Andrea Ballatore, PhD.

Andrea Ballatore is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Cultural Data Science at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, where he directs the Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab. His research develops and applies data science and GeoAI methods to investigate cultural dynamics in domains such as the creative and cultural industries, GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums), human geography, and war studies. His main themes include: the geographic patterns of cultural venues, activities, and audience participation to uncover and address spatial inequalities; the use of user-generated content for urban analytics and planning; the semantics of geographic information and geo-parsing; and geo-visualisation and exploratory methods for digital History. He is Fellow of the UK Royal Geographical Society and Alumnus of the Centre for Spatial Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. His work has received funding from UKRI, Ordnance Survey UK, and Facebook Research. He is a strand co-lead on the Leverhulme-funded £10m Centre for Slavery in War.