The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Geneva is the Swiss city with the most important international connections. In Geneva a lot of international organisations have a headquarter such as UNO, WHO, UNHCR, ILO, WIPO and the Red Cross. But there are also other institution of international si…
Continue reading »QRator is a collaborative project between the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH), UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and UCL Museums and Collections, to develop new kinds of content, co-curated by the public, museum curators, and academic researchers, to enhance museum interpretation, community engagement and establish new connections…
QRator is a collaborative project between the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH), UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and UCL Museums and Collections, to develop new kinds of content, co-curated by the public, museum curators, and …
Continue reading »QRator is a collaborative project between the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH), UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and UCL Museums and Collections, to develop new kinds of content, co-curated by the public, museum curators, and …
Continue reading »Daniel Lewis, a Geography Ph.D student at UCL, has produced this map of inner London, using multidimensional scaling (MDS) to simultaneously depict 41 geodemographic measures of each area.
Continue reading »We have been working hard here at CASA lately, building tools to collect, analyse and visualise different data sets from all over the web. One piece of software that has proven quite popular over the past few months is our internal Twitter Collector. The collector mines Twitter for tweets inside a geographical radius either with […]
Continue reading »It hase come a bit out of fashion to build new cities. It sort of comes in waves or trends when suddenly a lot of cities are being planned and built, but then the ide dies out again. The Romans build a lot of cities, then it was quiet in Europe until t…
Continue reading »September 5th-7th 2011 Minority Internal Migration in Europe Conference University of Manchester, UK This conference will be a gathering of researchers interested in the internal migration of immigrants/ethnic minorities and will bring together leading scholars from across Europe to present original findings. We invite you to attend the event and join in discussions that aim […]
Continue reading »A month or so ago (again, trying to catch up here!) I spoke at the annual PLUG conference in London. As always, lots of very interesting talks about National Pupil Database applications and developments. All the talks are available on the PLUG website – link. My slides were as follows… Spatial Analysis Using the National […]
Continue reading »A bit of a dry post here, but I thought I’d share my experience of trying to get two instances of MySQL (and two different versions, to boot) running simultaneously on a single piece of hardware as I’ve spent the …
Continue reading »A month or so ago (again, trying to catch up here!) I spoke at the annual PLUG conference in London. As always, lots of very interesting talks about National Pupil Database applications and developments. All the talks are available on the PLUG website…
Continue reading »A nice timelapse bringing a three hour observation down to a gripping two minutes. It features on ly one scene, but the intensity of the cross road in view is quite fascinating. There is a vague eb and flow rhythm to it as a result of the stop and go t…
Continue reading »This workshop, titled “Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards” is organized jointly by Dr. Hanif Rahemtulla, Horizon Digital Economy Research and Puneet Kishor, Creative Commons. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the annual Open Source GIS Conference, June 21, 2011, Nottingham, United Kingdom, and will be held at the School of […]
Continue reading »Milan based Mousse magazine is running a series with the title ‘Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating’. The editor of the series, Jens Hoffmann explains: “it emerged from a desire to trace the coordinates of contemporary curatorial practice, to take s…
Continue reading »Google presents fir the currently running I/O conference in San Francisco a new Google Chrome Experiment. The developers print a data globe for visualisation purpose. It’s an in-house production and is a sort of simplified Google Earth in black and whi…
Continue reading »A month or so ago my colleague Paul Longley and I ran a course for the National Centre for Research Methods on Geographical Data Visualisation and Geodemographics. The practical labs covered how you can code a set of postcodes by the Output Area Classification and how to generate a set of index score profiles from […]
Continue reading »A month or so ago my colleague Paul Longley and I ran a course for the National Centre for Research Methods on Geographical Data Visualisation and Geodemographics. The practical labs covered how you can code a set of postcodes by the Output Area Classi…
Continue reading »I’ve recently reported a very large blog from Blogger to WordPress. The blog has been around for many years, with around a thousand posts – most of which contain at least one image embedded in. The WordPress theme to be … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The Mousse magazine is running a series with the title ‘Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating’. The editor Jens Hoffmann explains: “it emerged from a desire to trace the coordinates of contemporary curatorial practice, to take stock of a profession tha…
Continue reading »Number 161 in the every growing CASA Working Paper Series is Building 3D Agent-Based Models for Urban Systems by A.T. Crooks, A. Hudson-Smith and A Patel in a collaboration between George Mason University, United States of America and here at…
Continue reading »Number 161 in the every growing CASA Working Paper Series is Building 3D Agent-Based Models for Urban Systems by A.T. Crooks, A. Hudson-Smith and A Patel in a collaboration between George Mason University, United States of America and here at Centre fo…
Continue reading »Number 161 in the every growing CASA Working Paper Series is Building 3D Agent-Based Models for Urban Systems by A.T. Crooks, A. Hudson-Smith and A Patel in a collaboration between George Mason University, United States of America and here at Centre fo…
Continue reading »GIS Research UK (GISRUK) is a long running conference series, and the 2011 instalment was hosted by the University of Portsmouth at the end of April. During the conference, I was asked to give a keynote talk about Participatory GIS. I decided to cover the background of Participatory GIS in the mid-1990s, and the transition […]
The Mousse magazine is running a series with the title ‘Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating’. The editor Jens Hoffmann explains: “it emerged from a desire to trace the coordinates of contemporary curatorial practice, to take stock of a profession tha…
Continue reading »I have fallen a bit behind on my blog as teaching activities have ramped up. However, over the next couple of days I will sort this out and post a couple of updates. The first of these is a talk I did at University of Oxford in April for one of their Retail Location Analysis […]
Continue reading »I have fallen a bit behind on my blog as teaching activities have ramped up. However, over the next couple of days I will sort this out and post a couple of updates. The first of these is a talk I did at University of Oxford in April for one of their R…
Continue reading »The architect Rafael Vinoly was born in Uruguay but lives and works now in New York. Actually the firm has offices across the network of important cities including London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Abu Dhabi. Surprisingly there is no Rafa…
Continue reading »Not quite sure which app to use to read and write your tweets? Well it is tricky and there are loads of options out there. Actually it has become a whole Twitter Ecosystem with apps growing into from everywhere, all aiming for the best place under the …
Continue reading »Congratulations to Cycle Lifestyle, who have won £6000 in funding for “creating a colour coded Tube style map of the Capital’s cycling network” in the GeoVation Showcase event that took…
Continue reading »The School of Geography, University of Leeds announces: Training summer school on: ‘Demographic Methods and Population Projections’: 29th & 30th June 2011 In three parallel strands over two days covering introductory level methods, the use of POPGROUP software and more advanced methods including projecting populations by ethnic group. This event is underpinned by an ESRC […]
Continue reading »The Capital of Switzerland is with a population of 131,000, the fourth most populous city in Switzerland. The wider area covered by the standard NCL 30km radius here is covering quite a lot of other centres, from Solothurn to Thun and from Murten to La…
Continue reading »Readers may be interested in the London Mapping Festival, a grouping of several events relating to mapping in London, that takes place over the next year. The launch event is…
Continue reading »This might be of interest to some.5th Annual French Complex Systems Summer School”Complex Systems and Complex Networks”Paris, July 4th to 16th, 2011Website: http://iscpif.fr/CSSS2011The school will provide in-depth reference courses to a multi-discipli…
Continue reading »This might be of interest to some.5th Annual French Complex Systems Summer School”Complex Systems and Complex Networks”Paris, July 4th to 16th, 2011Website: http://iscpif.fr/CSSS2011The school will provide in-depth reference courses to a multi-discipli…
Continue reading »This might be of interest to some.5th Annual French Complex Systems Summer School”Complex Systems and Complex Networks”Paris, July 4th to 16th, 2011Website: http://iscpif.fr/CSSS2011The school will provide in-depth reference courses to a multi-discipli…
Continue reading »At the AA School in London a new exhibition is opening on the 7 Mai, with a focus on ‘Spatial Form in Social and Aesthetic Processes’. The exhibition follows an earlier symposium held in OCtober 2010 also at the AA School, with a very extensive list of…
Continue reading »Getting the tweets out on time, actually at the right time, is very easy since the invention of Timely the on time tweet tool discussed earlier in ‘Social Networking on Time’. Now the tool has been refreshed.
Timely allows to schedule a whole list of …
Continue reading »Senior Research Associate – Ref A867R (IAH) Faculty/Services Medical Sciences Department Institute for Ageing & Health Salary: £36,862 – £44,016 Tenable for three years Closing Date: 8 May 2011 Applications are invited for a Senior Research Associate within the Institute for Ageing and Health (IAH). The post is specifically to support a […]
Continue reading »One of the striking aspects of the US bike share schemes thus far is that they have generally been dominated by weekend use. There has been some weekday use but not a large commuter morning/evening surge, like has been seen … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Time lapse video, as the title suggests, is much more dramatic as a time collapse. But its not far off and the notion of time folding into, or between the frames could be quite an interesting term. All of them imply the dropping of steps or frames, qui…
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