The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
On Monday I spent a lot of time (over 13 hours) cycling between 268 docking stations in London. It was for the All the Docks challenge, as part of Team East, with Joe (Be.EV CCO, and ex-ofo) and Jeyda (fettle CEO). There was also an all-stars Team West and Team South (including Voi, TIER, Zwings, […]
Continue reading »Job alert! I am recruiting an economist and a data scientist to join my new UKRI-funded project. We’re looking at the effects of diversities on productivity, innovation and entrepreneurship in UK firms and cities.The project is based at UCL, and is joi…
Continue reading »On Monday I will be attempting to visit every Santander Cycles docking station in east London by bike, starting at 9am outside the velodrome in the Lea Valley VeloPark (the famous one from the London 2012 Olympics), cycling over 70 miles and hopefully finishing sometime that evening close to the London Transport Museum in the […]
Continue reading »Towards a digital twin for supporting multi-agency incident management in a smart city | Scientific Reports Nature.com
Continue reading »Future of Digital Trust Explored at Upcoming ISACA Conference Europe Featuring Opening Keynote Hannah Fry Business Wire
Continue reading »Future of Digital Trust Explored at Upcoming ISACA Conference Europe Featuring Opening Keynote Hannah Fry ACROFAN
Continue reading »Since the outbreak of COVID, the role of supply chains has been brought front and center in many aspects of our daily lives. For example, the disruption to supply chains can significantly influence the operation of the world economy and this has been …
Continue reading »Since the outbreak of COVID, the role of supply chains has been brought front and center in many aspects of our daily lives. For example, the disruption to supply chains can significantly influence the operation of the world economy and this has been …
Continue reading »It seems that its been a quite some time that we posted about geosocial analysis but in a recent paper with Fuzhen Yin and Li Yin entitled “Information Propagation on Cyber, Relational and Physical Spaces about Covid-19 Vaccine: Using Socia…
Continue reading »It seems that its been a quite some time that we posted about geosocial analysis but in a recent paper with Fuzhen Yin and Li Yin entitled “Information Propagation on Cyber, Relational and Physical Spaces about Covid-19 Vaccine: Using Socia…
Continue reading »Gender on the Agenda: Meet the speakers TransportXtra
Continue reading »Elizabeth Diller, Ron Finley and Hannah Fry to head the keynotes at Smart City Expo 2022 Smart City Expo World Congress
Continue reading »Elizabeth Diller, Ron Finley and Hannah Fry to head the keynotes at Smart City Expo 2022 Smart City Expo World Congress
Continue reading »Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE university) was the site of the second day of the visit, at the natural science faculty. The university has about 4000 students and 400 PhD students in their science faculty. This is one of the main universities in Hungary. The post from day one is available here. The first talk of … Continue reading Notes from the Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) visit to Hungary – 13 Sep 2022
Continue reading »The visit to Hungary by the participant of the European Union’s Mutual Learning Exercise on Citizen Science Intitatives took place in Hungary, on 12 and 13 Sep. The visit is the second part of the sessions on enabling environment for citizen science, which continues the work that started in Vienna. The visit to Hungary started … Continue reading Notes from the Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) visit to Hungary – 12 Sep 2022
Continue reading »Flood risk: How is it affecting people around the globe? World Economic Forum
Continue reading »Flood risk: How is it affecting people around the globe? World Economic Forum
Continue reading »Flood risk: How is it affecting people around the globe? World Economic Forum
Continue reading »The pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have seen the largest and most sustained disruptions to travel behaviour in most of our lifetimes. Stay-at-home policies have fuelled an explosion in remote working, and wider online substitution of other activities such as shopping and socialising. In sustainability terms, the pandemic has severely hit public transport and incentivised car … Continue reading Post-Pandemic Changes in Travel Behaviour: Evidence from the National Travel Survey England 2021
Continue reading »This October, I will start a new chapter in my academic career. After 25 years at UCL, starting as a PhD student in September 1997 and then as an academic since 2001, I will reduce my time at UCL to 60% and start working on the European Citizen Science (ECS) project at the Learning Planet … Continue reading A partial new begining!
Continue reading »UCL: UCL academics elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences India Education Diary
Continue reading »UCL academics elected as fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Science Business
Continue reading ȣ1 million home at mansion that looks like a castle up for sale near Bridgnorth Express & Star
Continue reading ȣ1 million home at mansion that looks like a castle up for sale near Bridgnorth Shropshire Star
Continue reading »In the past I have blogged a lot on creating geographically explicit models in NetLogo, Repast and Mason but not so much about models created in Python. Even though Python is growing in popularity and their exists an agent-based modeling framework in P…
Continue reading »In the past I have blogged a lot on creating geographically explicit models in NetLogo, Repast and Mason but not so much about models created in Python. Even though Python is growing in popularity and their exists an agent-based modeling framework in P…
Continue reading »At the end of September 2021, I received an email from Nature Reviews Methods Primers (NRMP) with an invitation to lead a paper on citizen science. NRMP is a journal that commissions methodological papers on different topics, so they can be used by early career and experienced researchers, to learn about a new methodology and … Continue reading Nature Reviews Methods Primers paper on citizen science
Continue reading »Change in creative vs. non-tradable jobs, UK urban travel to work areas, 1998–2018Creative and cultural industries are very urbanised. What are the impacts of these creative clusters on their surrounding cities?In a new open access paper with Diana, Ta…
Continue reading »The Census is the most comprehensive demographic survey in the UK, providing detailed data for government and academics in many fields, from health and education, to planning and transport. The 2021 Census has a unique context, as the 2021 census day (21st March 2021) occurred when the UK was still in the 3rd national lockdown … Continue reading Pandemic Geographies and Challenges with the 2021 England & Wales Census Results
Continue reading »Juste Raimbault – UCL – Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure dafni.ac.uk
Continue reading »Today is the first day after the end of the European Research Council (ERC) funded “Extreme Citizen Science: Analysis and visualisation”. For me, it’s an important milestone. In July 2007, Jerome Lewis got in touch with me about the need to develop data collection and visualisation to protect and nurture forest communities. This effort evolved … Continue reading Extreme Citizen Science Analysis and Visualisation – final event
Continue reading »You may be wondering why it’s been so quiet on Bikesharp, the last couple of years… well the reason is that I have been a data journalist on this topic for Zag Daily, an online magazine focusing on shared electric micromobility, particularly in Europe and especially in the UK. So I’ve been writing about the […]
Continue reading »It’s very hot in London today, and tomorrow. It’s best not to be out and about at all, but if you need to be in London, there are some places which may be cooler than others – public venues with air conditioning, some tubes/trains (if…
Continue reading »In the past we had posted on models of radicalization, but such models were rather abstract. Building on this previous work Brandon Shapiro and myself have a new paper entitled “Drone Strikes and Radicalization: An Exploration Utilizing Agent-Bas…
Continue reading »In the past we had posted on models of radicalization, but such models were rather abstract. Building on this previous work Brandon Shapiro and myself have a new paper entitled “Drone Strikes and Radicalization: An Exploration Utilizing Agent-Bas…
Continue reading »Heads up — I have a new clusters paper out, open access, written with Emmanouil Tranos and Christoph Stich.It’s largely technical — we develop a new set of tools for tracking cluster evolution using geolocated business website text and metadata, then t…
Continue reading »The GeoSim 2022 workshop focuses on all aspects of geospatial simulation as a paradigm to understand, model, and predict spatial phenomena and aid decision making. New simulation methodologies and frameworks, not necessarily coming from the SIGSPATIAL …
Continue reading »The GeoSim 2022 workshop focuses on all aspects of geospatial simulation as a paradigm to understand, model, and predict spatial phenomena and aid decision making. New simulation methodologies and frameworks, not necessarily coming from the SIGSPATIAL …
Continue reading »Where are all the jobs? A machine learning approach for high resolution urban employment prediction World Bank Group
Continue reading »Construction Industry Council announces planner as first female chairperson PlanningResource
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