The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
The ECSITE conference which was held in the beautiful MUSE museum in Trento, Italy is the annual gathering of the practitioners and researchers in the area of science museums and science centres. I attended two of the three days of the conference. The notes below are from some of the sessions that I joined, learning about … Continue reading ECSITE 2015 – food for curious minds (day 2)
Urban and regional science – a discipline or a subdiscipline, or is it still called interdisciplinary? – has been good at welcoming people from other disciplines, notably in recent times, physicists. Can we venture outside our box? It would be … Continue reading →
Continue reading »COST Energic organised a second summer school that is dedicated to Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and citizen science. This time, the school was run by the Institute for Climate Change & Sustainable Development of the University of Malta. with almost 40 participants from across Europe and beyond (Brazil, New Zealand), and, of course, participants from … Continue reading COST Energic Summer School on VGI and Citizen Science in Malta
What we can learn here from New York: an interesting report from Eddie Copeland at the Policy Exchange. Fascinating reading from the place where open data was invented, and where Urban Mechanics was begun. I quote from the blurb: Today marks the … Continue reading →
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Following my previous post, we are now in the final stages of preparation for the installation of the 4Candles system at St. Michael’s Church in Hawkshead. The system will be a re-vamped version of the 4Candles installation at St Peter’s in Hackney, and will permit prayers to be shared between the […]
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Continue reading »I was recruited to a post that was the start of my urban modelling career in the Autumn of 1964 by Christopher Foster (now Sir Christopher) to work on the cost-benefit analysis of major transport projects. My job was to … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Wembley Stadium. It has a proud history, some may say. It sure is an occasion, to go to Wembley for any event, but of all events, the FA cup final is probably the biggest event on the Wembley Stadium Calendar.As fans travel to the Stadium from all acro…
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Wembley Stadium. It has a proud history, some may say. It sure is an occasion, to go to Wembley for any event, but of all events, the FA cup final is probably the biggest event on the Wembley Stadium Calendar.As fans travel to the Stadium from all acro…
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Wembley Stadium. It has a proud history, some may say. It sure is an occasion, to go to Wembley for any event, but of all events, the FA cup final is probably the biggest event on the Wembley Stadium Calendar.As fans travel to the Stadium from all acro…
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London has some grand gardens, many open to the public, […]
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In the UK, every 5 years or so, there is a complex and expensive process that evaluates the work of academics in research institutions across the country, and rate them in terms of quality (see the infographics). The last round of this process was called ‘Research Evaluation Framework’ or REF for short. You don’t need … Continue reading Citizen Science in the Research Evaluation Framework impact studies
The latest web map in the DataShine website portfolio is DataShine Election, which shows results from the 2015 and 2010 UK General Elections.
You can view the interactive map or read more about it.
This map, “A Plan for Greater London”, is a […]
Continue reading »As a follow-on to my earlier piece on Hex-Binning Land Registry Data, here’s a talk I gave on the housing crisis as part of the Pint of Science Festival a couple of weeks back. And, credit where credit is due: this … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Nikolai Kondratieff, a Soviet-era economist in the 1920s, developed a theory of the economy where technological innovations drove the business cycle. This looked a little too like the way the capitalist world explained itself and for these sins, Stalin sent … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Let us begin by asserting that any piece of research is concerned with a ‘system of interest’ – henceforth ‘the system’ (cf. Systems thinking). We can then make a distinction between the ‘science of the system’ and the ‘applied science … Continue reading →
Continue reading »In human systems, defining any of the objects or attributes we work with is plagued with ambiguity. Defining cities is one of the classic problems and here we use percolation theory to ultimately define cities as connected clusters at a … Continue reading →
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Crowds ‘could be counted’ with phone data
The Daily Star Dr Ed Manley is a lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. He said this technique had a lot of potential and that people should be “optimistic but cautious” about using phone data in this way. “We’ve got these … |
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Kerumunan orang ‘dapat dihitung’ dengan data telepon
BBCIndonesia.com Dr Ed Manley adalah pengajar di Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis di University College London. Dia mengatakan teknik ini memiliki potensi dan kita harus bersikap “optimis namun berhati-hati” menggunakan data ponsel untuk itu. “Kita memiliki data … |
Crowds ‘could be counted’ with phone and Twitter data BBC News
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Continue reading »Crowds ‘could be counted’ with phone and Twitter data BBC NewsIt may be possible to estimate the size of a large crowd based on geographical data from mobile phones and Twitter, according to a new study. Warwick …
Continue reading »Crowds ‘could be counted’ with phone and Twitter data BBC NewsA study tests the idea that large crowds can be counted using data from mobile phone usage and Twitter.
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Crowds ‘could be counted’ with phone and Twitter data
BBC News Dr Ed Manley is a lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. He said this technique had a lot of potential and that people should be “optimistic but cautious” about using phone data in this way. “We’ve got these … |
BBC News |
Crowds ‘could be counted’ with phone and Twitter data
BBC News Dr Ed Manley is a lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. He said this technique had a lot of potential and that people should be “optimistic but cautious” about using phone data in this way. “We’ve got these … |
With the spring semester over, I thought I would show some of the final agent-based modeling projects that were carried out in CSS 645: Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions. As always I was quite impressed the models and we had …
Continue reading »With the spring semester over, I thought I would show some of the final agent-based modeling projects that were carried out in CSS 645: Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions. As always I was quite impressed the models and we had …
Continue reading »Originally posted on The GeographiGal:
It’s now a week since my viva, which flouted all my expectations in every possible way. I could not have prepared myself for so many of the questions I was asked or being so lost for words. I will forever be grateful to my examiners for reading my thesis and their suggestions/corrections;…
After featuring a number of data maps and navigation-fo […]
Continue reading »The COST Energic network is progressing in its 3rd year. The previous post showed one output from the action – a video that describe the links between volunteered geographic information and indigenous knowledge. The people who came to the meeting represent the variety of interest in crwodsourced geographic information, from people with background in Geography, … Continue reading COST ENERGIC meeting – Tallinn 21-22 May
LocalGovHigh-tech headset unlocks city travel for visually impairedLocalGovSupport for the project has also come from businesses and researchers including Nokia Lumia, Arup, the University of Nottingham and the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Anal…
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The Tube Map is probably London’s most famous con […]
Continue reading »Asked by Built Environment to review this some 18 months after it was first published, the world of smart cities has moved on so fast at the level of how we use personal devices to navigate, shop, search etc. that Anthony … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I was Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council for 6 years up to December 2013. Like the other research councils, and like most universities, we always said that we funded research that is ‘excellent’ and ‘world class’. However, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Technology unlocks cities for visually impaired GOV.UK
Continue reading »The COST Energic network has been running now for 3 years, and one of the outputs from the network is the video below, which explore a very valuable form of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). This is information that is coming from participatory projects between researchers and indigenous communities, and this short film provide examples from Bolivia, British Columbia, … Continue reading VGI and indigenous knowledge – COST Energic Video
Dr. Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal | City Center – TAU Research Center for Cities and Urbanism | Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University
Continue reading »By the end of this century, we will all be living in Cities but what does this really mean? I have given various talks and written various editorials on this prospect but have never really thought much about what this … Continue reading →
Continue reading »One route into urban research is to reflect on the well known and very real challenges that cities face. The most obvious ones can be classified as ‘wicked problems’ in that they have been known for a long time, usually … Continue reading →
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