The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
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The panopticon creator’s memorial now surveils visitors
Fusion A whole host of UCL institutions collaborated on it: the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL Public and Cultural Engagement, and UCL’s Bentham Project. They call it “a tongue in cheek comment on Bentham’s ideas of … |
This animation from Will Gallia shows over 500,000 indi […]
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Terry Pratchett: “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the …
Little Atoms The first time I met Terry Pratchett I was in my early teens: he patiently signed every volume of my complete Discworld collection. When I met him years later in my professional capacity at the British Humanist Association, he didn’t recall that … |
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Terry Pratchett: “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the …
Little Atoms The first time I met Terry Pratchett I was in my early teens: he patiently signed every volume of my complete Discworld collection. When I met him years later in my professional capacity at the British Humanist Association, he didn’t recall that … |
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Support for housebuilding in Britain has doubled in four years
CityMetric Great news, for those who are official signed up members of the “Build More Bloody Houses” brigade™: a growing share of British people want to, well, build more bloody houses. This from the latest bulletin from the British Social Attitudes Survey … |
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Global expert panel to deliver on London’s smart city challenge
Click Green Michael Batty, Chair, The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis & Professor of Planning, UCL * Patricia McCarney, CEO of World Council on City Data and Director of Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto * Rick Lisa, Director, Product … |
This post is about perceptions, engagement and the important of ‘participant-observation‘ approach in citizen science research. It start with a perception about volunteer computing. The act of participating in scientific project by downloading and installing software that will utilise unused processing cycles of your computer is, for me, part of citizen science. However, in different […]
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Is ‘tech transfer’ a danger to academic freedom?
Little Atoms Dr Leon Henderson is explaining how lorries could reduce their braking speed by 25 per cent. Amir Chaudhry encourages individuals to bypass internet giants and build their own secure space in the Cloud via Nymote. Qibin Zhao demonstrates alluring … |
I am moving house soon so I want to get as many of my r […]
Continue reading »Little AtomsEd Sheeran is killing musicLittle AtomsIn February 2015, for my day job as rock and pop critic at The Times, I interviewed Noel Gallagher on his post-Oasis life as a solo artist. Gallagher had written and produced his second album, Chasing …
Continue reading »Little AtomsEd Sheeran is killing musicLittle AtomsIn February 2015, for my day job as rock and pop critic at The Times, I interviewed Noel Gallagher on his post-Oasis life as a solo artist. Gallagher had written and produced his second album, Chasing …
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Little Atoms weekly round up (the everything edition)
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 … |
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Can Math Help You Fall in Love?
Texas Public Radio Hannah Fry is a lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. Her current research focuses on discovering new connections between math and human interaction on a large scale. She’s the author of the TED book The … |
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Can Math Help You Fall in Love?
WEMU Hannah Fry is a lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. Her current research focuses on discovering new connections between math and human interaction on a large scale. She’s the author of the TED book The … |
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Can Math Help You Fall in Love?
Alabama Public Radio Hannah Fry is a lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. Her current research focuses on discovering new connections between math and human interaction on a large scale. She’s the author of the TED book The … |
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Can Math Help You Fall in Love?
WKMS Hannah Fry is a lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. Her current research focuses on discovering new connections between math and human interaction on a large scale. She’s the author of the TED book The … |
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Can Math Help You Fall in Love?
NPR Hannah Fry is a lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. Her current research focuses on discovering new connections between math and human interaction on a large scale. She’s the author of the TED book The … |
Hannah Fry: Can Math Help You Fall in Love? NPRMathematician Hannah Fry says math can help you find love. Using mathematical models, she explains how to find an ideal mate and the secret to maintaining a …
Continue reading »TweetThursday 11th and Friday 12th June 2015, University of Liverpool Research on population studies is at a major turning point. Changes not just in population dynamics (for example, in fertility and family formation and migration, and in the social, economic, demographic and ethnic characteristics of neighbourhoods), but also in the ways in which populations are […]
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Luminocity3D, an “urban density and dynamics expl […]
Continue reading »Yesterday, Tenille Brown led a Twitter discussion as part of the Geothink consortium. Tenille opened with a question about liability and wrongful acts that can harm others First off we can look at the definition of “torts”- a tort refers to a wrongful act which results in injury to another person, etc #geothink — Tenille E. […]
You should use something from a ordinary issue laptop into a nice leather and silver-leafed newspaper. Try using your reflective log to the seaside or over a hike. Some like stop; some just like the radio. Simply start writing whatever else comes into your head and what you see around the space if you arenot … Continue reading Cheapest Essay Editing →
Continue reading »An encouraging announcement from BIS (the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) a few days ago regarding future Open Data products from the Ordnance Survey (press release here) and the Ordnance Survey – two pieces of good news: The OS will be launching a new, detailed set of vector data as Open Data at the … Continue reading Ordnance Survey Open Data – The Next Level of Detail →
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Many of my visualisations have focused on London – there is an advantage of being in the city and surrounded by the data, which means that London is often the “default” city to map. However, I’ve created a couple of Manchester versions of my popular maps Ward Words and Ward Work. Logistics and time reasons … Continue reading Manchester – Languages and Jobs →
Continue reading »Book Review: The Mathematics of Love LivemintCan the optimal stopping theory help in a quest to find the perfect partner? Hannah Fry’s new book has some answers.
Continue reading »Book Review: The Mathematics of Love LivemintCan the optimal stopping theory help in a quest to find the perfect partner? Hannah Fry’s new book has some answers.
Continue reading »Book Review: The Mathematics of Love LivemintCan the optimal stopping theory help in a quest to find the perfect partner? Hannah Fry’s new book has some answers.
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The rebirth of the bookshop
Little Atoms Time was when bookshops appealed for being old-world and fusty with their confusing layouts, musty smells and eccentrically bookish proprietors. The archetype might be Paris’s Shakespeare and Company bookshop, founded by Sylvia Beach in 1919 and … |
Book Review: The Mathematics of Love LivemintCan the optimal stopping theory help in a quest to find the perfect partner? Hannah Fry’s new book has some answers.
Continue reading »LivemintBook Review: The Mathematics of LoveLivemintThe idea for this book began with a TEDx Talk that Fry, professor at the University College London Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, gave in March 2014 at the Binghamton University, New York, US. …
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I’ll be gradually tweaking this article to add/amend sources, clarifications and develop some of my arguments. A big announcement for the “Boris Bikes” today, aka Barclays Cycle Hire. London’s bikeshare system, the second largest in the western world after Paris’s Velib and nearly five years old, will be rebranded as Santander Cycles, and the bikes … Continue reading Seeing Red: 15 Ways the Boris Bikes of London Could be Better →
Continue reading »General, students discover Law essay that is great writing service UK practices, develop a disagreement, which answers the essay question and how to competently utilize lawful materials and main resources. Sometimes pupils embrace a too informal writing style and a model regulation essay offers an idea when writing a law article concerning the terminology, which … Continue reading Buy Essay Already Written →
Continue reading »Anti-Semitism is in the very marrow of conspiracy theoryLittle AtomsThe dead were not yet in their graves when the conspiracy theorists began to pick over the Charlie Hebdo killings. The murders at Charlie Hebdo and the Hypercacher supermarket and the …
Continue reading »A workshop talk given at “Agent-based Modelling for Economics and Finance”, Oxford-Man institute, University of Oxford. 23/2/15.
Continue reading »J. Courtney SullivanLittle AtomsJ. Courtney Sullivan is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Commencement, Maine and The Engagements. Maine was named a Best Book of the Year by Time magazine, and a Washington Post Notable Book for 2011. …
Continue reading »Various websites I’ve built, and mentioned here on oobrien.com from time to time, are down until Monday lunchtime, due to a major power upgrade for the building that the server is in. This affects the following websites: DataShine CDRC Bike Share Map Tube Tongues OpenOrienteeringMap (extremely degraded) Some other smaller visualisations However the following are … Continue reading Downtime →
Continue reading »Once in a while along comes a wonderful piece of historical research that again illustrates that in most fields, there is little new under the sun. Andrew Odlyzko’s recent paper entitled “The forgotten discovery of gravity models and the inefficiency … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The week that passed was full of citizen science – on Tuesday and Friday the citizen Science Association held its first Board meeting, and with the Citizen Science 2015 conference on Wednesday and Thursday, and to finish it all, on Friday afternoon a short meeting of a new project, Enhancing Informal Learning Through Citizen Science explored the directions […]
