The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Here’s an attractive map commissioned by The Watch Gallery to highlight some of the key places in London, in the development of timekeeping. From the Old Observatory at Greenwich, to Big Ben, there are many horologically significant places featured here, including some recent location such as the Swiss clock installed in Borough Market to commemorate […]
Continue reading »The new book from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation contains a series of articles on cities and the built environment that relates to renewability and regeneration in terms of energy, information and new ways of conserving both physical and human resources. … Continue reading →
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Pigeons are fighting air pollution in the skies above London (sort of)
CityMetric Pigeons. Dirty little sods, aren’t they? Here are just some of the things pigeons sometimes carry: salmonella, tuberculosis and tiny air quality measuring kits. I mean they’re basically just flying rats. All this – the pollution monitors, I mean, not … |
Following on from my two maps of the small-area modal method of travel to work – one map includes cars and so is most interesting for London, and one map excludes cars and so is most interesting for the rest of the country, where cars otherwise dominate – I’ve refined the car-excluding map and introduced … Continue reading The Battle of the Roads →
Continue reading »You may think that this blog has enough on ‘models’ to sink a ship and I have a new editorial on this in EPB. But there is a wonderful article by Paul Krugman on models which I have just come across although written two decades or so ago. Krugman … Continue reading →
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What would Donald Trump’s “policies” mean for America’s cities?
CityMetric A bit like his former reality TV show The Apprentice, the more outlandish Donald Trump is, the more popular he seems to become. At time of writing, he’s already won the Republican primary contests in a dozen states. Many of Trump’s policies will … |
Parent HeraldWomen Are Better Off Making The First Move On Online Dating, Data ShowParent HeraldWritten by Hannah Fry, a mathematician at the University College London Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis, the book explained and used the Gale-Shapley m…
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Women Are Better Off Making The First Move On Online Dating, Data Show
Parent Herald Written by Hannah Fry, a mathematician at the University College London Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis, the book explained and used the Gale-Shapley matching algorithm to solve the challenge of matching two entities. In the book, Fry showed that … A woman’s advantage – OkCupidOkCupid Women Who Make First Move in Online Dating Are Rewarded, Study FindsNew York Times |
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This mathematical theory explains why women are better off making the first move on dating sites
Businessinsider India This new data supports a theory popularized by Hannah Fry, a mathematician at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis in London and author of the 2015 book “The Mathematics of Love.” In the book, Fry describes the “stable marriage problem,” or the … |
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This mathematical theory explains how women can be more successful on dating sites
Business Insider This new data supports a theory popularized by Hannah Fry, a mathematician at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis in London and author of the 2015 book ” The Mathematics of Love .” In the book, Fry describes the “stable marriage problem,” or … A Woman’s advantage – The OkCupid BlogThe OkCupid Blog Women Who Make First Move in Online Dating Are Rewarded, Study FindsNew York Times |
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This mathematical theory explains why women are better off making the first move on dating sites
Business Insider This new data supports a theory popularized by Hannah Fry, a mathematician at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis in London and author of the 2015 book “The Mathematics of Love.” In the book, Fry describes the “stable marriage problem,” or the … A woman’s advantage – OkCupidOkCupid Women Who Make First Move in Online Dating Are Rewarded, Study FindsNew York Times |
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Continue reading »Warren Weaver was a remarkable man. He was a distinguished mathematician and statistician. He made important early contributions on the possibility of the machine translation of languages. He was a fine writer who recognised the importance of Shannon’s work on … Continue reading →
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Continue reading »This mathematical theory explains how women can be more successful on dating sites Business InsiderAP/Andre Penner Women who believe the man should be the one to make the first move might want to rethink their dating strategy — especially on…
Continue reading »Mathematical theory explains why women should make the first move on dating sites Business InsiderAP/Andre Penner Women who believe the man should be the one to make the first move might want to rethink their dating strategy — especially onl…
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3445 Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Urban Analytics (I)
Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM in Union Square 18, Hilton Hotel, 4th Floor
Chair:Nick Malleson
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Discussant: Mark Birkin
3545 Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Urban Analytics (II)
Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM in Union Square 18, Hilton Hotel, 4th Floor
Chair: Paul Longley
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3645 Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Urban Analytics (III)
Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 5:20 PM – 7:00 PM in Union Square 18, Hilton Hotel, 4th Floor
Chair: Andrew Crooks
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Discussant: Andrew Crooks
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3445 Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Urban Analytics (I)
Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM in Union Square 18, Hilton Hotel, 4th Floor
Chair:Nick Malleson
Talks:
Discussant: Mark Birkin
3545 Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Urban Analytics (II)
Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM in Union Square 18, Hilton Hotel, 4th Floor
Chair: Paul Longley
Talks:
3645 Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Urban Analytics (III)
Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 5:20 PM – 7:00 PM in Union Square 18, Hilton Hotel, 4th Floor
Chair: Andrew Crooks
Talks:
Discussant: Andrew Crooks
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Can London’s farmers survive the housing crisis?
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 … |
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MongoDB Plans ‘Giant’ Event in June
Datanami Other speakers joining Savage include: Eric Brewer, Google’s vice president of infrastructure; Hannah Fry of the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London; Jeff Chapman, chief architect of Capital One’s Shared TECH; and Sree … |
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MongoDB Plans ‘Giant’ Event in June
Datanami Other speakers joining Savage include: Eric Brewer, Google’s vice president of infrastructure; Hannah Fry of the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London; Jeff Chapman, chief architect of Capital One’s Shared TECH; and Sree … |
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MongoDB Plans ‘Giant’ Event in June
Datanami Other speakers joining Savage include: Eric Brewer, Google’s vice president of infrastructure; Hannah Fry of the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London; Jeff Chapman, chief architect of Capital One’s Shared TECH; and Sree … |
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MongoDB Plans ‘Giant’ Event in June
Datanami Other speakers joining Savage include: Eric Brewer, Google’s vice president of infrastructure; Hannah Fry of the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London; Jeff Chapman, chief architect of Capital One’s Shared TECH; and Sree … |
If you are looking to name-check DataShine in a paper, then we now have the citation for you! Interactive mapping for large, open demographic data sets using familiar geographical features is our paper (authors Oliver O’Brien and James Cheshire), published in Journal of Maps, as open access, so you can read it right now. DOI: … Continue reading DataShine Papers!
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Chilangas que triunfan en el extranjero
Excélsior (blog) Elsa Arcaute es profesora de planta en Modelaje Espacial y Sistemas Complejos, en el Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, en la University College London. Es la única extranjera que tiene una plaza así. En 1999 fue la primera mexicana en obtener una … |
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It could take London’s Garden Bridge 50 years to repay the money the state is loaning it
CityMetric So yesterday, as you’ll know, being dedicated CityMetric readers, we ran a silly story in which New Statesman politics correspondent Stephen Bush imagined how a serious paper of record would cover London and its mayor’s adorably casual attitude towards … |
The latest pocket guide and fold-out map from boutique urban cartographers Herb Lester is “Punk London“, celebrating 40 years since the punk movement of the 1970s, by mapping key locations in central London where it happened. Mike Haddad is the carrtographer/designer. As with all Herb Lester maps it’s a proper, custom made and litho-printed map, […]
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Vamos contra la violencia; acciones del gobierno capitalino
Excélsior (blog) Elsa Arcaute es profesora de planta en Modelaje Espacial y Sistemas Complejos, en el Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, en la University College London. Es la única extranjera que tiene una plaza así. En 1999 fue la primera mexicana en obtener una … |
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Capital One, Comcast, Google and MythBusters’ Adam Savage Confirmed to Keynote MongoDB World 2016
Digital Journal NEW YORK, NY and PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwired – Mar 7, 2016) – MongoDB, the database for giant ideas, today announced an all-star lineup of keynote speakers for the third annual MongoDB World, the world’s largest global gathering of the MongoDB … |
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Capital One, Comcast, Google and MythBusters’ Adam Savage Confirmed to Keynote MongoDB World 2016
EIN News (press release) /EINPresswire.com/ — NEW YORK, NY and PALO ALTO, CA — (Marketwired) — 03/07/16 — MongoDB, the database for giant ideas, today announced an all-star lineup of keynote speakers for the third annual MongoDB World, the world’s largest global … |
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Capital One, Comcast, Google and MythBusters’ Adam Savage Confirmed to Keynote MongoDB World 2016
Marketwired (press release) NEW YORK, NY and PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwired – Mar 7, 2016) – MongoDB, the database for giant ideas, today announced an all-star lineup of keynote speakers for the third annual MongoDB World, the world’s largest global gathering of the MongoDB … |
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If we covered London like the media covers Africa…
CityMetric Veteran travellers who criss-cross London, Britain’s booming capital, have no shortage of tales of the extraordinary. A cable car, erected at vast expense to the taxpayer, which has few regular passengers. A custom-made bus, intended to symbolise the … |
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High speed UK: Why HS2 must only be the start of a wider national high speed rail network
CityMetric HS2 is, to put it mildly, a divisive topic, with many compelling arguments on both sides of the debate. For UK cities, HS2 represents a mixed bag. That’s true, both in terms of the positives and negatives for individual cities; but also in that, as … |
Tweet Please see here to view details of a job opportunity at the University of Leeds. The successful applicant will join a project entitled “Sub-national context and radical right support in Europe” (SCoRE). The closing date for applications is Thursday 17th March 2016.
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The project CEDE is about researching empathy in digital environments, and prototyping devices and services that are designed to facilitate empathy between people. We are organising a one day Creating and Exploring Digital Empathy symposium on Monday 21 March at the Royal Society for the Arts in London, where the project […]
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Continue reading »‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ Stars Christopher Abbott & Stephen Peacocke Share What It’s Like To Work With Tina Fey — VIDEO BustleOne might think that the only reaction you’d have to getting to work with Tina Fey would be pure joy, but for Christ…
Continue reading »Tweet 4th – 6th July 2016 University of Manchester PopFest is an annual Population Studies conference for postgraduate students organised by fellow postgraduates. It provides an excellent opportunity to bring together researchers from various Social Science disciplines such as Demography, Human Geography, Urban Planning, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Social Statistics, Politics and other related […]
Continue reading »TweetEurope’s migration crisis? 21st Century Challenges: Policy Forum Tuesday 22 March 2016: 5.30pm – 7.30pm (with the opportunity to stay for dinner until 9.30pm) Join the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) for a lively panel discussion (5.30pm – 7.30pm), with the opportunity to stay for dinner (7.30pm – 9.30pm) to explore the challenges and opportunities […]
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