This week we talk about mapping unrest in the wake of recent UK events, social media and mapping, Deep Blue and the potential of IBM's Watson project. Steve talks to Dan Lewis from UCL's Geography department about his work on access to healthcare in London.
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Here are links to some of the topics we discussed on the show:
Maps of unrest:
Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8689355/London-riots-all-incidents-mapped-in-London-and-around-the-UK.html
Guardian (including data sources): http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/aug/09/uk-riots-incident-map
Twitter hashtag map from Richard at CASA: http://genesis.blogs.casa.ucl.ac.uk/2011/08/11/twitter-maps-and-ukriots/
And a more sober BBC version: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14436499
This is the wikipedia page on Deep Blue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)
And IBM have their own page on the Watson project: http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/
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Daniel Lewis' website can be accessed here: http://danieljlewis.org/
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Steven Gray is a researcher at UCL-CASA: his personal website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com/ or you can follow @frogo on twitter.
Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at UCL-CASA; his website is http://sociablephysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @sociablephysics.
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