The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Barcelona is becoming a hub of strong support for Citizen Science with an office for citizen science at the city level. It was therefore the site of the 2015 annual meeting of the European Citizen Science Association. On the day before the annual meeting, the afternoon was dedicated to a citizen science safari, with visit … Continue reading ECSA annual meeting in Barcelona (28-29 October)
Neat, crisp informative book by Antoine Picon in the AD Primer Series. Gives myself, James Cheshire and Joan Serras a mention too on transit in London and the science of cities but the book is valuable as a quick but meaty … Continue reading →
Continue reading »When I was Chair of AHRC, I occasionally attended small meetings of academics who we were consulting about various issues – our version of focus groups. On one occasion, we were expecting comments – even complaints – about various AHRC … Continue reading →
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This “line” map of Camden’s cultural locations – museums, galleries and music venues – has been produced by Camden Council and appears alongside a “Legible London” map of the borough and surrounding areas. I like the concept of simplifying a normal 2D right down to a straight line (although the actual route itself does involve […]
Continue reading »Keynote given at Regional Studies Early Career Conference, Sheffield 29/10/15
Continue reading »Giving two lectures by video at the E-Life Congress in Athens on November 6th and at the ITF-OECD Roundtable on 21st Century Public Interest Data Sharing on November 9 in Paris. The lectures are more or less the same and mirror that … Continue reading →
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Game: Can you guess which of these cities is further north?
CityMetric Duncan 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 … |
Anyone who has every applied for a job at the UN will feel a sweat break out on the back of their neck at the mention of the 90’s-style faux-Latin-named job application site “Inspira”. (Remember when things were all called “Exceptimus” and “Ignitor” and stuff? Ugh.) Anyway, the site’s been down for a few days […]
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People talk a lot about how development aid might be used to improve a country’s attractiveness as a trade partner. (Mostly the World Trade Organisation, but not exclusively!) “Aid for Trade” is a controversial project because it has a distinctly globalisation-friendly vibe about it, and a fundamental belief in the kind of trickle-down economics so […]
Continue reading »Chen Zhong (CASA) and her colleagues from ETH and MIT continue to produce interesting analyses from work with the EZ-Link data in Singapore. She introduces some interesting entropy measures along with other indices in revealing centrality in activity patterns. Her paper can … Continue reading →
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Londoners: The Board Game is a concept for a London-focused Risk-style game, currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. Excitingly for us here at Mapping London Towers, the game is focused around a map of London. The definition of London for the game unusually uses the M25 “ring” as the border, which means Watford and Staines get […]
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CINESCIENCE : „KLIMAWANDEL – WOHER KOMMEN DIE ZAHLEN? (TEIL 2)“ am 20 …
Juraforum.de Dazu stellt die Wissenschaftlerin des Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis des University College London verschiedene Messmethoden vor, von denen die Klimaexperten Gebrauch machen. Dazu gehören unter anderem das Kriging, was ursprünglich zur … |
Why spin out? There are a number of possible motivations ranging from money – supplementing income, for self and/or department – to the more altruistic – offering people or organisations outside the university something valuable to them. Possibly both. This … Continue reading →
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Everybody loves a good map projection, none more so that the nerds here at UCL’s CASA. I made a little toy visualisation of survey responses per global region for a pal of mine at Kings College, but knew he’d be unhappy with my choice of projection. So I decided to take the decision out of […]
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The uncomprehending, blinking gaze: this is the default response when I tell people I’m “into” data. It’s like being into electrical wiring, or urban sewer systems – yes, we’re glad they’re there, and yes, we’re certainly glad they work as expected, but yes, aren’t we also rather glad it’s someone else who has to worry […]
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TfL’s plan to build housing for London is great – but it’s also tiny
CityMetric Duncan 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 … |
If news emerged that a virus was killing thousands of vulnerable Londoners every year then there would justifiably be public alarm, followed by swift political action. Yet the impacts of this imaginary scenario are similar to what air pollution has been inflicting on Londoners for many years, while the political response has been slow. According to the most…
Tableau Hosts 10000 Data Enthusiasts at Eighth Annual ConferenceCNNMoneyLAS VEGAS, Oct. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA), a global leader in easy-to-use business analytics software, kicks off its annual Tableau Conference (TC15), …
Continue reading »Tableau Hosts 10000 Data Enthusiasts at Eighth Annual ConferenceMarketWatchLAS VEGAS, Oct. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Tableau Software DATA, +2.04% a global leader in easy-to-use business analytics software, kicks off its annual Tableau Conference (TC15)…
Continue reading »The last two lectures of this course (lectures 9 and 10 which are 1 and 2 in session 5) are online, accessible by clicking here. For those on CASA’s MSc in Smart Cities course, these are background material and without my ‘voice over’ or ‘presence’, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Tweet Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2015 The Population Geography Research Group is pleased to announce the winners of the Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize, 2015. This prize is named in memory of Joanna Stillwell, daughter of Professor John Stillwell of the University of Leeds. The Population Geography Research Group awards three prizes (£100 for […]
Continue reading »Paolo Masucci led this study based on defining city boundaries – one of the key research issues in CASA on our Mechanicity project – introducing a really simple idea that cities grow to a condensation threshold after which the city is … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I estimate that once every two years for the last 20 or 30 years, there has been a report of an inquiry into the transfer of university research into the economy – for commercial or public benefits. The fact that … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The next two lectures of this course (lectures 7 and 8 which are 1 and 2 in session 4) are online accessible by clicking here. For those on CASA’s MSc in Smart Cities course, these are background material and without my ‘voice over’ or … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The Eye on Earth Summit, which was held in Abu Dhabi last week, allowed me to immerse myself in the topics that I’ve been researching for a long time: geographic information, public access to environmental information, participation, citizen science, and the role of all these in policy making. My notes (day 1 morning, day 1 afternoon, … Continue reading Environmental information: between scarcity/abundance and emotions/rationality
The Eye on Earth Summit, which was held in Abu Dhabi last week, allowed me to immerse myself in the topics that I’ve been researching for a long time: geographic information, public access to environmental information, participation, citizen science, and the role of all these in policy making. My notes (day 1 morning, day 1 afternoon, … Continue reading Environmental information: between scarcity/abundance and emotions/rationality
Now whats seems like a long time ago, we where inspired to by the NetLogo Grand Canyon Model and created a similar model in GeoMason. Now we have returned to NetLogo to test its ability to handle GIS data. Below you can see our attempt. The mode…
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Now whats seems like a long time ago, we where inspired to by the NetLogo Grand Canyon Model and created a similar model in GeoMason. Now we have returned to NetLogo to test its ability to handle GIS data. Below you can see our attempt. The mode…
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Readers of this blog might be interested in the following position.
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Computational Social Science
The George Mason University Computational and Data Sciences (CDS) Department in the College of Science invites applicants for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level.
Responsibilities:
Beginning Fall 2016, this position is intended to primarily support the Computational Social Science (CSS) Program within CDS, including support of the Ph.D. degree in CSS, a master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies, and a CSS certificate. This position will also support undergraduate programs that are currently under development.
Qualifications:
Potential for success in both research and teaching are the primary criteria for this position. Applicants should have a promising research record, with a deep knowledge of and interest in computation as applied to one or more of the social sciences. While we are open to expertise in all areas of computational social science, we are particularly interested in social network specialists interested in both theory and data. Applicants must have a Ph.D. (expected completion by August 2016 is acceptable) from an accredited institution.
About the Program:
Methodologically, the CSS Program focuses on data-driven social science models using social network and agent-based computational approaches from a complexity perspective. Current faculty members have domain expertise in economics and finance, political science and international relations, geography and geographic information systems, land use and cover change, and public policy. As one of the first programs of its type in the world, CSS has had significant success in both research and professional placement. Our students come from all over the world (the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia) and have been placed at a variety of top universities (e.g., University of Oxford, University College London), at government agencies, as well as in the private sector, including start-up companies.
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Readers of this blog might be interested in the following position.
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Computational Social Science
The George Mason University Computational and Data Sciences (CDS) Department in the College of Science invites applicants for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level.
Responsibilities:
Beginning Fall 2016, this position is intended to primarily support the Computational Social Science (CSS) Program within CDS, including support of the Ph.D. degree in CSS, a master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies, and a CSS certificate. This position will also support undergraduate programs that are currently under development.
Qualifications:
Potential for success in both research and teaching are the primary criteria for this position. Applicants should have a promising research record, with a deep knowledge of and interest in computation as applied to one or more of the social sciences. While we are open to expertise in all areas of computational social science, we are particularly interested in social network specialists interested in both theory and data. Applicants must have a Ph.D. (expected completion by August 2016 is acceptable) from an accredited institution.
About the Program:
Methodologically, the CSS Program focuses on data-driven social science models using social network and agent-based computational approaches from a complexity perspective. Current faculty members have domain expertise in economics and finance, political science and international relations, geography and geographic information systems, land use and cover change, and public policy. As one of the first programs of its type in the world, CSS has had significant success in both research and professional placement. Our students come from all over the world (the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia) and have been placed at a variety of top universities (e.g., University of Oxford, University College London), at government agencies, as well as in the private sector, including start-up companies.
More Information:
Continue reading »Keynote given at ESRI European Education Conference, 13/10/15; Saltzburg, Austria
The above talk has no sound; vimeo rather than speakdeck was used as there are a few embedded videos.
Continue reading »Originally posted on Geo: Geography and Environment:
By Renée Sieber (McGill University, Canada) and Muki Haklay (University College London, UK) Our recent paper, The epistemology(s) of volunteered geographic information: a critique, started from a discussion we had about changes within the geographic information science (GIScience) research communities over the past two decades. We’ve both been working in the…
Originally posted on Geo: Geography and Environment:
By Renée Sieber (McGill University, Canada) and Muki Haklay (University College London, UK) Our recent paper, The epistemology(s) of volunteered geographic information: a critique, started from a discussion we had about changes within the geographic information science (GIScience) research communities over the past two decades. We’ve both been working in the…
I’ve just now published a number of maps on the CDRC Maps platform which uses the DataShine mapping style (more about DataShine) to show demographic data relating to consumer and other datasets. The maps relate to the Indices of Deprivation 2015, small-areas measure of deprivation in England, which were compiled and published at the end … Continue reading Changes in Deprivation in England, 2010-15 →
Continue reading »The afternoon of the last day of Eye on Earth included two plenary sessions, and a discussion (for the morning, see this post). The first plenary focused on Remote sensing and location enabling applications: Taner Kodanaz (digitalglobe) technology that looking out to the sky now allow us to look at the Earth from 400 miles. Digital … Continue reading Eye on Earth (Day 3 – Afternoon) Remote sensing, conservation monitoring and closing remarks
The afternoon of the last day of Eye on Earth included two plenary sessions, and a discussion (for the morning, see this post). The first plenary focused on Remote sensing and location enabling applications: Taner Kodanaz (digitalglobe) technology that looking out to the sky now allow us to look at the Earth from 400 miles. Digital … Continue reading Eye on Earth (Day 3 – Afternoon) Remote sensing, conservation monitoring and closing remarks
The first four lectures of this course are online accessible by clicking here. For those on CASA’s MSc in Smart Cities course, these are background material and without my ‘voice over’ or ‘presence’, you may find them a little unstructured. … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Building on the themes of Data Demand (on the first day of the summit) and Data Supply (on the second day), the last day of the Eye on Earth Summit explored the enabling conditions that link producers and users of data. Before the first plenary, the World Resource Institute (WRI) launched The Environmental Democracy Index (EDI). Lalanth … Continue reading Eye on Earth (Day 3 – Morning) – Enabling Conditions and access to information, participation & justice
Building on the themes of Data Demand (on the first day of the summit) and Data Supply (on the second day), the last day of the Eye on Earth Summit explored the enabling conditions that link producers and users of data. Before the first plenary, the World Resource Institute (WRI) launched The Environmental Democracy Index (EDI). Lalanth … Continue reading Eye on Earth (Day 3 – Morning) – Enabling Conditions and access to information, participation & justice
All the talk of ‘big data’ sometimes carries the implication that we must now surely have all the data that we need. However, frequently, crucial data is ‘missing’. This can then be seen as inhibiting research: ‘can’t work on that … Continue reading →
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