Mariam Asad from Georgia Tech talks to Martin Zaltz Austwick about citizen sensing and access to cycling in Atlanta.

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Mariam Asad is a first year Ph.D. student in the Digital Media program at Georgia Tech. Her Master's research looked at rhetorical and formal qualities of modernist poetry and how they might be used in game design to make videogames more meaningful. Her current research focuses on how to co-design technologies to address the self-defined values, needs, and goals of local Atlanta communities. You can find her on twitter at @mimib0t.

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This week's host is Martin Zaltz Austwick, who lectures on visualisation at CASA; you can chat to him at @sociablePhysics on twitter, and his blog is http://sociablePhysics.com .

Adam Dennett, joint researcher in CASA and UCLDH talks to Martin Zaltz Austwick about the census and what "synthetic data" means to researchers.

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Adam Dennett is a post-doctoral research associate in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and the Department for Information Studies, University College London. At present he works across a variety of projects: he is lead researcher on the migration stream of the Explaining, Modelling & Forecasting Global Dynamics (ENFOLD-ing) project; Research Associate for the Census Support Flow Data Service, and a researcher / user support officer for the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support (CeLSIUS). He is @adam_dennett on twitter and http://adamdennett.co.uk/ on the world wide web.

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This week's host is Martin Zaltz Austwick, who lectures on visualisation at CASA; you can chat to him at @sociablePhysics on twitter, and his blog is http://sociablePhysics.com .

Kaitlin Thaney from Digital Science talks about copyright law, creative commons, sharing and what this has to teach us about open science and open data.

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Kaitlin Thaney is a technologist, open advocate, and data enthusiast. She serves as the manager of external partnerships at Digital Science (http://www.digital-science.com/), responsible for the group’s external activities. She is a board member of the recently-launched http://datakind.org.uk/, an endeavour that aims to unlock open data for charity and community organisations.

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You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: [email protected] or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz, or tweet one of our friendly presenters (below).

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This week's host is Martin Zaltz Austwick, who lectures on visualisation at CASA; you can chat to him at @sociablePhysics on twitter, and his blog is http://sociablePhysics.com .

We're back! In this latest episode find out about augmented reality and museums, why we could be in for another dot com bust and we talk Digital Humanities with Dr Melissa Terras.

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Here are your links for this week

QRator wins Museum Award: http://claireyross.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/qrator-wins-a-museums-heritage-award-for-excellence-innovation/

Science Museum and James May in your pocket: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/software/3353745/james-mays-science-stories-app-review/

ICANN and linguistic computing: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/May2012/09052012-UCL-wins-contract-to-help-internationalise-the-internet

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Dr Melissa Terras is the Co-Director of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, and Reader in Electronic Communication in the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL), where she teaches Internet Technologies, Digital Resources in the Humanities, and Web Publishing. She can be found on Twitter; @melissaterras and you can see more of her research here: http://ucl.ac.uk/dh

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Steven Gray is a Research Associate in CASA; His website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com and catch him on twitter; @frogo.

Claire Ross is a PhD Student at UCL DH and you can catch up with her musings on twitter; @clairey_ross

This episode features a panel session featuring some of the top names in the world of spatial analysis talking about their own take on Smart Cities at UCL CASA's recent Smart Cities conference.

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On 20th April 2012, UCL CASA hosted a one day conference focusing on the research of cities covering crowd-sourcing, participatory mapping, sensing using social media, data dashboards, public transport, visual modelling and more. This panel session was recorded live during this event. Featuring Carlo Ratti (MIT Sensible Lab), Professor Michael Batty, Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith, Professor Alan Wilson and chaired by Dr James Cheshire.

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Steven Gray is a Research Associate in CASA; his website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com and catch him on twitter; @frogo.

Claire Ross is a PhD Student at UCL DH and you can catch up with her musings on twitter; @clairey_ross

Another Special Episode of the Global Lab live from San Diego. We bring you the latest news from Museums and the Web along with an Interview with Jeanie Sinclair.

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Jeanie Sinclair is a PhD Researcher, University College Falmouth and a Research Fellow, St. Ives Archive. You can read more about her research at http://theintangiblearchive.wordpress.com

Some links of Jeanie's work can be found at: http://js101092.wordpress.com http://www.stivesarchive.ac.uk http://www.stivesarchive.co.uk http://www.stivesmemorybay.co.uk

or you can follow her on Twitter: @objectophilia

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Steven Gray is a Research Associate in CASA; his website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com and catch him on twitter; @frogo.

Claire Ross is a PhD Student at UCL DH and you can catch up with her musings on twitter; @clairey_ross

In this special episode we bring you from Talkfest and pick up the discussions about the the sounds of science. You can find out more about the event by visiting http://www.biochemistry.org/SciencePolicy/Events/TalkfestFebruary2012.aspx

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You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: [email protected] or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.

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Steven Gray is a Research Associate in CASA; his website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com and catch him on twitter; @frogo.

Claire Ross is a PhD Student at UCL DH and you can catch up with her musings on twitter; @clairey_ross

In this episode we discuss how addictive Twitter actually is, we look at the new application of the Xbox Kinect and our brand new presenter Claire Ross talks to Peter Williams about his research in Information Systems for people with learning difficulties.

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Here are links to some of the topics we discussed on the show...

Peter Williams - UCL Information Studies

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Kinect Fusion and the CASA 3D Webcam

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=152807

http://blog.mackerron.com/2012/02/03/depthcam-webkinect/

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You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: [email protected] or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.

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Steven Gray is a Research Associate in CASA; his website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com and catch him on twitter; @frogo.

Claire Ross is a PhD Student at UCL DH and you can catch up with her musings on twitter; @clairey_ross

Today, Martin debates the use of the word ‘geek’, Hannah discusses the theory behind supermarket queues and our guest Jon Reades explains how data can help us improve our social, business & transport networks, and why we should all start shredding our rubbish.

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Alice Roberts kicks off the geek debate.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9030938/Alice-Roberts-hits-out-at-science-geeks.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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You can find Martin’s blogpost on the word ‘Geek’ here. Feel free to awe at its brilliance.

http://sociablephysics.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/why-i-do-not-self-identify-as-a-geek/

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The #IamScience hashtag. Beware - link contains references to drink, drugs and other naughty stuff.

http://deepseanews.com/2012/01/iamscience-embracing-personal-experience-on-our-rise-through-science/

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Hannah geeks out at a maths paper on the time to board an aeroplane:

http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevE.85.011130

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Link to 12 great visualisations that changed history:

http://owni.eu/2012/01/26/12-great-visualizations-that-made-history/

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You can visit Jon Reades website http://www.reades.com/ or follow him on twitter @jreades.

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Hannah Fry is a research associate in CASA; her website is http://HannahFry.co.uk and she is called @FryRSquared on twitter.

Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at CASA; his website is http://SociablePhysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @SociablePhysics.

In this episode we talk to Emma McKay about the interface between science and policy. Martin explains why Wikipedia went offline and Hannah discusses toothpick statues and what it's like to work as a mathematician.

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Here are links to some of the topics we discussed on the show...

Read an article about David Imus' spectacular map of the US here: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/01/the_best_american_wall_map_david_imus_the_essential_geography_of_the_united_states_of_america_.html

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See Scott Weavers toothpick sculpture of San Francisco here: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/04/one-man-100000-toothpicks-and-35-years-scott-weavers-rolling-through-the-bay/?src=footer

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Casa's latest contribution to crowd modelling may be found here: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(11)70287-0/fulltext

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And discussion on what it's like to be a mathematician can be seen on the Quora website: http://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-have-an-understanding-of-very-advanced-mathematics

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You can find out more about the British Academy via their website http://www.britac.ac.uk/ or follow Emma McKay @EmsMckay on twitter.

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You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: [email protected] or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.

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Hannah Fry is a research associate in CASA; her website is http://HannahFry.co.uk and she is called @FryRSquared on twitter.

Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at CASA; his website is http://SociablePhysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @SociablePhysics.