The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
When running a fleet of dockless bikeshare bikes, one of the potentially most costly problems is theft of the bicycles. They aren’t attached to anything if they are dockless, even if they are in a marked “hub”, and, even if the bikes are typically heavier than a personal bike, they can still be easy targets … Continue reading Use vs Theft: Risks and Rewards for Dockless Bike Operations in London →
Continue reading »Back in October 2018, I reported on the workshop at the International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis (IIASA) about non-traditional data approaches and the Sustainable Development Goals. The outcome of this workshop has now been published in Nature Sustainability. The writing process was coordinated by Dr Linda See of IIASA, and with a distributed process that included … Continue reading Published: Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Continue reading »The final output from the Urban Zoo project is out (see the post about the previous paper, which was published in GEO). This one is a literature and analysis of the role of urbanisation in zoonosis. The paper is open access, so you can read it here. It was led by Dr Sohel Ahmed (and … Continue reading New paper: Does urbanization make emergence of zoonosis more likely? Evidence, myths and gaps
Continue reading »Population geography was a strong feature of the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in London this year with 9 sessions sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG). During a fiercely warm week in August speakers from across the globe came together to present new data and share ideas on a diverse range of population themes, including … More RGS-IBG 2019 Conference Highlights and Reflections
Continue reading »The Fallen Fruit project, by David Allen Burns and Austin Young in the US, allows communities to map publically owned/accessible trees in their neighbourhood which are likely groaning with fruit to eat, at this kind of year. There is an online Google-p…
Continue reading »Anna and I have a new CEP Discussion Paper out looking at innovation and productivity in UK firms. Read it here.It’s quite technical. Working with the data science firm Growth Intelligence, we combine rich administrative info with media text and machin…
Continue reading »Help colour in London’s buildings – ianVisits – London news and events IanVisits
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Continue reading »Measuring the effect of innovation on productivity inside firms USAPP American Politics and Policy (blog)
Continue reading »The previous post is more of a summary of the conference, but this one is aimed at capturing my reflections from these three days of (fairly high level) science event. This wasn’t a typical event, and it somewhat felt like Carlos Moedas (the leaving commissioner) farewell action as a commissioner, to get the research community that … Continue reading EU Research & Innovation Days 2019 – reflections
Continue reading »Between 24-26 September, the European Commission Directorate-General for Research & Innovation run an event in Brussels, titled “European Research and Innovation Days”. This was a large scale event, with about 3900 participants, which served several purposes. With Horizon 2020 approaching to its end and Horizon Europe starting in about a year an a half, it … Continue reading European Research & Innovation Days 2019
Continue reading »The A to Z is a bit of an institution when it comes to London maps. It, along with the Tube Map, is probably the most famous and well known London map, and certainly the most famous atlas. We’ve reviewed a historic A-Z map of London before, but n…
Continue reading »Mobility is a complex and important topic in geography, planning and technology. My research only touches on a small part of the field, namely automated micromobility services (aka micro-MaaS?) such as bikeshare and escootershare, so it’s always interesting to see a wider viewpoint. As such, I was interested when an acquaintance at HERE Mobility, an … Continue reading The State of Mobility: MaaS Consolidation on the Horizon? →
Continue reading »Think tank calls for development corporations to oversee green belt release around railway stations PlanningResourceGreen belt and agricultural land around railway stations should be released for development, with new “green development corp…
Continue reading »London is taking part in World Car Free Day, and the Mayor of London’s office has produced a special map showing the extent of road closures (to motor vehicles) or reimagined roads (to everyone else). The area covers almost the whole of the City …
Continue reading »The Geographical magazine, which is the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, run an article about “the future of mapping“. The piece was written by Katie Burton, and it covers a range of recent developments in mapping technologies. I was interviewed for the piece, and provided information about our work with Sapelli, and also comments … Continue reading Geographical magazine: The Future of Mapping
Continue reading »I find it enjoyable when different strands of research come together. In many ways, research on the impacts of natural hazards on society – or Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), citizen science, and volunteer geographic information (VGI) are parallel research areas with research communities that work on each of them, and only occasionally come together. The … Continue reading New paper: Global mapping of citizen science projects for disaster risk reduction
Continue reading »What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves The New Yorker
Continue reading »Following on from our work on bots and health discussions in relation to online social networks (OSNs), Xiaoyi Yuan, Ross Schuchard and myself have just published a paper entitled “Examining Emergent Communities and Detecting Social Bots within the Pol…
Continue reading »Following on from our work on bots and health discussions in relation to online social networks (OSNs), Xiaoyi Yuan, Ross Schuchard and myself have just published a paper entitled “Examining Emergent Communities and Detecting Social Bots within the Pol…
Continue reading »For those who are not on the MASON list-serve, the other day Sean Luke posted a message regarding the a new release (MASON 20) which is part of our NSF CI-EN: Enhancement of a Large-scale Multiagent Simulation Tool project. In this new release (apart f…
Continue reading »For those who are not on the MASON list-serve, the other day Sean Luke posted a message regarding the a new release (MASON 20) which is part of our NSF CI-EN: Enhancement of a Large-scale Multiagent Simulation Tool project. In this new release (apart f…
Continue reading »Last week I was at FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geo) 2019 conference, in Bucharest, Romania. It was the second time I had attended the global conference, the first being back in 2013 in Nottingham. There are also country and region “mini” versions of the conference, including FOSS4G UK which I have also … Continue reading FOSS4G 2019 →
Continue reading »At the recent SPIE Optics + Photonics Conference we had a paper entitled “The Impact of Message Quality on Entity Location and Identification Performance in Distributed Situational Awareness.” In the paper we discuss the importance of detecting a perso…
Continue reading »At the recent SPIE Optics + Photonics Conference we had a paper entitled “The Impact of Message Quality on Entity Location and Identification Performance in Distributed Situational Awareness.” In the paper we discuss the importance of detecting a perso…
Continue reading »At the upcoming 2020 Spring Simulation (SpringSim) Conference being held at George Mason University, Philippe Giabbanelli and myslef are organizing a tract entitled Humans, Societies and Artificial Agents. Aims and Scope:In the Humans, Societies…
Continue reading »At the upcoming 2020 Spring Simulation (SpringSim) Conference being held at George Mason University, Philippe Giabbanelli and myslef are organizing a tract entitled Humans, Societies and Artificial Agents. Aims and Scope:In the Humans, Societies…
Continue reading »A new paper, led by Artemis Skarlatidou, was just published in the journal “Citizen Science: Theory and Practice”, describing how stakeholder mapping can be used in co-created citizen science projects. The workshop was part of the COST Action on citizen science, and the NERC Engaging Environment project “Into the night” was one of the case … Continue reading New paper: The Value of Stakeholder Mapping to Enhance Co-Creation in Citizen Science Initiatives
Continue reading »Drawn in a similar era to the historic map of Kew, here is another map from the archives of Transport for London at the Transport Museum, which show the green and bucolic land that now forms London’s suburbs, in the early 1900s – i.e. after…
Continue reading »Mathematician Hannah Fry solves the equation that’s been baffling the internet for days BrinkwireA mathematical equation that has been dividing internet users for five agonising days has finally been solved by a mathematician. The sum was fi…
Continue reading »This decorative map, simply called “Kew”, was produced by Herry Perry of Vincent Brooks lithographers in 1929. It was part of a series of posters commissioned for what is now Transport for London and actually depicts the area to the south o…
Continue reading »Some job news: I’m excited to say that I’m taking up a new role at UCL in September. I’ll be a new Associate Professor in Applied Urban Sciences at the Centre for Applied Spatial Analysis (CASA), part of the Bartlett faculty of the built environment.Th…
Continue reading »Mathematician gives answer to simple sum that has been dividing the internet Scottish Daily RecordUniversity College London associate professor Hannah Fry explained the two possibilities to the mind-boggling algebra equation.
Continue reading »Mathematician gives answer to simple sum that has been dividing the internet Mirror OnlineUniversity College London associate professor Hannah Fry explained the two possibilities to the mind-boggling algebra equation.
Continue reading »Mathematician gives answer to simple sum that has been dividing the internet Mirror OnlineUniversity College London associate professor Hannah Fry explained the two possibilities to the mind-boggling algebra equation.
Continue reading »Math Problem That Looks Simple Leaves People Baffled Over the Right Answer NTDA math problem that looks simple at first glance has left social media users confused over the correct …
Continue reading »Mathematician Hannah Fry solves the equation that’s been baffling the internet for days Daily MailA tricky equation has been puzzling people on social media for days, with some claiming the answer is 16, while others insist it’s 1. Now Hanna…
Continue reading »Following on with our work on bots we just had a paper published in Applied Network Science entitled “Bot Stamina: Examining the Influence and Staying Power of Bots in Online Social Networks” which is significant extension of a previous conference pape…
Continue reading »Following on with our work on bots we just had a paper published in Applied Network Science entitled “Bot Stamina: Examining the Influence and Staying Power of Bots in Online Social Networks” which is significant extension of a previous conference pape…
Continue reading »At the upcoming 16th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD) we have vision paper entitled “Location-Based Social Simulation” accepted. In the paper we discuss issues such as data sparsity and privacy concerns with using real w…
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