Who is Dr Hannah Fry? – RadioTimes
Who is Dr Hannah Fry? RadioTimes
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Hannah Fry: ‘There’s a mathematical angle to almost anything’ – The Guardian
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? – Radio Times
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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. |
Let the hunger games begin: UberEats, the Uber for food delivery, has launched in London – CityMetric
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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 |
Podcast: Crossing continents – CityMetric
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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 … |
Podcast: Crossing continents – CityMetric
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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 … |
Podcast: Crossing continents – CityMetric
Podcast: Crossing continents CityMetricIf you live in Britain – and if you don’t, I sort of envy you right now – you’ll know that it’s a pretty torrid time in politics right now. Next Thursday, there’s a …
Continue reading »CASA at the London Transport Museum
Students from our MRes in Spatial Data Science and Visualisation led a workshop this weekend at the London Transport Museum on “the bus stop of the future” – how data feeds about the immediate area could be brought to life … Continue reading →
We kind of love this new, circular take on the Paris metro map – CityMetric
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We kind of love this new, circular take on the Paris metro map
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 … |
New paper: Digital engagement methods for earthquake and fire preparedness
At the beginning of the Challenging Risk project, the project team considered that before we go out and develop participatory tools to engage communities in earthquake and fire preparedness, we should check what is available. To achieve that, we have commissioned Enrica Verrucci to help us with the review, and later on other members of the … Continue reading New paper: Digital engagement methods for earthquake and fire preparedness
Bonus podcast: Fear and loathing in Miami – CityMetric
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Bonus podcast: Fear and loathing in Miami
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:. |
Podcast: Fear and loathing in Miami – CityMetric
CityMetric |
Podcast: Fear and loathing in Miami
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 … |
Painting Connections Tender
The Painting Connections project is looking for artists to produce work on the theme of “the sharing economy” for an exhibition in Hackney Wick at the end of July. The works, preferably from artists based in Hackney Wick and … Continue reading →
How could London’s new “Night Tsar” improve the city? – CityMetric
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How could London’s new “Night Tsar” improve the city?
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:. |
Lost London
London has a great collection of grand buildings, famous bridges and other urban objects that delight tourists and residents alike, but there’s quite a few impressive structures that haven’t made it to 2016. Here is a map of a London that you can’t see. The premise is simple – it shows some of London’s distinctive […]
Continue reading »UCL Professor Mark Lythgoe appointed chair of the Times Cheltenham Science Festival – Science Business
UCL Professor Mark Lythgoe appointed chair of the Times Cheltenham Science FestivalScience BusinessThe Festival, which starts this year on 7 June, is a six-day celebration of science, engineering and the arts, delivering a mix of cutting-edge research,…
Continue reading »UCL Professor Mark Lythgoe appointed chair of the Times Cheltenham Science Festival – Science Business
UCL Professor Mark Lythgoe appointed chair of the Times Cheltenham Science FestivalScience BusinessThe Festival, which starts this year on 7 June, is a six-day celebration of science, engineering and the arts, delivering a mix of cutting-edge research,…
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Data Maps with Force Layout
Alexander Brett has created this interactive map of London using the D3 visualisation framework and its “Force Layout” view. This places the data points (London ward centroids) at their geographic origin, and then applies a series of competing forces, as if the points are connected by a mesh of springs, to subtly adjust the locations […]
Continue reading »A review of volunteered geographic information quality assessment methods
One of the joys of academic life is the opportunity to participate in summer schools – you get a group of researchers, from PhD students to experienced professors, to a nice place in the Italian countryside, and for a week the group focuses on a topic – discussing, demonstrating and trying it out. The Vespucci … Continue reading A review of volunteered geographic information quality assessment methods
42. Best practice
Everything we do, or are responsible for, should aim at adopting ‘best practice’. This is easier said than done! We need knowledge, capability and capacity. Then maybe there are three categories through which we can seek best practice: (1) from … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The National Temperance Hospital: Painting With Light
CASA (in the form of Duncan Hay and me) took a little trip to the National Temperance Hospital (the “NTH” to its friends) on Friday with James Kneale, Carina Schneider, and a small but enthusiastic group who’d volunteered to help … Continue reading →
Modelling World 2016: Complexity in Land Use Transport Models
Giving a paper on Thursday 2nd June in London at Modelling World. Talking about Complexity in Land Use Transport Interaction (LUTI) Modelling, outlining very briefly our QUANT model for the Future Cities Catapult. This model is designed to simulate employment … Continue reading →
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Network Rail Project Map
Network Rail, who own most of London’s “heavy rail” track, have created this graphic showing where in London they are improving the rail network (short answer: most of it). The graphic is part of an interactive that you can view here. It’s slightly buggy and a few years out of date (e.g. no Lea Bridge […]
Continue reading »Issue 18 Cities – Introduction – Computing Sustainability – Digital Development Debates
Issue 18 Cities – Introduction – Computing Sustainability Digital Development Debates
Continue reading »The Participatory City & Participatory Sensing – new paper
The Participatory City is a new book, edited by Yasminah Beebeejaun , which came out in March and will be launched on the 1st June. The book gather 19 chapters that explore the concept of participation in cities of all shapes and sizes. As Yasminah notes, concern about participation has started in the 1960s and never gone … Continue reading The Participatory City & Participatory Sensing – new paper
Art Deco London Map
Following on from their Brutalist London Map, Blue Crow Media have moved back a few decades and produced this new map of Art Deco London. The map is presented in an attractive slip and folds out to A2. It’s printed on silver paper, which gives the roads and rivers a lovely, sparkly sheen to them. […]
Continue reading »Cities as Flows in a Circular Economy
Podcast: Cities as flows in a circular economy Wrote a chapter in the new book from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation which I blogged about earlier – click here for details. But each of the chapters is accompanied by a … Continue reading →
Continue reading »ECSA2016 ThinkCamp Challenge: how can Overleaf support collaborative writing between academics and citizen scientists?
Overleaf, ThinkCamp Challenge, collaborative writing – lots of jargon for a title – so let’s start by explaining them and I then cover what happened (that’s an Abstract). Background – what are Overleaf, ThinkCamp, and Challenge? (Introduction) Overleaf is a scientific technology company that offer a collaborative environment for writing scientific papers. Overlaf is based on LaTeX … Continue reading ECSA2016 ThinkCamp Challenge: how can Overleaf support collaborative writing between academics and citizen scientists?
Mapping Data: Beyond the Choropleth
I recently gave a presentation as part of an NCRM Administrative Data Research Centre England course: Introduction to Data Visualisation. The presentation focused on adapting choropleths to create better “real life” maps of socioeconomic data, showing the examples of CDRC Maps and named. I also presented some work from Neal Hudson, Duncan Smith and Ben … Continue reading Mapping Data: Beyond the Choropleth →
Continue reading »O, Temperate Pixelstick
What do the worlds of data visualisation, light painting and the temperance movement have in common? Find out at our Pixelstick-augmented tour of the National Temperance Hospital from 9pm on Friday, May 27th as part of One Day in the … Continue reading →
Trainspotting Live: Who is the host of the new BBC Four show, Dr Hannah Fry? – Express.co.uk
Express.co.ukTrainspotting Live: Who is the host of the new BBC Four show, Dr Hannah Fry?Express.co.ukThe host is a lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. She specialises in the s…
Continue reading »Trainspotting Live: Who is the host of the new BBC Four show, Dr Hannah Fry? – Express.co.uk
Trainspotting Live: Who is the host of the new BBC Four show, Dr Hannah Fry? Express.co.ukIT’S the latest quintessentially British series set to hit our screens latest this year but if you’re wondering who is Dr. Hannah Fry, the mathematicia…
Continue reading »Trainspotting Live: Who is Dr Hannah Fry? – Express.co.uk
Trainspotting Live: Who is Dr Hannah Fry? Express.co.ukIT’S the latest quintessentially British series set to hit our screens latest this year but if you’re wondering who is Dr. Hannah Fry, the mathematician behind the …
Continue reading »Trainspotting Live: Who is the host of the new BBC Four show, Dr Hannah Fry? – Express.co.uk
Trainspotting Live: Who is the host of the new BBC Four show, Dr Hannah Fry? Express.co.ukIT’S the latest quintessentially British series set to hit our screens latest this year but if you’re wondering who is Dr. Hannah Fry, the mathematicia…
Continue reading »ECSA2016: Open Citizen Science – Day 3
[rough version – will be clean up soon!] Introduction and review of day 2 Muki Haklay University College London, UK Co-designing research projects: Citizen science meets stakeholder involvement Heribert Hofer IZW Berlin, Germany – Exploring stakeholders in citizen science, examples of co-design projects in ecology/conservation science. Looking at impacts on attitudes and behaviours of stakeholders. … Continue reading ECSA2016: Open Citizen Science – Day 3
ECSA 2016: Open Citizen Science – Day 2 (Afternoon)
[rough draft – will be corrected and updated later] The afternoon started with citizen science studies – with short talks and interactive session that was about Citizen Science Studies – Engaging with the participatory turn in the co-production of science and society Elevator talks & interactive session organised by Dana Mahr University of Geneva, CH; Anett Richter … Continue reading ECSA 2016: Open Citizen Science – Day 2 (Afternoon)
The Great British Bike to Work
Cross-posted from the DataShine blog. Here’s a little visualisation created with the DataShine platform. It’s the DataShine Commute map, adapted to show online cycle flows, but all of them at once – so you don’t need to click on a location to see the flow lines. I’ve also added colour to show direction. Flows in … Continue reading The Great British Bike to Work →
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The Great British Bike to Work
Here’s a little visualisation created with the DataShine platform. It’s the DataShine Commute map, adapted to show online cycle flows, but all of them at once – so you don’t need to click on a location to see the flow lines. I’ve also added colour to show direction. Flows in both directions will “cancel out” … Continue reading The Great British Bike to Work
Continue reading »ECSA2016: Open Citizen Science – Day 2 (Morning)
After the opening day (see morning and afternoon posts) and the reception under the dinosaur at the museum, the second day started with a series of keynotes: Introduction and review of day 1 Marisa Ponti University of Gothenburg, Sweden: we’re opening a second day of the conference, and we want to reconnect to the first … Continue reading ECSA2016: Open Citizen Science – Day 2 (Morning)
Participatory [Citizen] Science
‘Citizen Science as Participatory Science‘ is one of the most popular posts that I have published here. The post is the core section of a chapter that was published in 2013 (the post itself was written in 2011). For the first European Citizen Science Association conference I was asked to give a keynote on the second … Continue reading Participatory [Citizen] Science