Category Archives: Interactions

Gravity Models Circa 1846

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Michael Batty

Once in a while along comes a wonderful piece of historical research that again illustrates that in most fields, there is little new under the sun. Andrew Odlyzko’s recent paper entitled “The forgotten discovery of gravity models and the inefficiency … Continue reading →

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Geocomputation A Primer

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Michael Batty

A very nicely produced review of geocomputation in this edited book by Chris Brunsdon and Alex Singleton. It covers many interesting new techniques from agent based models to new visual statistics, from crowdsourcing methods to the newer scripting languages that are … Continue reading →

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Visual Analytics for Urban Design

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Michael Batty

Andy and myself have done a paper for the Autumn 2014 issue of the Urban Design Journal that explores the range of visual analytics by which we mean visualisations that have an analytical meaning – 3D, maps, graphics, flows and dashboards. You … Continue reading →

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