The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
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Where did Pokemon Go get its maps from?
CityMetric It reminds me of this piece of work, by James Cheshire and Oliver O’Brien – two researchers at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis – which plots life expectancy by tube station. The shading shows reflects deprivation in individual areas:. |
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The School of Geography at the University of Leeds are seeking to appoint a post-doctoral researcher to join the Consumer Data Research Centre.
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Creating the right environment for digital advertising to thrive
IAB UK This year the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) UK’s annual flagship Engage conference has extended across two full days, for the first time ever. The event, which takes place at The Barbican, London on 12th & 13th October – promises to excite and wow … |
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Creating the right environment for digital advertising to thrive
IAB UK This year the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) UK’s annual flagship Engage conference has extended across two full days, for the first time ever. The event, which takes place at The Barbican, London on 12th & 13th October – promises to excite and wow … |
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Creating the right environment for digital advertising to thrive
IAB UK This year the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) UK’s annual flagship Engage conference has extended across two full days, for the first time ever. The event, which takes place at The Barbican, London on 12th & 13th October – promises to excite and wow … |
CampaignLiveAviva, Morrisons and Caitlin Moran to feature at IAB Engage 2016CampaignLive… chairman, Morrisons; Caitlin Moran, journalist, author, and broadcaster at The Times; Dr Hannah Fry, a lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for A…
Continue reading »In 1996, Denise Pumain set up the online journal Cybergeo . When she first proposed this the web was in its infancy and I remember thinking that this was a very high-risk proposal in a world where the notion that we might … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Aviva, Morrisons and Caitlin Moran to feature at IAB Engage 2016 CampaignLiveAviva and Morrisons will be among the brands featured at the Internet Advertising Bureau’s annual flagship Engage conference, which will be held across two …
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Here’s some arty maps of localities in London which have a distinctly culinary theme. “Edible Clapham” drawn by Lis Watkins and commissioned by Incredible Edible Lambeth – more a series of colourful, detailed drawings linked together by a walking route, it nonetheless is the map needed for a foodie tour of this trendy neighborhood: “Tootopia”, […]
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One of the great rewards with working within a university is the interaction with students and seeing them advance through their studies and carryout innovative research projects.
This last academic year the Computational Social Science Program here at Mason had a bumper crop of graduates both at the PhD and masters level.
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| In the picture are newly hooded Drs Palmer, Rouly and Magallanes. Along with the not so new Drs Axtell, Crooks and Cioffi. |
Our recent PhD graduates included:
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| In the picture are newly hooded Drs Scott, Russo, Masad, Dover and Shin. Along with the not so new Drs Cioffi, Crooks, Kennedy and Mrs. Underwood. |
Along with our PhD graduates we also had a number of Masters students graduate in the MAIS with a Concentration in Computational Social Science Program. Well done to Rui Zhang, Justin Brandenburg, Matthew Oldham, Stefan McCabe, Craig Brown and Stefani Fournier.
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One of the great rewards with working within a university is the interaction with students and seeing them advance through their studies and carryout innovative research projects.
This last academic year the Computational Social Science Program here at Mason had a bumper crop of graduates both at the PhD and masters level.
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| In the picture are newly hooded Drs Palmer, Rouly and Magallanes. Along with the not so new Drs Axtell, Crooks and Cioffi. |
Our recent PhD graduates included:
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| In the picture are newly hooded Drs Scott, Russo, Masad, Dover and Shin. Along with the not so new Drs Cioffi, Crooks, Kennedy and Mrs. Underwood. |
Along with our PhD graduates we also had a number of Masters students graduate in the MAIS with a Concentration in Computational Social Science Program. Well done to Rui Zhang, Justin Brandenburg, Matthew Oldham, Stefan McCabe, Craig Brown and Stefani Fournier.
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Podcast: Help! Somebody save us!
CityMetric It reminds me of this piece of work, by James Cheshire and Oliver O’Brien – two researchers at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis – which plots life expectancy by tube station. The shading shows reflects deprivation in individual areas:. |
A startup with a billion dollar asset. This is how HERE’s new CEO Edzard Overbeek describes the location services company that is making a striking pitch for being the third major digital mapping and location platform alongside Google and Apple. HERE has had an interesting recent history. Originally NAVTEQ, one of the major cross-world road … Continue reading Inside HERE →
Continue reading » As part of the Esri User Conference, Dawn Wright, Esri Chief Scientist, organised a Science Symposium that gave an opportunity for those with interest in scientific use of Esri GIS to come together, discuss and meet. Dawn Wright opened and mentioned that the science symposium is aimed to bring people people from different areas: … Continue reading Esri User Conference – Science Symposium
During the past spring semester I taught a class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of my courses, students were expected to complete a end of semester project, in this case, develop an agent-based mo…
Continue reading »During the past spring semester I taught a class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of my courses, students were expected to complete a end of semester project, in this case, develop an agent-based mo…
Continue reading »A few weeks ago, I attended a British Academy workshop on ‘Urban Futures’ – partly focused on research priorities and partly on research that would be useful for policy makers. The group consisted mainly of academics who were keen to … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Roman V. Yampolskiy: books, biography, latest update Amazon.com
Continue reading »The main Esri User conference starts with a plenary day, where all the participants (16,000 of them) join together for a set of presentation from 8:30 to 3:30 (with some breaks, of course). Below you’ll find some notes that I took during the day: The theme of the keynote was GIS – Enabling a Smarter … Continue reading Esri User Conference 2016 – plenary day
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Brexit: What’s the most pro-European city in Britain?
CityMetric It reminds me of this piece of work, by James Cheshire and Oliver O’Brien – two researchers at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis – which plots life expectancy by tube station. The shading shows reflects deprivation in individual areas:. |
Last year’s 2015 general election revealed a Britain that was increasingly fractured between nations, between the north and south of England, and between more prosperous metropolitan and deprived areas. But GE2015 has now proved to be only a staging post in the UK’s splintering. The momentous vote for Brexit in last week’s EU referendum threatens economic and political … Continue reading Fracturing Britain: the end of the United Kingdom? →
I’ve been working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) since 1988. During the first 2 years, I wasn’t even aware that what we were doing was GIS – it was a mapping/inventory system that run on second generation PC (80286 processors) and was used to map facilities. Once I’ve discovered that this was a GIS, the … Continue reading Esri Education Conference 2016 – day 1
The slides below are from my keynote talk at the Esri Education User Conference 2016. The conference focused on creativity and its relevant to education and the utilisation of GIS (especially Esri software) at different levels of education. My talk explored the area of citizen science and extreme citizen science and the way geographical technologies … Continue reading Esri Education User Conference talk: Citizen Science & Geographical Technologies: creativity, learning, and engagement
London boasts over 300 different spoken languages – more than any other city in the world. The capital’s lingua franca, of course, remains English: 78% of Londoners cited it as their ‘main’ language in the 2011 Census. The other 22% speak in different tongues, including Urdu, Somali and Tagalog. This map from London: The Information Capital celebrates […]
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I was kindly invited, earlier this week, to take part in “insideHERE” in Berlin, a small event run at the HERE HQ in Berlin. HERE, being born out of the ashes of Navteq and Nokia Maps, is now owned by a consortium of German car companies. For the special event, HERE’s developers and engineers opened … Continue reading Testing Map-Based UIs for Self-Driving Cars: HERE’s Knight Rider →
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At the forthcoming 2016 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. we will be presenting a paper is entitled “The Geography of Conflict …
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At the forthcoming 2016 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. we will be presenting a paper is entitled “The Geography of Conflict …
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Hannah Fry: ‘There’s a mathematical angle to almost anything’
The Guardian Far from being a mere pop scientist, however, Fry is a much-published researcher and a lecturer at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), where she specialises in the mathematics of urban and social systems. After gaining her PhD in fluid … |
Who is Dr Hannah Fry? Radio Times
Continue reading »Who is City in The Sky presenter Dr Hannah Fry? Meet the scientist behind The Mathematics of Love Radio Times
Continue reading »Who is City in The Sky presenter Dr Hannah Fry? Meet the scientist behind The Mathematics of Love Radio Times
Continue reading »Who is Dr Hannah Fry? Radio TimesMeet the mathematician and co-host of BBC2’s City in The Sky.
Continue reading »Hannah Fry: ‘There’s a mathematical angle to almost anything’ The GuardianPolitics, the badger cull, trainspotting, the psychic powers of Paul the octopus – maths comes into it all, says the TV and radio presenter.
Continue reading »Hannah Fry: ‘There’s a mathematical angle to almost anything’ The GuardianPolitics, the badger cull, trainspotting, the psychic powers of Paul the octopus – maths comes into it all, says the TV and radio presenter.
Continue reading »Who is Dr Hannah Fry? RadioTimes
Continue reading »Hannah Fry: ‘There’s a mathematical angle to almost anything’ The GuardianPolitics, the badger cull, trainspotting, the psychic powers of Paul the octopus – maths comes into it all, says the TV and radio presenter.
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Who is Dr Hannah Fry?
Radio Times She’s probably best known for writing a book about The Mathematics of Love. In the book, Fry discusses patterns in human behaviour on dating sites, divorce, sex and marriage, among other things. Here’s the very cool TED talk that inspired it. |
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Let the hunger games begin: UberEats, the Uber for food delivery, has launched in London
CityMetric In my humble opinion, one of the best things about living in a city is that, with a few jabs at my phone, I can order most sorts of food directly to wherever I am. No calling and painstakingly reading out numbers from a paper menu. No leaving the house. London Food Delivery – UberEATSUberEATS |
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Podcast: Crossing continents
CityMetric It’s brilliant, so you should all subscribe to it.) Finally, our map of the week – which, I’ll be honest, we do no justice to whatsoever – is this magnificent piece of work by Duncan Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced spatial Analysis. It shows, at a … |
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Podcast: Crossing continents
CityMetric Finally, our map of the week – which, I’ll be honest, we do no justice to whatsoever – is this magnificent piece of work by Duncan Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced spatial Analysis. It shows, at a glance, the growth of all the world’s major cities … |