US government is ‘in talks with Facebook and Google’ to track coronavirus – Brinkwire
US government is ‘in talks with Facebook and Google’ to track coronavirus Brinkwire
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Infosecurity Europe brings renowned mathematician to keynote stage for a lesson in predicting human behaviour through algorithms – EnterpriseTalk
Infosecurity Europe brings renowned mathematician to keynote stage for a lesson in predicting human behaviour through algorithms EnterpriseTalk
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Infosecurity Europe brings renowned mathematician to keynote stage for a lesson in predicting human behaviour through algorithms ResponseSource
Continue reading »Phones Could Track the Spread of Covid-19. Is It a Good Idea? – WIRED
Phones Could Track the Spread of Covid-19. Is It a Good Idea? WIRED
Continue reading »What I learned about online teaching and research management?
As a result of the Covid-19 outbreak, UCL, like many other universities, is switching to online teaching and interaction between staff, students, and also research teams. I wanted to share what I’ve learned over the year through my use of online teaching and management tools. The experience is based on using tools such as Moodle … Continue reading What I learned about online teaching and research management?
Continue reading »Hannah Fry: Data could help control UK coronavirus outbreak – Verdict
Hannah Fry: Data could help control UK coronavirus outbreak Verdict
Continue reading »Big Tech Is Testing You – The New Yorker
Big Tech Is Testing You The New Yorker
Continue reading »Class Model Examples
Avid readers of this blog (if there are any) might have noticed at the end of each semester I do a post pertaining to class models from the various courses I teach. This often involves a short movie of some of these models like the one below.Often I ge…
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Avid readers of this blog (if there are any) might have noticed at the end of each semester I do a post pertaining to class models from the various courses I teach. This often involves a short movie of some of these models like the one below.Often I ge…
Continue reading »Circle Line Pub Crawl
One of London’s hardest challenge, the Circle Line Pub Crawl, got even harder a few years ago when Transport for London reconfigured the line to have a “tail” extending down to Hammersmith. Now, there are 35 tube stations and correspo…
Continue reading »Podcast: does cluster policy work?
City in the Air, Arata IsozakiCentre for Cities have put up a new City Talks podcast I did with CEO Andrew Carter, talking about cities, clusters, cluster policy tools and the Tech City programme. Later on we also go into some more nerdy stuff about po…
Continue reading »Wordsworth digital poetry walk launches in 250th anniversary year – The Westmorland Gazette
Wordsworth digital poetry walk launches in 250th anniversary year The Westmorland Gazette
Continue reading »The Interplay Between the Media and the Public in Mass Shootings
Continuing our work on shootings we recently had a paper published in Criminology and Public Policy entitled: “Responses to Mass Shooting Events: The Interplay Between the Media and the Public.” However, here we do not look at bots but instead explore …
Continue reading »The Interplay Between the Media and the Public in Mass Shootings
Continuing our work on shootings we recently had a paper published in Criminology and Public Policy entitled: “Responses to Mass Shooting Events: The Interplay Between the Media and the Public.” However, here we do not look at bots but instead explore …
Continue reading »Comparison of Emoji Use in Names, Profiles, and Tweets
In most of our work to date with respect to exploring social media, we have only looked at the text or images from online social media platforms (e.g. Twitter and Flickr) and excluded emojis from the analysis. However, this has now changed with a…
Continue reading »Comparison of Emoji Use in Names, Profiles, and Tweets
In most of our work to date with respect to exploring social media, we have only looked at the text or images from online social media platforms (e.g. Twitter and Flickr) and excluded emojis from the analysis. However, this has now changed with a…
Continue reading »Comparison of Emoji Use in Names, Profiles, and Tweets
In most of our work to date with respect to exploring social media, we have only looked at the text or images from online social media platforms (e.g. Twitter and Flickr) and excluded emojis from the analysis. However, this has now changed with a…
Continue reading »Reflecting back and looking ahead…
In the first of our blogs for the new decade, we welcome this post from Hamish Robertson, University of Technology Sydney, emphasising the contribution that population geographers can make to wider discussions of multimorbidity in the context of population ageing. Population Ageing and Multimorbidity Introduction In the Population Research Group, we all know that populations … More Reflecting back and looking ahead…
Continue reading »Secret Rivers
London has a lot more rivers than just the River Thames and River Lea – but many of the rest are either very small and easily overlooked, or buried underground (culverted), typically by industrious Victorians looking to clean up channels that bec…
Continue reading »New Paper: Insights into Human-wildlife Interactions in Cities from Bird Sightings Recorded Online
In the past we have explored how social media can be used to delineate earthquakes, locate wildfires or be used to understand urban morphology. However, recently we have also started to explore how social media and crowdsourced data can be utilized to …
Continue reading »New Paper: Insights into Human-wildlife Interactions in Cities from Bird Sightings Recorded Online
In the past we have explored how social media can be used to delineate earthquakes, locate wildfires or be used to understand urban morphology. However, recently we have also started to explore how social media and crowdsourced data can be utilized to …
Continue reading »The Original Beck Map with the Modern Network
This creation by Artur D, a volunteer at the London Transport Museum, is a faithful transplantion of the original c.1933 H.C. “Harry” Beck London tube map, the first to show the network as a diagram with rigid lines and corners – to t…
Continue reading »How Does Citizen Science “Do” Governance? Reflections from the DITOs Project
This is the second post about papers in the special collection of papers in the journal “Citizen Science: Theory and Practice” was dedicated to Policy Perspectives of Citizen Science. The first paper is described in this post. It is fairly rare to be able to catch an image close to the time when a concept … Continue reading How Does Citizen Science “Do” Governance? Reflections from the DITOs Project
Continue reading »Walking & Cycling Innovations
I was invited by organiser Landor LINKS to the Walking and Cycling Conference which took place in Manchester last month. The conference included a good focus on bikeshare, and it was a good time for the UK-focused bikeshare industry to pause and take stock of a busy 2019. Three UK-focused bikeshare operators – Freebike, Beryl … Continue reading Walking & Cycling Innovations →
Continue reading »How Does Policy Conceptualise Citizen Science? A Qualitative Content Analysis of International Policy Documents
In early December, a special collection of papers in the journal “Citizen Science: Theory and Practice” was dedicated to Policy Perspectives of Citizen Science. I have contributed to two papers in this collection. The first one is “How Does Policy Conceptualise Citizen Science? A Qualitative Content Analysis of International Policy Documents“. The paper is led by … Continue reading How Does Policy Conceptualise Citizen Science? A Qualitative Content Analysis of International Policy Documents
Continue reading »Models from Teaching CSS Fall 2019
Avid readers of this blog (if there are any) may be familiar with my routine of combing end of semester projects into a short movie and blogging about it. Well its that time again. Last semester I gave a class entitled Introduction to Computational So…
Continue reading »Models from Teaching CSS Fall 2019
Avid readers of this blog (if there are any) may be familiar with my routine of combing end of semester projects into a short movie and blogging about it. Well its that time again. Last semester I gave a class entitled Introduction to Computational So…
Continue reading »The role of learning in citizen science and the impact of participation inequality
From August to December I was hosted at the Centre for Research and interdisciplinarity in Paris. This short term research fellowship had a focus on learning and citizen science. The recording below is from a seminar in November 2019, titled “the role of learning in citizen science and the impact of participation inequality”. The talk … Continue reading The role of learning in citizen science and the impact of participation inequality
Continue reading »New Working Paper: Agent-Based Models for Geographical Systems: A Review
Its been a while since we published a working paper, especially a CASA one, but this has now changed with the release of a new one entitled “Agent-Based Models for Geographical Systems: A Review.” In the paper Alison Heppenstall, Nick Malleson, Ed Manl…
Continue reading »New Working Paper: Agent-Based Models for Geographical Systems: A Review
Its been a while since we published a working paper, especially a CASA one, but this has now changed with the release of a new one entitled “Agent-Based Models for Geographical Systems: A Review.” In the paper Alison Heppenstall, Nick Malleson, Ed Manl…
Continue reading »This professor claims to have created a formula for finding ‘The One’ – cosmopolitan.com
This professor claims to have created a formula for finding ‘The One’ cosmopolitan.com
Continue reading »Reflecting on the ‘twenty-teens’ and looking forward
Fran Darlington-Pollock As we enter the final throes of the ‘twenty-teens’, we at the Population Geography Research Group are feeling reflective. There has been much in the past decade for population geographers to get their teeth into. For example, back in 2013, James Tyner wrote of the renaissance of ‘population’ in geography, with increasing attention … More Reflecting on the ‘twenty-teens’ and looking forward
Continue reading »Christmas Markets
The days may be short, but London comes alive in the month leading up to Christmas, with a number of Christmas Markets popping up at various scenic, tourist friendly locations, to provide a bit of mulled wine, bratwurst and handmade Christmas gifts. Li…
Continue reading »East End Independents – 2019 Edition
Following the original 2017 edition and a 2018 update, The East End Trades Guild have launched a new version of their specially created map of independent retail businesses in the East End of London, many of whom sell unique, locally made gifts ideal f…
Continue reading »What can we learn from analysing citizen science training materials?
As part of the EU-Citizen.Science project, UCL is leading on the training work package. This means that we coordinate the part of the platform that will help to store and share training material for citizen science projects, and generally for the field (such as the UCL online course). The stay at the Centre for Research … Continue reading What can we learn from analysing citizen science training materials?
Continue reading »The hidden power of mathematics – Lab News
The hidden power of mathematics Lab News
Continue reading »Would you call this a citizen science activity?
This is an invitation to complete a survey that is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7XN5MQG This survey will present you stories about different forms of public participation in research. Different activities within this area of public participation in research are now called “citizen science” and we would like to hear what your opinion is about each activity. … Continue reading Would you call this a citizen science activity?
Continue reading »Bots Fired: Examining Social Bot Evidence in Online Mass Shooting Conversations
Building upon our work with respect to how bots impact online conversations pertaining to global events and health, we have extended this research to see what role bots play in mass shooting events. In our new paper published in Palgrave Co…
Continue reading »Bots Fired: Examining Social Bot Evidence in Online Mass Shooting Conversations
Building upon our work with respect to how bots impact online conversations pertaining to global events and health, we have extended this research to see what role bots play in mass shooting events. In our new paper published in Palgrave Co…
Continue reading »Silicon Roundabout: did light touch policy interventions work? – USAPP American Politics and Policy (blog)
Silicon Roundabout: did light touch policy interventions work? USAPP American Politics and Policy (blog)
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