The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
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 […]
A recent addition to DataShine’s functionality is the ability to drag and drop geoJSON (and KML) files onto the web map. This video tutorial shows how you can use the excellent geoJSON.io website to create a file for use on DataShine. I created the tutorial for a first year undergraduate field class (so I refer … Continue reading DataShine and GeoJSON →
Continue reading »Recently I had another challenge, which I believe has the characteristics to be a common problem. I have a table with attributes, in CSV format, one of which is geospatial. CSV is a structured format for storing tabular data (text … Continue reading →
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Neil Denny’s five of the best: science podcasts
Little Atoms WNYC’s Radiolab describes itself as “a show about curiosity, where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience”. Presented by NPR veteran Robert Krulwich and sound designer and composer Jad … |
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Neil Denny’s five of the best: science podcasts
Little Atoms WNYC’s Radiolab describes itself as “a show about curiosity, where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience”. Presented by NPR veteran Robert Krulwich and sound designer and composer Jad … |
After a very full first day, the second day opened with a breakfast that provided opportunity to meet the board of the Citizen Science Association (CSA), and to have a nice way to talk with people who got up early (starting at 7am) for another full day of citizen science. Around the breakfast tables, new […]
What now seems like a very long long time ago, when I was getting up to speed with Agent-based modeling and GIS, I came across a great edited book entitled “Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes”….
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What now seems like a very long long time ago, when I was getting up to speed with Agent-based modeling and GIS, I came across a great edited book entitled “Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes”….
Continue reading »Book Provides Progress Report on Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures in EuropeSpatial News (press release)He currently is a visiting professor at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. Crompvoets is an associate profes…
Continue reading »San Jose is the location for the first citizen science association meeting, on the 11th and 12th February. The level of enthusiasm to citizen science by researchers and practitioners was palpable, even before the conference with an overwhelming number of submissions and abstract. In the end, the conference run with 7 parallel sessions, and many […]
Book Provides Progress Report on Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures in EuropeGISuser.com (press release)He currently is a visiting professor at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. Crompvoets is an associate profess…
Continue reading »Book Provides Progress Report on Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures in EuropeDirectionsMag.comHe currently is a visiting professor at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. Crompvoets is an associate professor at KU L…
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You’ve Got Mail… like heaps of it.
Australian Women’s Weekly In her book, The Mathematics of Love, Fry – a mathematician and complexity scientist from University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis – has applied mathematics to explore themes like stages of romantic journey, chatting people up … The mathematical formula for loveBBC News |
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You’ve Got Mail… like heaps of it.
Australian Women’s Weekly In her book, The Mathematics of Love, Fry – a mathematician and complexity scientist from University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis – has applied mathematics to explore themes like stages of romantic journey, chatting people up … |
Do you like big data and geosimulation and wondering when to book flights or which sessions to attend at the forthcoming AAG Annual Meeting, If so, you might like our sessions entitled “Geosimulation and Big Data: A Marriage made in Heaven or Hel…
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Do you like big data and geosimulation and wondering when to book flights or which sessions to attend at the forthcoming AAG Annual Meeting, If so, you might like our sessions entitled “Geosimulation and Big Data: A Marriage made in Heaven or Hel…
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The mathematical formula for love
BBC News Looking for the ideal partner? Wondering if your relationship will last? They’re common questions as Valentine’s Day approaches – so how do you find the right person and keep them? Hannah Fry, author of The Mathematics of Love, says three things make … You’ve Got Mail… like heaps of it.Australian Women’s Weekly |
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Continue reading »The mathematical formula for love BBC NewsLooking for the ideal partner or wondering if your relationship will last? Hannah Fry, author of The Mathematics of Love, says three things make the magic …
Continue reading »The mathematical formula for love BBC NewsLooking for the ideal partner or wondering if your relationship will last? Hannah Fry, author of The Mathematics of Love, says three things make the magic …
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The mathematical formula for love
BBC News Looking for the ideal partner? Wondering if your relationship will last? They’re common questions as Valentine’s Day approaches – so how do you find the right person and keep them? Hannah Fry, author of The Mathematics of Love, says three things make … You’ve Got Mail… like heaps of it.Australian Women’s Weekly |
TweetClosing date : 26/02/2015 Reference : HUM-05935 Faculty / Organisational unit : Humanities School / Directorate : School of Social Sciences Division : Social Statistics Employment type : Permanent Location : Oxford Road, Manchester Salary : £34,233 to £47,328 per annum (for Lecturer) or £48,743 to £58,172 per annum (for Senior Lecturer) Hours per week […]
Continue reading »TweetThe deadline for receipt of abstracts for the 8th International Conference on Population Geographies is fast approaching. We look forward to receiving your proposal by Monday 16th February 2015 and welcoming you to the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, from 30 June to 3 July 2015. We invite papers from all fields of population geography […]
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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 … |
The Open University, with support from Nominet Trust and UTC Sheffield have launched the nQuire-it.org website, which seem to have a great potential for running citizen science activities. The nQuire platform allows participants to create science inquiry ‘missions’. It is accompanied by an Android app called Sense-it that exposed all the sensors that are integrated in a smartphone and let […]
From Geographicus, a US map dealer, by way of a tweet b […]
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GeoComputation: A Practical Primer, edited by Profs Chris Brunsdon and Alex Singleton, has just been published by SAGE. The book acts both as a reference guide to the field and as a guide to help you get to know aspects of it. Each chapter includes a worked example with step-by-step instructions. Each chapter has a … Continue reading GeoComputation: A Practical Primer →
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Sharing agent-based models over the web is never very easy. You can do it with NetLogo but it requires that your web browser supports Java 5 (but this is not recommended). One could create a jar file for your model if you are using MASON, for exa…
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Sharing agent-based models over the web is never very easy. You can do it with NetLogo but it requires that your web browser supports Java 5 (but this is not recommended). One could create a jar file for your model if you are using MASON, for exa…
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How many of London’s 32 boroughs (& the City of London) would you pass through on a single end-to-end journey on the tube? It turns out that if you travel the length of the Piccadilly Line (Uxbridge branch), then, in a single journey, you’ll pass through 14 boroughs and stop at all of them but … Continue reading London Boroughs and Tube Lines →
Continue reading »A very nicely produced review of geocomputation in this edited book by Chris Brunsdon and Alex Singleton. It covers many interesting new techniques from agent based models to new visual statistics, from crowdsourcing methods to the newer scripting languages that are … Continue reading →
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