Category: Urban Modelling (9)

My immediately preceding blog post, ‘Truth is what we agree about’, provides a framework for thinking about competing models in the social sciences. There are competing models in physics, but not in relation to most of the ‘core’ – which … Continue reading →

I argued in an earlier piece that game-changing advances in urban analytics may well depend on technological change. One such possibility is the introduction of block chain software. a block is a set of accounts at a node. This is … Continue reading →

My first experience of big data and high-speed analytics was at CERN and the Rutherford Lab over 50 years ago. I was in the Rutherford Lab part of a large distributed team working on a CERN bubble chamber experiment. There … Continue reading →