We are still recruiting for another PhD for the next academic year, working with IBM Research - geods.ac.uk/2025/07/02/p...

Final call www.linkedin.com/posts/geogra...

If you are in the market for an exciting new data science job, I am recruiting for two Senior Data Scientists at the Geographic Data Service 👇👇👇👇👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/geogra...

Love the visual summary of #SDSC25 No pandas were harmed in the process 😉 @movingpandas#sdsc25#movementdataanalysis

Exciting news today from our Geographic Data Service team - who doesn’t want access to a load of geographic and consumer data: www.linkedin.com/posts/geogra...

Exciting PhD opportunity alert!!!! 👇👇👇🌶️🌶️https://geods.ac.uk/2025/04/22/fully-funded-phd-opportunity-advancing-urban-analytics-through-ai-driven-geodemographic-classification/ 🌶️🌶️ #AI #GIS #DataScientist #GeoAI

Who fancies coming to do a PhD with me in the newly established www.geods.ac.uk - the topic is "AI and Geodemographics".... UK Students only unfortunately - but a great opportunity to join our exciting team - www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Who fancies coming to do a PhD with me in the newly established www.geods.ac.uk - the topic is "AI and Geodemographics".... UK Students only unfortunately - but a great opportunity to join our exciting team - www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

More open address datasets released by councils in England www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad... New blog post with download links for Council Tax lists from Birmingham City Council and Lichfield District Council, including full addresses, CT bands, and UPRNs. #FOI #openaddresses #opendata

Why there should be a Wales-only census nation.cymru/opinion/why-... Argument from Dr Huw Evans that, if the UK Government discontinues the decennial Census for England and Wales, the Welsh Government should be able to mandate a Census for Wales alone. #Census2031 #opendata #devolution

🚀 Job Alert!!! 🚀 The first in a series of long term posts within the SDRUK Geographic Data Service which will launch next year -this one is based in UCL- https://buff.ly/4fSyChU - and builds on the work that we have done over the past ten years as part of the CDRC. Deadline 12th Dec!!!

Day 30 #30DayMapChallenge - Final Map Todays map is an exploration of small area Gross Value Added (GVA) data in England and was an excuse to look at these in the context of retail centres. All #rstats code provided, but a bit rough!

Day 29 #30DayMapChallenge - Overture We have been working with these data quite a bit since they arrived and have created ETL to produce an updatable POI dataset for the UK. This #rstats map illustrates how you can use these data to map coffee shops.

Day 28 #30DayMapChallenge - The Blue Planet One of the most popular CDRC open data products is our Access to Healthy Assets and Hazards index. This includes a measure of access to bluespace which is today's map. The blog post contains links to the interactive version.

Day 27 #30DayMapChallenge - Micromapping This is a quick example of using #rstats to produce cartography from OpenStreetMap. In this instance a map is create for my local park.

NEWS| The Liverpool City Region has been announced as a £6.75 million creative cluster for the music sector. 🙌🎶 Led by @liverpooluni.bsky.social and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social MusicFutures will establish the LCR as a music research and development powerhouse. 👉 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2024/11/27/l...

Day 26 #30DayMapChallenge - Map Projections Today is a quick #rstats exploration that compares areas to explore distortion between two projections - the Eckert IV projection and the Mercator projection.

Day 25 #30DayMapChallenge - Heat Staying warm is difficult for many people as the price of heating their homes has risen in the UK. In this work we explored the geography of gas consumption trends in the residential sector across England and Wales.

Day 24 #30DayMapChallenge - Only circular shapes This is another #rstats post which uses Ordnance Survey greenspace data and a simple accessibility measure to map proximity to an allotment in Greater London. The circles are scaled by their proximity.

Day 23 #30DayMapChallenge - Memory I have taken a collective view on this topic today. This is a map of cognitive geography and place associations extracted from some work looking at where people talk about on Reddit

This is a very interesting #dataviz comparison of most of the major LLM ranked by performance, using MMLU (Massive Multitasks Language Understanding) informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...

Day 22 #30DayMapChallenge - 2 Colours This map was created in #rstats and features just 2 colours. Left is where Labour were the majority party in the 2024 UK General Election. The map on the right is the subset where the Reform party held second place!

Day 21 #30DayMapChallenge - Conflict This is not an area that I research in particular, however I have done some work on the visualisation / mapping of UK crime data, and I wrote a short paper about this a reasonable length of time ago!

Happy GIS Day… a few of my favorite books which got me interested in GIS and spatial analysis more generally. This first one was my first intro to GIS as my UG textbook. At the time I liked the fact it was in B&W. Very good pedagogic content.

Day 20 #30DayMapChallenge - OpenStreetMap Todays map is probably interesting to anyone who wants a map of US retail destinations. It is built from a variety of data including OSM using in #rstats and with an interactive website.

Wake up you sleepyheads Here's the Hansard account of yesterday's Second Reading debate on the Data (Use and Access) Bill in the UK House of Lords hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2024-1... Bill docs bills.parliament.uk/bills/3825/p... #DUABill #DataBill #smartdata #digitalID #dataprotection

🚀 Job Alert!!! 🚀 The first in a series of long term posts within the SDRUK Geographic Data Service which will launch next year -this one is based in London - https://buff.ly/4fSyChU and builds on the work that we have done over the past ten years as part of the CDRC.

Day 19 #30DayMapChallenge - Typography This was a fun #rstats challenge to map postcode areas in GB. This uses a Dorling Cartogram behind the scenes to position and scale the text.

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Day 18 #30DayMapChallenge - 3D I don't really like 3D maps very much, but I have created one non-the less which mirrors a style we use on our mapmaker.cdrc.ac.uk platform. This uses #esri ArcGIS Online and shows the geodemographics of London.

Day 17 #30DayMapChallenge - Collaboration Todays map comes from collaborative work that Patrick Ballantyne and I have been coordinating with the Liverpool City Region to develop spatial indicators to help them with targeting of investments. #rstats

Hey #geosky! The 19th Conference on Location Based Services (LBS) will be held in Espoo, Finland from May 7th to 9th, 2025. The call for papers is open! Full paper DL 01.11.2024 Abstract DL 01.02.2025 Showcase DL 15.02.2025 lbs2025.lbsconference.org/index.html #GIScience #geography #GIS

Day 16 #30DayMapChallenge - Choropleth Today is my most prevalent map type and the latest iteration of a classification of London's residential neighbourhoods.

Day 15 #30DayMapChallenge - My Data - this one is about my family mountain in Antarctica, well almost mountain!

Join our focus groups on using LLM to improve research data discoverability. Sessions on December 2, 2024: data services at 10-11 and local government/third sector at 12-1. Earn a £25 gift voucher. Details and registration at:

Day 14 of #30DayMapChallenge - A World Map - this one shows the relationship between the number of accepted undergraduate university applications from an origin country relative to its human development level.

New paper from my #PhD in @Data_and_Policy evaluating the impact of #Brexit and #COVID19 on international student applications to the UK w/ @fcorowe.bsky.social and @alexsingleton.bsky.social ! We find substantial declines in EU applicants as a direct result of #Brexit 📉 doi.org/10.1017/dap....

Day 13 of #30DayMapChallenge - A New Tool - this one was using a new tool when wrote the paper; and was a study of cycling accidents and routing in London:

Updated every month: Access the raw datasets behind every #dataviz we've ever released online. The IIB Data Room. 500+ sheets, 1200+ datasets. Continually updated. https://informationisbeautiful.net/data/

Day 12 of #30DayMapChallenge - Time and Space - this one is a bit abstract as my colleague and I develop a technique to abstract movement away from geographic location!

Day 11 of #30DayMapChallenge: Arctic - this one is fairly boring, but I used ArcGIS Online which I have been learning recently, so now I understand how projections work and also animations!

Day 10 of #30DayMapChallenge - Pen and Paper - I went with virtual paper and pen, but believe it or not, this is all drawn by hand! Also a test of childhood memory!

ChatGPT asks HADLEY for rstats tips not the other way around

Day 9 of #30DayMapChallenge - AI Only. This map was made using a single prompt to generate #rstats with AI, and includes critique of how well this worked. Technically this is clever as we know, but in terms of spatial literacy there are still a lot of questions.

UK's EV charge point database decommissioned for next-generation platform fleetworld.co.uk/uks-ev-charg... What this coverage misses: DfT's replacement platform won't provide an aggregated dataset for public re-use www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/c28da... 😤 #EVdata #opendata #govtech

Day 8 #30DayMapChallenge - The Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) data isn't something I have used in my research, so wrote a little #Rstats tutorial for accessing and mapping these data.

Major new report out today making the case for overcoming the barriers and inefficiencies that currently delay the safe and secure use of health data in the UK to improve lives - the Sudlow review www.hdruk.ac.uk/helping-with...

Day 7 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Vintage - Todays map is a digitally vintage style map from the early to mid 2000s before GoogleMaps introduced "slippy maps"

I've written a series of blog posts about what I've been up to over the last few months! 📝 In the posts I talk about webR, R Shinylive, and a new Quarto extension for interactive code exercises. Take a look if you're interested in the latest for R for WebAssembly. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/10...

Day 6 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Raster - this map produces a national classification or urban context for each postcode in GB using raster satellite data.