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Open-air computers The EconomistIN 1995 GEORGE GILDER, an American writer, declared that “cities are leftover baggage from the industrial era.” Electronic communications would become so …
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Open-air computers The EconomistIN 1995 GEORGE GILDER, an American writer, declared that “cities are leftover baggage from the industrial era.” Electronic communications would become so …
Continue reading »Smart cities: Bridging physical and digitalPhys.OrgResearchers at the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy, University of Leeds, and the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, have been developing a range of high-technology …
Continue reading »Twitter Map Shows London's Top 10 LanguagesLBC 97.3The map, inspired by a one by self-named "map geek" Eric Fischer, was compiled for the social network site by James Cheshire, a lecturer at University College London's Centre for Adva…
Continue reading »Yahoo! News UKTwitter Map Shows London's Top 10 LanguagesYahoo! News UKThe map, inspired by a one by self-named "map geek" Eric Fischer , was compiled for the social network site by James Cheshire, a lecturer at University College London&…
Continue reading »Twitter Map Shows London's Top 10 LanguagesSky NewsThe map, inspired by a one by self-named "map geek" Eric Fischer, was compiled for the social network site by James Cheshire, a lecturer at University College London's Centre for Adva…
Continue reading »A map using information from London’s twitter community shows the true diversity of the UK’s capital city.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »A map using information from London’s twitter community shows the true diversity of the UK’s capital city.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Using Twitter, a pair of London-based academics have created a map of the city’s linguistic diversity.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Using Twitter, a pair of London-based academics have created a map of the city’s linguistic diversity.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Academics have used Twitter to create a map showing London’s linguistic diversity.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Academics have used Twitter to create a map showing London’s linguistic diversity.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Academics have used Twitter to create a map showing London’s linguistic diversity.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »How diverse is London? A map of 3.3m tweets shows the most popular languages used for tweeting and where they are used in the city.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »How diverse is London? A map of 3.3m tweets shows the most popular languages used for tweeting and where they are used in the city.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Smart cities: Bridging Physical and DigitalCisionWire (press release)Researchers at the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy, University of Leeds, and the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, have been developing a range o…
Continue reading »IN 1995 GEORGE GILDER, an American writer, declared that “cities are leftover baggage from the industrial era.” Electronic communications would become so easy…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »IN 1995 GEORGE GILDER, an American writer, declared that “cities are leftover baggage from the industrial era.” Electronic communications would become so easy…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »This colour-coded graphic pinpoints the location and language of tweets sent from the British capital and shows how linguistic groups are clustered in the city’s various districts.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »This colour-coded graphic pinpoints the location and language of tweets sent from the British capital and shows how linguistic groups are clustered in the city’s various districts.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Further to my last post and various requests, I’ve published the complete list of languages detected within the whole collection of geolocated tweets in London. The list contains the full counts ranked for each language (excluding Tagalog), as wel…
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The EconomistOpen-air computersThe EconomistAndrew Hudson-Smith, director of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, thinks that within five years or so police forces will be able to predict and prevent some crimes by wat…
Continue reading »It’s a networking city hailed as a global village. And now London’s diversity has been mapped, courtesy of Twitter.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »I pulled together this interactive map of Proposed Constituency Boundary Changes in England, after the information was released by the Boundary Commission for England last week. My colleague James Cheshire highlighted that this kind of map could be illuminating, particularly … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Another week gone sees the emergence of a pattern in my research: loads of great ideas, loads of terrible software design decisions, and loads of late nights trying to implement the former despite the latter. This week’s Agent-Based fun has … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Taalkaart van Londen via tweetsTwittermaniaVoor hun project onderzochten Ed Manley en James Cheshire van UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) de tweets die in en rond Londen verstuurd werden tijdens de Olympische Spelen afgelopen zomer…
Continue reading »Twitter Map Shows London's LanguagesLondonistIt was put together by Ed Manley and James Cheshire at UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) using tweets collected during the Olympic period this summer. In some cases, the clusters are …
Continue reading »Twitter Map Shows London’s Languages LondonistThis map shows the locations of 3.3 million geolocated tweets in the London area during the summer of 2012. That’s impressive in its own right, but the points …
Continue reading »While GeoMason is still undergoing development. Mark Coletti has put together a Cookbook for ‘recipes’ for using GeoMason. The Cookbook is available from here.It gives examples of how to read and write geospatial data along with using geospatial …
Continue reading »While GeoMason is still undergoing development. Mark Coletti has put together a Cookbook for ‘recipes’ for using GeoMason. The Cookbook is available from here.It gives examples of how to read and write geospatial data along with using geospatial …
Continue reading »A book, by author and illustrator David Fathers, has re […]
Continue reading »Over the last couple of weeks, and as a bit of a distraction from finishing off my PhD, I’ve been working with James Cheshire looking at the use of different languages within my aforementioned dataset of London tweets. I’ve been handling the data …
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It was a CASA trip out this weekend as me, Steven Gray, Hannah Fry, Rob Levy, Pete Ferguson and Goldsmiths’ Francisco Dans showed off CASA’s Pigeon Sim, London Data Table and Roving Eye at The Building Centre on Store Street. … Continue reading →
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Continue reading »After a long while playing with Google’s excellent Building Maker, a time-wasting toy for crowd-sourcing Google World’s 3D building library, I’ve completed my first attempt at rendering the offices of UCL CASA. The results are laughably poor, but mainly because, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The Spatial Data Infrastructure Magazine (SDIMag.com) is a relatively new e-zine dedicated to the development of spatial data infrastructures around the world. Roger Longhorn, the editor of the magazine, conducted an email interview with me, which is now published. In the interview, we are covering the problematic terminology used to describe a wider range of activities; the […]
Continue reading »The NationSimulator allows you to explore cities like pigeonThe NationThe research is part of work into urban simulations and procedural modelling undertaken by a team from the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College …
Continue reading »Researchers are beginning to analyse the 1.2 billion Oyster card transactions that hold the key to London’s transport success…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Data-mapping experts from UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis have mapped the latest proposals for English constituency boundaries…See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »University of London researchers have combined the Google Earth flight simulator with a motion sensitive controller to allow people to fly around the city using bird movements.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Our friends over at the Londonist spotted this project from UCL’s Centre of Advanced Spatial Analysis and we just had to share it with you.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
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