The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Maps, apps and technology to make city life more fun BBC NewsLife in cities can be hectic and stressful – but some technology designers are going out of their way to make them more fun. I’m walking down Oxford Street in …
Continue reading »Maps, apps and technology to make city life more fun BBC NewsLife in cities can be hectic and stressful – but some technology designers are going out of their way to make them more fun. I’m walking down Oxford Street in …
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Maps, apps and technology to make city life more fun
BBC News Life in cities can be hectic and stressful – but some technology designers are going out of their way to make them more fun. I’m walking down Oxford Street in central London with a helmet on my head. I feel more than a little silly; the looks I’m … |
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Maps, apps and technology to make city life more fun
BBC News The helmet is the brainchild of PhD student Panos Mavros, from University College London’s Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (Casa). “The idea is to use techniques from neuroscience and computer science to better understand how people … |
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Maps, apps and technology to make city life more fun
BBC News The helmet is the brainchild of PhD student Panos Mavros, from University College London’s Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (Casa). “The idea is to use techniques from neuroscience and computer science to better understand how people … Headgear measures city stimulationBBC News |
The GuardianLuminoCity: new interactive map tool sheds light on British citiesThe GuardianBritain has an incredible richness and diversity of cities, and since the turn of the century there has been significant urban revival and renewal. Yet there are …
Continue reading »LuminoCity: new interactive map tool sheds light on British citiesThe GuardianBritain has an incredible richness and diversity of cities, and since the turn of the century there has been significant urban revival and renewal. Yet there are also persist…
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This colourful, much adorned map was produced as a fold […]
Continue reading »Alan Reid: Prosecuting trolls is not a threat to freedom Yorkshire Post
Continue reading »LuminoCity: new interactive map tool sheds light on British cities The GuardianDuncan A Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis talks us through his new data visualisation platform, LuminoCity3D, and the insights it offers into …
Continue reading »LuminoCity: new interactive map tool sheds light on British cities The GuardianDuncan A Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis talks us through his new data visualisation platform, LuminoCity3D, and the insights it offers into …
Continue reading »LuminoCity: new interactive map tool sheds light on British cities The GuardianDuncan A Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis talks us through his new data visualisation platform, LuminoCity3D, and the insights it offers into …
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Alan Reid: Prosecuting trolls is not a threat to freedom
Yorkshire Post Indeed, the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London has developed the “Tweet-O-Meter” to calculate the volume of Twitter traffic across the globe. The Tweet-O-Meter estimates that there are in excess of 1,200 tweets a minute … |
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Alan Reid: Prosecuting trolls is not a threat to freedom
Yorkshire Post Indeed, the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London has developed the “Tweet-O-Meter” to calculate the volume of Twitter traffic across the globe. The Tweet-O-Meter estimates that there are in excess of 1,200 tweets a minute … |
Talk given at the Royal Society, Retail Research and Big Data Meeting – 7th October 2014.
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Continue reading »Found myself speaking at a massive extravaganza the 2014 Internet Festival in Pisa this coming Saturday 11th October amongst a fascinating line up. In a session with Laszlo Barabasi, Carlo Mol and Davy Jansenns, about how the physical meets the … Continue reading →
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Missing Maps: nothing less than a human genome project for cities
The Guardian A huge number of the world’s most vulnerable human settlements have remained unmapped … until now. Enter an unprecedented plan to map the world’s forgotten places. Guardian Cities will host a Missing Maps party next month to map an African city. |
Talk given at the University of Leeds, 3rd October 2014.
Continue reading »Call for papers: OpenStreetMap Studies: Research Perspectives on a Decade of OSM Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting April 21-25, 2015 Chicago, Illinois Organizers: Alan McConchie, University of British Columbia Muki Haklay, University College London Since its founding in 2004, OpenStreetMap has grown into one of the pre-eminent open collaborative geographic knowledge projects online, growth […]
Biff’s House? Sycamore Street? Roy’s Record […]
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I was in Vienna for most of last week, presenting at a satellite workshop of the GIScience conference, before joining the main event for the latter part of the week. GIScience is a biennial international academic conference, alternating between America and Europe. At the intersection between geography, GIS and information visualisation. It is very much […]
Continue reading »After three years, this is my final day on the Talisman project as I start on the Future Cities Catapult project on October 1st. If you go back through the blog posts, all the project highlights are there, including all the builds, conferences, worksho…
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Continue reading »About the QMRG The Quantitative Methods Research Group is one of a number of Speciality Research Groups of the RGS-IBG. These Research and Study Groups bring together Society Fellows who are active researchers and those with a professional interest in a particular aspect of geography. The QMRG exists to promote the application of quantitative methods […]
The GIScRG is a group of academics and practitioners interested in promoting GIScience and GITechnology in geographical research, teaching and the workplace. We also support and promote e-science and the application of novel computing and spatial analysis paradigms to geographical systems, for example, agent-based modelling. We are currently sponsoring a number of sessions at the … Continue reading GIScience Research Group →
Pattern changes in snow accumulation on successive bridge railings.
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Continue reading »Pattern changes in snow accumulation on successive bridge railings.
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Continue reading »Pattern changes in snow accumulation on successive bridge railings.
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Continue reading »Pattern changes in snow accumulation on successive bridge railings.
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Continue reading »The following case studies demonstrate: the widespread use of quantitative methods and GIS in the workplace and how quantitative skills can be employed to produce excellent student work across the discipline. Case Studies… Risk Insurance GIS and Mapping Environmental Sector Environmental Consultancy Humanitarian Sector Local Government Financial Sector Student Work Featured Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/churkinms/2582615161/sizes/o/ 
Who commutes the most and who has all the science jobs? See how your British city compares with others The Independent
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Who commutes the most and who has all the science jobs? See how your British …
The Independent LuminoCity3D was launched last Monday by Duncan Smith, an urban geographer from the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. It compares a number of indicators, such as the average education level of a city’s inhabitants, how many people own a car, … |
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Interactive map compares London life to other cities
Wired.co.uk A data scientist from UCL’s Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis has created an interactive online map that allows people to play with massive data sets from all over the UK in order to understand more about our cities. LuminoCity 3D brings … |
Interactive map compares London life to other cities Wired.co.ukA data scientist from UCL’s Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis has created an interactive online map that allows people to play with massive data sets …
Continue reading »Urban policy is currently riding high on the UK political agenda. A combination of the desire to rebalance the UK economy away from financial services; debates over massive high-speed rail investment; the worsening housing crisis in the South-East; and city devolution demands following the Scottish referendum, all point to major reform. As we move towards the 2015 general…
