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.