Dear Colleagues,
Karen Bacon and I are pleased to continue convening the School of Geography Seminars on the physical geography and human geography side, respectively. These Seminars are meant to be intellectually and socially inclusive, so we give all members of staff and interested colleagues and students a warm welcome.
This academic year we will kick off with Dr Alex Singleton's fascinating talk on spatial analytics with "big data" on Thursday 2 October 2014, 4-5PM. Please find the abstract and directions below.
We will present the full School of Geography Seminars programme for 2014-2015 soon.
Best regards,
Dr Karen Bacon & Dr Martin Zebracki
Convenors, School of Geography Seminars
ABSTRACT
The Past, Present and Future of Spatial Analytics with "Big Data"
Dr Alex Singleton, University of Liverpool
http://www.liv.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/staff/alexander-singleton
http://www.alex-singleton.com
Geography Lecture Theatre, Geography East Building (location details below)
Thursday 2 October 2014, 4-5PM
This talk will explore the emergence of "big data" analytics in Geography, placing these developments within the context of historical methods and approaches to spatial data. It is argued that although there are some unique hallmarks of big data that can constrain analyses, a disjunction between available data and computational power is not a new phenomenon; and geographers in particular have been adept at creating innovative solutions that counter such constraints. A case study of early geodemographic analysis is considered. Discussion then returns to the contemporary period, illustrating a number of recent examples coupling big data with open source analytical tools to explore patterns and dynamics of city populations. Finally, some speculation and challenges are presented for future directions in spatial big data analytics.
DIRECTIONS
This Seminar is held in the School of Geography Lecture Theatre. This can be found in the Geography East Building, University of Leeds. If you find the car park in the centre of this Google Maps image at http://goo.gl/DbxKBC, the Geography East Building is the building on the right of it. Enter from the car park, and follow the right-hand wall to reach the Lecture Theatre. Instructions for getting to the University, and for visitor car parking, can be found here:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/20014/about/157/how_to_find_us.
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Dr M.M. (Martin) Zebracki
Lecturer in Critical Human Geography
School of Geography
University of Leeds
University Road
Leeds LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 113 34 33331
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