Category Archives: Flows

Visualisation and Visual Analytics

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Michael Batty

Gave a talk today to the Market Research Society’s meeting on “Generating Value from the 2011 Census: How business can benefit from the new free Census data”. The talk was a compilation of ideas developed by Ollie O’Brien, Steven Gray, … Continue reading →

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Old is the New Cool at CASA

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Michael Batty

In 1977, we made a movie about how you build retail spatial interaction models which compute the impacts of new shopping centres on their surroundings. It was made for an Open University Course called Modelling by Mathematics (TM281). It was … Continue reading →

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The Future Cities Lab

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Michael Batty

Check out the Future Cities Lab established by ETH Zurich in Singapore. Many projects dealing with every aspects of the city-state but relevant to our own work on land use transport and mobility is their MATSims model which is now running … Continue reading →

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