We are delighted to welcome Luca Torchia, a PhD student from La Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), to the Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab for a research visit from September to December 2025. Luca, trained as a sociologist, is currently pursuing his doctorate in economic geography at the MEMOTEF Department of La Sapienza under the supervision of … Continue reading New visiting PhD student: Luca Torchia
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Charting cultural events on Eventbrite
Here's a new paper led by our PhD student Yue Wang, to be presented at GISRUK 2025 in Bristol! 🌎 🎹🎭 Abstract: This study explores the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of cultural life by investigating the dynamics of cultural events in Greater London. We leverage over 50,000 data points retrieved from Eventbrite to analyse the … Continue reading Charting cultural events on Eventbrite
New visiting PhD student at the lab: Laura Dunn 📊🚌
We are delighted to welcome visiting PhD student Laura Dunne (University College Dublin, Ireland) to the Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab at King’s College London for a research visit from February to May 2025. Under the supervision of Andrea Ballatore, Laura will be advancing her PhD research on optimizing bus networks using machine learning, with a focus … Continue reading New visiting PhD student at the lab: Laura Dunn 📊🚌
How the pandemic changed what we eat and drink: A look at food purchases in England
New journal article out in Public Health Nutrition led by Alexandra Kalbus, from her PhD co-supervised at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. [open access article] 📄📊🍔😷 Reference: Kalbus A, Cornelsen L, Ballatore A, Cummins S. (2024) Changes in food and drink purchasing behaviour in England during the first three months of the … Continue reading How the pandemic changed what we eat and drink: A look at food purchases in England
Eating during the English lockdown
New journal article out in Plos ONE led by Alexandra Kalbus, from her PhD co-supervised at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. [open access article] 📄📊🍔😷 Reference: Kalbus AI, Cornelsen L, Ballatore A, Cummins S (2024) Associations between the neighbourhood food environment and food and drink purchasing in England during lockdown: A repeated … Continue reading Eating during the English lockdown
From Cagliari to King’s
A new post by our visiting student Filippo Astori (University of Cagliari): "With these few lines, I would like to describe what has been my experience at the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College of London and the King’s Digital Lab (KDL). Several weeks have now passed since my return to Italy. The leaden English sky has given … Continue reading From Cagliari to King’s
Museum maps at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) has selected our museum mapping work as notable geo-visualisations! Andrea Ballatore, Lecturer in Social and Cultural Informatics at King’s College London, and Fiona Candlin, Director of the Mapping Museums research project, were interested in understanding the spatial unevenness of the cultural sector by studying the location of museums in … Continue reading Museum maps at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
Enter the Facebook City
New open-access journal article on urban/spatial social media from the Local Content Governance project 🌍📈🌆! 📜 Ballatore, A., Rodgers, S., McLoughlin, L., & Moore, S. (2024). Facebook city: Place-named groups as urban communication infrastructure in Greater London. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. DOI:10.1177/23998083231224136 [web] [pdf] Figure 1: Distribution of groups and … Continue reading Enter the Facebook City
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
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