The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
The second day of the workshop (day one here) started with The New Technocracy: Scientific Dissent and New Forms of American Governance (Kelly Moore, Loyola University, United States) what are the political conditions of scientists in the US and what are the reorganisation of epistemology and knowledge. Dissent and political reorganisation are dependent on the forms … Continue reading Science & Dissent – Day 2 – Morning session
Continue reading »The Science and Dissent workshop was held at the University of Geneva on 1st and 2nd June 2018, hosted by the Citizen Sciences group Welcome and Introduction – Bruno Strasser opened, pointing Why now? When Trump won the election, Bruno felt that “the age of populism is back” – and within is we need to ask what … Continue reading Science & Dissent – Day 1
Continue reading »During the past spring semester I taught a class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of my courses, students are expected to complete a end of semester project, in this case, develop an agent-based mo…
Continue reading »During the past spring semester I taught a class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of my courses, students are expected to complete a end of semester project, in this case, develop an agent-based mo…
Continue reading »SAS Fórum Portugal realiza-se hoje em LisboaRevista BIT, Informática para todos.De seguida, falará Edwin Van der Ouderaa, Senior Managing Director da Accenture e Hannah Fry, Matemática no Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis na UCL, que falará sobre a …
Continue reading »Revista BIT, Informática para todos.SAS Fórum Portugal realiza-se hoje em LisboaRevista BIT, Informática para todos.De seguida, falará Edwin Van der Ouderaa, Senior Managing Director da Accenture e Hannah Fry, Matemática no Center for Advanced Spatial …
Continue reading »A few weeks ago, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), published an update for the report from 2014 on the use of crowdsourced geographic information in government. The 2014 report was very successful – it has been downloaded almost 1,800 times from 41 countries around the world in about 3 years (with more … Continue reading Identifying success factors in crowdsourced geographic information use in government
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Dal SAS Forum 2018: immaginare un futuro con l’AI
ZeroUno Hannah Fry, Associate Professor di Matematica delle Città al Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis dell’University College London. Passando dai modelli matematici ai progetti suggestivi per il futuro dei trasporti e delle città, Bibop G. Cresta, co … |
The MIT TechHow many taxis does a city need?The MIT Tech… more efficient by minimizing the size of the transport fleet through a centralized dispatching system, says Michael Batty, a professor of planning at the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis a…
Continue reading »Inno3SAS Forum 2018: avanti con advanced analytics e intelligenza artificialeInno3… e questo spiega la complessità di relazione tra modelli matematici e comprensione del comportamento umano, come presentata nel suo discorso da Hanna Fry, Lecturer in …
Continue reading »Inno3SAS Forum 2018: avanti con advanced analytics e intelligenza artificialeInno3… e questo spiega la complessità di relazione tra modelli matematici e comprensione del comportamento umano, come presentata nel suo discorso da Hanna Fry, Lecturer in …
Continue reading »The following recording is from the Geothink & Learn lunchtime webinar. The call for the event stated: “Should it be only people with graduate degree who make extraordinary scientific discoveries? Maybe not. Citizen scientists around the world have contributed to new discoveries in fields such as astronomy, biology, meteorology, geography, public health, and more. It … Continue reading Geothink & Learn citizen science session
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The Tube Map is a design classic – the straight lines, even spacing and lack of unnecessary above-ground detail has become a hall-mark of metro maps across the world, since it was first drawn by H.C. Beck in the 1930s. Today, the printed versions of London’s tube map include a specific acknowledgement of the creator […]
Continue reading »Sas Forum live streaming 2018 – Segui la direttaDigitalicRegional Vice President SAS e CEO SAS Italy. Hannah Fry Lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL. Emanuela Sferco Regional Marketing Director SAS. …
Continue reading »Whereas artificial intelligence was mainly the subject of movies a mere decade ago, today companies and researchers are scrambling to find new and innovative ways to apply it to anything and everything. In the geospatial field, AI is already being used…
Continue reading »From time to time, there are opportunities to become a co-author with a lot of people that you are very happy to be associated with – to demonstrate a shared piece of work that represents a common understanding. The participation in the first European Citizen Science Association conference in 2016 created such an opportunity, with a … Continue reading New paper: Innovation in Citizen Science – Perspectives on Science-Policy Advances
Continue reading »Here’s a fascinating data map of ground deformation (subsidence, upswelling) in central London, based on data from 2011-2017 and recalibrated to show the average annual change – be it rising (blue = 2mm/year upwards) or sinking (red = 2mm/year downwards). The data was obtained from 150 remote sensing images captured by TerraSAR-X and other InSAR […]
Continue reading »The context of the workshop and the notes from the first part of the workshop is available here. The theme of the second part of the day was Interacting with geographical citizen science: lessons learned from urban environments Volunteer interactions with flood crowdsourcing platforms – Avi Baruch talk is based on a completed PhD on the aspects of volunteers … Continue reading Lessons learned from Volunteers Interactions with Geographic Citizen Science – Afternoon session
Continue reading »On the 27th April, UCL hosted a workshop on the “Lessons learned from Volunteers Interactions with Geographic Citizen Science“. The workshop description was as follows: “A decade ago, in 2007, Michael Goodchild defined volunteered geographic information (VGI) as ‘the widespread engagement of large numbers of private citizens, often with little in the way of formal … Continue reading Lessons learned from Volunteers Interactions with Geographic Citizen Science – Morning session
Continue reading »There’s lots of bikeshare systems in the UK now. As well as the third generation dock-based bikeshare systems, fourth generation dockless (and hybrid) systems are starting to appear on various streets around the country, led by Mobike, Ofo and Urbo, three dockless providers and operators. I’ve put together this simple model to try and understand … Continue reading Where Might Bikeshare Succeed in Great Britain? →
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The Urban Transformations Consortium’s Conference on the theme of the ‘Good City’ was held in Oxford last week from April 18thto 20th. A variety of approaches to cities were presented with panel sessions devoted to healthy cities, shelter and ownership, … Continue reading →
The Luxembourg Nexus Futures project has been established and run by Dr Ariane König (University of Luxembourg). The project is exploring the challenges of nexus (water-energy-food) in the in the Luxembourg context. Using the river partnerships (Upper Sure and Syr) they look into different dimensions of sustainability. The project is looking at sustainability science and sustainability … Continue reading Luxembourg Nexus Futures project
Continue reading »Animals have featured on this blog mostly in connection to technology in some form and always in regards to movement. Studying these patterns are especially fascinating as they complement snapshot impressions one normally has if just observing the anim…
Continue reading »Animals have featured on this blog mostly in connection to technology in some form and always in regards to movement. Studying these patterns are especially fascinating as they complement snapshot impressions one normally has if just observing the anim…
Continue reading »The Global Science Forum – National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators (GSF-NESTI) Workshop on “Reconciling Scientific Excellence and Open Science” (for which you can see the full report here) asked the question “What do we want out of science and how can we incentivise and monitor these outputs?”. In particular, the objective of the … Continue reading GSF-NESTI Open Science & Scientific Excellence workshop – researcher, participants, and institutional aspects
Continue reading »The OECD organised and hosted a Global Science Forum (GSF) and National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators (NESTI) Workshop on “Reconciling Scientific Excellence and Open Science: What do we want out of science and how can we incentivise and monitor these outputs?” (9 April, 2018, OECD). In agreement with the OECD Secretariat, the information … Continue reading OECD Open Science and Scientific Excellence Workshop – Paris
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SAS Forum 2018
PMI.it Hannah Fry, Lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL parteciperà con l’intervento Cosa succede quando matematica e AI si uniscono?; Marco Zorzi, Professore presso il Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale … |
Home delivery keeps the urban areas busy and promises the busy citizen a hassle free consumer live style. Delivery trucks a clogging the streets of most large western metropolis for later today, same day or next day deliveries. Not the road, but the s…
Continue reading »Home delivery keeps the urban areas busy and promises the busy citizen a hassle free consumer live style. Delivery trucks a clogging the streets of most large western metropolis for later today, same day or next day deliveries. Not the road, but the s…
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My research lab, the Consumer Data Research Centre, is making available much of the docking station empty/full observation data that I have been collecting, at frequent intervals (up to every 2 minutes) for generally the last 5 to 8 years, for over 50 citeis around the world. I already get numerous requests for this data … Continue reading Bikeshare Docking Station Data Release →
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Normally, on this blog, the focus is on agent-based modeling and GIS. However, I am not agnostic to other modeling approaches especially cellular automata (CA) modeling (which I have written about in the past). To this end, Rui Zhang, Qing Tian, …
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Normally, on this blog, the focus is on agent-based modeling and GIS. However, I am not agnostic to other modeling approaches especially cellular automata (CA) modeling (which I have written about in the past). To this end, Rui Zhang, Qing Tian, …
Continue reading »Symposium on New Horizons in Human Dynamics Research: Innovations in Urban Analytics SessionsAs part of the Symposium on New Horizons in Human Dynamics Research we have organized 5 sessions around Innovations in Urban Analytics. These session…
Continue reading »Symposium on New Horizons in Human Dynamics Research: Innovations in Urban Analytics SessionsAs part of the Symposium on New Horizons in Human Dynamics Research we have organized 5 sessions around Innovations in Urban Analytics. These session…
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Infrastructure has become another hot word in post-industrial economies that are busy figuring out how they can renew all the physical plant that was constructed during their industrial past. The UK has established a National Infrastructure Commission amidst a flurry … Continue reading →
On the 19th March, as part of UCL activities to the that accompany the UCL Exhibition “Disruptors and Innovators: Journeys in gender equality at UCL”, we hosted a panel of talks on how to open up science and engineering to new audiences, especially the representation of women in science. The event was called “Representation of … Continue reading Representation of the people in science: Women in civic and citizen science – event summary
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Visited the Urban Dynamics Institute (UDI) headed up Budhendra Bhaduri (Budhu) which is a rapidly growing effort in data-driven technologies applicable to cities. This group which is based at Oakridge National Labs which began life in the war years as part of … Continue reading →
The IPHS (International Planning History Society) has conferred one of its 2018 book prizes on Trixi Haselberger’s edited collection of the thoughts and reflections of some 16 of us who gathered in Vienna in 2014. I myself am not keen … Continue reading →
What do you do when you are a boutique retailer, with two showrooms that are both small and are a ten minute walk away from each other, with some interesting but confusing streets in between? If you are in a rush you just screenshot a Google Maps route and stick it on your website, so […]
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Mapping London has long enjoyed Stephen Walter’s fabulously detailed, painstakingly created pencil-sketch maps of London, and now one of his most famous works, The Island, has been made into a jigsaw puzzle. It was launched late last year by publishers Prestel UK and comes as a 500-piece work. The team at Mapping London Towers likes […]
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