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While I started blogging during my PhD (actually the first real post was from February 21st 2006), for some reason I only started recording statistics about the blog in May 2010. This month marks the milestone of over 1,000,000 page views. So I thought…
Continue reading »While I started blogging during my PhD (actually the first real post was from February 21st 2006), for some reason I only started recording statistics about the blog in May 2010. This month marks the milestone of over 1,000,000 page views. So I thought…
Continue reading »Summary of the session on Digital Representation of Place at the RGS-IBG conference in Cardiff. The session aim was to address the following challenge: “Over the last few decades, our cities have become increasingly digital. Urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape our geographic interactions: impacting how we perceive, move through, … Continue reading Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice
Continue reading »I never knew that with respect to the European Research Council (ERC), I belong to a (small) group called “Dual role incumbents”. Not until I’ve read “Europe’s New Scientific Elite: Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area” – A book by Barbara Hoenig which came out in 2017. The way I heard about … Continue reading Barbara Hoenig’s “Europe’s New Scientific Elite”
Continue reading »Yext Adds Dr. Hannah Fry and Executives from Boston Market, Inspire Brands, EXPRESS, and T-Mobile to …IT Business Net (press release)Dr. Fry is a lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College …
Continue reading »Yext Adds Dr. Hannah Fry and Executives from Boston Market, Inspire Brands, EXPRESS, and T-Mobile to …PR Newswire (press release)… in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. She is also a …
Continue reading »Yext Adds Dr. Hannah Fry and Executives from Boston Market …Markets InsiderNEW YORK, Aug. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT) the leader in Digital Knowledge Management (DKM), today announced major additions to …and more »
Continue reading »Yext Adds Dr. Hannah Fry and Executives from Boston Market, Inspire Brands, EXPRESS, and T-Mobile to ONWARD18 Agenda PR NewswireNEW YORK, Aug. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT) the leader in Digital Knowledge Management (DKM),…
Continue reading »It’s now about two months since the intensive 10 days at the beginning of June, which included attending the workshop Science and Dissent, the ECSA conference, the follow-up COST Action on citizen science meeting, and the Ecsite conference. Shortly after, I attended the UNECE 22nd Working Group of Parties to the Aarhus Convention. June ended … Continue reading Communities of practice of citizen science – workshops, meetings, and conferences
Continue reading »In some ways, docker can be seen as the holy grail of DevOps: develop locally, ship everywhere. Although it is still a relatively recent technology, docker’s adoption curve has been so steep that it has become almost a standard-de-facto in … Continue reading →
Continue reading »In some ways, docker can be viewed as the holy grail of DevOps: develop locally, ship everywhere. Although it is still a relatively recent technology, docker’s adoption curve has been so steep that it has become almost a standard-de-facto in … Continue reading →
Continue reading »TfL is keen to get people travelling on the tube when it’s not so busy, and also beyond Zone 1. With this in mind, they’ve commissioned these line maps, in conjunction with Time Out magazine. Each line (except the Waterloo and City) gets one, with the most interesting sections of each line converted into a […]
Continue reading »The first outcome of the December 2016 workshop on apps, platforms, and portals for citizen science projects was the open access paper “Defining principles for mobile apps and platforms development in citizen science“, which came out in October 2017. The workshop, which was organised by Soledad Luna and Ulrike Sturm from the Berlin Museum for Natural History, has … Continue reading Developing mobile applications for environmental and biodiversity citizen science: considerations and recommendations
Continue reading »The Open GeoPortal is a Free and Open Source framework for rapidly discovering, previewing and retrieving curated geospatial data from multiple repositories. It implements a modular architecture, including a database, a search engine and several web applications. While it can … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The Open GeoPortal is a Free and Open Source framework for rapidly discovering, previewing and retrieving curated geospatial data from multiple repositories. It implements a modular architecture, including a database, a search engine and several web applications. While it can … Continue reading →
Continue reading »If you ask me which sort of women are coders, I would say any. It is a fact that despite recent efforts, women are still under represented in IT. Although I think that to change this it is essential to … Continue reading →
Continue reading »If you ask me which sort of women are coders, I would say any. It is a fact that despite recent efforts, women are still under represented in IT. Although I think that to change this it is essential to … Continue reading →
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Tired of London? Samuel Johnson said you are then tired of life. But sometimes, there are attractions in living outside the capital, while continuing to work in the centre. Such as a nice big garden, and being away from the “urban heat island” that makes London hotter than the surrounding regions. To do that, you […]
Continue reading »July 23rd, 2018 PGRG Blog #12 Kate Botterill Sophie Cranston We are delighted to announce a series of exciting sessions sponsored by the PGRG at the 2018 RGS-IBG annual conference in Cardiff. A question PGRG members are often asked is what is population geography? People often mistake population geography for demography, the statistical analysis of changing … More So, what is population geography?
Continue reading »The new book by Mark Nieuwenhuijsen and Haneen Khries “Integrating Human Health into Urban and Transport Planning” have just come out. The Mark and Haneen approached me with a request for a chapter on community-led air quality monitoring, and this provided an opportunity to join forces with Irene Eleta, who was doing her Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship in … Continue reading On the front line of community-led air quality monitoring – new paper
Continue reading »Continuing on our work of exploring health related issues in social media, Xiaoyi Yuan and myself had a paper accepted at the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society. In our paper entitled: “Examining Online Vaccination Discussion and …
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Continuing on our work of exploring health related issues in social media, Xiaoyi Yuan and myself had a paper accepted at the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society. In our paper entitled: “Examining Online Vaccination Discussion and …
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Continuing on our work of exploring health related issues in social media, Xiaoyi Yuan and myself had a paper accepted at the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society. In our paper entitled: “Examining Online Vaccination Discussion and …
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The Sensory City Philosopher
CityLab “I don’t think that the answer lies in any of the smart devices or computers or networks we currently have,” said Michael Batty, an emeritus professor of planning at University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. “The issues are … |
Carlo Ratti, the Unconventional ‘Smart City’ Philosopher CityLab
Continue reading »Broadway WorldDialogue Starters Announced for Upcoming Arena Civil DialoguesBroadway WorldAfter completing his PhD dissertation, he held a position of an Affiliate Academic at the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University of London, College of L…
Continue reading »London’s been sweltering under a heatwave for the last couple of weeks. Mapping London co-creator Dr James Cheshire has created this map from the latest (29 JUne) Landsat 8 thermal imagery of the capital. ExCeL is a particular hotspot – its large, flat, metallic roof was showing a temperature of 38°C, having been baked by […]
Continue reading »BuildingMy Digital life: the smart cities expertBuildingI developed an interest in smart cities, data science and future cities, and the company funded me to do another degree at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College L…
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Continue reading »My Digital life: the smart cities expert BuildingWill Squires reveals what he’s discovered about placemaking – and why it’s vital to embrace new ways of thinking.
Continue reading »The Digital Geographies Research Group of the RGS-IBG held the annual symposium at the University of Sheffield, under the theme “Justice and the Digital”. These are partial notes from the day The symposium opening session focus on the important question “What’s Justice got to do with it?” Jeremy Crampton covered three issues – practices of surveillance in the context … Continue reading Justice and the Digital symposium notes
Continue reading »This is a map of Hackney Borough, from the perspective of its old, wealthy houses, and the discovered and undiscovered treasures buried under them. It was drawn by Adam Dant, and is one of the maps featured in his book “Maps of London & Beyond” which was published last month and we reviewed. The map […]
Continue reading »At the upcoming Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS) workshop, we have a paper entitled “The MASON Simulation Toolkit: Past, Present, and Future” in which we discuss MASON’s development history, its design and (probably more interesting) where MASON is …
Continue reading »At the upcoming Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS) workshop, we have a paper entitled “The MASON Simulation Toolkit: Past, Present, and Future” in which we discuss MASON’s development history, its design and (probably more interesting) where MASON is …
Continue reading »At the upcoming Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS) workshop, we have a paper entitled “The MASON Simulation Toolkit: Past, Present, and Future” in which we discuss MASON’s development history, its design and (probably more interesting) where MASON is …
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Forging quality partnerships with leading universities in Europe
Perspectives@SMU … student and faculty exchange programmes at all levels. PDF icon CASA signs partnership with Singapore Management University and celebrates with joint seminar _ The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis – UCL – London’s Global University.pdf. |
July 2nd, 2018 PGRG Blog #11 Nissa Finney It was recently remarked to me that I am the first female Chair of the RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group. I was struck by this comment and turned to the archives of the Research Group in Area and the Royal Geographical Society files of AGM minutes to … More Where are all the female population geography professors?
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Just published: a special Issue of Philosophical Transactions B (The Royal Society) on ‘Interdisciplinary approaches for uncovering the impacts of architecture on collective behaviour’. My own contribution is ‘open access’ and you can read it and print it from the web … Continue reading →
Forging quality partnerships with leading universities in Europe | News Perspectives@SMUSMU Provost Professor Lily Kong led a delegation of SMU faculty and staff to Paris, Amsterdam and London to grow partnerships and exchange knowledge with…
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