Map using data from nearly 50 million journeys shows London’s most popular commuter destinations – Evening Standard
Map using data from nearly 50 million journeys shows London’s most popular commuter destinations Evening Standard
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Map using data from nearly 50 million journeys shows London’s most popular commuter destinations Evening Standard
Continue reading »Map using data from nearly 50 million journeys shows London’s most popular commuter destinations Evening Standard
Continue reading »Originally posted on Tim Unwin’s Blog:
As a young geographer, I had the privilege of learning from the extraordinary David Stoddart, and can never forget reading the numerous books and papers on small island ecosystems that he recommended to us in the mid-1970s – and being jealous that he was able to be doing…
Originally posted on Tim Unwin’s Blog:
As a young geographer, I had the privilege of learning from the extraordinary David Stoddart, and can never forget reading the numerous books and papers on small island ecosystems that he recommended to us in the mid-1970s – and being jealous that he was able to be doing…
This is a project that I never quite imagined I would be involved with as I have always thought that I straddled the boundary and reflected the tensions of trying to seek an understanding of cities in contrast to an … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Over the past few years printing three dimensional objects has become widely popular with new tools now becoming available at low costs ready to use. Whilst 3D printing has been around since the 1980s only now have consumer gadgets found their way onto…
Continue reading »Over the past few years printing three dimensional objects has become widely popular with new tools now becoming available at low costs ready to use. Whilst 3D printing has been around since the 1980s only now have consumer gadgets found their way onto…
Continue reading »Over the past few years printing three dimensional objects has become widely popular with new tools now becoming available at low costs ready to use. Whilst 3D printing has been around since the 1980s only now have consumer gadgets found their way onto…
Continue reading »This data map, from UCL CASA‘s own Ed Manley, sho […]
Continue reading »I haven’t written much on this blog about the work I’m currently doing at UCL CASA. As a Research Associate working on the Mechanicity with Mike Batty, I’m tasked with drawing meaning out of a massive dataset of Oyster Card tap ins and tap outs across London’s public transport network. The dataset covers every Oyster …
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The National Library of Scotland (NLS) yesterday unveiled a HUGE collection of maps that they have digitised and placed online. The maps, covering England and Wales, are historic Ordnance Survey maps that are between 60 and 170 years old and are at a high resolution. The scale is 6-inch-to-the-mile and covers the whole country. At […]
Continue reading »The National Library of Scotland (NLS) yesterday unveiled a HUGE collection of maps that they have digitised and placed online. The maps, covering England and Wales, are historic Ordnance Survey maps that are between 60 and 170 years old and are at a high resolution. The scale is 6-inch-to-the-mile and covers the whole country. At […]
Continue reading »For Cocoa developers: I’ve just put a small category on NSMutableAttributedString on Github. It applies *bold*, /italic/, _underline_, -strikethrough-, ^superscript^ and ~subscript~ styles, and handles */nested/* and *overlapping /styles* properly/. More details at https://github.com/jawj/NSMutableAttributedString-InlineStyles
Continue reading »For Cocoa developers: I’ve just put a small category on NSMutableAttributedString on Github. It applies *bold*, /italic/, _underline_, -strikethrough-, ^superscript^ and ~subscript~ styles, and handles */nested/* and *overlapping /styles* properly/. More details at https://github.com/jawj/NSMutableAttributedString-InlineStyles
Continue reading »Tel Aviv is fast becoming an ever more powerful symbol of high tech. In the 1920s before the establishment of the Israeli state, it was famed for its rapid development in the Bauhaus style, and our predecessor at UCL Sir … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Readers of the blog know that I have an interest in social media, and how through it we can gain an understanding of society at large. The question is how does the cyber community reflect the corresponding physical community? To this end, papers from 6…
Continue reading »Readers of the blog know that I have an interest in social media, and how through it we can gain an understanding of society at large. The question is how does the cyber community reflect the corresponding physical community? To this end, papers from 6…
Continue reading »At first glance, this looks like a photo of London at n […]
Continue reading »This past week I have been giving the Israel Pollack distinguished lecture series at Technion in Haifa, the School of Architecture and Town Planning, talking about smart cities and big data (PDF here), and rank clocks and scaling (PDF here). … Continue reading →
Continue reading »About TED Books | Programs & Initiatives | About TED BlogLong enough to explore a powerful idea, but short enough to read in a single sitting, TED Books pick up where TED talks leave off. An 18-minute speech can …
Continue reading »Mood Lights from Panos Mavros on Vimeo. So, we wondered, what would be the effects of controlling the ambient lighting of a room using our own – or others’– mood state? What if my friends, family or coworkers could “see” how I am feeling in real-time? What if we could […]
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Continue reading »Mood Lights from Panos Mavros on Vimeo. So, we wondered, what would be the effects of controlling the ambient lighting of a room using our own – or others’– mood state? What if my friends, family or coworkers could “see” how I am feeling in real-time? What if we could […]
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Continue reading »Mood Lights from Panos Mavros on Vimeo. So, we wondered, what would be the effects of controlling the ambient lighting of a room using our own – or others’– mood state? What if my friends, family or coworkers could “see” how I am feeling in real-time? What if we could […]
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Continue reading »At CASA we’ve always been keen on marrying the online with the tangible – such as the London Data Table (a real table, cut in the shape of London, showing live London data), PigeonSim (fly around a Google Earth view augmented with real-time information) and a couple of 3D printers, one of which was used […]
Continue reading »I think many of us are familiar with the 2007 UK housing market crash. Over the course of a few months at the end of 2007, the bottom dropped out of the market, with the number of transactions plummeting from 127491 nationwide in August 2007 to just 49462 a year later. Even now, in 2014, while the …
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I think many of us are familiar with the 2007 UK housing market crash. Over the course of a few months at the end of 2007, the bottom dropped out of the market, with the number of transactions plummeting from 127491 nationwide in August 2007 to just 49462 a year later. Even now, in 2014, while the …
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CASA’s homegrown Podcast, The Global Lab is shortly to relaunch with a new team of interviewers appearing alongside the wizened faces (/voices) of Steve Gray, Hannah Fry and Claire Ross (and me, of course). As part of this relaunch, we’re … Continue reading →
Continue reading »CASA’s homegrown Podcast, The Global Lab is shortly to relaunch with a new team of interviewers appearing alongside the wizened faces (/voices) of Steve Gray, Hannah Fry and Claire Ross (and me, of course). As part of this relaunch, we’re … Continue reading →
Continue reading »A few years back while I was a researcher at the Department od Computing Science, Glasgow University we purchased 2 small Nabaztag rabbits to augment our prototype multimodal navigation system. The rabbit announced instructions for the users to search the map to find different locations around the world – a sort of digital treasure hunt. Fast forward 7 years and I’m doing it again.
The Karotz, the new name for the rabbit, is a special interactive device. It has ears that you can position, an LED in it’s belly that you can set to various colours, a microphone so you can give the rabbit commands, a speaker to play music either remotely or from a USB stick which can give the rabbit a voice, a nose to smell out those pesky RFID tags and a new feature that’s different from the older rabbits, a webcam to see.
We’ve bought another 2 rabbits for our research at CASA and we’ve been having a think about how we can use them to brighten up the office. For the first few months we had some issues with our corporate WiFi network, think blocked ports and firewalls, so actually getting the rabbit to talk to the outside network has been a challenge. By setting up a 3G router in the office we’ve been able to have more control of our Internet of Things devices and this has meant that we can make these devices respond to some of our collection software.
Once we got the rabbit connected, I decided the first thing we had to do was make the Karotz API friendlier to developers. I set up a small web server written in Node.JS on an internal server where we could send commands to the rabbit and it would proxy these authenticated commands to the Karotz API, which in turn sends to the rabbit.
For example if you want to set the ears to down then you would call the following web service:
http://localhost:9000/ears/9/9
To set the LED to red you would call:
http://localhost:9000/led/ff0000
And to make the rabbit talk you would call:
http://localhost:9000/speak/Hello%20World
Oliver O’Brien had the idea to attach real world London Underground Tube alerts to the rabbit so I set up a command on the server to make the rabbit announce the tube alerts (which you can see on the video below)
http://localhost:9000/status/ff0000/The%20Central%20Line%20Is%20down
These types of ubiquitous technologies allow developers to integrate real time data into our lives without users having to log onto computers or get our mobile phones out to actively check on services. We are just starting to explore the possibilities of this technology so stay tuned for some more of cool little side projects.
Continue reading »I recently implemented an authentication system, supported by a table on the database. In this table, I store the usernames and passwords. The PostgreSQL “pgcrypto” module supports encryption of specific columns, but I wanted to avoid “bulking” my system with … Continue reading →
Continue reading »In the corner of our apartment we have an old 1940’s radio, picked up a few years ago the original valves had already been removed,…
Continue reading »In the corner of our apartment we have an old 1940′s radio, picked up a few years ago the original valves had already been removed, leaving it modified with a then transistor radio. As such it made the perfect project to remodify and bring up to date via a mix…
Michael Szell from the SENSEable Cities Lab at MIT has given my book a very generous review in this week’s edition of Science (28 February, Volume 343, pp. 970-971) where he suggests that my synthesis defines a way forward for … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Earlier this week I did a “map swap” with M […]
Continue reading »A while ago, I wrote a post about multi-master replication using symmetricDS. My scenario consists of a system with multiple nodes, all of them writing in their copies of the database. Sometimes the nodes may be offline, but I would … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I recently recapped on some of the datavis languages, and some books I’ve found useful to get started with them. I didn’t talk about the more conversational/popsci end of things, so I thought I’d mention some of those here. The … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I recently recapped on some of the datavis languages, and some books I’ve found useful to get started with them. I didn’t talk about the more conversational/popsci end of things, so I thought I’d mention some of those here. The … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I recently recapped on some of the datavis languages, and some books I’ve found useful to get started with them. I didn’t talk about the more conversational/popsci end of things, so I thought I’d mention some of those here. The … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Readers of the blog might be interested in reading Josh Epstein’s new book “Agent_Zero: Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science” To quote from the publisher:”In this pioneering synthesis, Joshua Epstein introduces a new theoreti…
Continue reading »Readers of the blog might be interested in reading Josh Epstein’s new book “Agent_Zero: Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science” To quote from the publisher:”In this pioneering synthesis, Joshua Epstein introduces a new theoreti…
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