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GeoAI in Urban Analytics

This special issue on GeoAI led by Stef De Sabbata et al. is finally out! 🌍📈🤖🌆. 📜 Stefano De Sabbata, Andrea Ballatore, Harvey J. Miller, Renée Sieber, Ivan Tyukin & Godwin Yeboah (2023) GeoAI in urban analytics, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 37:12, 2455-2463, DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2023.2279978 [web] (Image from Bing Create) We are writing … Continue reading GeoAI in Urban Analytics

Computing urban form with graph neural networks

This nice paper led by Stef De Sabbata was presented at the GeoAI workshop in Leeds 🌍📈🤖🌆. 📜 Stefano De Sabbata, Andrea Ballatore, Pengyuan Liu and Nicholas J. Tate (2023) Learning urban form through unsupervised graph-convolutional neural networks. 2nd International Workshop on Geospatial Knowledge Graphs and GeoAI: Methods, Models, and Resources (GIScience 2023, September 12th, … Continue reading Computing urban form with graph neural networks

Why Is Greenwich so Common? A way of measuring uniqueness

Pleased to finally see this short paper written with Ordnance Survey's Stefano Cavazzi out. It is part of open-access LIPIcs proceedings, to be presented at GIScience 23 in Leeds 📄🌍🚶‍♀️. 📜 Ballatore, A. and Cavazzi, S. (2023) Why Is Greenwich so Common? Quantifying the Uniqueness of Multivariate Observations, 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science … Continue reading Why Is Greenwich so Common? A way of measuring uniqueness

Platial narratives from leisure walking

A short paper by our student James Williams, co-supervised at Nottingham and at the Ordnance Survey, to be presented at PLATIAL 23 in Dortmund 🇩🇪📄🌍🚶‍♀️. 📜 Williams, J, Pinchin, J, Hazzard, A, Priestnall, G, Cavazzi, S, & Ballatore, A. (2023). Emerging Platial Narratives and Themes from a Leisure Walking Study. Fourth International Symposium on Platial … Continue reading Platial narratives from leisure walking

The museum boom: A bird’s eye view

New overview article in Cultural Trends from the Mapping Museums project. 🏛️📈🔎📊 Abstract. During the late-twentieth century there was a significant increase in the number of museums in the UK. Apart from the polemic heritage debates of the 1980s and 1990s, the boom in museums was not much investigated. Our project “Mapping Museums” collected and … Continue reading The museum boom: A bird’s eye view

Of museums, Covid, and social media

New open-access article from the Museums in the pandemic project 🏛️🌎💻 🦠 Abstract. This paper examines social media activity by UK museums during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a general perception that as museums closed their doors for extended periods, their digital presence increased to maintain connections with their audiences. However, much of the research conducted … Continue reading Of museums, Covid, and social media

[job] 2-year postdoc on cultural analytics/DH @Birkbeck/King’s College London

📢 Come to work with us on museum analytics! 💡📊🏛️ URL: https://cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/postdoctoral-research-assistant-531235.html This is a full time, fixed term appointment until 30 September 2024 at Birkbeck, University of London. Please note, the successful candidate will be employed at Birkbeck for Year 1 and KCL for Year 2.  Are you a recent PhD graduate or a … Continue reading [job] 2-year postdoc on cultural analytics/DH @Birkbeck/King’s College London

New AHRC project on museum analytics

Museum Closure in the UK (2000-2025) We are pleased to announce that the Mapping Museums Lab has been awarded £1M Arts and Humanities Research Council funding for their project ‘Museum Closure in the UK 2000-2025’.  Museums are defined as permanent institutions and are intended to preserve collections for posterity. Yet their closure is common. Our previous … Continue reading New AHRC project on museum analytics

Archive for Museum Analytics: new directions 2023

This is to archive Museum Analytics: new directions, the 1-day event we ran in May 2023 at KCL (official page on King's College London event blog). Programme ⏱️ When: Thursday 18 May 2023, 10:00 am – 5:30 pm (UK time) 📍 Where (hybrid): King’s College London, Bush House, (S) 1.01 (lecture theatre 1). For registration, please go to … Continue reading Archive for Museum Analytics: new directions 2023

Museums and their geodemographic context

Here's our new short paper to be presented at GISRUK 2023 in Glasgow! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🌎 [PDF] "The geography of the cultural sector concerns the location of producers, consumers, and venues of the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) to answer questions about their development and dynamics. Considering the case of the UK museums, we use national data … Continue reading Museums and their geodemographic context