By: Andrew
This is what we call an advancement in technology. We can now track a train, a toy and a pet. Nothing is away from our reach. I am sure that this will again benefit in all walks of life.
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Book – Tufte Visualisation Theory
Eduard Tufte is one of the key theorist on visualisation design and graphics communication. His books have sold extremely well and his concepts have been picked up by a lot of influential designers. He is quoted frequently in writings and has very larg…
Continue reading »So Just How Many Bikes are there in the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme?
About 6,600 according to the Mayor and cited in this Evening Standard article. But these include the bikes in storage, such bikes are not much help to people wanting to use them on the streets of the capital. A more … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I’m a science showoff!
On Tuesday I was lucky enough to take part in the first ever Science Showoff (sso), a science communication “open mic” night, where people can sign up to perform 10 minutes about pretty much any aspect of science – there … Continue reading →
PhD Thesis
I submitted my PhD thesis in January 2011, and was awarded the degree after my viva in March. You can see the thesis in in full by clicking on the…
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It is autumn, the leaves are falling and the sun stands low on the horizon. A great time with intensive colours, moody weather and the air feels heavier. Its time to wrap up and look back at the rest of a year that has passed. Wh not going back to spri…
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is a project led by ETH Zurich and UCL which deals with the simulation of highly interconnected coupled social systems characterised by extreme events and fast dynamics: i.e. things that go on in Cities. See it on Vimeo, explore the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Finally a Post – An Update on Digital Urban
Firstly apologies, the blog has been sat on the sidelines waiting for a post while i have been in a whirlwind of a three weeks. The good news is the blog is back, in short, we have been in the process recently of securing grants, launching a new Master…
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Continue reading »Some stuff on the London riots
In the past few weeks our mathmo team: Toby Davies, Peter Baudains and myself, have been looking into some of the reasons why the London riots happened. If we […]
Continue reading »Getting started with Python
This guide should give you a good overview of the packages you’ll need to download and install to start scientific programming using Python. First, Python itself. Python 2.7 is the latest…
Continue reading »V’Lille and Bike in Bath Online – Huge Lille Figures
I’ve added Lille and Bath to the Bike Share Map. Lille’s system, V’Lille, was soft-launched a few weeks ago, while Bike in Bath, a very small system run by Bicincitta, also launched recently. Bath’s uptake so far seems to have … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Winners of the 2011 Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize announced
This year we received 6 entries to the Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. These came from the Universities of Exeter, Southampton, Leeds, Nottingham, Durham and Liverpool. The dissertations underline the range of subjects covered by undergraduate population geographers, with topics including: Class and access to higher education Geography of attitudes towards alcohol consumption Growth and change of a New Town (Milton Keynes) […]
Continue reading »Location Based Library Concept
The spatial dimension of reading is an interesting aspect in so far as to how far it can actually become the main subject. A lot of narratives make extensive use of space and lace description and the location is often as important as the characters who…
Continue reading »Virtual Geographic Environments
A quick note for a new book entitled “Virtual Geographic Environments” from ESRI Press who write:”Virtual Geographic Environments, edited by Hui Lin and Michael Batty, collects key papers that define the current momentum in GIS and “virtual geographi…
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A quick note for a new book entitled “Virtual Geographic Environments” from ESRI Press who write:”Virtual Geographic Environments, edited by Hui Lin and Michael Batty, collects key papers that define the current momentum in GIS and “virtual geographi…
Continue reading »The Path Dependent City
Tweet Sometimes, we miss the best of articles … Complexity theory has found it hard to embrace policy as well as the other way round. Woodlief’s 1998 paper shows that it is not only routine development that generates path dependence … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Barratt Homes write National Planning Policy Framework
The UK government is seeking to dramatically overhaul the English planning system, releasing the National…
Continue reading »Advanced GeoSimulation Models
Advanced GeoSimulation Models edited by Danielle Marceau and Itzhak Benenson brings together a number of authors that highlight the the frontier in geosimulation in particular, and in cellular automata and agent-based modelling in general.Click here t…
Continue reading »Advanced GeoSimulation Models
Advanced GeoSimulation Models edited by Danielle Marceau and Itzhak Benenson brings together a number of authors that highlight the the frontier in geosimulation in particular, and in cellular automata and agent-based modelling in general.Click here t…
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Tweet Geosimulation is the term first used for modelling geospatial systems by Benenson and Torrens where the models in question focus on agents, objects, cells and patterns. Marceau & Benenson present a snapshot of the state of the art in … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Book – The Story of Architecture
Prestel has launched a new short series on the history of architecture focusing on a range of architecture styles. So far published are Romanesque Architecture, Renaissance Architecture, Gothic Architecture as well as Contemporary Architecture.The aim …
Continue reading »Trackernet: The Victoria Line
I’ve been meaning to look at TfL’s Trackernet API for a while now. It works through a REST based web service which gives access to all the London Underground running boards on a line by line basis. You issue an http request of the form: http://cloud.tfl.gov.uk/TrackerNet/PredictionSummary/V and the result is an XML file containing train information for […]
Continue reading »Digital Media – Alphaville Festival
This weekend from today the Alphaville Festival is under way providing a platform for digital media and art to be shown, discussed and explored across different venues in East London. It is the third year for this growing digital-media platform and thi…
Continue reading »New paper from me and the sad end of an era…
TweetYes, British migration classification fans, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for – publication of the CIDER Migration Classification paper! *Cue delirious cheering, whooping, hollering and cries of ‘get in the hole!!’* This most recent product of my blood, sweat and … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Classic Ordnance-Survey 1:25000 Map of London
The OpenStreetMap Out-of-Copyright (OOC) project aims t […]
Continue reading »Why Agent-Based Modelling?
Tweet Andrew Crooks notes the work of Doyne Farmer with Rob Axtell on ABMs for housing markets which pointed to an article by Rob on Why Agents? More on these ideas in our edited book Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems published by … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Book Swap – Story Networking
Books still carry an aura of mistic knowledge only accessible to whom dares to move beyond the cover and through the sea of pages with waves of sentences down to the discovery of words.There is only little the outsider can understand from a distance, i…
Continue reading »An agent-based model of the housing market
Why agent-based modeling? In the interview below Doyne Farmer discuses his work with Rob Axtell and John Geanakoplos, who aim to create an agent-based model of the U.S. economy that will people make better understand past, and future, financial c…
Continue reading »An agent-based model of the housing market
Why agent-based modeling? In the interview below Doyne Farmer discuses his work with Rob Axtell and John Geanakoplos, who aim to create an agent-based model of the U.S. economy that will people make better understand past, and future, financial c…
Continue reading »Science Showoff
On October 4th I will have the great privilege of performing at the first ever Science Showoff event – a “scientific open mic” event put together by the incredible team behind the smash hit “Bright Club” nights. The evening will … Continue reading →
Book – Insular Insight
In many ways cities are developing a pressurised and highly specialised environment in large areas driven by competition. It is buzzing environment defined by constant change at fast pace where everyone who slows down risks to drop through the loophole…
Continue reading »Facebook, the Antiques Roadshow and eBay all rolled into one – Daily Mail
Facebook, the Antiques Roadshow and eBay all rolled into one Daily MailInternet pioneers have developed a way of linking objects to pages on the web, allowing the buyers of second-hand goods a way of finding out the provenance …
Continue reading »Facebook, the Antiques Roadshow and eBay all rolled into one – Daily Mail
Facebook, the Antiques Roadshow and eBay all rolled into one Daily MailInternet pioneers have developed a way of linking objects to pages on the web, allowing the buyers of second-hand goods a way of finding out the provenance …
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Möbius – Stop Motion Sculpture
An installation to get some action into the frame is these days usually remotely, inserting some 3d rendered elements in to video footage. However if interaction with the elements should take plae it is getting more complicated and a straight forward o…
Continue reading »Mockup of NYC Bikeshare
Tweet Following on from yesterday’s post about the forthcoming New York City bikeshare, I’ve created a mockup of how the scheme might look like on my Bike Share Map. The mockup uses the most popular locations voted for by people … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Turn orange peel into plastic? It’s not as crazy as it sounds – The Independent
Turn orange peel into plastic? It’s not as crazy as it sounds The Independent
Continue reading »Turn orange peel into plastic? It’s not as crazy as it sounds – The Independent
Turn orange peel into plastic? It’s not as crazy as it sounds The Independent
Continue reading »Turn orange peel into plastic? It’s not as crazy as it sounds – The Independent
Turn orange peel into plastic? It’s not as crazy as it sounds The IndependentBritish scientists are pioneering a novel way of recycling that turns orange peel into plastic. The technique relies on high-powered microwaves that can degrade …
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