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“Stand on the right AND left”: Why has TfL introduced standing-only escalators? – CityMetric


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“Stand on the right AND left”: Why has TfL introduced standing-only escalators?
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David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the …

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This new tool lets you map Manchester’s new future housing and construction sites – CityMetric


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This new tool lets you map Manchester’s new future housing and construction sites
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David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the …

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Microsoft’s Bing Maps now shows you real-time stills from traffic cameras – CityMetric


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Microsoft’s Bing Maps now shows you real-time stills from traffic cameras
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David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the …

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New Citizen Science for air quality campaign

Mapping for Change, the social enterprise that I co-founded, has been assisting community groups to run air quality studies for the past 5 years. During this period we have worked in 30 communities across London, carrying out studies with different tools – from collecting leaves, to examining lichens, to using diffusion tubes. We have also followed … Continue reading New Citizen Science for air quality campaign

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Exploring the Users of Interactive Mapping Platforms

CASA and UCL Geography have several years of experience in developing online interactive mapping sites for research outreach. The purpose of these tools is to take spatial analysis and visualisation outputs from the research lab and make them accessible and useful for many users from a wide variety of sectors and backgrounds, including: wider academia, central and local government,…

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Mapping Protest in 3D with Twitter Data

As one part of my docotoral thesis, I have made the video that shows the relationship between ‘London End Austerity Now’ Protest on 20thJune 2015 and the Twitter acitivity on that day.The video gives you some details about the protest, the data and 3D …

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Mapping Protest in 3D with Twitter Data




As one part of my docotoral thesis, I have made the video that shows the relationship between ‘London End Austerity Now’ Protest on 20thJune 2015 and the Twitter acitivity on that day.

The video gives you some details about the protest, the data and 3D visualisation.
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Mapping Protest in 3D with Twitter Data




As one part of my docotoral thesis, I have made the video that shows the relationship between ‘London End Austerity Now’ Protest on 20thJune 2015 and the Twitter acitivity on that day.

The video gives you some details about the protest, the data and 3D visualisation.
If the following YouTube video is not displayed on your device, please use this link. 





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Giving time – randomised experiments on volunteering and citizen social science

As the event blurb explained  “the Giving Time experiments were led by a team from four UK universities, who wanted to know whether sharing information about how others have volunteered could help to improve volunteering… this was about giving time – and whether volunteers can be nudged. The methodology was randomised control trial (RCTs) in real-life … Continue reading Giving time – randomised experiments on volunteering and citizen social science

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A cyclist swore at Boris Johnson as he opened London’s latest cycle superhighway – CityMetric


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A cyclist swore at Boris Johnson as he opened London’s latest cycle superhighway
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David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the …

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Standards and Recommendations for Citizen Science (University of Zurich)

Following a short project that was headed by Daniel Wyler of the University of Zürich in collaboration with the League of European Research Universities, two draft documents aimed at universities and research funders were developed. The documents can be found here, and there is scope to comments and suggest changes for the next month on … Continue reading Standards and Recommendations for Citizen Science (University of Zurich)

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Brutalist London Map

For fans all all things concrete comes this map of London’s most famous Brutalist buildings. Created by Blue Crow Media (see also their craft beer and cycling maps, it is the first in a new series of map-based guides to London architecture, focusing on the modern 1950s/60s “raw” concrete-heavy designs by Le Corbusier and others […]

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A mathematical formula reveals the secret to lasting relationships – Naija247news


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A mathematical formula reveals the secret to lasting relationships
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Fry, who works at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis in London, explains in her 2014 TED Talk and recently released book, “The Mathematics of Love,” that the best predictor of long-lasting relationships is how positive and negative a couple

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La fórmula de la pareja ideal sirve para encontrar al empleado perfecto – Diario Gestión


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La fórmula de la pareja ideal sirve para encontrar al empleado perfecto
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Hanah Fry es una matemática del UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis en Londres, que ha escrito el libro The Mathematics of Love (Las matemáticas del amor), en el que describe y da solución (matemática) al “problema de la unión estable”, es decir, …

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Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street

The book ‘Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street‘ is launched today. It’s open access and free for you to download and read. The book is edited by Laura Vaughan, who led two research projects in which I was involved as co-investigator. First, ‘Towards Successful Suburban Town Centres‘ (2006-2009) and then ‘Adaptable … Continue reading Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street

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A man dressed as a superhero is fighting for pedestrian justice in Mexico City – CityMetric


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A man dressed as a superhero is fighting for pedestrian justice in Mexico City
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In Mexico City, an unofficial public service exists to protect the city’s pedestrians. His name is Peatónito, which translates as “Pedestrian Man”, and he wears all black and what looks like a Halloween superhero mask – but is, we’ve been assured since …

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TfL’s new tube map shows walking distances in central London – and highlights … – CityMetric


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TfL’s new tube map shows walking distances in central London – and highlights
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“Walking is a great way to get around London,” Transport for London’s walking page proclaims, with cheerful inanity. “It’s free, healthy and green.” And – even though this is the sort of statement that feels like it should end in an exclamation mark
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TfL has released the first official ‘walk the Tube’ map for LondonEvening Standard

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La fórmula de la pareja ideal sirve para fichar al empleado perfecto – EntornoInteligente

La fórmula de la pareja ideal sirve para fichar al empleado perfecto
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Una nueva ecuación Hanah Fry es una matemática del UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis en Londres, que ha escrito el libro The Mathematics of Love (Las matemáticas del amor), en el que describe y da solución (matemática) al “problema de la …

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Baker Street & Waterloo Railway

Today, the London Transport Museum unveils a new permanent gallery in its space in Covent Garden, called “London by Design“. The gallery includes a number of maps which have not been exhibited before, including this lovely map of the “Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (of which the Bakerloo Line‘s name is a portmanteau) which first […]

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UCL Institute for Global Prosperity Talk: Extreme Citizen Science – Current Developments

The slides below are from a talk that I gave today at UCL Institute for Global Prosperity The abstract for the talk is: With a growing emphasis on civil society-led change in diverse disciplines, from International Development to Town Planning, there is an increasing demand to understand how institutions might work with the public effectively … Continue reading UCL Institute for Global Prosperity Talk: Extreme Citizen Science – Current Developments

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Praying in the digital age: Prayer installations in Hawkshead and Hackney

The digital prayer installations have been in use since July at St Michael’s church in Hawkshead, Cumbria, and at St Peter’s church in Hackney, London. These churches were chosen for the pilot project for their contrasting locations and different types of church communities: St Michael’s is in rural Lake District […]

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Citizen Science Data & Service Infrastructure

Following the ECSA meeting, the Data & tools working group workshop was dedicated to progressing the agenda on data & infrastructure. Jaume Piera (chair, Data and Tools working group of ECSA) covered the area of citizen science data – moving from ideas, to particular solutions, to global proposals – from separate platforms (iNaturalist, iSpot, GBIF, … Continue reading Citizen Science Data & Service Infrastructure

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