Jon Reades

London, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography at King's College London

I joined the department as Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography at the start of 2013. Previously, I had been a Research Associate for two years at UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis following the completion of his MPhil/PhD at the Bartlett School of Planning. I also hold a B.A. (1997) in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. In the intervening years, I worked for a database mining and marketing start-up based in New York and London in a range of capacities: graphic designer, web application developer, and project manager. This work stimulated my interest in 'big data' and its potential as a platform for examining and acting upon 'smart cities'. In my research, I h...