The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Followers of spatialanalysis.co.uk will know that a lot of maps I feature are about London. Many of these maps have caught the eye of those outside of the geography, GIS/ spatial analysis community who don’t really have an interest in the technicalities of making the maps etc. Oliver O’Brien and I have decided to team …
Continue reading »Every autumn, as predictably as the clocks going back from British Summer Time (BST, i.e. GMT+1) to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), there are newspaper articles with people suggesting that we scrap the change and just stay with BST all year … Continue reading →
Continue reading »News media coverage on the Afganistan War, started in 2001 and the Iraq War started back in 2003 by the then President of america, George W. Bush has slowly but surely been pushed of the headlines. It was big back then and still is every now and then, …
Continue reading »Google Maps has today updated its aerial imagery for central London. The new imagery appears to be from sometime late last summer, and reveals the many new buildings and features that have appeared in the capital recently. Above is the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Geographic and scientific information created by amateur citizens, represents a shift from authoritative data towards information generated by the general public through collaboration. The increasing emergence of such data has been brought about by the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, and mirrors other information sharing activities such as Wikipedia and Flickr. Such activity has also […]
Every year MacWorld gets a lot of attention from the Media and the public. I think the reason is not only Apple’s new creative products but also Steve Jobs’s genius presentation.Steve Jobs is a recognised master of presentation, and it seems that rem…
Continue reading »Every year MacWorld gets a lot of attention from the Media and the public. I think the reason is not only Apple’s new creative products but also Steve Jobs’s genius presentation.
Steve Jobs is a recognised master of presentation, and it seems that remarkable presentation skills are becomeing one of most important talents to be a IT company’s CEO.
This video clip was recorded “A New HP World” in Shanghai, China.
Paul Donovan, who is HP’s vice president for the Asia-Pacific, gave a presentation that uses augmented reality. I have seen several presentations which use augmented reality. I think this presentation one of the decent presentations that uses augmented reality.
Every year MacWorld gets a lot of attention from the Media and the public. I think the reason is not only Apple’s new creative products but also Steve Jobs’s genius presentation.
Steve Jobs is a recognised master of presentation, and it seems that remarkable presentation skills are becomeing one of most important talents to be a IT company’s CEO.
This video clip was recorded “A New HP World” in Shanghai, China.
Paul Donovan, who is HP’s vice president for the Asia-Pacific, gave a presentation that uses augmented reality. I have seen several presentations which use augmented reality. I think this presentation one of the decent presentations that uses augmented reality.
Every year MacWorld gets a lot of attention from the Media and the public. I think the reason is not only Apple’s new creative products but also Steve Jobs’s genius presentation.Steve Jobs is a recognised master of presentation, and it seems that rem…
Continue reading »Graffiti artist Marc C. Woehr and Interaction Designer Achim Kern have collaborated on this project to augment graffiti using light. The installation with the title ‘The City Never Sleeps’ features a Woehr drawing and uses projection to light paint int…
Continue reading »Dmitry Adamskiy has built a map of the prices of “advance-purchase” train tickets to anywhere in Great Britain, from several key locations, e.g. London, Birmingham, Liverpool. The dots on the map are colour coded from green to red depending on … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The NCL raw data collection has been running continuously over the past few weeks and data has been collected for cities around the world. It seems time to update the world map from is previous version. So far we have covered 67 cities. However they ar…
Continue reading »The space we work in is subject to personal adjustments and preferences. To the extend possible it gets customised and personalised. This is, if working in a large corporate company not always posible to the extend desired and often is reduced to putti…
Continue reading »Buried deep in the ESRI (UK) website is a case study I helped put together showcasing some of the ways we use GIS (specifically ESRI products) within UCL Department of Geography and Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. ESRI (UK) co-sponsor my PhD research and I have had a very positive and productive relationship with the company. I …
Continue reading »BBC Look East is calling for people in the East of England to find out their home broadband speed, as part of the TV programme’s week-long special – using our free SurveyMapper tool, at CASA, University College London, to collate and map the results i…
Continue reading »I will be giving a lecture today at the Bartlett School of Architecture to the MA Urban Design course students. The course is directed by Professor Colin Fournier. My talk will focus on the spatial dimension of narratives and time in everyday urban liv…
Continue reading »Talking cycles and repetition, this is probably the most prominent example everybody remembers from primary school, the water cycle. The rain comes down over the mountains filters through the stone, a spring, a creek, a river, a stream into the ocean, …
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OpenStreetMap, the free wiki world map, is starting to come of age. The project is now six years old, and is gradually becoming noticed in wider circles, with AOL and Mapquest producing their own versions of the map, support from … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Dr Martin Austwick and Ollie O’Brien here in CASA have produced an updated version of the animation of Barclays Cycle Hire bikes on a typical weekday:Boris Bikes redux from Sociable Physics on Vimeo.The data for the bikes is courtesy of Transport for L…
Continue reading »Dr Martin Austwick and Ollie O’Brien here in CASA have produced an updated version of the animation of Barclays Cycle Hire bikes on a typical weekday:Boris Bikes redux from Sociable Physics on Vimeo.The data for the bikes is courtesy of Transport for L…
Continue reading »Dr Martin Austwick and I have produced an updated version of the animation of Barclays Cycle Hire bikes on a typical weekday: Martin has once again done some programming magic to show the River Thames, Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens and Regent’s … Continue reading →
Continue reading »So are you coming to the greatest show on earth in London next summer? Or are you making a point of staying away? Perhaps even going to a rival sporting event? Answer my one-question survey below, and enter the first … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Buried in the London Datastore are the population estimates for each of the London Boroughs between 2001 – 2030. They predict a declining population for most boroughs with the exception of a few to the east. I was surprised by this general decline and also the numbers involved- I expected larger changes from one year to …
Continue reading »Last weekend the office here at CASA was taken over by the RepRap 3D printer build. The PayItForward team – a group of altruistic people who have RepRap machines, printing parts and gifting them to people who want to make a RepRap machine with the requ…
Continue reading »Last week I started creating some data extraction code for the new England and Wales crime maps website using the R software / language. Although there is an API, a more efficient way of accessing all of the data (and without causing stress to their API server) is to download the CSV files located here […]
Continue reading »I have been waiting for this software for an age it seems – actually… only since about last October! Previously Zotero has integrated into Firefox, however, with a plethora of other (and often) quicker browsers this has always annoyed me (but not that much as it is free!). Anyway, I may be going wholesale Chrome […]
Continue reading »A two-day part-BSPS funded interdisciplinary workshop on childbearing and evolutionary theory will take place in St John’s College, Oxford between March 31st and April 1st 2011. BSPS members are cordially invited to apply to participate. There are a limited number of places available. Registration is free but participants will be expected to pay for travel, […]
Continue reading »Last week I started creating some data extraction code for the new England and Wales crime maps website using the R software / language. Although there is an API, a more efficient way of accessing all of the data (and without causing stress to their AP…
Continue reading »The release of the R package “googleVis” has made the production of interactive maps through Google’s Chart Tools a simple task. Ignoring the some basic data manipulation the below map was produced with these two lines of code: library(googleVis) Geo=gvisGeoMap(Map, locationvar=”Country”, numvar=”Percentage”, options=list(height=350, dataMode=’regions’)) plot(Geo) This map, although simple to produce, is nontrivial as it …
Continue reading »The ArchelorMittal Orbit, a giant sculpture designed by Anish Kapoor and sited right next to the London 2012 Olympic Stadium, is starting to appear from the ground, looking, at the moment, like a giant-sized playground “mesh”. I like the momentary … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Yet more terminal commands… this time for setting up a MYSQL database and installing the GUI tools in Ubuntu
MSQL
?Download code.txt1
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
MYSQL GUI Tools (e.g. Query Browser)
?Download code.txt1
sudo apt-get inst…
Yet more terminal commands… this time for setting up a MYSQL database and installing the GUI tools in Ubuntu
MSQL
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
MYSQL GUI Tools (e.g. Query Browser)
sudo apt-get install mysql-gui-tools-common
MYSQL DBI Int…
Continue reading »A guest post I wrote for the Floating Sheep blog about the new Crime Website was picked up by BBC Berkshire this morning after a tip off yesterday by Mark Graham. The breadth of interest in the crime website has astounded me – both positive and negative. Another good critique is available here. Anyway, for […]
Continue reading »In 2009, Ud Doron, who studied on our MSc in Environmental Systems Engineering developed a research project together with Tse-Hui Teh, who is doing her PhD on urban water issues. The project was co-supervised by Sarah Bell. The focus of the project was on a series of participatory workshops to understand the relationships between urban […]
Since early last April I’ve been working with a fascinating textual artist called Gethan Dick (who’s previously worked on creating text murals for Brockwell Lido, amongst other things). Gethan’s Wellcome-trust funded mission over the last year has been to visit … Continue reading →
A guest post I wrote for the Floating Sheep blog about the new Crime Website was picked up by BBC Berkshire this morning after a tip off yesterday by Mark Graham. The breadth of interest in the crime website has astounded me – both positive and negativ…
Continue reading »The Krasnow Institute at George Mason University is offering a Computational Social Science & Policy short course from June 19 – Jun 24, 2011. Click here to see more details.The course description is as follows:This six-day, non-credit, course is a…
Continue reading »The Krasnow Institute at George Mason University is offering a Computational Social Science & Policy short course from June 19 – Jun 24, 2011. Click here to see more details.The course description is as follows:This six-day, non-credit, course is a…
Continue reading »The Krasnow Institute at George Mason University is offering a Computational Social Science & Policy short course from June 19 – Jun 24, 2011. Click here to see more details.The course description is as follows:This six-day, non-credit, course is a…
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