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UCL Urban laboratory pamphleteer – Beyond Quantification: We Need Meaningful Smart Cities

mukih — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:19:58 +0000

The UCL Urban Laboratory is a cross-disciplinary initiative that links various research interest in urban issues, from infrastructure to the way they are expressed in art, films and photography. The Urban Laboratory has just published its first Urban Pamphleteer which aim to ‘confront key contemporary urban questions from diverse perspectives. Written in a direct and accessible […]

Subway Maps and Visualising Social Equality

James Cheshire — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:30:07 +0000

Most government statistics are mapped according to offi [...]

15,000 Agents: A* Pathfinding

Andy — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:54:11 +0000

Games engines such as Unity are the perfect platform for agent based modelling, they allow a combination of 3D urban cityscapes and navmeshes/grid graphs/point graphs and local avoidance systems. The A* Pathfinding project features an array of techniques for rapid pathfinding or AI development using a low memory footprint. We...

Unity Traffic System – City Traffic

Andy — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:05:01 +0000

Creating a sandbox style traffic system in Unity is a challenge. As our previous posts have shown agents can use NavMesh and calculate shortest paths but the hit is high on processing which in turn limits the number of agents in a scene. Sander van der Vegte is a multidisciplinary game developer who...

The Art of Data Visualisation Video

James Cheshire — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:03:35 +0000

Map design and cartography are now, more than ever, see [...]

Future Posts

Ateen Patel — Sat, 11 May 2013 10:49:00 +0000

I've been using this blog on and off over the years. A big reason is the type of content I wanted the blog to focus on. The title of the blog can create an expectation of what you may find. Giving you, the readers, an idea of what I would like the blog...

Tweets from President Obama’s inauguration 2013-01-21

Andrew Crooks — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:15:00 +0000

Following on from a previous post on agent-based modeling and elections. Here we show geo-located tweets during the day of President Obama's inauguration 2013-01-21. If you want to explore what people are currently saying about President Obama check ou...

Mapping From Hell: Pt1

James Cheshire — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:01:09 +0000

The epic graphic novel entitled “From Hell” [...]

Employment Growth through Labor Flow Network

Andrew Crooks — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:37:00 +0000

Omar Guerrero and Robert Axtell from the Department of Computational Social Science at GMU have recently published a paper in PLoS ONE entitled "Employment Growth through Labor Flow Networks." The work uses "newly available micro-data and the abi...

ABM & Elections

Andrew Crooks — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:36:00 +0000

Ever wondered if agent-based models have been applied to look at elections? I recently came across a nice little NetLogo model by Michael Laver which is part of the book "Party competition: an agent based model" (2012). This simple model allo...