The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
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 »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…
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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A new report from Adam Gristwood in the journal EMBO reports is covering the work of ExCiteS as part of a report on Science and Society. The report is available here https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embr.201948797 . The section about ExCiteS opens with: “Deep in the jungle Some citizen science projects aim to…
This stylised map of central London was created by MUTI, a South African design studio, and is “as seen in Mary Poppins Returns”. It was commissioned by High Life (the British Airways inflight magazine). It’s a nice bit of artistic ca…
Continue reading »This is the recording of a webinar that was dedicated to chapters 3 and 25 of the Global Environment Outlook. It covers different sources of data, including citizen science and indigenous knowledge. Presented by • James Donovan, CEO, ADEC Innovations • Charles Mwangi, Deputy Country Coordinator for the GLOBE Program in Kenya • Jillian Campbell, … Continue reading Recording of a GEO6 Webinar – data and value knowledge creation
Continue reading »The Prudential RideLondon weekend takes place this year on August 3-4. One of the events is Freecycle, when some of central London’s biggest roads are closed to motor traffic, and anyone with a bike can enjoy seven miles of wide roads with just t…
Continue reading »The Urban Zoo project focused on the issues of transfer of disease from animals to humans, in particular in the context of Nairobi, Kenya. This is mostly a medical study, but through the involvement of UCL Development Planning Unit (DPU), issues of urban planning and urban studies were integrated. The new paper “Participatory mapping and food‐centred … Continue reading New paper: Participatory mapping and food‐centred justice in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
Continue reading »Notes for the workshop “Open Science by Design: Practical Commitments for Implementation by (Young) Universities – New Indicators — FAIR Data — Citizen Science” this is part of the series “Focus on Open Science” and took place at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid on 8th July 2019. The opening was provided by Prof. Juan José Vaquero. Vice-President … Continue reading Notes: Focus on Open Science, Madrid
Continue reading »SES diagram with examples of topics thathave been researched using social media dataWhile I have written about how one can use social media data to study cities, health issues etc… more recently we have been looking into how such data can be used to …
Continue reading »SES diagram with examples of topics thathave been researched using social media dataWhile I have written about how one can use social media data to study cities, health issues etc… more recently we have been looking into how such data can be used to …
Continue reading »We featured a map showing London’s North Bank earlier in the summer – just in time for the peak holiday season, the rivals across the Thames now have a new map of their own! “South of the River” aims to map everything of tourist…
Continue reading »These are the notes from an event at UCL on 1st July 2019 part of Scaling (H2020 project) – innovations in Living Labs. The chair was Jack Stilgoe – Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies, University College London. The second part of it emerged from Tom Wakefield at the ETC group which is looking at early … Continue reading Experiments outside the laboratory: Who should decide? (notes)
Continue reading »Over the last couple of years we have been working on generating synthetic human populations with realistic social networks with respect to the New York mega-city and surrounding region. This is being done for a variety of modeling applications such a…
Continue reading »Over the last couple of years we have been working on generating synthetic human populations with realistic social networks with respect to the New York mega-city and surrounding region. This is being done for a variety of modeling applications such a…
Continue reading »Two bicycle sharing systems have launched in London in the last fortnight, joining four systems already on the streets of central London and two more on the edge of the capital: Freebike launched a system based in the City, Islington, Hackney, Camden, Kensington, Chelsea and parts of Lambeth and Wandsworth along the river. Essentially, central … Continue reading Then There Were Eight →
Continue reading »Why Weather Forecasting Keeps Getting Better The New YorkerHannah Fry on how the stakes of weather forecasting can be so much higher than whether you’ll need an umbrella today.
Continue reading »This map shows how different parts of London have over/underperformed with respect to the capital as a whole, with a 1995 baseline. Green areas have increased in price by more than the London median, while pink areas have underperformed, increasing by a smaller percentage from their 1995 baseline price, compared with the rest of London. … Continue reading House Price Performance Variations in London Over 23 Years →
Continue reading »I wrote about a new dataset from the ONS, HPSSA (House Prices for Small Statistical Areas), a few years ago. The dataset has continued to be updated quarterly, and more recently, ONS started publishing the data at a more fine-grained spatial resolution, namely LSOAs (Lower Super Output Areas). LSOAs typically each contain a population of … Continue reading House Prices →
Continue reading »This last Spring semester I taught a class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of my courses, students were expected to complete a end of semester project, in this case, develop an agent-based model t…
Continue reading »This last Spring semester I taught a class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of my courses, students were expected to complete a end of semester project, in this case, develop an agent-based model t…
Continue reading »This map, dating from 1875, appears on the back of a “Guinea season ticket” for entry to Alexandra Palace, in north London. The palace was recently restored and public entrance is now available to some areas for free. It’s a nice, vin…
Continue reading »The George Mason University, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science (GGS), in the College of Science invites application for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position beginning August 1st, 2019. The project, which is supported by the Defense …
Continue reading »The George Mason University, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science (GGS), in the College of Science invites application for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position beginning August 1st, 2019. The project, which is supported by the Defense …
Continue reading »The 2nd International Workshop on Geospatial Simulation (GeoSim) focuses on all aspects of simulation as a general paradigm to model and predict spatial systems and generate spatial data. New simulation methodologies and frameworks, not necessarily …
Continue reading »The 2nd International Workshop on Geospatial Simulation (GeoSim) focuses on all aspects of simulation as a general paradigm to model and predict spatial systems and generate spatial data. New simulation methodologies and frameworks, not necessarily …
Continue reading »JUMP, Uber’s electric-assist dockless bikeshare, arrives in London today, with a 350-bike trial in Islington borough. The organisation is also looking to expand to other London boroughs later this summer. We’ve had quite a few dockless bikeshare operations trying to crack the London market, with its huge potential, but fragmented cooperation/approval process split between 33 … Continue reading JUMP Leaps Into London – Now It Gets Interesting →
Continue reading »Over the last few years we have seen spatial agent-based modeling beginning to bridge the gap from cautious early adoption towards general acceptance within the geographical sciences. One of the key features that has contributed to this is its abili…
Continue reading »Over the last few years we have seen spatial agent-based modeling beginning to bridge the gap from cautious early adoption towards general acceptance within the geographical sciences. One of the key features that has contributed to this is its abili…
Continue reading »The public may not be able to visit Tottenham Court Road station’s Crossrail concourse or platforms yet, thanks to the well-publicised delay across the wider project, but the station was one of the most complete in the central section, a year ago…
Continue reading »The weather’s lovely at the moment – the last thing you want to do is spend that time deep down in the bowels on London, on the deep tube network, surely? Or maybe at least, how about alighting one stop early and walking the last bit? But h…
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