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Representation of the people in science: Women in civic and citizen science – event summary

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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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citizen science, Civic participation, civic science, DITOs, Extreme Citizen Science, Research projects, TogetherScience

London Mapped Jigsaw Puzzle

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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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Art, black and white, Game, Island, jigsaw, jigsaw puzzle, pencil, puzzle, sketch, Stephen Walter, The Island, Walter

Population Analysis of London Bikeshare Systems

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Mobike, one of London’s four bikeshare operators (with Urbo, Ofo and Santander Cycles) as today expanded to Newham. The operators are being driven by different borough approaches and priorities, which is resulting in a patchwork quilt of operating areas, although the London Assembly is today pushing for a more London-wide approach to regulation of the … Continue reading Population Analysis of London Bikeshare Systems →

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Who is Dr Hannah Fry? Mathematician, UCL lecturer and presenter of Contagion! and Trainspotting Live – The Sun

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Who is Dr Hannah Fry? Mathematician, UCL lecturer and presenter of Contagion! and Trainspotting Live
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She is now a lecturer in the mathematics of cities at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. The research team include a unique mix of physicists, mathematicians, architects, geographers and computer scientists to study patterns of human behaviour …

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FOSS4G UK 2018 Meeting and OpenLayers 4

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I attended and presented at the FOSS4G UK conference in central London, in early March. I was scheduled to present in the cartography track, near the end of the conference, and it ended up being an excellent session, the other speakers being Charley Glynn, digital cartographer extraordinaire from the Ordnance Survey, who talked on “The … Continue reading FOSS4G UK 2018 Meeting and OpenLayers 4 →

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cdrc, Conferences, Data Graphics, london, OpenLayers

Learning from the Arava Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research workshop

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The Eilot region, near Eilat in Israel, is considered locally as a remote part of the Negev desert in Israel (it is about 3.5h drive from the population centres of Tel Aviv). It is an arid desert, with very sparse population – about 4000 people who live in communal settlements – mostly kibbutzim in an area … Continue reading Learning from the Arava Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research workshop

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citizen science, Ecology, Ecosystem services, LTER, LTSER, Open Science, OpenStreetMap

Strava Labs Heatmap of Runners

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This stunning map reveals the athletic footprint of London. Strava have taken their huge volume of movement data, recorded by runners, cyclists and other data-enabled fitness peeps and created a heatmap of London (and indeed, the world). Many people use Strava to record their cycle to work, whereas running to work is much rarer, so […]

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activity, athletic, bike, cycle, cycling, data, fitness, GPS, GPS trace, heatmap, run, running, sports, strava, trace

From environmental management to organisational strategy development: Using Drivers-Pressure-State-Impact-Response with ECSA

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This week, together with Margaret Gold, I facilitated a strategy meeting of the European Citizen Science Association. At the moment, because a recent lecture in the Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing course that was dedicated to environmental citizen science, the “Driving forces-Pressures-State-Impacts -Responses” (DPSIR) is in the front of my mind. In addition, … Continue reading From environmental management to organisational strategy development: Using Drivers-Pressure-State-Impact-Response with ECSA

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Concepts, DPSIR, ECSA, Environmental information, organisational development, Social Enterprise

Participatory soundscape sensing – joint paper with Dr Chunming Li

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One of the lovely aspects of scientific research is its international dimension – the opportunity to collaborate with people from different places, cultures, and necessarily practices and points of view. During 2017, Dr Chnming Li, of the Institute of Urban Environment of the Chinese Academy of Science, was a visiting researcher in ExCiteS. Dr Li … Continue reading Participatory soundscape sensing – joint paper with Dr Chunming Li

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citizen science, Crowdsourcing, Environmental information, noise, Papers, participatory monitoring, Participatory Sensing, Public Participation, Research projects, VGI

Bikeshare in London – Borough Update

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Borough Update Meanwhile, the borough-by-borough rollout of dockless in London continues. Wandsworth has a forthcoming pilot, and has published the responses to a questionnaire given to six potential operators. Nearby Richmond is also planning on trialing dockless “by April”. Redbridge is bringing Ofo and Urbo in on 2 March. This will give Urbo a contiguous … Continue reading Bikeshare in London – Borough Update →

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Future Transport Report and Dockless in London

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The GLA published an interesting report last week: Future transport – How is London responding to technological innovation. It focused mainly on drones, driverless cars and app-based services (as an example, CityMapper’s experimenting on turning its huge desire-line dataset, created from the data of its millions of users and their journeys, into a group-based taxishare … Continue reading Future Transport Report and Dockless in London →

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