An attempt at exhausting a place in Barcelona

My abstract for the AMPS Cultural Pasts conference (July 2024, Barcelona) 🇪🇸 An attempt at exhausting a place in Barcelona: Digital augmentations as intangible heritage? Andrea Ballatore (King's College London) Sitting in a café in Paris in 1974, French writer George Perec started to record the seemingly mundane minutiae of what could be observed in … Continue reading An attempt at exhausting a place in Barcelona →

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 →

[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 →

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 →

Call for Abstracts: Museum Analytics, new directions

📢 Call for abstracts: https://kingsdh.net/museum-analytics/ 🐦 Tweet: https://twitter.com/kingsdh/status/1592082797610647552 💡 Organisers: Dr. Andrea Ballatore, King’s College London, UK • Dr. Jamie Larkin, Chapman University, CA 🌎 Location (hybrid): King’s College London (The Strand, London, UK) and online ⏰ Submission deadline: Friday 20 January 2023 🗓 Event date: Thursday 18 May 2023 Museum Analytics: New directions Call for abstracts Data science has the capacity to … Continue reading Call for Abstracts: Museum Analytics, new directions →

Putting data science in SHAPE: A geographical perspective

Here's my abstract and my slides for the BRIDGES Conference 2022 about gender differences across disciplines: Photo by JESHOOTS.com on Pexels.com Putting data science in SHAPE: A geographical perspective Andrea Ballatore, Dept of Digital Humanities, King’s College London Teaching data science and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to SHAPE students (i.e. Social sciences, Humanities, and the … Continue reading Putting data science in SHAPE: A geographical perspective →