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The Thick of It, BBC TV (2012)As researchers and policymakers, we all say we want evidence-based policy; so why is there little good evaluation evidence about, and why do many decision-makers seem reluctant to use it?I’m back from a trip to Paris, wher…
Continue reading »Seven years ago, I wrote “We don’t have individual building age open data in the UK” – but that is no longer true! The MLUHC (for England Wales) and the Scottish Government via the Energy Saving Trust have been publishing individual Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), for both residential and non-residential buildings, for several years now, […]
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Continue reading »While there has been a lot written about COVID-19 Angela Yao, Bin Jiang, Jukka Krisp, Xintao Liu, and Haosheng Huang and myself have just recently wrapped up a special issue in Environment and Planning B and how it can be studied through the lens…
Continue reading »While there has been a lot written about COVID-19 Angela Yao, Bin Jiang, Jukka Krisp, Xintao Liu, and Haosheng Huang and myself have just recently wrapped up a special issue in Environment and Planning B and how it can be studied through the lens…
Continue reading »Governments could use supercomputers to mount crisis response, say Aberdeen scientists FutureScot
Continue reading »The 13 Bridges Challenge, organised by SSAFA (the Armed Forces charity) is taking place on Saturday 24 June (this Saturday) and participants will be walking
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Continue reading »New £4m digital hub to tackle antimicrobial resistance Mirage News
Continue reading »New Geospatial Strategy to boost UK’s standing as location … GOV.UK
Continue reading »At the end of May, the Citizen Science Association (CSA) celebrated its 10th year anniversary in its conference – C*Sci 2023, held at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Arizona. The conference (22-26 May) provided the opportunity to meet face-to-face colleagues in the area of citizen science, which I haven’t had a chance to talk … Continue reading C*Sci 2023 and the new name of the (US) Citizen Science Association
Continue reading »GEOINNO has become an essential conference for the large community of researchers working at the intersections of urban economics, networks / complexity analysis, economic geography and the economics of innovation. I’m very happy to see Manchester host…
Continue reading »London, April 2020.New/old paper news: I’m very happy to have the lead article in this Urban Studies special issue on COVID-19 and cities. It’s open access!Many thanks to Scott Orford, Yingling Fan and Phil Hubbard for having me.This article is a time …
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Continue reading »The European Union JRC recently released a new 2023 update of the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) data. This update has greatly improved the GHSL data, with a 10m scale built-up area dataset of the entire globe which has been used to create a 100m scale global population density layer. The level of detail for … Continue reading World Population Density Map Update with GHSL 2023
Continue reading »Our last paper at the Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) is entitled “Simulation and Optimization Techniques for the Mitigation of Disruptions to Supply Chains” where we (Raj Patel, Abhisekh Rana, Sean Luke, Carlotta Domeniconi, Hamdi K…
Continue reading »Our last paper at the Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) is entitled “Simulation and Optimization Techniques for the Mitigation of Disruptions to Supply Chains” where we (Raj Patel, Abhisekh Rana, Sean Luke, Carlotta Domeniconi, Hamdi K…
Continue reading »Readers of this blog might gather that we are constantly developing agent-based models to study and better understand a wide range of problems but unlike in say the software industry, agent-based model development is rather ad hoc in terms of a standar…
Continue reading »Readers of this blog might gather that we are constantly developing agent-based models to study and better understand a wide range of problems but unlike in say the software industry, agent-based model development is rather ad hoc in terms of a standar…
Continue reading »As part of the Swedish presidency of the European Union, an event on the 16th May focused on open science from policy to practice. The event marked the end of the Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on citizen science initiatives. There are several useful outputs that were shared at this final event, with a lot of … Continue reading EU Mutual-learning exercise: citizen science – final report
Continue reading »Back in 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, I was happy to contribute to the Post-Normal Science 5 conference (PNS5), with a presentation about the relationships between citizen science and post-normal science. Following the conference, I developed the presentation into a paper. The peer review provided robust and useful advice on how the paper … Continue reading New paper “Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community”
Continue reading »At the upcoming Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) we have several papers being presented. One of which is with Troy Curry and Arie Croitoru entitled “Modeling Forced Migration: A System Dynamic Approach.” In this paper we study how for…
Continue reading »At the upcoming Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) we have several papers being presented. One of which is with Troy Curry and Arie Croitoru entitled “Modeling Forced Migration: A System Dynamic Approach.” In this paper we study how for…
Continue reading »Understanding the spatial heterogeneity of COVID-19 vaccination … BMC Public Health
Continue reading »Grain Trail: Tracking Russia’s Ghost Ships with Satellite Imagery … bellingcat
Continue reading »Peering Beyond the Clouds: A Guide to Bellingcat’s Ship Detection … bellingcat
Continue reading »The role of complexity for digital twins of cities Nature.com
Continue reading »Reader of the blog know we use predominantly MASON, NetLogo and MESA for our modeling projects but there are others (which we have discussed in other posts). To this end, recently over on the SIMSOC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK mailing list, Alexis Drogoul announced…
Continue reading »Reader of the blog know we use predominantly MASON, NetLogo and MESA for our modeling projects but there are others (which we have discussed in other posts). To this end, recently over on the SIMSOC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK mailing list, Alexis Drogoul announced…
Continue reading »Twitter mobility dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of London journals.plos.org
Continue reading »Anyone working with geospatial data, had probably encountered at some point the need for geocoding. The task of transforming an address (e.g.: a placename, city, postcode) into a pair of coordinates (e.g.: a point geometry) is called forward geocoding, while … Continue reading
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Continue reading »Inferring urban polycentricity from the variability in human mobility … Nature.com
Continue reading »Every app has a story, from the idea through to story boarding, finding a design team, working with in house computer scientists or outsourcing. All of these steps take time,…
Continue reading »“Frame-IT is the perfect app for anyone who loves to display websites in style. With Frame-IT, you can put a beautiful picture frame around any website, making it look like…
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Continue reading »Bartlett Funds Diversity in AI & Data Science Industry Mirage News
Continue reading »At this years Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting we have a number of presentations ranging from how one can leverage newspaper articles to study cities over time, to that of how people may chose to become vaccinated. These present…
Continue reading »At this years Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting we have a number of presentations ranging from how one can leverage newspaper articles to study cities over time, to that of how people may chose to become vaccinated. These present…
Continue reading »In an effort to focus my (now rather limited as parent of two young children) spare time on a more nuanced set of web projects, I have consolidated some websites. Three Blogs into One I have combined two other blogs into this one: I still another blog – Mapping London – which will stay separate […]
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