The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Tracking Gene Flow in Marine Plant EvolutionScience Daily (press release)Paolo Masucci from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, at University College of London, UK, and colleagues identified the segregation of genes that a marine plant underwent …
Continue reading »Tracking gene flow in marine plant evolutionNanowerk LLCPaolo Masucci from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, at University College of London, UK, and colleagues identified the segregation of genes that a marine plant underwent during its evolut…
Continue reading »You know you’ve attended a good conference when the discussion leaves your head buzzing with new ideas and possibilities, and the debate continues long after the event closes. This was certainly the case at the Urban Age Electric City conference last week, where politicians, academics, designers and technologists met to share, discuss and argue urban … Continue reading →
Tracking gene flow in marine plant evolution Science Daily
Continue reading »We will all be living in cities by the end of this century (see EPA, 2011) and for the most part, cities will constitute a complex web of local-global relationships that defies our present understanding. On this way to the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »TweetKeynote Speakers on Ageing and Population Decline – 7th International Conference on Population Geographies, Groningen, The Netherlands, 25-28 June 2013 Dear Colleagues, We proudly announce two Keynote Speakers for the 7th International Conference on Population Geographies: Professor Sarah Harper – “Rethinking Global Ageing” Professor Harper is Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. Dr. Cristina Martinez-Fernandez – […]
Continue reading »TweetRGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2013 New geographical frontiers 28 to 30 August 2013, at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London ========================================== Call for Sessions and Papers ========================================== The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) is pleased to announce that the Call for Sessions and Papers has opened for its Annual International Conference 2013 […]
Continue reading »We had the first snow of the Winter in London this morning, around 07:30 and lasting no more than half an hour. I’ve been building the data layer for the iPad video wall, so switched the National Rail data collection on once I got to work around 09:50. The idea was to collect data to …
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Recently, I attended a meeting with people from a community that is concerned with vibration and noise caused by a railway near their homes. We have discussed the potential of using citizen science to measure the vibrations that pass the sensory threshold and that people classify as unpleasant, together with other perceptions and feeling about […]
One more post on GPS traces from taxis, this time from San Francisco. The video follows the origins (green dots) and destinations (red dots) of passenger trips made by taxi in San Francisco. It is based on GPS traces from 500 taxis over a full month.&n…
Continue reading »One more post on GPS traces from taxis, this time from San Francisco. The video follows the origins (green dots) and destinations (red dots) of passenger trips made by taxi in San Francisco. It is based on GPS traces from 500 taxis over a full month.&n…
Continue reading »One more post on GPS traces from taxis, this time from San Francisco. The video follows the origins (green dots) and destinations (red dots) of passenger trips made by taxi in San Francisco. It is based on GPS traces from 500 taxis over a full month.&n…
Continue reading »I recently began a new job at LSE Cities and have been working for the last month on materials for the Electric City conference in London, taking place on the 6th and 7th December this week. The conference will be exploring smart cities and disruptive urban tech from a sociological slant, and includes talks from … Continue reading →
TweetPhD Studentship in Human Geography Contemporary European Diasporas in Wales Supervisors Dr Rhys Dafydd Jones (Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University) Professor Rhys Jones (Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University) The studentship is supported by the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre for Wales and will involve opportunities for engagement, networking, shared training and possible […]
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Here is a webpage that uses my own CityDashboard API*, to build a Periodic-Table inspired “data artwork” of live London information, as a series of coloured square panels on a website. The squares update regularly with fresh information, and throb … Continue reading →
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Marc Barthelemy from the Institute for Theoretical Physics (IPhT) of the CEA-Saclay (France) presented a very interesting talk on the evolution of spatial networks in cities at CASA last night (November 29). Arguing that spatial networks are often richer and … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I have been looking for a reasonable high level 3D library for Java for some time. Recently I have been using JME 3.0 (www.jmonkeyengine.org) and it seems to be doing the trick. Here are a couple of pics, one from an accessibility model of Cambridge, U…
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I have been looking for a reasonable high level 3D library for Java for some time. Recently I have been using JME 3.0 (www.jmonkeyengine.org) and it seems to be doing the trick. Here are a couple of pics, one from an accessibility model of Cambridge, U…
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I have been looking for a reasonable high level 3D library for Java for some time. Recently I have been using JME 3.0 (www.jmonkeyengine.org) and it seems to be doing the trick. Here are a couple of pics, one from an accessibility model of Cambridge, U…
Continue reading »Last couple of weeks I have been playing around with a dataset of taxi GPS traces from Beijing. This includes positions and timestamps from 10.000 individual taxis for a week. Here is a map of speeds (red low, green high). It has been created by c…
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Last couple of weeks I have been playing around with a dataset of taxi GPS traces from Beijing. This includes positions and timestamps from 10.000 individual taxis for a week. Here is a map of speeds (red low, green high). It has been created by c…
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Last couple of weeks I have been playing around with a dataset of taxi GPS traces from Beijing. This includes positions and timestamps from 10.000 individual taxis for a week. Here is a map of speeds (red low, green high). It has been created by c…
Continue reading »Here is a simple attempt of visualising tweet data about X Factor (Top 5).
Continue reading »Here is a simple attempt of visualising tweet data about X Factor (Top 5).
Continue reading »Here is a simple attempt of visualising tweet data about X Factor (Top 5).
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The conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for social scientists, theorists, applied researchers and simulation modelers to cooperate and exchange ideas concerning state of the art in methods and applications of computational social sciences.
Scope and Interests
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Submission
Contributions can be submitted to general session or the following special tracks:
Important dates
Paper publication
Local organizing committee contact: contact@essa2013.org
Conference website: http://www.essa2013.org
The conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for social scientists, theorists, applied researchers and simulation modelers to cooperate and exchange ideas concerning state of the art in methods and applications of computational social sciences.
Scope and Interests
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Submission
Contributions can be submitted to general session or the following special tracks:
Important dates
Paper publication
Local organizing committee contact: contact@essa2013.org
Conference website: http://www.essa2013.org
These days it seems that just about every university is using Moodle, the “open-source community-based tools for learning”, to manage the delivery of course material and handling of deadlines, assignments, etc. Now I’m a fan of the OS community, but … Continue reading →
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Following the announcement of a new way of looking at how interest in development projects might have moved around Africa over time (see this blog post) I’ve produced a more subtle version with one particularly interesting twist: One of the … Continue reading →
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Ever thought the ribbon of the River Thames, weaving it […]
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Edit: See new Central London image below! One recent bit of research I have been working on has been looking at the application of community detection algorithms to traffic flow in London. The idea is that within the traffic system exist a number …
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I’ve been using 37Signals’ Basecamp now for over 5 years. I’m involved in many projects with people from multiple departments and organisations. In the first large project that I run in 2007 – Mapping Change for Sustainable Communities – Basecamp was recommended to us by Nick Black (just before he co-founded CloudMade), so we’ve started […]
Spatial interaction lies at the basis of much of our science but it has been hard, if not impossible to develop an equivalent theory of social interactions. Social interactions are hard to pin down, hard to observe and explain but … Continue reading →
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I’ve made some minor alterations to the CSV API for CityDashboard. The main changes are in the metadata rows (the top two) rather than the subsequent rows. Specifically, the top metadata row has now split out the description, source and … Continue reading →
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In an attempt to find out a little bit about how development projects have been distributed between countries and types of project (health, education etc.) I have created a kind of trawler for Google information. You give the trawler three … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Last week, I attended a round table discussion about Social Enterprise and Higher Education Institutions at the department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The meeting was part of a larger event on social enterprise that was organised by Social Enterprise UK and UnLtd to mark Social Enterprise day. The discussion explored different aspects in […]
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Continue reading »Check out Luc D’Acci’s Blog. He has some very interesting projects on mega cities and the internal structure of cities which blends lots of ideas from economics and complexity theory with spatial structures and patterns. Some papers are downloadable
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