The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
What have the Olympics got to say about social justice and health inequalities?Crikey (blog)Lives on the line: Work by the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis is depicting child poverty and inequality like a London tube map, where a year in life e…
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On the 4th and 5th August, Portland, OR, was the gathering place for 300 participants that came to the workshop on Public Participation in Scientific Research. The workshop was timed just before the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, and therefore it was not surprising that the workshop focused on citizen science […]
We like this more than we should, the thought of going from ArcScene to a 3D Colour Hologram for public participation in planning seems light years away from the traditional setup: The concept also works via SketchUp and other 3D software, below is a 3D holographic print of Downtown Seattle: Head over to http://www.zebraimaging.com/ to create […]
Continue reading »We have updated our live weather page to work with the iPad/iPhone and other HTML compatible browsers. The page updates every 3 seconds with a live feed from a Davis Vantage Pro 2 on the roof of 1-19 Torrington Place, just off Tottenham Court Road in London. For those with the new iPad we have a […]
Continue reading »The majority of city timelapse movies we have featured are captured from a fixed point. Of course if you are on board a ship and heading into one of the most vibrant cityscapes in the world you can go one step further: Arriving to NY (Enhanced) from H. Caesar on Vimeo. The movie was created […]
Continue reading »The latest in the digital urban tutorial series is available as a downloadable .PDF, it looks at exploring applications for physics engines in urban modelling, the first step of which is a series of techniques to introduce gravity and mass to urban models. We produced a tutorial back in 2009 using ‘Reactor’, Autodesk no longer use this […]
Continue reading »This year I have mostly been mapping country names from data sources found online to ISO3 country codes which are actually useful for something. The continuing proliferation of data sources whose only country indicator is something like “Virgin Is. (UK)” … Continue reading →
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Above is an extract from a map of the London Undergroun […]
Continue reading »Work is starting this week at the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy (CSAP) in Leeds on preparing the Flexible Modelling Framework (FMF) for release under an open source licence. The FMF so far includes the following capabilities: microsimulation (using simulated annealing); spatial interaction modelling and agent-based modelling. The idea behind the framework is to …
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Ok. Well maybe they aren’t. But I recently gave it a good bash at a stand-up comedy routine for UCL’s brightclub. The night is a sort of academic variety night, […]
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Digital Urban is moving from blogger, over the next few hours the domain will point to a new server hosting us on a WordPress system.
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Its been a blast, with over 1900 posts dating from 2005 and 3000+ comments, it equates to rough…
Continue reading »Sometimes a plugin comes along which changes your life. Fast SQL Layer from Pablo T. Carreira is just such a plugin. It allows you to execute arbitrary SQL queries against your underlying database, meaning that views and queries can now … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I’ve managed to get some data onto my PostGIS database, and have got my first visualisation result. Since the aid dataset is large (c. 1,000,000, source: aiddata.org, the dataset is called ‘aid data 2 short’) I’ve summed over donors and … Continue reading →
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We are working on a new look at digitalurban, at the moment its very much in its beta phase with the move away from blogger and into wordpress. The move allows us to set up a range of new features and portfolio type pages, for example if you click on…
Continue reading »We have a new look at digitalurban, at the moment its very much in its beta phase with the move away from blogger and into wordpress. The move allows us to set up a range of new features and portfolio type pages, for example if you click on ‘tutorials’ or any of the scrolling images […]
Continue reading »The day is upon us! Yes, today we announce the results of The Science Songwriter of the Future! competition that we’ve been running over the summer. And those right there are the medals – lovingly crafted by Lynn at Tuck … Continue reading →
In the big, fat dataset I’m using to study what affects the global flow of development aid, I’ve come across a problem which researchers must have dealt with a million times from scratch, and never published the results of how … Continue reading →
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The A-Z is probably the most famous London Atlas – […]
Continue reading »This was something I came across while trying to calculate expected waiting times for tubes and buses. I’ve collected several months’ worth of transport data and wanted to calculate the mean and variance of waiting times at every station and platform. This can be achieved in a few hours for the tube, but there are … Read more →
Continue reading »The London Olympic Games organisers called on Londoners to get ahead of the Games and it looks like they have.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Study shows travel habits have changed for GamesBBC NewsWe've been working with UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis to try to find out what's happening to commuters during the Games. They've been using GPS to track four commuters. Obvi…
Continue reading »Study shows travel habits have changed for GamesBBC NewsWe've been working with UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis to try to find out what's happening to commuters during the Games. They've been using GPS to track four commuters. Obvi…
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I recently attended the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) 5th Research Methods Festival. Researchers from the Talisman project presented in a few different sessions, presenting cutting edge work on methods for collecting data (with a focus on new crowd-sourced data) as well as methods for spatial modelling, simulation and policy analysis. All of the … Read more →
Continue reading »Atlantic cities features the maping london blog.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
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The Atlantic CitiesThe Coolest New Maps of LondonThe Atlantic CitiesThe site, run by Ollie O'Brien and James Cheshire of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, has posted some 80 London maps over the past year and a …
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The Atlantic CitiesThe Coolest New Maps of LondonThe Atlantic CitiesThe site, run by Ollie O'Brien and James Cheshire of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, has posted some 80 London maps over the past year and a …
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One of the biggest advantages, I feel, about studying urban transport phenomena in London is the simple ability to be able look out of the window and see what is actually going on. This week, the Olympics and its (supposed) transportation chaos, c…
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Study shows travel habits have changed for Games BBC News
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Yes! It is possible! There may not be any Barclays Cycle Hire docking stations in the Olympic Park itself, possibly due to “Barclays” not being the official financial services provider of the Olympics but more likely because of the logistics of rebalancing flows to/from major events and the safety aspects of a crowded space, but […]
Continue reading »The Olympics are in town and about to kick off tonight in a packed Olympic Stadium out in Stratford. The last week was all about gearing up to for London to this big event. There were a few new changes, including the Olympic lanes for official traffic,…
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The Olympics are in town and about to kick off tonight in a packed Olympic Stadium out in Stratford. The last week was all about gearing up to for London to this big event. There were a few new changes, including the Olympic lanes for official traffic,…
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The Olympics are in town and about to kick off tonight in a packed Olympic Stadium out in Stratford. The last week was all about gearing up to for London to this big event. There were a few new changes, including the Olympic lanes for official traffic,…
Continue reading »Further disussion of Oliver O’Brien’s Booth style maps. See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »The first time I saw a tube map of London was a long time before I actually ever went there. It was during my one summer living in downtown Toronto with a bunch of crazy girls. One of the saner ones had a poster of the tube on her bedroom wall. It was from the Tate … Read more →
Continue reading »Geodesign is the term coined by Carl Steinitz for the way in which “maps and geography are merging with mathematics and computing” as Jack Dangermond, President of ERSI, says in the Preface to Carl’s new book A Framework for Geodesign: … Continue reading →
Continue reading »REVEALED: Map shows how EastLondonLines boroughs were hit hardest by bus strike | EastlondonlinesSee it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Compared to those near stations in poorer areas, residents near some London Tube stops are likely to live 20 years longer.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
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