MOOC – Healthy Urban Systems
We invite you to the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Healthy Urban Systems, designed specifically for professionals and enthusiasts in the field of urban health. This first part of the MOOC series (consisting of...
Category: Society
Ex Machina: Coevolving Machines & the Origins of the Social Universe
Ex Machina: Coevolving Machines & the Origins of the Social Universe John H. Miller recently published “Ex Machina: Coevolving Machines & the Origins of the Social Universe,” in which he combines ideas from the...
Handbook on cities and networks
Edited by Zachary P. Neal, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, US and Céline Rozenblat, Professor of Urban Geography, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment,Université de Lausanne, Switzerland Publication Date: 2021 ISBN: 978...
A network analysis of Covid-19 vaccines
The rapid development of Covid-19 vaccines has been underpinned by an intricate web of co-patents, intellectual property agreements and lawsuits. Showing them as a network can be useful to highlight the most relevant nodes...
Data Journalism and the increasing mobilization of data in public debates
The Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to the daily use of graphics, dashboards and visualizations that helped make sense of its spread and global development. Data are increasingly available and easy to manipulate and diffuse....
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: where do we stand?
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2020 presents interactive storytelling and data visualizations about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It highlights trends for selected targets within each goal and introduces concepts about how some SDGs...
À contresens- the wrong way- Are electric cars not so green?
Electric cars are increasingly regarded as an interesting option to lower greenhouse emissions and curb pollution, especially in cities. There is often criticism, however, around a number of critical issues that would make electric...
When Holling meets Kandinsky: Panarchy, Resilience and Abstraction
“Identifying and managing risks is nowadays key in any strategic planning. Under the wording risk management, companies aim to control and minimize the risk level that could impact their short or long-term profitability. In...
CCS’15 & CS-DC’15 – Watching again the E-Session on Territorial Intelligence for Multi-level Equity and Sustainability
For those who missed the session Territorial Intelligence for Multi-level Equity and Sustainability, you can visualize online individually each presentation : Denise Pumain, University Paris 1. ERC GeodiverCity (Keynote Speaker – Conference CS-DC) World Urban...
Where people run in major cities
Interestingly…. they prefere parks and river sides :-(((( What a new information!!!! Where People Run
What is wrong with social networking?
A conversation with scientist and inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee on what is wrong with social networking Sir Tim berners Lee in DAVOS 2013
Tomorrow’s world
A guide to the next 150 years by BBC news graphics http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130102-tomorrows-world
When Networks Network
The magazine Science underline the huge advance made in network analysis. Networks interact, create cascading effects…… read more in Science
New Blog for the ERC project GeoDiverCity
http://geodivercity.parisgeo.cnrs.fr/blog/
The political Blogs networks for the French President elections
A wonderful visualization of the active networks for french elections classified by partis: see the website:
Interactive maps of the world population on the INED website
a terrific tool to give to students, children, citizens of the world…. http://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/interactive_maps/ See the instructions: publi_pdf2_pesa485
Sound Maps
To make the maps more “real”, add sounds….. In Montreal, they did it. http://www.montrealsoundmap.com/?lang=en Also England: http://sounds.bl.uk/uksoundmap/fusionmap.aspx
Les voeux de l’UNIL pour 2012 – Happy New year from University of Lausanne
Les voeux de l’UNIL pour 2012
Virtual exhibition of typography
The French National Library organizes different virtual exhibitions which are very interested for who wants to learn more about history of books, print and typography. Recently, a new exhibition about the actual creation of...
New technologies are nicer in a wonderful world……..
See the parodies: Of the book: – Spanish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_uaI28LGJk – Norvegian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek Of the Iphone 6 by Anthony Kavanagh (in french canadian) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJovnFcx4DY