Iceland Trip
I have recently returned from a trip to Iceland. Myself and two friends camped and hiked for four days (3 nights) on the Hornstrandir Peninsular before a couple of us hired a car and explored the south...
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PhD Studentship Available
Here is a great opportunity to join our research group: Summary: Creating better Area Classification for the 2011 Census of the Population A Ph.D. studentship is available commencing end September...
View ArticleRGS-IBG Annual Conference 2010: Recommended Sessions
I have had a look through this year’s Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference programme to pick out my recommendations for those with interests in GIS and Spatial Analysis. I have included the...
View ArticleJökulsárlón Timelapse
As I have mentioned before I have really enjoyed my trips to Iceland andInspired by Iceland is a great project to promote the wonders of the country. It has a great website with excellent quality...
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Gawker Passwords Wordle
href=”http://wordle.net”>Wordleof recently compromised Gawker user passwords illustrates. The top 200 passwords from the 180,000 or so released are shown.
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Handling Spatial Data with R
Spatial data are becoming increasingly common, as are the tools available in R to process it. It takes a little time to understand how R handles spatial data; this tutorial is designed to help get...
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Carto-Junk?
The National Geographic Surname Map has generated a lot of discussion both online and via email. The response has been overwhelmingly positive but some people, unsurprisingly, have suggested...
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mappinglondon.co.uk: Another Blog about Maps!
Followers of spatialanalysis.co.uk will know that a lot of maps I feature are about London. Many of these maps have caught the eye of those outside of the geography, GIS/ spatial analysis community...
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Welcome
Welcome to the the new look Spatial Analysis blog. My last post was way back in March so I have a lot of catching up to do! The prolonged absence was due to all my energy being spent on completing my...
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Great Maps with ggplot2
The above map (and this one) was produced using R and ggplot2 and serve to demonstrate just how sophisticated R visualisations can be. We are used to seeing similar maps produced with conventional GIS...
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Book Review: Statistical Detection and Surveillance of Geographic Clusters
My review of Rogerson and Yamada’s Statistical Detection and Surveillance of Geographic Clusters has just been published in the journal Environment and Planning B. Overall I thought the book was very...
View ArticleG-I-S State of Mind
For GIS nerds only: Just to prove that GIS users are “hip” and “cool” here is a video that takes a contemporary “rap” artist’s song and adapts it with GIS- specific lyrics. I really “dig” this,...
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PhD Studentship Available
Here is a great opportunity to join our research group: Summary: Creating better Area Classification for the 2011 Census of the Population A Ph.D. studentship is available commencing end September...
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CASA Is Recruiting!
Its great news to see that UCL CASA has a couple of lecturer positions available to start this summer/ autumn. So if your research interests match ours why not apply? For full details click on each of...
View ArticleCan Maths Predict a Riot?
Hannah Fry, CASA‘s own Lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities talks through some of the ways in which spatial modelling has the potential to predict major events in cities – in this case rioting....
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10×10 London: Land Water Land
Every year, for the last few years, Mapping London editors Oliver and James have been invited to create and submit an artwork for 10×10 London, a charity art auction organised by Article 25, the...
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10×10: Bermondsey
Mapping London editors James and Ollie were invited earlier this year to create a drawing for the 10×10 charity auction taking place later this week in London. The auction is organised by Article 25,...
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Mapped: 5,000 Years of City Growth
I recently stumbled upon a great dataset. It’s the first to provide comprehensive data for world city sizes as far back as 3700BC. The authors (Meredith Reba, Femke Reitsma & Karen Seto) write: How...
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