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• 02.20.10
  Neogeography & Participatory GIS GIS | (0)

  I just had notification of an article I recently wrote for a special issue of GIS Development on Neogeography. This is available online: here or to download as a PDF here. In brief, my article provides an overview of Neogeography and then details where I think the next developments will occur.
• 01.19.10
  Grid-enabling Geographically Weighted Regression: A Case Study of Participation in Higher Education in England GIS, Paper | (2)

  Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) is a method of spatial statistical analysis used to explore geographical differences in the effect of one or more predictor variables upon a response variable. However, as a form of local analysis, it does not scale well to (especially) large data sets because of the repeated processes of fitting and then comparing multiple regression surfaces. A solution is to make use of developing grid infrastructures, such as that provided by the National Grid Service (NGS) in the UK, treating GWR as an "embarrassing parallel" problem and building on existing software platforms to provide a bridge between ...
• 12.05.09
  Geographic Information Science in a UK Context GIS, Talk | (0)

  Geographic Information Science in a UK ContextView more documents from Alex Singleton.
• 06.18.09
  MSN Local a Crime? GIS, Geodemographics, Neogeography | (1)

  Somehow this passed me by but http://local.uk.msn.com/ now includes some socio-economic data at a national level. The crime information is worth a look and appears created from Experian data using the British Crime Survey rather than actual crime occurrences - then interpolated some how into a surface. Additionally, when you click the map, the data returned includes a series of the long descriptive profiles for the Mosaic Types or Groups within the "area" (however defined). I really do worry about these types of commercial representation, specifically given the lack of detail over the methods used and the potential consequences of their erroneous ...
• 04.11.09
  Imperial Stormtroopers also need GIS GIS | (0)
• 04.09.09
  Geography of “Buzz” GIS | (0)

  I am always on the hunt for nice mixed methods use of GIS - and this strikes me as one which is very good indeed. Essentially through the data mining of Getty Images photographs, the density of particular cultural events can be plotted. You can read the full article on the NY Times website.
• 04.04.09
  Moving to real time segmentation: efficient computation of geodemographic classification GIS, Geodemographics | (0)

  Two prizes came from the UCL camp at this years GISRUK. The previously mentioned mashup, and also the prize for the best young research paper by my student Adnan - titled: "Moving to real time segmentation: efficient computation of geodemographic classification - M Adnan, A D Singleton, C Brunsdon and P A Longley". Moving to real time segmentation: efficient computation of geodemographic classificationView more presentations from Alex Singleton.
• 04.03.09
  Ordnance Survey Geospatial Mashup Challenge Classification, Education, GIS, Geodemographics, Neogeography, Presentations | (2)

  Today was a jolly nice day with Ollie and I winning the Ordnance Survey Geospatial Mashup Challenge at GISRUK 2009. There were some really good entries and I was quite surprised with the result. One site which really impressed me was: "User Adaptive Trip Planner -Ramya Venkateswaran, Pia Bereuter, University of Zurich - hopefully this will be online soon". Our winning site is was titled "Contextualising Educational Careers for Widening Participation in Higher Education", however is really a nice educational atlas. This should be online soon with luck, but here are a few slides to view for now: Contextualising Educational Careers for ...
• 04.03.09
  Geographic data mining of online social networks GIS, Neogeography, Presentations | (0)

  I just presented this paper at GIS Research UK (GISRUK) in Durham sparking an interesting debate about ethics and use of transactional data. This is my first attempt at Keynote on OSX / Macbook - which after an initial failure at getting technology connected I am very impressed by overall. Geographic data mining of online social networksView more presentations from Alex Singleton.
• 04.02.09
  Virtual Geodemographics: Repositioning Area Classification for Online and Offline Spaces GIS, Geodemographics, Neogeography, Paper | (0)

  I have just published a new working paper: Abstract: Computer mediated communication and the Internet has fundamentally changed how consumers and producers connect and interact across both real space, and has also opened up new opportunities in virtual spaces. This paper describes how technologies capable of locating and sorting networked communities of geographically disparate individuals within virtual communities present a sea change in the conception, representation and analysis of socioeconomic distributions through geodemographic analysis. We argue that through virtual communities, social networks between individuals may subsume the role of neighbourhood areas as the most appropriate units of analysis, and as such, geodemographics ...

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