Jon Reades
@jreades.bsky.social
Prof of Geographic Data Science & HoD @ CASA, UCL. Python, Housing, Neighbourhoods, Industrial location, and Text. Sometime DB, MTB & 🍄 nerd. Co-auth: “Why Face-to-Face still matters” (http://bit.ly/3cW5gSr)
I’m going to push out the boat a bit further: the 2011 OAC shape file download from #GeoDS includes scores for the subgroups but the 2021 CSV doesn’t… 🤨
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I’m going to push out the boat a bit further: the 2011 OAC shape file download from #GeoDS includes scores for the subgroups but the 2021 CSV doesn’t… 🤨
Struggling to know what to do with all the money coming in from the royalties on my book. Irritatingly, I still think it’s a damned good book.
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Struggling to know what to do with all the money coming in from the royalties on my book. Irritatingly, I still think it’s a damned good book.
Oooh. Hen-of-the-woods is a new one for me.
October 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Oooh. Hen-of-the-woods is a new one for me.
One upside to the “summer ended the day school started” change.
September 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
One upside to the “summer ended the day school started” change.
With the exception of the background all of this is dynamically generated from the CLI in ffmpeg — my Rube Goldberg node+Python+Ocen pipeline can auto-generate/-update pre-recorded videos from Reveal.js slides and an audio track. Quite proud of that even if it was likely a poor use of time.
September 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
With the exception of the background all of this is dynamically generated from the CLI in ffmpeg — my Rube Goldberg node+Python+Ocen pipeline can auto-generate/-update pre-recorded videos from Reveal.js slides and an audio track. Quite proud of that even if it was likely a poor use of time.
#CUPUM25 poster session in full swing at @casaucl.bsky.social East.
June 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
#CUPUM25 poster session in full swing at @casaucl.bsky.social East.
This just feels like it needs a GIF.
Ok, really I just want to know how someone who didn’t know enough to answer a question about their grant could have made it to the interview stage.
Ok, really I just want to know how someone who didn’t know enough to answer a question about their grant could have made it to the interview stage.
June 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This just feels like it needs a GIF.
Ok, really I just want to know how someone who didn’t know enough to answer a question about their grant could have made it to the interview stage.
Ok, really I just want to know how someone who didn’t know enough to answer a question about their grant could have made it to the interview stage.
Randomly selected example of why UPRNs don't solve the data issues around joined up housing research in the UK: looks like two units sharing the same (building?) UPRN and therefore missing the parent/child relationship. Guess I should be happy they point to the same building at least!
June 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Randomly selected example of why UPRNs don't solve the data issues around joined up housing research in the UK: looks like two units sharing the same (building?) UPRN and therefore missing the parent/child relationship. Guess I should be happy they point to the same building at least!
For when you just can’t be ars*d to do a proper job of it.
May 31, 2025 at 12:27 PM
For when you just can’t be ars*d to do a proper job of it.
HoD at an actual international academic conference be like…
May 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
HoD at an actual international academic conference be like…
In which, like an idiot, I knock my ski pole 20’ down a 35° slope covered with loose ‘boulders’ of mixed ice and snow and have to knock in toe- and finger-holds using only my boots. Photo courtesy of my partner, who was laughing at me most of the time.
April 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
In which, like an idiot, I knock my ski pole 20’ down a 35° slope covered with loose ‘boulders’ of mixed ice and snow and have to knock in toe- and finger-holds using only my boots. Photo courtesy of my partner, who was laughing at me most of the time.
Massively unimpressed with @WalthamForest for their treatment of Hackney Brewery. If losing one local business is unfortunate, and two is carelessness, what is four? cc @walthamforestecho.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Massively unimpressed with @WalthamForest for their treatment of Hackney Brewery. If losing one local business is unfortunate, and two is carelessness, what is four? cc @walthamforestecho.bsky.social
Nice to be walking through here without the anxiety of a massive UG intro to geography chat to teach though.
February 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Nice to be walking through here without the anxiety of a massive UG intro to geography chat to teach though.
For all you people wanting to work with archives...
February 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
For all you people wanting to work with archives...
February 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Getting underway at our UKIERI workshop on the challenges raised by smarter city tech for the study of mobilities in Indian cities. @casaucl.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Getting underway at our UKIERI workshop on the challenges raised by smarter city tech for the study of mobilities in Indian cities. @casaucl.bsky.social
Because I can’t cope with any more news, here’s me demonstrating that, if (iff?) you watch enough gardening shows, you learn the importance of marking out and buy yourself some biodegradable orange spray-paint and a string for drawing circles. To be filled in later.
February 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Because I can’t cope with any more news, here’s me demonstrating that, if (iff?) you watch enough gardening shows, you learn the importance of marking out and buy yourself some biodegradable orange spray-paint and a string for drawing circles. To be filled in later.
Seeing out 2024 as best we can…
December 30, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Seeing out 2024 as best we can…
Not sure what the stuff in the right is, but that’s the day sorted.
December 25, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Not sure what the stuff in the right is, but that’s the day sorted.
As someone who works on housing stuff I find these kinds of juxtapositions… intriguing. *Someone* is going to be very wrong. Presumably someone who fancies themselves an expert. (There may, of course, be some incentive to be this wrong…)
December 12, 2024 at 7:56 PM
As someone who works on housing stuff I find these kinds of juxtapositions… intriguing. *Someone* is going to be very wrong. Presumably someone who fancies themselves an expert. (There may, of course, be some incentive to be this wrong…)
WTAF AI am I training now? This came after questions showing a kangaroo and asking me to compare it to other animals shown (but *not* seemingly to other kangaroos). I can’t *wait* ‘til we get to syllogisms and short critiques of Shakespeare to get a delivery update!
December 3, 2024 at 7:49 PM
WTAF AI am I training now? This came after questions showing a kangaroo and asking me to compare it to other animals shown (but *not* seemingly to other kangaroos). I can’t *wait* ‘til we get to syllogisms and short critiques of Shakespeare to get a delivery update!
