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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Context for Leisure Walking Routes: A Vision for a Spatial-Platial Approach

Yet another short paper by our very productive student James Williams, co-supervised at Nottingham and at the Ordnance Survey, to be presented at the 2022 Symposium on Data Science and Statistics. Title: "Context for Leisure Walking Routes: A Vision for a Spatial-Platial Approach"Authors: James Williams, Stefano Cavazzi, James Pinchin, Adrian Hazzard, Gary Priestnall, and Andrea … Continue reading Context for Leisure Walking Routes: A Vision for a Spatial-Platial Approach →