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Dear All,
Please see the below call for papers for a
GIScience Research Group sponsored session at the RGS-IBG
conference this year (28th-30th August in London).
If you have any questions please get in
touch. Note the deadline is the 6th February.
Many thanks,
James Cheshire
Big, Open Data and the Practice of
GIScience
Session Chair: TBC
Convenors: James Cheshire, Paul Longley
This session investigates the ways in which
the practices of GIScience, and of quantitative social science
more broadly, are changing in the light of innovation and change
in availability of big and open data. Geographic information
technologies are facilitating the creation and synthesis of
datasets on an enormous scale, fed in large part by the open
data policies of governments intent upon unlocking previously
unavailable datasets. These developments offer exciting
opportunities for methodological innovation as well as
substantive generalisation through spatial data. We welcome
contributions related to any of the following broad themes:
- Large
transport datasets
- Mining
and analysis of social media
- Use
of government open data
- Innovative
visualisation of large spatial datasets
Abstracts should be around 200 words in length. Please send them
to James Cheshire ([log in to unmask])
by Wednesday 6th
February 2013.
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Dr James Cheshire
Lecturer in Advanced Spatial Analysis
UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
1st Floor 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 4TJ.
spatialanalysis.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 3108 3914