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How religious are your neighbours? New interactive map of Britain can tell you… – Metro

Posted on Friday 4 July 2014 by

How religious are your neighbours? New interactive map of Britain can tell you…
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The map, called DataShine, was created by Oliver O’Brien at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis and shows, among other things, the atheist hot-spots around the UK. Pulling data from a survey, that map was constructed to show areas where at least …
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How religious are your neighbours? New interactive map could tell you – Derby Telegraph

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How religious are your neighbours? New interactive map could tell you
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A NEW map has been released which shows online visitors how religious different parts of the country are. Called DataShine, the map was created at University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis and shows the atheist and religious …

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La UPM apuesta por los referentes en el diseño de la ciudad del futuro – elEconomista.es

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La UPM apuesta por los referentes en el diseño de la ciudad del futuro
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La presentación de la iniciativa contó con la intervención de Michale Batty, director del Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) del University College de Londres y autor entre otros de New Science of Cities, su última obra. Batty subrayó la …

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Ciudades del futuro: La UPM aborda el ecosistema urbano desde el principio – iAgua.es

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Ciudades del futuro: La UPM aborda el ecosistema urbano desde el principio
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La presentación de la iniciativa contó con la intervención de Michale Batty, director del Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) del University College de Londres y autor entre otros de New Science of Cities, su última obra. Batty subrayó la …

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Interactive map DataShine uses data to map out areas of Britain with most atheists and most religious places in UK – Metro

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Interactive map DataShine uses data to map out areas of Britain with most atheists and most religious places in UK MetroA new interactive map that shows how religious parts of Britain are has been released. The map, called DataShine, was cre…

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Interactive map DataShine uses data to map out areas of Britain with most atheists and most religious places in UK – Metro

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Interactive map DataShine uses data to map out areas of Britain with most atheists and most religious places in UK – Metro

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Where do atheists live? Maps show the ‘godless’ cities of England and Wales – The Guardian (blog)

Posted on Thursday 3 July 2014 by

Where do atheists live? Maps show the ‘godless’ cities of England and Wales
The Guardian (blog)
DataShine, a new census data visualisation tool from Oliver O’Brien at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, shows ‘no religion’ hotspots in Brighton, Bristol and Norwich; while Bradford and Leeds are clearly split and Liverpool keeps the faith.

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Where do atheists live? Maps show the ‘godless’ cities of England and Wales – The Guardian

Posted on Thursday 3 July 2014 by

Where do atheists live? Maps show the ‘godless’ cities of England and Wales The GuardianDataShine, a new census data visualisation tool from Oliver O’Brien at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, shows ‘no religion’ hotspots in some c…

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No more busywork! DRY up your NSString constants

Posted on Wednesday 2 July 2014 by

Preamble In the last few years, Objective-C has become enormously DRYer. For example: in the past, adding a property to a class meant adding several of: an ivar, a @property, a @synthesize, a getter/setter, and a release call in dealloc. Worse, renaming or deleting the property meant updating all these. This was error-prone busywork, and […]

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No more busywork! DRY up your NSString constants

Posted on Wednesday 2 July 2014 by george

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Using Twitter to Estimate the Dynamics of Activities and Travel Demand

Posted on Tuesday 1 July 2014 by vassilis zachariadis

Recently a couple of colleagues (Ying Jin and Steve Denman) and I have been exploring the potential of geo-located tweets in understanding spatiotemporal urban dynamics. The analysis is based on a passively generated dataset containing 25 millions geo-…

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Using Twitter to Estimate the Dynamics of Activities and Travel Demand

Posted on Tuesday 1 July 2014 by vassilis zachariadis

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Using Twitter to Estimate the Dynamics of Activities and Travel Demand

Posted on Tuesday 1 July 2014 by vassilis zachariadis

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Crowdsourced Geographic Information in Government

Posted on Monday 30 June 2014 by Muki Haklay

Today marks the publication of the report ‘crowdsourced geographic information in government‘. The report is the result of a collaboration that started in the autumn of last year, when the World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery(GFDRR) requested to carry out a study of the way crowdsourced geographic information is used by governments. The […]

citizen science, Crowdsourcing, Disaster response, GFDRR, GIS, Government, Open Data, OpenStreetMap, Papers, PPGIS, Report, Research projects, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information, World Bank

Mapping Research on Urban Sustainability

Posted on Friday 27 June 2014 by Martin Zaltz Austwick

In this guest post by anthropologist Charlotte Johnson, she discusses her perspectives on the PICKs project (published earlier this month in Sustainability: The Journal of Record and available open source). When asked to ‘map all the research related to cities … Continue reading →

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Craft Breweries of London

Posted on Thursday 26 June 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

Blue Crow Media, who have previously produced pocket-si […]

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Post-processing OPTICSxi Clustering

Posted on Thursday 26 June 2014 by doublebyte

On a previous post, I expressed my concerns regarding the results of OPTICSxi clustering. Namely, I mentioned an “annoying” spike effect, that turns out massively almost at any simulation (so massively that it is almost a “feature”). A post in … Continue reading →

algorithm, Artificial Intelligence, Clustering, data mining, ELKI, Geospatial, OPTICS, Programming, spatial

Against the Smart City

Posted on Thursday 26 June 2014 by Michael Batty

Absolutely the best thing to read on the corporate hype and innuendos from the big computer companies pedalling the idea of ‘the smart city’. Adam Greenfield’s new book – that you can only get on Kindle and which was my … Continue reading →

Big Data, complexity, Connectivity, Information, Interactions, Smart Cities

DataShine Website updates

Posted on Wednesday 25 June 2014 by Oliver O'Brien

DataShine has been out for around a week now, and we’ve made some changes to fix small bugs. Specifically: DataShine should work much better in Internet Explorer 9 now, as we now prompt this browser to use compatibility mode, with which the website displays correctly. When showing a dataset that diverges around the mean, we […]

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Mapping the Densification of Cities in England & Wales using the 2011 Census

Posted on Tuesday 24 June 2014 by

UK cities have been undergoing significant change over the last decade, and the 2011 census data provides a great basis for tracking current urban structure. I’ve mapped population and employment density for all of England and Wales in 2011, using a 1km2 grid scale approach- The main themes that emerge are the dramatic intensification of London, high … Continue reading →

agglomeration, Census 2011, density, Great Britain, planning, urban form, visualisation

The new map tool that has data geeks crying with joy | City A.M.

Posted on Monday 23 June 2014 by James Cheshire

Two University College London (UCL) researchers have set up a paradise for data-lovers, giving people theSee it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis

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Gender in urban workplaces

Posted on Monday 23 June 2014 by robin

In my previous post I plotted a map of London’s workplace (biological) gender divisions, which demonstrated some interesting spatial patterns of gender distribution across the captial. I decided to replicate this to get a more representative picture of how things look across the nation (in this case England and Wales given the extent of the […]

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Parametrizing and interpreting OPTICSxi Clustering

Posted on Monday 23 June 2014 by doublebyte

For a while now, I have been working on the application of the OPTICS clustering, for user generated data in cities. OPTICS is a density-based algorithm that attempts to overcome some of the “weaknesses” of its most famous counterpart: DBSCAN. … Continue reading →

Artificial Intelligence, Clustering, data mining, DBSCAN, Density-based clustering, ELKI, OPTICS, OPTICxi

Mapping Cholera

Posted on Monday 23 June 2014 by

John Snow’s map of cholera has become one of the […]

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Mapping Cholera

Posted on Monday 23 June 2014 by James Cheshire

John Snow’s map of cholera has become one of the […]

Broad Street, Cholera, Disease, epidemiology, health, Historic, John Snow, map wellcome, soho, visualisation, wellcome, wellcome collection

Third day of INSPIRE 2014 – any space for civil society and citizens?

Posted on Saturday 21 June 2014 by Muki Haklay

At the last day of INSPIRE conference, I’ve attended a session about apps and applications and the final plenary which focused on knowledge based economy and the role of inspire within it. Some notes from the talks including my interpretations and comments. Dabbie Wilson from the Ordnance Survey highlighted the issues that the OS is facing […]

citizen science, Conference, data quality, GIS, Government, government data, HMLR, INSPIRE, INSPIRE 2014, knowledge based economy, ordnance survey, smartphone apps, Spatial Data Quality, VGI

Data visualisation: a postgrad course that makes stats come alive – The Guardian

Posted on Friday 20 June 2014 by

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Data visualisation: a postgrad course that makes stats come alive
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“We teach them a suite of visual tools and technologies in mapping, geographic information systems, 3D design and data visualisation,” says Dr Martin Austwick, lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. “We take people who are interested in …

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Atheists of England/Wales

Posted on Friday 20 June 2014 by Oliver O'Brien

This is a more zoomed-out map, showing how the proportion of people stating they had no religion, varies around the the country. I’m using a ColorBrewer diverging colour ramp “BrBG” which diverges around the average value of around 25%. Turquoise areas show concentrations of large numbers of atheists. Live map here.

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Data visualisation: a postgrad course that makes stats come alive – The Guardian

Posted on Friday 20 June 2014 by

Data visualisation: a postgrad course that makes stats come alive The GuardianTurning raw data into striking visuals is called data visualisation and it’s a hot new area for young graduates with a good eye, technical nous and an fascination …

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Data visualisation: a postgrad course that makes stats come alive – The Guardian

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Second day of INSPIRE 2014 – open and linked data

Posted on Thursday 19 June 2014 by Muki Haklay

Opening geodata is an interesting issue for INSPIRE directive. INSPIRE was set before the hype of Government 2.0 was growing and pressure on opening data became apparent, so it was not designed with these aspects in mind explicitly. Therefore the way in which the organisations that are implementing INSPIRE are dealing with the provision of open […]

GIS, GIScience, Google, INSPIRE 2014, INSPIRE directive, Linked Data, Open Data, SDI, Usability

“Cool” London?

Posted on Thursday 19 June 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

This is the first of a few maps that we will feature ov […]

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Active City: MRes Visualisation Projects 2013-2014

Posted on Thursday 19 June 2014 by Martin Zaltz Austwick

The MRes group visualisation projects are complete, and as predicted, rather impressive. This year the theme was “The Active City”, and students took this and ran with it in a variety of ways, whether viewing the activity of mobility-impaired users … Continue reading →

asav, blue plaques, culture, MRes, Transport, visualisation

Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science and INSPIRE

Posted on Wednesday 18 June 2014 by Muki Haklay

The INSPIRE 2014 conference marks the middle of the implementation process of the INSPIRE directive (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community). The directive is aimed at establishing a pan-European Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), and that mean lots of blueprints, pipes, machine rooms and protocols for enabling the sharing of geographic information. In GIS jargon, blueprints translate to […]

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Introducing DataShine

Posted on Wednesday 18 June 2014 by Oliver O'Brien

This week, James and I launch DataShine: Census. This is part of the ESRC BODMAS project, here at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, that is led by James, and which started at the beginning of this year. DataShine: Census shows web maps of the Quick Statistics aggregate tables of Census data for England/Wales for […]

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Welcome to DataShine!

Posted on Tuesday 17 June 2014 by

Last October I was fortunate enough to be awarded an ES […]

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Welcome to DataShine!

Posted on Tuesday 17 June 2014 by James Cheshire

Last October I was fortunate enough to be awarded an ES […]

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Health in Merseyside

Posted on Tuesday 17 June 2014 by Oliver O'Brien

This map shows the proportion of people that consider themselves to be in very good health, in the Liverpool and Wirral area. By using a diverging colour scheme, it shows there are stark differences between the two sides of the River Mersey, and within Liverpool itself – even within the city centre area.

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