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Classifying outdoor walking with Ordnance Survey data

This new open-access article on leisure walking in Britain stems from a collaboration with the Ordnance Survey [see pdf]. Title: "The context of outdoor walking: A classification of user-generated routes" Authors: Andrea Ballatore, Stefano Cavazzi, Jeremy Morley Publication: The Geographical Journal Abstract. Leisure walking has known benefits to public health, from both physical and psychological … Continue reading Classifying outdoor walking with Ordnance Survey data →

Online food delivery in the pandemic: What changed?

Here's a new journal article in Health & Place led by our excellent student Alexandra Kalbus, co-supervised at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. [open access article] [PDF version] 📄📊🍔😷 Title: "Associations between area deprivation and changes in the digital food environment during the COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal analysis of three online food delivery … Continue reading Online food delivery in the pandemic: What changed? →

I’ve made some maps using AI

During the Christmas break, I indulged in some aimless dialogue with Dall E 2 and Midjourney, two of the most popular and impressive deep-learning generators of images based on text prompt. Demos of both systems are freely accessible. The prompts I used are mostly about cartography and maps, but also entirely random and silly stuff … Continue reading I’ve made some maps using AI →

Associations between the food environment and purchasing • BMC Public Health

Here's a new journal article in BMC Public Health led by our student Alexandra Kalbus, co-supervised at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. [open access article] [PDF version] Title: "Associations between the food environment and food and drink purchasing using large-scale commercial purchasing data: a cross-sectional study" Authors: Alexandra Kalbus, Laura Cornelsen, Andrea … Continue reading Associations between the food environment and purchasing • BMC Public Health →

Charting the geographies of heritage with data science • UCL • 26 Jan 2023

I will give the next online research talk at University College London 🏛️ in a series of events organised by the UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage. Title: "Cultural Geo-Analytics: Charting the geographies of heritage with data science" ⏱️ When: 26 January 2023, 5:30 pm–6:30 pm 🌐 URL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/heritage/events/2023/jan/cultural-geo-analytics-charting-geographies-heritage-data-science

Research talk at ENS in Lyon, France • 8 Dec 2022

A new research talk, this time in France 🇫🇷: Notre collègue Denis Vigier coordonne la deuxième édition du cycle de conférences Extraction, traitement et visualisation de données complexes en géographie (XVIIIe siècle – XIXe siècle), organisées à l’ENS de Lyon et financées par l’Institut Rhônalpin des systèmes Complexes (IXXI). Il est adossé au projet GEODE du LabEx ASLAN. Photo by Negative Space … Continue reading Research talk at ENS in Lyon, France • 8 Dec 2022 →

Associations between the food environment and food and drink purchasing

New conference paper by our student Alexandra Kalbus, co-supervised at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, presented at the SSM Annual Scientific Meeting 2022. Title: "Associations between the food environment and food and drink purchasing: cross-sectional study using large-scale commercial purchasing data" Authors: Alexandra Kalbus, Laura Cornelsen, Andrea Ballatore, Steven Cummins Publication: J Epidemiol … Continue reading Associations between the food environment and food and drink purchasing →

Mapping museums in the UK

This article, written with museum guru Fiona Candlin, is the culmination of years of tortuous data collection and analysis and outlines a detailed quantitative geography of UK museums. It's available open access in the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. All the data and resources are freely available on GitHub. Abstract: Museums are important centres … Continue reading Mapping museums in the UK →

The UK museum boom event – 17 Nov 2022

I’m pleased to invite you to this event for the Mapping Museums project I am part of: Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022, 18:00 GMT Location: Clore Management Centre, 27 Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL Chair: Isabel Wilson, Arts Council England Speaker: Prof Fiona Candlin, Professor of Museology, Birkbeck Respondent: Lisa Ollerhead, Director, Association of Independent Museums Photo by … Continue reading The UK museum boom event – 17 Nov 2022 →