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Dear All, A quick reminder that short abstracts are due for the below session this Wednesday for those who wish to present. Kind Regards, James On 14/01/2013 12:45, James Cheshire wrote: > > 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] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by *_Wednesday 6^th February 2013_*. > -- > 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