Recently, I was asked to give talks at both UCL’s CASA and the ETH Future Cities Lab in Singapore for students and staff new to ‘urban data science’ and the sorts of workflows involved in collecting, processing, analysing, and reporting on urban geo-data. Developing the talk proved to be a rather enjoyable opportunity to reflect on more… Continue reading The Full Stack: Tools & Processes for Urban Data Scientists
Category: Mapping
Mapping the Changing Affordability of Manchester
Building on yesterday’s post about my London affordability maps, here are the equivalent maps for the Manchester area (sorry Liverpool, I’ll get there!) from 1997 and 2012. It’s obviously a very different picture in terms of price, volume and distribution; these differences were well-known anecdotally but a lot of the detail was hidden until the Land… Continue reading Mapping the Changing Affordability of Manchester
Mapping the Changing Affordability of London
Last night I discovered how many of my friends watch C4’s Dispatches since quite a few of them texted me to say that they had seen me talking about property affordability on “The Great British Property Divide”. However, since Dispatches has to somehow keep the running time down to just 30 minutes, there’s not much of a… Continue reading Mapping the Changing Affordability of London
History of Telephony: Funded PhD Award with King’s College London, BT and the Science Museum Group
Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded doctoral student to join King’s College London, BT Archives, and the Science Museum Group in late September 2015 or early January 2016 to investigate the impact of the telephone landline network on British society and culture(s). The project is informed by the rise of the Internet and social media,… Continue reading History of Telephony: Funded PhD Award with King’s College London, BT and the Science Museum Group
Pint of Science: Curious About the Housing Crisis?
As a follow-on to my earlier piece on Hex-Binning Land Registry Data, here’s a talk I gave on the housing crisis as part of the Pint of Science Festival a couple of weeks back.
Hex Binning Land Registry Data
One of the known problems with choropleth maps is that small zones, even if they contain very significant values, tend to get lost in amongst much larger zones. A current example is that the ridings in London are much smaller than those outside of London, so it can be hard to tell what’s happening in… Continue reading Hex Binning Land Registry Data
‘Mapping the Space of Flows’: the geography of the London Mega-City Region
I’m pleased to be able to post here the penultimate version of an article that Duncan Smith and I recently had accepted to Regional Studies. In this article we look at ways of combining ‘big data’ from a telecoms network with standard BRES employment data to generate a more nuanced understanding of where ‘work’ happens… Continue reading ‘Mapping the Space of Flows’: the geography of the London Mega-City Region
Robot Wars: Android Off-line Mapping Face-Off
I’ve got a few trips coming up to places where either: a) I don’t want to use data because it will be expensive (i.e. America), or b) I won’t be able to use data because I will have no reception (i.e. Skye). However, in both cases I would like to be able to use my… Continue reading Robot Wars: Android Off-line Mapping Face-Off