The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
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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The COST Energic network (see VGIBox.eu ) is running a 2 day geolocated twitter chat, titled ‘Volunteered Geographic Information Day’ so the hashtag is #VGIDay. The conversation will take place on 14th and 15th May 2015, and we are universalists – join from anywhere in the world! Joining is easy – and require 3 steps: Follow the … Continue reading Spatial Conversation – #VGIday #COSTEnergic
When I first moved to UCL CASA back in 2010, the first online map I created from scratch was one showing swings in the general election that year. So it seemed fitting to update the old code with the data from the 2015 general election, which took place last week. You can see the resulting … Continue reading General Election Maps for 2015 →
Continue reading »As part of the activities of the Citizen Science Special Interest Group of the British Ecological Society (BES), Michael Pocock organised “A training event for citizen science: What you need to know, but no one told you!”. I was asked to lead a 30 minutes discussion on ethics and citizen science. This is a wide area, and … Continue reading Citizen Science and Ethics session (British Ecological Society – Citizen Science SIG)
This time I’m at the Workshop: “Data Visualization from Different Universes”, presenting some work regarding the visualization of Tweets, using a combination of machine learning and GIS.
There have been many great interactive maps and graphic […]
Continue reading »Certainly one of the best books ever on transport modelling. We have been waiting for this sort of book for a long time. Anyone who wants to figure out the reasons why different kinds of transport model have been developed … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Tweet Dear All, We would like to invite you to submit a paper to our cross-disciplinary stream on: ‘Mobility and Organizing in the Global and Local: The space of creation and constraint within, between and beyond organizations.’ More details of the stream are available here. This stream is part of the APROS/EGOS conference […]
Continue reading »Tweet Lecturer in Geographical Information Science Population, Health & Wellbeing Location: Highfield Campus Salary: £31,342 to £45,954 Full Time Permanent Closing Date: Friday 05 June 2015 Interview Date: See advert Reference: 562415WR We are seeking to appoint an outstanding Lecturer specialising in Geographical Information Science. We particularly invite applications from candidates whose […]
Continue reading »An appropriate ambition of the model-building component of urban science is the construction of the best possible comprehensive model which represents the interdependencies that make cities complex (and interesting) systems. To articulate this is to spell out a kind of … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The imminent UK General Election is fascinating for a host of reasons, not least because of the challenge to the long established dominance of the two main parties, Conservatives and Labour. Their share of the vote has been steadily in decline for over 50 years, from a high of 97% in 1951 to 65% in 2010-…
Above is an excerpt of a large, coloured-dot based graphic showing the locations of street trees in Rotherhithe, part of the London Borough of Southwark in London, as released by them to the OpenStreetMap database back in 2010. You can download the full version (12MB PDF). Street trees are trees on public land managed by … Continue reading Street Trees of Southwark →
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This is a cross-post from oobrien.com. Above is an exce […]
Continue reading »Can Math Help You Fall in Love? WFDD
Continue reading »Can Math Help You Fall in Love? WFDD
Continue reading »This talk, by Professor Aletta Bonn from the end of March, provides an overview of what is needed to make citizen science more effective. While the research was done in Germany, many of her discussion points are relevant in other places. Especially interesting are the Q&A at the end (around 25 min) which demonstrate the … Continue reading Talk by Aletta Bonn on “Citizens create knowledge – knowledge creates citizens”
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May Day 2015: the vanguard of the proletariat in pictures!
Little Atoms Dr Hannah Fry is a mathematician and complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Fry also regularly presents the Number Hub strand of BBC Worldwide’s YouTube channel, and regularly appears on radio and … |
One of the known problems with choropleth maps is that small zones, even if they contain very significant values, tend to get lost in amongst much larger zones. A current example is that the ridings in London are much smaller … Continue reading →
Continue reading »This post was written for the UCL Big Question Debate on the UK General Election 2015. The financial crises and recession that began in 2008 were initially viewed as an opportunity for rebalancing the UK economy away from financial services towards a broader base, and addressing Britain’s long term north-south divide. In reality however the…
Carlos, Elsa, Duncan and myself (Mike) decided to explore next week’s British election using some of our social physics, specifically our work on uncovering urban hierarchies through percolation theory, which basically consists on looking at the connectivity of ‘representative’ areas … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Brian Arthur introduced a new and important idea in his book The nature of technology: that of ‘combinatorial evolution’. The argument, put perhaps overly briefly, is essentially this: a ‘technology’, an aeroplane say, can be thought of as a system, … Continue reading →
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The London Thames Path is a brand new book by author/il […]
Continue reading »Talk given at AAG, Chicago 2015
Continue reading »Talk given at AAG, Chicago 2015
Continue reading »Our new paper reports research on the definition of cities led by A. Paolo Masucci with Elsa Arcaute, Jiaqiu Wang, Erez Hatna, Kiril Stanilov and Michael Batty. Its in the arXiv and you can get it here from this link. Here is the abstract: Urban morphology has presented significant … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Seminar given at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford; 28/4/2015 (While very jet lagged!)
Continue reading »Seminar given at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford; 28/4/2015
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The week before last I was at GISRUK, the long-running annual conference for early (and not-so-early) career researchers in GI Science in the UK, Ireland and further afield. This year’s conference was in Leeds and attracted a record number of 200+ delegates. I presented a poster at a meeting the day before the main conference, … Continue reading GISRUK 2015 →
Continue reading »The last day of AAG 2015 is about citizen science and OpenStreetMap studies. The session Beyond motivation? Understanding enthusiasm in citizen science and volunteered geographic information was organised together with Hilary Geoghegan. We were interest to ‘explore and debate current research and practice moving beyond motivation, to consider the associated enthusiasm, materials and meanings of participating in citizen … Continue reading AAG 2015 – day 4 notes – Citizen Science & OpenStreetMap Studies
The London Railway Atlas is probably the most detailed […]
Continue reading »Systems thinking (see earlier entry) drives us to interdisciplinarity: we need to know everything about a system of interest and that means anything and everything that any relevant discipline can contribute. For almost any social science system of interest, there … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The sessions today covered Civic technology, citizen science, and the new directions in mapping – Open Source/Crowdsourcing/Big Data First, Civic technology: governance, equity and inclusion considerations, with Pamela Robinson – Ryerson University (Chair) and Peter A. Johnson – University of Waterloo, Teresa Scassa – University of Ottawa and Jon Corbett – University of British Columbia-Okanagan. The Discussant is Betsy Donald – … Continue reading AAG 2015 notes – day 3 – Civic Technology, Citizen Science, Crowdsourcing and mapping
The second day was dedicated to reflections on Public Participation GIS or Participatory GIS. The day was organised by Rina Ghose and Bandana Karr with some comments from Renee Sieber and me at some stage. It turned out to be an excellent symposium. The following are my notes from the different talks during the day. Jon … Continue reading AAG 2015 notes – day 2 – Public Participation GIS symposium
This week I am attending the AAG Annual Meeting in Chicago. While here, we organized 3 sessions entitled “Geosimulation and Big Data: A Marriage made in Heaven or Hell?” in which I presented a paper, co-authored with Sarah Wise: “Leveraging Crowdsource…
Continue reading »This week I am attending the AAG Annual Meeting in Chicago. While here, we organized 3 sessions entitled “Geosimulation and Big Data: A Marriage made in Heaven or Hell?” in which I presented a paper, co-authored with Sarah Wise: “Leveraging Crowdsource…
Continue reading »Little AtomsThe Wellcome Book Prize 2015: Authors in ConversationLittle AtomsTickets: This event is free but ticketed. Visit http://www.wellcomecollection.org/events or call 020 7611 2222 to reserve your space. Celebrating the best new books that engag…
Continue reading »Little AtomsThe Wellcome Book Prize 2015: Authors in ConversationLittle AtomsTickets: This event is free but ticketed. Visit http://www.wellcomecollection.org/events or call 020 7611 2222 to reserve your space. Celebrating the best new books that engag…
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There was a “mind-boggling” ten tonne fatberg lurking under Chelsea
CityMetric When I visited his office at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) the first thing he did was get out a black cap laced with wires and small plastic rings, and make me try it on. Image: author’s own. His PhD project, he says, began … |
At 8:00 I’ve attended the Digital Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality at the World’s Economic Peripheries session asking ‘what difference people expect better connectivity to make at the world’s economic peripheries’. I took notes from the presentations of Nancy Ettlinger, Dorothea Kleine and Lisa Poggiali. Nancy Ettlinger analysed crwodsourcing from governance perspective – using Foucauldian analysis. She looks at … Continue reading AAG 2015 notes – day 1