Population247: enhanced time-specific population estimates

CASA Wednesday seminar with University of Southampton dated 27th Feb 2019  Dr Samantha Cockings 

The data is recorded about how many people are living and different times of the day. The age specific time profile to check the analysis of the data in London. It will give us a output used with help of grid and meter, information of the data. Background modelling , spatial attribute, background layers. Retail footfall - eg. High street and shopping centre with a classification of the workplace. Sensors in the retail- counting no. of devices which will help how many people is in that area. Classification of the workplace zones- what times of workplace is in that area- with help of smart cities sensors. 

"Complex urban systems" using Network Science

Seminar at CASA, The Bartlett by Prof Celine Rozenblat from University of Lausanne- Switzerland

A multi-level networks perspective on the complex urban systems. Transport and connectivity of the geography and sustainability.

Resilience standard - concept which is defined the cities - system of cities is required to understand. A book is published on International and transaction perspective of urban systems taking constitutes in ti urban systems. Cities maximised the socio- economic interactions, which is important in spatial interaction. Because of inequality of position, it is happening the process and skill of cities. The diversity of network and new network of cities and emergence. Urban system gets diversity of sources which is very important and nodes are different from its path. There are multi level cities networks which have urban processed inside the city and between the cities. Network economy with the CITADYNE database - cities and dynamics of cities. Firm Innovation networks.

Ownership linkages at the scales off the metropolis. The K-Shell centrality and SIR model of networks . It is a group of networks in the SPIN glass clustering methods. Evolution of communities - Macro/Meso - Panarchy - Perspective. The trajectories of the cities with economic cycles and inter-urban diffusions. Growth cycles and urban hierarchies on the metropolization factor accordingly to their population.

Book Launch @ BARTLETT: Inventing Future cities and Agent Based Modeling

 Celebration of Book Launch at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analytics - CASA.
Book 1: Inventing Future Cities published by MIT Press, Cambridge by Professor Michael Batty. Explains the need of cities and its future, communication of science of ideas, prediction, complexity and thinking of cities and urban planning

Book II: Agent Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems by Dr Ed Manley, Prof Andrew Crooks, Nick Malleson and Alison Heppenstall explaining about design and build and linking the models to the Geographical information systems.

Talk by Google CFO - Patrick Pichette

250 curious and energetic future Google CFOs in a UCL room with one former Google CFO Patrick pichette - always inspiring!  

Good job organising UCL entrepreneur !Patrick discussed about his journey on Google, his hardwork working for 24/7 at office. Finally when realising that he need to give some time to personal life then starting exploring the world.
He also shared his experience about his work project at Google which was a real interesting experience

Spatial analytics

At GEOLYTIX new and innovative ways to make spatial analytics accessible, exciting and indispensable.  The 

customers span the retail, financial, property, leisure and food & beverage industries, in and outside the UK.  It supports customers in network planning, site location, estate rationalisation and omni-channel investments.

Geolytix build innovative spatial data and are passionate about the open data community. It combine various forecasting methods and statistical models, GIS and web tools to create bespoke solutions looking to do things better.  

Spatial modeling and analysis of the data - Best in the world of Geolytix. Create data set - generate model and have tool . It have a cost effective making lots of important decision. Amazon in Seattle to check and try the space. Its been won the Queen award in London. Open data in 2011 to check the open data and European census data. The catchment data and the predictions of the data. There are giving 2 sponsorship of PhD for geo-data, Global city as a Open data  similar to Geo-dem. Lower census data with UK data. India data is available in different language , complexity of the data which is analysed. It is a global classification of data 

Mapping Digital Humanitarianism: Confronting Opportunities and Challenge

 Session One: Started with a presentation from Jonathan Gray from KCL- Digital Humanities and Public Data Lab- Data witnessing: Attending to Human Rights situations with Data in Amnesty International ’s decoders Initiative.

Session Two: Data as crisis - the pitfalls of digital humanitarianism by Mirca Madianou from Goldsmiths, University of London.

The convergence of technologies and practises within private and public sectors in response to humanitarian emergencies inclusive of design and digital innovation.

The collection and uses of larger data sets wither its big data or crisis data  and practises of humanitarian officers. There are categories of data - examples like the small data from the business systems or transactional data . Data collections just became easier - Build, collect, analyse - online or offline. The logic of accountability as the power of asymmetries in the humanitarian and interactive technologies will correct power asymmetries. In 2014 it is estimated that Global aid relief economy estimated for the national governments. Digital development is becoming more complex which have very different purpose in order to address different purposes. 

Session Three:  UNSW Project Overview - Fleur Johns and Caroline Compton UNSW Law - 

International Policy - Prototype developed by Pulse Lab Jakarta, Joint venture between the UN development program and the government of Indonesia - funder of the Global Pulse Initiative.

Session Four : Digital Humanitarianism in time of socio-environmental disasters: A View from Brazil. From Ana Camelo and Vitor Ido(FGV Brazil and South centre Geneva)

the contribution citizen-science can make towards their evaluation

Institute of Global Prosperity - dated 13th Feb 2019

Prof Henrietta Moore from UCL - director of Global Prosperity 

The definition needs to be adapted in a more living experience in different counties and different institution. STG  Zero Hunger and monitor progress . Need to chase down the gap in the management.

Dr.David - Professor of Imperial for Global health 

People centrered government , partnering among people and organisation who didn’t ordinary work together  and agree with for the future for everybody.

It comes from the negotiated the agenda pf development.

Over the years we have learned that try to pursue the goal of attention is to work together to have a full impact between other countries like Asia pacific regions. 

Regional corporation and international incorpoation to work across different associations to se massive issues indoor to nurture the network of issues. The science of indiciplinary action for solution of linear thinker, having a system problem in mechanical system. The characteristic of Leadership is needed with complex life issues to advanced them to make it a scientific reality. The bigger picture for finding a beginning , don’t wait for perfection keep going. www.forstd.com.
In collaboration, the Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL and London International Development Centre- LIDR.

Risk Communication in Multilingual societies

 Langauage could be a major source that helps to communication in multilingual societies., with lots of risk involved while talking or communicating personally or professionally.

Dr. Federico M.Federici from UCL centre of Translation Societies provides a detailed lunchtime lectures on Spanish speaking country with France and others.

Overall a new topic of discussion that is experienced in our daily routine at UCL Darwin Lecture feature dated 5th Feb 2019

Building Construction Age Diversity to Analyse Speed of Turnover

First lunchtime PhD mini-talk for 2019, was given by Polly Hudson in the CASA Student Room. Polly’s thesis is titled “Using Building Construction Age Diversity to Analyse Speed of Turnover, to Improve Resilience in London’s Building Stock"; in which she has mapped out a fair bit of London based on their age.

More recently though, she has been working on a spinoff of her work called Colouring London in an open platform for building attribute data. In the seminar, Polly was keen to share her progress on Colouring London, and how CASA can help contribute through interacting with it. 

Polly designed the Building of Bath Museum in 1992  and founded The Building Exploratory charitable trust ( a model for hands -on knowledge transfer centres about the built environment)  in 1996 .She began to design community oriented GIS interfaces in collaboration with Hackney's crime mapping department and also met and collaborated with Mike and Andy. 

Retail Outlet on Spatial Interaction models

 Monday the 4th, Dunnhumby  They basically have access to consumers data, such as Tesco cards, etc.

It global leader in Customer Data Science, empowering businesses to compete and thrive in the data-driven economy. Their science sets  apart and at dunnhumby have the opportunity to work on ground-breaking technology delivering extraordinary impact for our customers.

Their work on Spatial Interaction model in Retail outlet and need to predict and forecast the opening and closing of store in particular location spatially.

Various parameters will be worked on the regression and clustering models of the research question with the data from stores like Tesco, Sainbury, Iceland etc in London.

Productivity, Flexibility and Environment

TATE organised seminar on how the physical environment within which

we work (i.e. the office space) and how having the ability to work how we want to work (i.e. flexibility) both impact productivity. You’ll gain a clear

understanding of exactly how work environments and flexibility impact

productivity, office hacks you can implement today and a methodology to enable flexible working. Taken collectively, the independent research says these will increase employee productivity by over 250 percentage.

Hosted by Russel Beck on 5^thFebruary 2019 by TATE -  Award-winning Office Specialist Recruitment

TechTalk - Modelling to Predict the Performance of Positive Displacement Compressors

In this talk and paper Eckhard will present his J&E Hall Gold Medal Award winning research. He has been working on the modelling and testing of positive displacement compressors for more than twenty years.
The ability of the PDSim modeling platform to accurately predict the performance of hermetic positive displacement compressors will be discussed in detail.
To understand how to use these models to evaluate design changes via parametric studies.
Institute of Refrigeration- IOR is the UK hub for information on HVAC, PHE and other building services.

Japanese Architecture by Bow-Wow Atelier

 Momoyo Kaijima from Atelier  Bow-Wow dated 6th Feb at Bartlett School of Architecture , UCL, is a Tokyo-based architecture firm, founded in 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momo.

The firm is well known for its domestic and cultural architecture and its research exploring the urban conditions of micro, ad hoc architecture.

Momoyo Kaijima was born in Tokyo in 1969. She received her undergraduate degree from the Faculty of Domestic Science at Japan Women's University in 1991 and both her graduate (M.Eng.) and post-graduate degrees were from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1994 and 1999. She was also a guest student at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH) from 1996-1997.

1. "Pet Architecture" is a term Atelier Bow-Wow uses for the buildings that have been squeezed into left over urban spaces. Buildings with curious shapes and inventive solutions for windows, drainage, and air-conditioning often arise in these urban situation.

1. Behaviorology is the study of functional relationships between ‘behaviour’ and its many independent variables in the determining environment. 

Micro Public Spaces are devices proposed by Atelier Bow-Wow which create social platforms.Da-me Architecture" (no-good architecture) is a term coined by Atelier Bow Wow, to describe the buildings in Tokyo which prioritizes a "stubbornly honest" response to specific site conditions and program requirements, without insisting on architectural aesthetic and form

Experimental Information design

Experimental Information design - Maxwell J Roberts from Casa Seminar dated 6th Feb 2019

Department of Psychology - University of Essex

Urban Public Transport - look and different of the map.

Transit network - network coverage and connectivity highlighting the new additions . Use of network by choice - more maps - way singing purpose, change and route of destination.

Schematic maps - beyond topography - line trajectories - horizontal and vertical and 45 degrees. 

Need to have clarity and scale of the map, simplifying the maps, octolinearity. Maps are good for psychology - complicated presentation. Expectation of the map design - Wurzburg network which have a straight line. Evidence based design needed. There are various maps which are used and implemented which is used for usability testing.

• generalisable findings are identified 

• Maps for theory 

• Set of maps which is easy to use
  
  

The gold standard as Octolinearity of Map

Example from the Paris network - shape of file where its too dense, planning time, curvilinear map. The journey was planned and quality was seen in the curvilinear which is outperformed. Study have performed and concluded that it have octalinearity . it is not the best map to be presented.

Color coding and route tracking - the Paris metric map is yellow and have different representation. The Lloyd,Rodgers and Roberts article to be checked. Individual group coding that could be finalised.Categorised the presentation of the data which provide visual attention depends on prevalence of navigational hazards. 

Map layout by Guo in 2011 article shows that map distance is a stronger predictor of the journey choice than distance in reality and number of intervening stations.

Roberts and Rose in 2016 article summarises the certain designs led in the journey of the map, percentage of journeys in the category where the Stratford was chosen as interchange in the non-axis map which is inefficient journeys .

Intuitive theories of design by Robert,Grey and Lesnik in 2017 - many people express strong opinions and usability of design - convert the scores - it is always rated the best within design a design priority for its usability and attractiveness rated based on its skills. There is a simplicity bias for multilinear rated as more easy to use and more styled. 

Sustainability in our city

 Student Union Ucl Sustainability Climate Action Society from UCL have organised a seminar on UCL Conservation Society Zero food Waste fossil free UCL.
Speaker were;
Yasna Palmeiro Silva  spoke on Health, Climate change and sustainability
It was a really interesting talk with examples and case studies.






Kin Lei spoke on Climate change action plan for San Francisco where in a major factors and uncertainty was discussed and explained with photos

Finally Salman Rafiq concludes with Meat is excess is not sustainable and real good talk with humour and discussion.

Overall, a great talk with fellow student of UCL sustainability backed by student unions and climate action society at Jeremy Bentham hall in South Cloister with food trucks full of sustainable nibbles at the quad.

Everything is experience by LandSec

Agroup talk from LandSec! 

Angela Maurer (Head of Innovation), 

Nils Rage (Sustainability Manager), 

Jennie O’Connell and 

Alex Beale (Insights Managers) gave a talk with exciting title of "Everything is experience". 

Landsec is one of Europe’s largest listed real estate companies. The property sector is facing structural changes that affect how we experience the space and the city around us. In this presentation, Landsec explained how they take advantage of data-driven insights to drive change, a vision for the future of the industry and examples of problem statements.