The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
As part of the Spill Festival of Performance 2011 at the Barbican, Ryoji Ikeda played a set. It was another installment of his Datamatics Series started back in 2006. The new Datamatics [ver.2.0] series has evolved quite a bit from the first version al…
Continue reading »The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) is a measure of the “deprivation” of any given area. A combination of indicators covering a range of economic, social and housing issues, allow for a single deprivation score to be constructed, and these scores are then ranked. The data for the 32,482 Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) that make up England was released in March 2011 for the 2010 IMD. This showed the rank of each LSOAs deprivation, ranging from 1 to 32,482. Fortunately due to a similar methodology being used to construct the 2010 IMD, it possible to compared it with the previous IMD released in 2007. Instead of focusing on a national scale I have re-ranked the data for London’s 4,765 LSOAs for both the 2007 and 2007 IMDs. Each of the 4,765 LSOAs have had their new ranks split into deciles, which is what is displayed on the maps below. This means there are roughly 476 LSOAs in each decile, or one tenth of all the areas in the dataset. Move your mouse over the picture, to swipe between the 2007 and 2010 London IMD. Show dividing line? I was inspired to use the “scrubber” technique by Oliver O’Brien, […]
Continue reading »The Fukushima nuclear disaster that is ongoing in Japan as a result of the devastating earthquake and the massive Tsunami has now been reassessed and the severity leve is now raised from level 5 to level 7, the same as Chernobyl. This means it is not j…
Continue reading »Zuerich is the an important commercial centre for Switzerland. The city and the regio is home to a lot of international companies, a banking hub and as well as destination for a lot international celebrities or otherwise rich people to enjoying their w…
Continue reading »Following on from the storming success of my last puzzle post (I don’t like to brag, but I believe it had over…
Continue reading »Farming in the urban context has become a buzz term in the last couple of years. During this time it has evolved from Guerilla Gardening to become a proper concept of growing vegetables for consumption within the city. Large scale aspect of farming as …
Continue reading »If we’re being accurate, the title should really be “The importance of using appropriate temporal spacing when applying a discretisation to a continuous time scale”. But I felt the above…
Continue reading »Here in CASA, University College London, we are currently waiting for the final part of our home made RepRap 3D Printer. Unfortunately it is a crucial part – the hot head that melts the plastic, allowing the printer to lay down layers of…
Continue reading »I ruddy love this puzzle. (Find the original post here). Have had great fun tormenting friends and colleagues with it over the last few days. To begin with, we –…
Continue reading »Picking up on the recent topic of how urban areas deal with water this new Nai Publisher book ‘Amphibious Housing in the Netherlands’ offers a very methodological discussion of different approach and strategies for living with water in urbanised areas….
Continue reading »RStudio is a new integrated development environment (IDE) for R. RStudio is the new way for programming in R, and it provides a set of powerful coding tools. Free & Open Source RStudio is available under a free software license. …
Continue reading »Rising water levels are a real concern for large areas around the world close to he sea. The treads posed by the water are many, with tsunami waves as recently occurred in Japan following the devastating earthquake or simple flooding due to a combinati…
Continue reading »Cloud.CM is a cloud computing website that uses latest technology to allow users to compute processor and memory intensive tasks on the cloud. Users can use Cloud.CM to create, store, and share files while simultaneously collaborating with friends, family, and …
Continue reading »The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is a great resource for quick look up and input. In the internet world of linking and explaining it is together with Google one of the central elements. Earlier this year Wikipedia celebrated its 10th anniversary. The …
Continue reading »Charles Booth’s 1899 Poverty Map of London is a seminal work in the history of London maps and the development of geodemographics (characterising people based on where they live) which…
Continue reading »Seoul is the capital and largest city of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is one of the largest cities in the world. Seoul proper is noted for its population density, which is almost twice as concentrated as New York and…
Continue reading »Minneapolis’s Nice Ride bike share ( shiny, updated official website for 2011) has woken up for the 2011 season. Denver’s B-Cycle reopened a few weeks ago. Washington DC & Arlington’s Capital Bikeshare meanwhile continues to get more and more popular, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Overview Recently we have been developing a Java based set of software components for the field of land use transportation modeling. The system has being designed for integrating various open source tools for the rapid assessment of urban futures. We …
Continue reading »With our new MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (ASAV) now open for 2011/2012 entry. We thought we would post a couple of videos to get a flavour of the unique UCL campus:
UCL Open Day 2010:
Bookin…
Continue reading »The Tweet-o-Meters are spreading! In association with JISC and the British Library’s Growing Knowledge exhibition we have installed nine custom built Tweet-o-Meters that update every 5 seconds. It is a great honor to see something that you built in a few nights get taken up by the biggest library in the UK. Ben and I […]
Continue reading »Following the SFO aNCL, an update to the earlier San Francisco map was needed. The slight redesign of the map islands with changed key and added graphs of temporal elements. The exclusive islandification of the area is enforce with a new frame. This pr…
Continue reading »I wrote this code last year. It allows you to call GMapCreator from R. You should have GMapCreator, R, and Java installed on your machine. The source code uses “rJava” package to call GMapCreator. To download the source code please …
Continue reading »Today, i tried to run R code on multiple cores of a processor. It requires “doSMP” and “revoIPC” packages. They are not yet available on CRAN, but can be downloaded from here. Once the packages are downloaded and installed, following …
Continue reading »San Francisco is busy tweeting and this new animation of location based tweets in the Bay Area show actually how busy it is. Geo located tweets are shown as yellow circles that fade away by time, and re-tweets are shown as small yellow points moving on…
Continue reading »A really nice clip using stop motion to capture the action on the pavement outside the house. The skaters are loose and hit the card bord ramps. It is in the same manner as the earlier stop motion ‘Sorry I’m Late’ also with a rather urban interpretatio…
Continue reading »We are sharing a lof of data online everyday as part of our online activity. A lot of it is passive information that is required for the services we use. Increasingly there is however, also an increasing amount of actively shared personal information, …
Continue reading »Tales of Things is all about memories, the stories we attach to objects as we move through life. As such we are very pleased to announce our latest partnership with Oxfam for their Curiosity Shop in Selfridges, London. The Curiosity Shop is open until …
Continue reading »A map, tucked away on the GLA’s London Plan website, reveals graphically the legally “protected vistas” in London – generally views from certain parks in London of St Paul’s Cathedral…
Continue reading »A nice April Fools from Firebox – a disposable cardboard bike. The design bears more than a passing resemblance to the Bixi-designed bikes used for […]
Continue reading »The last sentence I ever expected to hear was “Let’s go see the 3D Werner Herzog film…” [Vanity Fair] Like everyone who hasn’t managed to steer clear of a theatre entirely for the past couple of years, I’ve seen a few 3D films — Coraline, Up and, I must confess, Avatar — but Werner …
Continue reading »To pick up on the topic discussed herre last week with the Wanderlust story app for location based narratives an other ‘Wanderlust’ interpretation using visual imagery or visual narratives possibly. This one here is a visual version traveling through C…
Continue reading »The American Trade Center used to be extremely promotionally active around Europe to promote and showcase American products and innovation. The tool was a set of exhibitions in European capital cities such as Milan, Stockholm, Paris and Frankfurt from…
Continue reading »Pablo Mateos joins the Editorial Board of the journal Human Biology Human Biology is the official publication of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics (AAAG). It publishes multidisciplinary articles on human biology and evolution with an anthropological focus. It has proved as … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I’ve got a few trips coming up to places where either: a) I don’t want to use data because it will be expensive (i.e. America), or b) I won’t be able to use data because I will have no reception … Continue reading →
Continue reading »THe MTV Music Awards are one of the really big yearly music shows and as such a important date in the calendar. Of course this transfers to the social networking sites, with loads of followers chatting about it online. For last years show Stamen has te…
Continue reading »Sometimes it nice to have new ways to rapidly access and view content. With digital urban you can now choose the way you read the blog.Pictured below is a ‘snapshot’ interface, providing access to the posts via a Polaroid style layout:Courtesy of blogg…
Continue reading »TweetI didn’t want to leave a blank space while I am still constructing my first blog post, so I thought I would introduce myself and give you some idea of the work I am doing. My name is Chris Gale and I am in the first year of my PhD at University College London. The main theme of my PhD is to create better area classifications for the 2011 Census in partnership with the Office of National Statistics. An important part of this will be while a new classification methodology will focus on the 2011 Census, it will not be limited by it as other data sources will be used. I shall also be looking at new modes of dissemination that better utilise web technologies and new advances in GIS and geodemographics. Currently in-between lecturing a GIS course at Kingston University London and demonstrating on various courses at UCL I have been focusing my attention on OAC and London. I will go into more detail at a later date but I find this to be an interesting starting point for my research. This is mainly due to OAC classifying a large proportion of London as ‘Multi-cultural’, asking the question, can London be included within any national classification in […]
Continue reading »Over the pas few month urbanTick was involve with a another tracking project lead by the British Royal Soil Society. The focus of the project is the investigation of the upper and middle soil layer around Britain to determine the advocational capacity …
Continue reading »The Columbian capital is quite an active spot with tweeters. In general the twitter platform is very popular in South America and Bogota is no exemption. However it is in terms of overall numbers behind fanatic tweeters such as Sao Paulo and Rio, but i…
Continue reading »Visions and ideas are ephemeral and can be occasionally tightly connected to a location. A specific spot that triggers a vision, something connecting a thought and a place. This trigger very often carries emotions and is loaded with specific feelings t…
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