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Literary London: From Hell Part 1
74 Brook Street, William Gull’s home Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell, their retelling of the Jack the Ripper murders, is a fascinating book about man and woman, the powerful and the...
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International Lycra
From Julie Ann Genter, New Zealand MP’s plenary presentation I’ve spent the last couple of days at the Bicycle Urbanism Symposium at the University of Washington in Seattle, at which I presented...
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MRes Visualisation Projects 2012-2013
This year, the MRes group projects shifted theme from “a museum space” to “the living city” – and there was an accompanying shift in focus. I’d characterise this as a move away from a more...
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Geeks and Boffins, alive, alive-o
I don’t really mind the label “Boffin”. I mean I think it’s trivial and pointless, but I don’t think anyone should consume any of their time with it when there are much bigger issues in science. Last...
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The Death and the Life of Smart Cities
Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a classic, one every urban planning undergraduate has read and one I read approximately two months ago because I was too busy reading Maxwell...
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Bike Share Paper in PLOSONE
After much wrangling and rewriting, my first paper as a social physicist has finally been published! It’s one I wrote with the help of CASA’s Ollie O’Brien, Ema Strano at EPFL and Matheus Viana,...
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Bike webs
The paper we published in PLOS ONE last week covers bike share schemes from five cities: the large ones in London and Washington, DC, and smaller ones in Boston, Minneapolis, and Denver. It might seem...
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50 Shades of Science
Being a jackass of n>1 trade is the lot of the roaming physicist who has a glimmer of self-awareness, and one regularly finds oneself exploring texts and topics in a way that undergraduate students...
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Big Social Data and Invasive Species
Spot the invasive species I just read Emma Uprichard’s excellent piece on big data in social sciences, I’d recommend doing the same. She argues persuasively that Big Data is not the panacea that will...
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Communication on the web for smart men 101
I’ve seen a lot of very unhelpful comments lately, by men, on blogs, by women, usually ones women have written about sexism or some aspect of the way women are treated in particular high-skill...
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Academic New Years Resolutions 2014
I feel like I’ve come a long way in the last year; written papers, applied for grants, read more, directed a course, improved my modules, created new ones, reflected a lot on my teaching – all the...
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Datavisualisation programming: a recap
About a year ago, I wrote this post which rounded up some useful books showcasing and providing techniques for datavis. I should say that I’m primarily a programmatic visualator (i.e I tend not to deal...
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The Functional Art and other stories
Force-directed graph of whisky flavours (using d3.js) 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...
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My favourite episode of Global Lab
The Magic of Podcasting 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...
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Data Visualisation for Public Engagement at #scicomm14
UCL sustainability research around energy (credit: Martin Zaltz Austwick and Charlotte Johnson 2014) I’m excited to be chairing a session on Data Visualisation for Public Engagement at the British...
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Steaming Crossness
After my wander up the Greenway last year, it was exciting to finally see Crossness pumping station in action this weekend. Bazalgette’s sewers were/are gravity-fed, so by the time south London’s...
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MRes Visualisation projects
June is an exciting time in CASA, as our MRes students will be turning in their group visualisation projects, which never fail to dazzle and impress. Our students learn from Andy Hudson-Smith’s 3D...
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PICKS
PICKS-SUST: UCL sustainability research on the theme “Empowerment and Inequality” I’m apparently now in the Sustainability field (which is rather exciting): the first paper with my name on it was...
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Active City: MRes Visualisation Projects 2013-2014
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...
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Mapping Research on Urban Sustainability
Critique of Knowledge Production etched into sustainable bamboo In this guest post by anthropologist Charlotte Johnson, she discusses her perspectives on the PICKs project (published earlier this month...
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