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
Tag: urban analytics
Panel discussion on Digital Placemaking and Soft City Sensing
I'm excited to announce that I'll be participating in the upcoming panel discussion titled "Digital Placemaking and Soft City Sensing", scheduled for 20 May 2025, hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. 🇩🇰 🎓 🔗 👉 event page Panel focus: "This panel brings together four researchers to explore … Continue reading Panel discussion on Digital Placemaking and Soft City Sensing
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
GISRUK 2020 online • 21-23 July
GISRUK 2020 free and open online conference at University College London / Birkbeck After some hard work with my UCL colleague James Haworth, the programme for this edition of GISRUK is out: http://london.gisruk.org/programme.php GISRUK is the largest academic conference in Geographic Information Science in the UK. Since 1993, GISRUK has attracted international researchers and practitioners … Continue reading GISRUK 2020 online • 21-23 July
Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab 