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Alex Singleton

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Prof Geographic Information Science at the University of Liverpool; Author of Urban Analytics (amzn.to/2l5txth) mapstodon.space/@alexsingleton

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A few more days left to apply for an exciting job with us in Liverpool in the Geographic Data Service www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

#datascience #giscience #urbananalytics #smartdata #impact #geography #python #hiring #geospatial | Alex Singleton

I am looking for a Research Data Scientist to join the Geographic Data Service (GeoDS) and support our research and impact work. This is a role for someone who wants their data science to reach beyond...

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

If you are interested in unified UK census data; we have you covered…. www.linkedin.com/posts/geogra...

NEW DATA: Unified UK Census data tables, now available for download 📊 🔗 https://lnkd.in/efFBK77R One of the challenges of working with UK Census data is that three separate agencies (ONS, NRS… | Ge...

NEW DATA: Unified UK Census data tables, now available for download 📊 🔗 https://lnkd.in/efFBK77R One of the challenges of working with UK Census data is that three separate agencies (ONS, NRS, and ...

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Still time to apply for this exciting PhD project - geods.ac.uk/2026/02/13/p...

PhD Funding: Multimodal AI & Geodemographic Classification -

The University of Liverpool offers a PhD opportunity focused on using multimodal AI to enhance geodemographic classifications. The project explores the integration of large language models and vision ...

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

PhD applications time…. We have a new opportunity on multi modal AI and geodemographics geods.ac.uk/2026/02/13/p...

PhD Funding: Multimodal AI & Geodemographic Classification -

The University of Liverpool offers a PhD opportunity focused on using multimodal AI to enhance geodemographic classifications. The project explores the integration of large language models and vision ...

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Nice to see our retail centre work being used by the @theguardian.com www.linkedin.com/posts/geogra...

How has your local high street changed since 2019? Check your postcode | Geographic Data Service (GeoDS)

🔍 Explore how your local high street has changed since the pandemic This interactive tool from The Guardian shows how Great Britain's high streets have evolved since 2019, marking shifts in consumer ...

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Lots of exciting data stories about Londons nighttime economy … www.linkedin.com/posts/geogra...

📢 DATA AFTER DARK is live: https://dataafterdark.org/ The Data After Dark transdisciplinary research collaboration is the most comprehensive studies of London's night workers completed to date… |...

📢 DATA AFTER DARK is live: https://dataafterdark.org/ The Data After Dark transdisciplinary research collaboration is the most comprehensive studies of London's night workers completed to date. Com...

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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

PhD Funding: Multi-Scale Urban Remote Sensing with AI

We have another exciting Geographic Data Service PhD opportunity based at the University of Liverpool. This project is sponsored by IBM Research as part of a EPSRC Industrial Doctoral Landscape Award ...

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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

#hiring #datascience #geospatial #llm #ukri #smartdata #researchjobs… | Geographic Data Service

🚀 We’re hiring TWO Senior Data Scientists! 🚀 Help us unlock the power of smart data to tackle regional inequalities and improve lives across the UK. About the roles 📍 Based at the University of Liver...

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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...

#hiring #datascience #geospatial #llm #ukri #smartdata #researchjobs… | Geographic Data Service

🚀 We’re hiring TWO Senior Data Scientists! 🚀 Help us unlock the power of smart data to tackle regional inequalities and improve lives across the UK. About the roles 📍 Based at the University of Liver...

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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025

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

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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...

#data #smartdata #geods #datascience | Geographic Data Service

The Geographic Data Service Catalogue Now Live🎉 We are delighted to release the GeoDS data catalogue 📈 Building on the success of the Consumer Data Research Centre’s (CDRC) data platform this new ...

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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...

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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...

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

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

From the perspective of Wales and, specifically, Welsh speaker numbers, EWC discontinuation poses a real issue – in particular, over the quality of alternative data.

The decision about whether there will be another EWC will be made by the UK Government. A decision about a census in Wales should be made in Wales: i.e. by the Welsh Government subject to Senedd consent.

It should be put beyond doubt that the CA is devolved to Wales, as it is to Scotland. It is not clear why the decision to hold a census for Wales is made by the UK Government because the reserved powers model now applies to Wales.

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

🚀 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- 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!!!

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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!

30 Day Map Challenge: The Final Map – Alex Singleton

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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.

30 Day Map Challenge: Overture – Alex Singleton

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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.

30 Day Map Challenge: The Blue Planet – Alex Singleton

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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.

30 Day Map Challenge: Micromapping – Alex Singleton

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University of Liverpool News @livuninews.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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...

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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.

30 Day Map Challenge: Map Projections – Alex Singleton

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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.

30 Day Map Challenge: Heat – Alex Singleton

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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.

30 Day Map Challenge: Only Circular Shapes – Alex Singleton

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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

30 Day Map Challenge: Memory – Alex Singleton

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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...

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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!

30 Day Map Challenge: 2 Colours – Alex Singleton

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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!

30 Day Map Challenge: Conflict – Alex Singleton

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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.

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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.

30 Day Map Challenge: OpenStreetMap – Alex Singleton

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🚀 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 - buff.ly/4fSyChU and builds on the work that we have done over the past ten years as part of the CDRC.

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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.

30 Day Map Challenge: Typography – Alex Singleton

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024

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

Action Intent Links | Bluesky

Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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.

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30 Day Map Challenge: 3D – Alex Singleton

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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

30 Day Map Challenge: Collaborative Map – Alex Singleton

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

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

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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

30 Day Map Challenge: Choropleth – Alex Singleton

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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

30 Day Map Challenge: My Data – Alex Singleton

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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:

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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.

30 Day Map Challenge: A World Map – Alex Singleton

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Ruth Neville @ruthneville20.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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....

Unraveling the Brexit–COVID-19 nexus: assessing the decline of EU student applications into UK universities | Data & Policy | Cambridge Core

Unraveling the Brexit–COVID-19 nexus: assessing the decline of EU student applications into UK universities - Volume 6

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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:

30 Day Map Challenge: A New Tool – Alex Singleton

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

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. informationisbeautiful.net/data

A table listing various article titles and their corresponding bit.ly links, sorted by publication date from August 2024 to May 2023. The table has four columns: Title, bit.ly link, Published date, and Updated (empty). Topics include 'Per Second', 'WaterWorld', several articles about plastics, 'Two Years of the Russia-Ukraine War', among others. Most links are either geni.us or Google Docs spreadsheet URLs. Dates range from most recent (01 Aug 2024) to oldest (24 May 2023)

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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!

30 Day Map Challenge: Time and Space – Alex Singleton

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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!

30 Day Map Challenge: Arctic – Alex Singleton

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

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!

30 Day Map Challenge: Pen and Paper – Alex Singleton

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

ChatGPT asks HADLEY for rstats tips not the other way around

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

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.

30 Day Map Challenge: AI Only – Alex Singleton