The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Recently, I have been teaching a Full-stack development bootcamp at CodeOp (great experience!). When the students reached project phase, I was very pleased to see a lot of interest in using maps. And that is easy to understand, right? geospatial … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Recently, I have been teaching a Full-stack development bootcamp at CodeOp (great experience!). When the students reached project phase, I was very pleased to see a lot of interest in using maps. And that is easy to understand, right? geospatial … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Waiters were the stars at celebrity kosher joint Blooms The Times
Continue reading »‘THE’ is a mini MQTT Information Display for Time, News and Environmental Information. Using a 4.2-inch eInk screen, its concept is simple – to display information on a rotational basis, updating every coupl…
Continue reading »In the second of our blogs reflecting back and looking ahead, we welcome Associate Professor Paul Norman, University of Leeds, reflecting on changing data sources for contemporary research. Population geographers started the ‘twenty-teens’ looking forward to the then census rounds, though internationally there had been more than a few rumblings that the era of censuses was coming … More Doing population geography, but what data sources are we doing it with?
Continue reading »While there are many sophisticated urban growth and planning models (e.g. the SLEUTH model and UrbanSim), there are also many more theoretical ones which say explore the evolution of land markets. Take for example Alonso’s (1964) urban land market theo…
Continue reading »While there are many sophisticated urban growth and planning models (e.g. the SLEUTH model and UrbanSim), there are also many more theoretical ones which say explore the evolution of land markets. Take for example Alonso’s (1964) urban land market theo…
Continue reading »Virtual map preserves memories of Jewish East End through photos and testimonies Jewish News
Continue reading »“Bloody London” is a new book by author, illustrator cartographer David Fathers. Previously writing about the Thames Path in London, the Regents’ Canal and London’s “lost rivers“, David has for this book focused on a…
Continue reading »US government is ‘in talks with Facebook and Google’ to track coronavirus Daily Mail
Continue reading »US government is ‘in talks with Facebook and Google’ to track coronavirus Brinkwire
Continue reading »Infosecurity Europe brings renowned mathematician to keynote stage for a lesson in predicting human behaviour through algorithms EnterpriseTalk
Continue reading »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
Continue reading »Phones Could Track the Spread of Covid-19. Is It a Good Idea? WIRED
Continue reading »Phones Could Track the Spread of Covid-19. Is It a Good Idea? WIRED
Continue reading »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
Continue reading »Big Tech Is Testing You The New Yorker
Continue reading »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 »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 »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 »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
Continue reading »Wordsworth digital poetry walk launches in 250th anniversary year The Westmorland Gazette
Continue reading »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »Can you help colour London’s buildings? Ordnance Survey
Continue reading »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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…
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