Category Archives: Big Data

CASA’s Focus on Big Data

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Michael Batty

Here is a short one page missive from me printed in this month’s (January 2013) issue of Geographical (magazine) which argues the case for getting involved in these questions. Can’t find the online content (and we don’t seem to have … Continue reading →

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Economic Growth, Smart Cities

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Michael Batty

Robert Gordon of Northwestern University argues that we are coming to the end of more than 200 years of rapid growth in GDP. The third industrial revolution after steam which was the first, and electricity and chemistry, the second, and … Continue reading →

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Modelling on the Move

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Michael Batty

Dave Banister’s group at Oxford have just started a seminar series on new approaches to transport and mobility modelling  called “Modelling on the Move” and two of us from UCL, myself and Peter Jones from the Centre for Transport Studies talked … Continue reading →

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