do this I went to the UK Census 2001 (I know, an old data source, but the only thing I was aware of that could […]
Continue reading »Representing Populations: a Spatial Ecology
A subtitle to this post might also be: Are we all being mislead by the New York Times? In stating this I am referring to the recent maps released by the New York Times looking at ethnic distributions from the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The most immediate thing we can learn about this […]
Continue reading »Some Thoughts on the US Critical Facilities List
Naturally, as a Geographer the wikileaks release of facilities that the US believes critical to its security was interesting. Much like the chaps over at Floatingsheep some of us (Martin Austwick, James Cheshire, Peter Baudains, Alex Braithwaite) took it upon ourselves to map out the reported list. Martin came up with the following visualisation that […]
Continue reading »New Visualisations Catching Up!
One of the maps that I liberated from the great LSE clearout sometime ago was this visually pleasing and well balanced representation of the ratio of Females to Males from the 1961 Census. This kind of map has a specific story to tell, announcing that for a long time the women and men in the […]
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