Mapping the London Blitz
The London Blitz, from 1940-1941, was a traumatic event […]
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Complexity-Aided Design
“In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin. It will use the Internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its sensations. This skin is already being stitched together….. “. This comment from Harvard’s Cherry Murray, Dean of Engineering … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Creating 2011 Census Output Area Change Maps Using R
The 2001 Census used a different set of Output Areas (OA) than the current 2011 boundaries; reflecting changes in the spatial distribution of the underlying population. For example, if an area has become more heavily populated since 2001, it makes sense that a previous OA might be split into multiple new segments. The ONS have provided […]
Continue reading »Creating 2011 Census Output Area Change Maps Using R
The 2001 Census used a different set of Output Areas (OA) than the current 2011 boundaries; reflecting changes in the spatial distribution of the underlying population. For example, if an area has become more heavily populated since 2001, it makes sense that a previous OA might be split into multiple new segments.
The ONS have provided both the Shapefiles and lookup tables for these changes, however, as yet, I haven’t seen any maps of these changes.
I have had a go at creating these in a reproducible way using R – the code with links to all the data (which is public domain) can be found on my Rpubs page. At the base of the Rpubs post are links to downloadable PDF maps of all local authority districts in England and Wales.
A recurring pattern that will become clearer when the high resolution census data become available in 2013, is the splitting of OA in the centre of many large urban areas, typically as a result of increased population density. A couple of direct links to maps are as follows:
For the remaining maps and R code, see the Rpubs page.
Map Shows Common Twitter Names Across London – Londonist
Map Shows Common Twitter Names Across LondonLondonistMuhammad Adnan from UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) has chewed up 4 million geo-tagged tweets from London, spat out the commonest user names and plotted them on a map. Different…
Continue reading »World City Living and Working Densities: Poles Apart?
One of the most recognisable visualisation techniques used by LSE Cities in the Urban Age publications is the 3D density map- an intuitive and engaging way to represent built form, and enable comparison of very different city environments across the globe. I’ve been producing 3D density maps in my own research for around five years … Continue reading →
Mapping Multiculturalism: ONS and the Sensitive Issue of Map Design
In case you hadn’t noticed, the ONS released their latest tranche of Census 2011 results today. The data has received considerable fanfare in the media already, looking set to dominate political debate over the coming days. One big story that appe…
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Tracking gene flow in marine plant evolution – Eureka! Science News
Tracking gene flow in marine plant evolutionEureka! Science NewsPaolo 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 it…
Continue reading »Tracking Gene Flow in Marine Plant Evolution – Science Daily (press release)
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 Evolution – Science Daily (press release)
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 evolution – Nanowerk LLC
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 »Sparks of Inspiration at the Electric City Conference
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
Tracking gene flow in marine plant evolution Science Daily
Continue reading »The 22nd Century City
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 »Keynote Speakers on Ageing and Population Decline – 7th International Conference on Population Geographies, Groningen, The Netherlands, 25-28 June 2013
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 »RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2013 Call for Sessions and Papers
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 »Snow Day
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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Citizen or Civic Science, activism and NIMBY
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 […]
Spatiotemporal patterns and the dynamics of the city
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 »Spatiotemporal patterns and the dynamics of the city
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…
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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 »Urban Age Electric City Conference
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 →
PhD opportunity – Aberystwyth University
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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A Periodic Table for London
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 →
Continue reading »Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information seeks views on a National Information Framework
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Spatial Networks
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 »3D simulation with JMonkeyEngine 3.0
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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3D simulation with JMonkeyEngine 3.0
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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3D simulation with JMonkeyEngine 3.0
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 »GPS traces of Taxis in Beijing
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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GPS traces of Taxis in Beijing
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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GPS traces of Taxis in Beijing
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 »X Factor Tweet Data Visualisation
Here is a simple attempt of visualising tweet data about X Factor (Top 5).
Continue reading »X Factor Tweet Data Visualisation
Here is a simple attempt of visualising tweet data about X Factor (Top 5).
Continue reading »X Factor Tweet Data Visualisation
Here is a simple attempt of visualising tweet data about X Factor (Top 5).
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Call for Papers: 9th European Social Simulation Association Conference
9th European Social Simulation Association Conference
Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
September 16-20, 2013
Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
September 16-20, 2013
The European Social Simulation Association and Warsaw School of Economics, Division of Decision Analysis and Support, invite researchers and scholars interested in applications and theoretical foundations of simulation modeling in social sciences to participate in the 9th European Social Simulation Association Conference.
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:
- Applications of agent-based modeling in social sciences
- Agent-based computational economics & finance
- Conflict resolution & cooperation
- Coupled human-natural systems
- Diffusion of innovations
- Dynamics of trust, social norm, structures, reputation & opinion
- Epidemiology & pharmacoeconomics
- Group decisions & collective behaviors
- Market design, mechanism design & auctions
- Privacy, safety & security
- Public policy & regulatory issues
- Resource management, environmental practices & policy
- Social emergence & evolution of institutions
- Social media and volunteered information
- Social networks and their dynamics
- Tools and methods for development of simulation models
- Advanced distributed computing
- Agent ontologies
- Agent-embodied Artificial Intelligence
- Model replication, verification & validation
- Participatory & Human-in-the-Loop simulations
- Simulation software & programming computational frameworks
- Techniques for visualizing, interpreting and analyzing simulation outputs
- Coupling simulations and optimization methods
- Data analysis software for simulations
- Experiment design and data farming for simulations
- Simulation metamodels
- Statistical & data mining techniques for simulated data
Submission
- Full paper – in the length of 10 to 12 pages, which should be comprehensive and consists of detailed presentation of theory, methodology and simulation results
- Extended abstract – in the length of 3 to 4 pages, which presents the current topic in progress with enough detail to ensure proper evaluation
- Poster – should present the current work in progress
Contributions can be submitted to general session or the following special tracks:
- Adaptive behavior , social interactions and global environmental change: an agent-based perspective (chairs: T. Filatova, G. Polhill, R. van Duinen)
- Applications of computational social science in conflict and sensitive contexts (chair: A. Geller)
- Business applications of computational social science (chair: M. Łatek)
- Heterogeneity and interaction in macroeconomic modeling (chair: G. Koloch)
- Social simulation of science processes (chair: F. Squazzoni)
- Statistical analysis of simulation models (chair: B. Kamiński)
- Using qualitative rules to inform behavioral rules (chair: B. Edmonds)
Important dates
- Registration opens: 1 January 2013
- Paper submission closes: 1 March 2013
- Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2013
- Final manuscript due: 15 May 2013
Paper publication
- Accepted full papers will be published by Springer in the conference proceedings series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing”, http://www.springer.com/series/11156 (indexed by ISI Proceedings, DBLP, Ulrich’s, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math, MetaPress, Springerlink).
- Authors of selected full papers or extended abstracts will be invited to submit their extended version for special issue of Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics, http://cejeme.org/ (indexed by IndexCopernicus, IC Value in 2011: 4.85 and RePEc).
- Full paper abstracts, extended abstracts and poster summaries will be presented on conference website.
Local organizing committee contact: contact@essa2013.org
Conference website: http://www.essa2013.org
Call for Papers: 9th European Social Simulation Association Conference
9th European Social Simulation Association Conference
Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
September 16-20, 2013
Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
September 16-20, 2013
The European Social Simulation Association and Warsaw School of Economics, Division of Decision Analysis and Support, invite researchers and scholars interested in applications and theoretical foundations of simulation modeling in social sciences to participate in the 9th European Social Simulation Association Conference.
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:
- Applications of agent-based modeling in social sciences
- Agent-based computational economics & finance
- Conflict resolution & cooperation
- Coupled human-natural systems
- Diffusion of innovations
- Dynamics of trust, social norm, structures, reputation & opinion
- Epidemiology & pharmacoeconomics
- Group decisions & collective behaviors
- Market design, mechanism design & auctions
- Privacy, safety & security
- Public policy & regulatory issues
- Resource management, environmental practices & policy
- Social emergence & evolution of institutions
- Social media and volunteered information
- Social networks and their dynamics
- Tools and methods for development of simulation models
- Advanced distributed computing
- Agent ontologies
- Agent-embodied Artificial Intelligence
- Model replication, verification & validation
- Participatory & Human-in-the-Loop simulations
- Simulation software & programming computational frameworks
- Techniques for visualizing, interpreting and analyzing simulation outputs
- Coupling simulations and optimization methods
- Data analysis software for simulations
- Experiment design and data farming for simulations
- Simulation metamodels
- Statistical & data mining techniques for simulated data
Submission
- Full paper – in the length of 10 to 12 pages, which should be comprehensive and consists of detailed presentation of theory, methodology and simulation results
- Extended abstract – in the length of 3 to 4 pages, which presents the current topic in progress with enough detail to ensure proper evaluation
- Poster – should present the current work in progress
Contributions can be submitted to general session or the following special tracks:
- Adaptive behavior , social interactions and global environmental change: an agent-based perspective (chairs: T. Filatova, G. Polhill, R. van Duinen)
- Applications of computational social science in conflict and sensitive contexts (chair: A. Geller)
- Business applications of computational social science (chair: M. Łatek)
- Heterogeneity and interaction in macroeconomic modeling (chair: G. Koloch)
- Social simulation of science processes (chair: F. Squazzoni)
- Statistical analysis of simulation models (chair: B. Kamiński)
- Using qualitative rules to inform behavioral rules (chair: B. Edmonds)
Important dates
- Registration opens: 1 January 2013
- Paper submission closes: 1 March 2013
- Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2013
- Final manuscript due: 15 May 2013
Paper publication
- Accepted full papers will be published by Springer in the conference proceedings series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing”, http://www.springer.com/series/11156 (indexed by ISI Proceedings, DBLP, Ulrich’s, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math, MetaPress, Springerlink).
- Authors of selected full papers or extended abstracts will be invited to submit their extended version for special issue of Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics, http://cejeme.org/ (indexed by IndexCopernicus, IC Value in 2011: 4.85 and RePEc).
- Full paper abstracts, extended abstracts and poster summaries will be presented on conference website.
Local organizing committee contact: contact@essa2013.org
Conference website: http://www.essa2013.org
Extracting files from Moodle MBZ Archives with Python
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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Where the development community focuses its attention (updated)
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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