The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
The EU BON is a European project, focusing on building the European Biodiversity Observation Network. Now, with the growing recognition of citizen science as a source of biodiversity observations, a meeting dedicated to the intersection was organised in Berlin today, following the ECSA meeting. The project carried out gap analysis of the available data, which also explores […]
The European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) reached an important stage in its development, with a general assembly in Berlin on 26th November 2014. The organisation was finally formally registered as a German charity in April, so now it’s time to consider future directions and developments. The assembly had about 50 participants with new members joining […]
Inspired by @jeroenhjanssens, author of the Data Science Toolbox, I decided to give a go to one of the most unfriendly data sources: An XML API. Apart from its rich syntax with query capabilities, I tend think XML is highly … Continue reading →
I contributed a number of graphics to LONDON: The Information Capital, a book co-written by Dr James Cheshire, also of UCL Geography. Two of my graphics that made it into the book were based on data from OpenStreetMap, a huge dataset of spatial data throughout the world. This first graphic forms one of the chapter […]
Continue reading »Well I don’t know what it means either. But if you read Czech you should be off to a flying start, and the Czech guy who translated it assures me that all of Eastern Europe read Czech so there you … Continue reading →
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Mapping London editors James and Ollie were invited ear […]
Continue reading »Our work on attempting to repeat the work of the Santa Fe group who show that as cities get bigger (primarily for the USA) they get more than proportionately richer, has drawn a massive blank for the UK urban system (England … Continue reading →
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Quite a long time ago I spent considerable hours trawling through QMRG reports that featured in old issues of Area and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers to examine how the committee had evolved over time. In these pre R days, I assem…
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Yesterday I needed to simplify a shapefile quite substantially to get the size down enough that it could be loaded into CartoDB. Using QGIS this tended to leave sliver or gaps between polygons, but I came across Mapshaper. This is primarily a command l…
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If you are a Londoner but felt that Tube Tongues passed you by, maybe because you live in south-east London or another part of the city that doesn’t have a tube station nearby, then here’s a special version of Tube Tongues for you. Like the original, it maps the most popularly spoken language after English […]
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This map, created by illustrator/designer Mike Hall (we […]
Continue reading »Tweet Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2014 The Population Geography Research Group is proud to announce the winners of the Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize, 2014. 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 first […]
Continue reading »Younger shoppers show stronger emotional involvement with self-checkout than …Retail TimesThe project, led by Dr Nadia Olivero from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL, and funded by the European Commission, was designed to show the emotion…
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Want to visit all of London’s 270-odd tube statio […]
Continue reading »Following rapid growth and a chronic lack of new development, housing affordability has reached crisis levels in London. Median house prices are at £300k (8 times median household income) while average prices have passed half a million. London is now amongst the most expensive cities in the world, a situation with severe consequences for economic competitiveness and…
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Headset creates “3D soundscape” to help blind people navigate cities
Dezeen … experience the city, and at the Future Cities Catapult, we developed the ground-breaking human-centred design research for the project, working with Superflux, Arup Foresight, the Royal College of Art and the Bartlett’s Centre for Advanced Spatial … |
When I start an R class, one of my opening lines is nea […]
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Continue reading »Headset creates “3D soundscape” to help blind people navigate cities DezeenFuture Cities Catapult and Microsoft are developing a headset that sends “3D sound” prompts to make cities more navigable for blind people.
Continue reading »Headset creates “3D soundscape” to help blind people navigate cities DezeenNews: research group Future Cities Catapult and tech company Microsoft have developed a headset that sends the wearer three-dimensional sound information …
Continue reading »Headset creates “3D soundscape” to help blind people navigate cities DezeenFuture Cities Catapult and Microsoft are developing a headset that sends “3D sound” prompts to make cities more navigable for blind people.
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DataShine Census has two new features – local area rescaling and data download. The features were launched at the UK Data Service‘s Census Research User Conference, last week at the Royal Statistical Society. Local Area Rescaling This helps draw out demographic versions in the current view. You may be in a region where a particular […]
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Cross-posted from the Datashine Blog. DataShine Census has two new features – local area rescaling and data download. The features were launched at the UK Data Service‘s Census Research User Conference, last week at the Royal Statistical Society. Local Area Rescaling This helps draw out demographic versions in the current view. You may be in […]
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Here’s a beautiful hand-drawn map by Camilla Char […]
Continue reading »Tweet Post Doctoral Fellow: GeoHealth Laboratory, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Job ID: 2386 Closing date: November 27th 2014 Research in Quantitative Health Geography The GeoHealth Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Canterbury invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship (research). This is a three-year position and available immediately. The fellowship […]
Continue reading »TweetDear All, We are delighted to announce that the 8th International Conference on Population Geographies will be held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, from 30 June to 3 July 2015. Essential details of the conference are available on the University of Queensland website at: http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/icpg2015. As you will see, we expect to launch […]
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As a followup to Tube Tongues I’ve published Working Lines which is exactly the same concept, except it looks at the occupation statistics from the 2011 census, and shows the most popular occupation by tube station. Again, lots of spatial clustering of results, and some interesting trends come out – for example, the prevalence of […]
Continue reading »Today, I needed a JavaScript equivalent of Ruby’s Array#compact (which returns the array stripped of any nil values). A standard JavaScript implementation looks like this: Array.prototype.compact = function() { var x, _i, _len, _results; _results = []; for (_i = 0, _len = this.length; _i < _len; _i++) { x = this[_i]; if (x != […]
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Continue reading »Envitia-led consortium secures Dstl contract extensionDirectionsMag.comGEOCORE, a consortium of leading academic and industry partners, led by Envitia, has been awarded a major new follow-on contract by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Ds…
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London has many football clubs – but where in Lon […]
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London life – mapped
The Guardian Where do the happiest, least stressed, most satisfied Londoners live? What’s the busiest station? Do football fans support their local team? These questions and more are explored graphically by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti’s London: The Information … |
I’ve extended my map of tube journeys and busy stations (previous article here) to add in an interesting metric from the 2011 census – that of the second most commonly spoken language (after English) that people who live nearby speak. To do this I’ve analysed all “output areas” which wholly or partly lie within 200m […]
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