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Continue reading »Previously we posted about our work on advancing MASON, part of which we briefly discussed making it distributed in order to run large scale models including geographical explicit ones along for optimization and validation purposes. To this end w…
Continue reading »Previously we posted about our work on advancing MASON, part of which we briefly discussed making it distributed in order to run large scale models including geographical explicit ones along for optimization and validation purposes. To this end w…
Continue reading »I recently presented at the CoMoUK Good Mobility Conference in East London, looking at the story of bikeshare in London over the last 12 months ago, touching a little on other systems in the UK. Here are my slides, slightly updated from the conference itself: While the core of the presentation was a timeline, numbers … Continue reading Bikeshare in London – The Last 12 Months →
Continue reading »Is Dr. Hannah Fry Related To Stephen Fry? The Rising Star Is The New Face Of ‘Magic Numbers’ BustleCos, tan, sin, and all that jazz. Now, maybe not the most grabbing start to an article I understand. But oi mate, there is actually a buttload…
Continue reading »The Progress 1000: London’s most influential people 2018 – SciTech: Science & Technology Evening StandardAzmat Yusuf Founder and CEO, Citymapper All Londoners can thank Yusuf for being the brains behind Citymapper, the capital’s number one w…
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Layers of London, which has just launched, aims to be a platform for geolocating and documenting the local history of the capital. It works by allowing historical facts, comments and memories to be attached to pins on a map. The pins are grouped together as projects, or collections. The map itself can be adjusted, from […]
Continue reading »Trustees Appointed to the Science Museum Group GOV.UKThe Prime Minister has appointed Sarah Staniforth, Steven Underwood, Iain McIntosh, Judith Donovan, Professor Ajit Lalvani, Sir Peter Hendy, Jo Foster and Dr …
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Weather Flow Shield – Fusion 360 Model Render The Weather Flow ‘Smart Weather Station‘ is arguably one of the most innovative weather sensors on the market. Launched via a kickstater campaign in 2017, the system is now shipping to backers and will be made available for general sale shortly. Air,…
Readers of the blog might know we have an interest in volunteered geographic information, social media and Web 2.0 technologies and how they can be used to explore urban systems. Recently however, we turned our focus on how such information and technol…
Continue reading »Readers of the blog might know we have an interest in volunteered geographic information, social media and Web 2.0 technologies and how they can be used to explore urban systems. Recently however, we turned our focus on how such information and technol…
Continue reading »Geographical location of the South Omo Zone of EthiopiaWhile many of the recent posts on the site have focused on social media, social networks and volunteered geographical information, we have not forgotten or moved away from agent-based modeling (as …
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Geographical location of the South Omo Zone of EthiopiaWhile many of the recent posts on the site have focused on social media, social networks and volunteered geographical information, we have not forgotten or moved away from agent-based modeling (as …
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You’ve done the Circle Line Pub Crawl. Now try the Circle Line Food Crawl. Or use this special “Food Tube Map”, produced by Wren Kitchens (they write about it here), to visit unusual gastronomic experiences anywhere inside the Zone 1 area marked out by the Circle Line. The 25 restaurants and eateries included in this […]
Continue reading »Around July, Linda Doyle got in touch with me, with a request for an interview for a mini-series of podcasts on citizen science as part of the Science Disrupt podcasts. The Science Disrupt series got plenty of interesting episodes – a mini-series on Responsible Science, DIY Bio, Crowdfunding research, and many other topics. The specific … Continue reading Citizens Disrupt podcast on Extreme Citizen Science
Continue reading »The Algorithms Around Us Science FridayLast month, California passed a bill ending the use of cash bail. Instead of waiting in jail or putting down a cash deposit to await trial at home, defendants are …
Continue reading »About a year ago, the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, hosted the PPGIS 2017 workshop (here are my notes from the first day and the second day). Today, four papers from the workshop were published in the journal Quaestiones Geographicae which was established in 1974 as an annual journal of the Faculty of Geographical and Geological … Continue reading Papers from PPGIS 2017 meeting: state of the art and examples from Poland and the Czech Republic
Continue reading »Having travelled to both Milan and Singapore in the last few weeks, it’s worth a note on the bikeshare provisions there. Milan has BikeMi, a long-serving dock-based bikeshare system, which is one of the nearly 400 city systems that I have mapped in Bike Share map. It covers a big part of the city. There … Continue reading Bikeshare Snapshot – Milan and Singapore →
Continue reading »While I started blogging during my PhD (actually the first real post was from February 21st 2006), for some reason I only started recording statistics about the blog in May 2010. This month marks the milestone of over 1,000,000 page views. So I thought…
Continue reading »While I started blogging during my PhD (actually the first real post was from February 21st 2006), for some reason I only started recording statistics about the blog in May 2010. This month marks the milestone of over 1,000,000 page views. So I thought…
Continue reading »Summary of the session on Digital Representation of Place at the RGS-IBG conference in Cardiff. The session aim was to address the following challenge: “Over the last few decades, our cities have become increasingly digital. Urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape our geographic interactions: impacting how we perceive, move through, … Continue reading Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice
Continue reading »I never knew that with respect to the European Research Council (ERC), I belong to a (small) group called “Dual role incumbents”. Not until I’ve read “Europe’s New Scientific Elite: Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area” – A book by Barbara Hoenig which came out in 2017. The way I heard about … Continue reading Barbara Hoenig’s “Europe’s New Scientific Elite”
Continue reading »Yext Adds Dr. Hannah Fry and Executives from Boston Market, Inspire Brands, EXPRESS, and T-Mobile to …IT Business Net (press release)Dr. Fry is a lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College …
Continue reading »Yext Adds Dr. Hannah Fry and Executives from Boston Market, Inspire Brands, EXPRESS, and T-Mobile to …PR Newswire (press release)… in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. She is also a …
Continue reading »Yext Adds Dr. Hannah Fry and Executives from Boston Market …Markets InsiderNEW YORK, Aug. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT) the leader in Digital Knowledge Management (DKM), today announced major additions to …and more »
Continue reading »Yext Adds Dr. Hannah Fry and Executives from Boston Market, Inspire Brands, EXPRESS, and T-Mobile to ONWARD18 Agenda PR NewswireNEW YORK, Aug. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT) the leader in Digital Knowledge Management (DKM),…
Continue reading »It’s now about two months since the intensive 10 days at the beginning of June, which included attending the workshop Science and Dissent, the ECSA conference, the follow-up COST Action on citizen science meeting, and the Ecsite conference. Shortly after, I attended the UNECE 22nd Working Group of Parties to the Aarhus Convention. June ended … Continue reading Communities of practice of citizen science – workshops, meetings, and conferences
Continue reading »In some ways, docker can be viewed as the holy grail of DevOps: develop locally, ship everywhere. Although it is still a relatively recent technology, docker’s adoption curve has been so steep that it has become almost a standard-de-facto in … Continue reading →
Continue reading »TfL is keen to get people travelling on the tube when it’s not so busy, and also beyond Zone 1. With this in mind, they’ve commissioned these line maps, in conjunction with Time Out magazine. Each line (except the Waterloo and City) gets one, with the most interesting sections of each line converted into a […]
Continue reading »The first outcome of the December 2016 workshop on apps, platforms, and portals for citizen science projects was the open access paper “Defining principles for mobile apps and platforms development in citizen science“, which came out in October 2017. The workshop, which was organised by Soledad Luna and Ulrike Sturm from the Berlin Museum for Natural History, has … Continue reading Developing mobile applications for environmental and biodiversity citizen science: considerations and recommendations
Continue reading »The Open GeoPortal is a Free and Open Source framework for rapidly discovering, previewing and retrieving curated geospatial data from multiple repositories. It implements a modular architecture, including a database, a search engine and several web applications. While it can … Continue reading →
Continue reading »If you ask me which sort of women are coders, I would say any. It is a fact that despite recent efforts, women are still under represented in IT. Although I think that to change this it is essential to … Continue reading →
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Tired of London? Samuel Johnson said you are then tired of life. But sometimes, there are attractions in living outside the capital, while continuing to work in the centre. Such as a nice big garden, and being away from the “urban heat island” that makes London hotter than the surrounding regions. To do that, you […]
Continue reading »July 23rd, 2018 PGRG Blog #12 Kate Botterill Sophie Cranston We are delighted to announce a series of exciting sessions sponsored by the PGRG at the 2018 RGS-IBG annual conference in Cardiff. A question PGRG members are often asked is what is population geography? People often mistake population geography for demography, the statistical analysis of changing … More So, what is population geography?
Continue reading »The new book by Mark Nieuwenhuijsen and Haneen Khries “Integrating Human Health into Urban and Transport Planning” have just come out. The Mark and Haneen approached me with a request for a chapter on community-led air quality monitoring, and this provided an opportunity to join forces with Irene Eleta, who was doing her Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship in … Continue reading On the front line of community-led air quality monitoring – new paper
Continue reading »Continuing on our work of exploring health related issues in social media, Xiaoyi Yuan and myself had a paper accepted at the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society. In our paper entitled: “Examining Online Vaccination Discussion and …
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Continuing on our work of exploring health related issues in social media, Xiaoyi Yuan and myself had a paper accepted at the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society. In our paper entitled: “Examining Online Vaccination Discussion and …
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Continuing on our work of exploring health related issues in social media, Xiaoyi Yuan and myself had a paper accepted at the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society. In our paper entitled: “Examining Online Vaccination Discussion and …
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The Sensory City Philosopher
CityLab “I don’t think that the answer lies in any of the smart devices or computers or networks we currently have,” said Michael Batty, an emeritus professor of planning at University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. “The issues are … |
Carlo Ratti, the Unconventional ‘Smart City’ Philosopher CityLabArchitect, engineer, and inventor Carlo Ratti envisions a future for urban design that’s interactive.
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