The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
“Treemaps display hierarchical (tree-structured) data as a set of nested rectangles. Each branch of the tree is given a rectangle, which is then tiled with smaller rectangles representing sub-branches. A leaf node’s rectangle has an area proportional to a specified dimension on the data. Often the leaf nodes are colored to show a separate dimension of …
Continue reading »In the UK, August is exam results month for 16-18 year olds. Every year, photos of leaping teenagers clutching their results are accompanied by reports of record attainment rates, debates around how challenging modern exams are and, more so recently than ever, concerns for the number of sixth form and university places. Back in March …
Continue reading »The Guardian have been keeping track of the magistrate cases and convictions resulting from the recent rioting in England. Using this data I have produced the “tree map” below. For each magistrate I have grouped each offence committed and represented it as a square. The size of the square represents the number of people who …
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Continue reading »The main buzz word of the 2011 discussion in urban and spatial research is networks. Networks start to appear everywhere and everything is linked in to most other things. This is however, in fact not new. The network discussion has started at least ten…
Continue reading »A lot of the maps I have created over the last few years have started out as tabular data in PDF documents. A recent BBC London report contained a dataset obtained from TfL of all the schools in London which are within 150 metres of a road carrying 10,000 vehicles a day or more. The report is a […]
Continue reading »Temporal dimensions are only visible as fractions and over a very small scale. There are very clear limitations to the recognition of temporal changes to the human senses. This ranges from about 18 frames per second to the movement of a snail. Everythi…
Continue reading »Temporal dimensions are only visible as fractions and over a very small scale. There are very clear limitations to the recognition of temporal changes to the human senses. This ranges from about 18 frames per second to the movement of a snail. Everythi…
Continue reading »A new exhibition – Sense and the City – ope […]
Continue reading »Social networking is an internet phenomena and as such not limite to political borders. It spread rather quickly around the globe and is now as a range of maps recently has shown present on al continents as an important part of internet usage. THere ar…
Continue reading »Social networking is an internet phenomena and as such not limite to political borders. It spread rather quickly around the globe and is now as a range of maps recently has shown present on al continents as an important part of internet usage. THere ar…
Continue reading »With the possibilities of new computer technologies and the availability of rendering power physical models in architecture have lost the role as the main tool for spatial and physical shaping and testing of ideas. It is convenient with a few clicks t…
Continue reading »With the possibilities of new computer technologies and the availability of rendering power physical models in architecture have lost the role as the main tool for spatial and physical shaping and testing of ideas. It is convenient with a few clicks t…
Continue reading »The discussion around the subjectivity of mapping and the potential of subjective mapping tools becoming possible with the ever greater penetration of gadgets an locative media is gaining momentum. There are a number of project focusing on the output o…
Continue reading »The discussion around the subjectivity of mapping and the potential of subjective mapping tools becoming possible with the ever greater penetration of gadgets an locative media is gaining momentum. There are a number of project focusing on the output o…
Continue reading »From Daniela Krug and Lars Malmqvist comes TubeViz R […]
Continue reading »It’s been a while since I did any Fortran. I’ve been looking into contouring algorithms and decided to have a look at Paul Bourke’s Conrec program that was originally published in Byte magazine in 1987: http://paulbourke.net/papers/conrec The graph above shows the underlying data values as a coloured square grid with the black contour lines on […]
Continue reading »Nike is one of the very big brands managing to cleverly connect to their customers through both very good marketing and a product range always catching and inspiring the trends. So they were very early to offer an iPod extension to connect their sport …
Continue reading »Nike is one of the very big brands managing to cleverly connect to their customers through both very good marketing and a product range always catching and inspiring the trends. So they were very early to offer an iPod extension to connect their sport …
Continue reading »The digital 3rd dimension is a long standing topic in many disciplines and together with augmented reality technologies has had a tremendous boost. Most smart phone platforms these days offer tools and applications to integrate and use AR style package…
Continue reading »The digital 3rd dimension is a long standing topic in many disciplines and together with augmented reality technologies has had a tremendous boost. Most smart phone platforms these days offer tools and applications to integrate and use AR style package…
Continue reading »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 …
Continue reading »The news papers are currently not only fueling the data mining trend, they are pushing it themselves. The New York Times is leading the way with the data viz lab, but also the Guardian with the data blog is very active. Now the Wall Street Journal is p…
Continue reading »The news papers are currently not only fueling the data mining trend, they are pushing it themselves. The New York Times is leading the way with the data viz lab, but also the Guardian with the data blog is very active. Now the Wall Street Journal is p…
Continue reading »As many of you know, for quite some time I’ve been wrestling with a massive data set from TfL — I make it that I have 120 million trip segments across 88 million identifiable journeys in the course of just …
Continue reading »I’ve been looking at the Weather Underground API (http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/API_-_XML) which gives access to the observation stations and the data they are collecting. The API uses simple commands to query for a list of stations, for example: http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/GeoLookupXML/index.xml?query=london,united+kingdom Using C# and .net, this is accomplished as follows: WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(string.Format(GeoLookupXML, @”london,united+kingdom”)); HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); XmlDocument […]
Continue reading »Many Twitter messages, or “tweets”, are sen […]
Continue reading »Google presents fir the currently running I/O conference in San Francisco a new Google Chrome Experiment. The developers print a data globe for visualisation purpose. It’s an in-house production and is a sort of simplified Google Earth in black and whi…
Continue reading »Using the excellent SANET extension for ArcGIS 9.3 I was able to take some of my data for Southwark that I had geocoded to address level, and estimate the population density using the OS Mastermap ITN product. The procedure is essentially a Kernel Density Estimation that takes place on a given network rather than across 2D space, this effectively controls […]
Continue reading »In most disciplines graphics, as is graphs, are not exactly new. The presentation of data, facts and figures have come to play a important role. Especially with the limited capacities of excel and other spread sheet software this was easy to do, but ne…
Continue reading »In fits and starts, over the past month I’ve been getting to grips with an exciting new Oyster Card data set from TfL and the wonderfully supportive Andrew Gaitskell, their resident Oyster Card data expert. For those few of you …
Continue reading »As part of the Spill Festival of Performance 2011 at the Barbican, Ryoji Ikeda played a set. It was another installment of his Datamatics Series started back in 2006. The new Datamatics [ver.2.0] series has evolved quite a bit from the first version al…
Continue reading »The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is a great resource for quick look up and input. In the internet world of linking and explaining it is together with Google one of the central elements. Earlier this year Wikipedia celebrated its 10th anniversary. The …
Continue reading »To pick up on the topic discussed herre last week with the Wanderlust story app for location based narratives an other ‘Wanderlust’ interpretation using visual imagery or visual narratives possibly. This one here is a visual version traveling through C…
Continue reading »THe MTV Music Awards are one of the really big yearly music shows and as such a important date in the calendar. Of course this transfers to the social networking sites, with loads of followers chatting about it online. For last years show Stamen has te…
Continue reading »The professional version of facebook has now als reached the 100 million user mark and is still growing. LinkedIN the social networking platform for the professional world has published at the beginning of March 2011 their growth in numbers to make a g…
Continue reading »Over the last few month Europe realised that there are changes under way in the Middle East. Since December 2010 in a number of countries around the Mediterranean and the red sea people are protesting against their regimes, essentially asking for a cha…
Continue reading »Today at the conference in Oxford ‘Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation’ we will be presenting a paper. The conference is packed and there are waiting lists for all events. This is to say how popular the topic currently is. Of course Oxford is a…
Continue reading »The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) is organising a two-day conference ‘Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation’ on 25-26 March 2011 at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. “The theme of the conference is the permeatio…
Continue reading »In sync on the dot with the beat, goes the graphic as the beautifully melancholic song by James Blake drags on. Its fascinating to watch the transformation of form, shape and colour in tune with a very rhythmic pice of music. This is nice because of i…
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