The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Fig. 7. Stimulus-Awareness-Activism (SA2) frameworkPreviously we have posted on how one can use new sources of data (e.g. Volunteered Geographical Information) to explore and understand the world around us, such as mass migration, urban form and …
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Readers of Mapping London, and Londoners in general, will be very familiar with the striking straight lines of the Tube Map. But you probably won’t have seen this map before, which employs the same kind of schematisation to show London’s now completely vanished tram and trolleybus network (there is a tram in south London now, […]
Continue reading »As part of the editorial team of the book “Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Policy, Science and Society“, I have contributed by working with the authors of chapters, organising the orders of the chapters, managing the peer review process, and so on. In addition, I was involved in the writing to 4 chapters out of … Continue reading New publication: Innovation in open science, society and policy – setting the agenda for citizen science
Continue reading »There are many reviews of agent-based modeling platforms (e.g. Abar et al., 2017; Kravari and Bassiliades, 2015; Castle and Crooks, 2006) but rarely do you see movies describing how such platforms have developed or where they are heading. Recentl…
Continue reading »There are many reviews of agent-based modeling platforms (e.g. Abar et al., 2017; Kravari and Bassiliades, 2015; Castle and Crooks, 2006) but rarely do you see movies describing how such platforms have developed or where they are heading. Recentl…
Continue reading »Technology is changing what it means to be creative – here’s how Wired.co.uk
Continue reading »Technology is changing what it means to be creative – here’s how Wired.co.ukInnovation is changing what it means to be creative. Here, some of the world’s top thinkers discuss how to blend technology with creativity for the benefit of …
Continue reading »At the beginning of the year, as part of my work at UCL and together with members of the Extreme Citizen Science group, I launched a new postgraduate level course “Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing“. We have opened it for distance learners on the UCL eXtend platform. As a postgraduate course, it required … Continue reading Five online training modules on citizen science
Continue reading »UCL is marking its sustainability week between 29th October and 4th November. As part of the activities to mark the Green UCL initiative. I was interviewed to this video, together with other researchers and professional staff who are committed to integrating sustainability into their work. The video was shot around UCL and the nearby area. … Continue reading UCL Sustainability week – a global university that is also Sommers Town local university
Continue reading »About a week ago, the journal Nature published a feature article about Citizen Science No “PhDs needed: how citizen science is transforming research“, with the subtitle: “Projects that recruit the public are getting more ambitious and diverse, but the field faces some growing pains.” The report was written by the science journalist Aisling Irwin who contacted me, among … Continue reading Nature article on citizen science: mixing typologies
Continue reading »During the 22 to 29 October, I visited Shanghai & Shenzhen together with Michael Norton (CIVA), who organised the visit, and Liz Barry (Public Lab). This was a packed tour, with two all-day workshops that are dedicated to citizen science (one in Fudan University, Shanghai, and the other as part of the Asian Environmental Innovation … Continue reading Social Innovation and Citizen Science in Shanghai & Shenzhen
Continue reading »Urban Design Studio for postgraduate students at ERICA Campus, Hanyang University, led by Networking City, is invited for the student design competition of ‘Sejong Smart City’ by Korea Land & Housing Corporation (LH).Last January, Ministry of Land,…
Continue reading »Urban Design Studio for postgraduate students at ERICA Campus, Hanyang University, led by Networking City, is invited for the student design competition of ‘Sejong Smart City’ by Korea Land & Housing Corporation (LH).Last January, Ministry of Land,…
Continue reading »Trading crypto currency offline1, in person, is the quickest way of acquiring/selling crypto coins. It is also the only way of not exposing any identity information. This post presents a platform for finding buyers/sellers for crypto currencies in a certain … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Trading crypto currency offline1, in person, is the quickest way of acquiring/selling crypto coins. It is also the only way of not exposing any identity information. This post presents a platform for finding buyers/sellers for crypto currencies in a certain … Continue reading →
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Air pollution has long been a problem in London, and the current mayor has identified pollution as one of his major goals to highlight and tackle polluion, and improve the capital’s air quality during his time in charge. This map, of the modelled 2020 annual pollution levels of NO2, has been produced by Parallel, using […]
Continue reading »I’ve been keeping an eye on London’s population projections, and indeed have featured them in a couple of presentations recently – at a TedX event and also a CRUK data visualisation conference at The Crick. By taking the most recent mid-year population estimates for London, and the annual population change, I can simply linearly extrapolate … Continue reading London’s 9 Million Day – Delayed →
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Urban Rambles is a new book by Nicholas Rudd-Jones, featuring walks through many of England’s cities. The book comes with a 22 route maps, drawn by illustrator Sara Mulvanny (see her portfolio page for the book), including a couple in London, which we feature here. Above is the “London Inner Circle” which stretches from Hyde […]
Continue reading »When cutting-edge technology falls into the wrong hands gulfnews.com
Continue reading »When cutting-edge technology falls into the wrong hands gulfnews.comTech offers gigantic upsides — diagnosing cancer, catching serial killers — but algorithms designed for one purpose can be easily used for a sinister one.
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 »Can algorithms create true art, or do they only imitate? aeon.co
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Continue reading »‘Get machines to do development management processes’, conference told PlanningResourceDevelopment management processes such as application validation and fee calculation should be done by computers to help speed the planning process and …
Continue reading »The Progress 1000: London’s most influential people 2018 – SciTech … Evening Standard
Continue reading »The Progress 1000: London’s most influential people 2018 – SciTech: Science & Technology Evening Standard
Continue reading »The Progress 1000: London’s most influential people 2018 – SciTech: Science & Technology Evening Standard
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Continue reading »WeWork.I’ve written a new CEP Discussion Paper on co-working, incubators, accelerators and what they mean for local economic development policy (co-authored with Margarida Madaleno, Henry Overman and Sevrin Waights). It builds on two toolkits for the 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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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,…
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 »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 […]
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