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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I will get this tracked down! Someone will have a hard drive somewhere!

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Challenge accepted! Leave it with me and I will have a hunt!!

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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

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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...

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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.

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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!!!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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

This is really nice; what’s the data source?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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

Year, but only on the full viz after the link

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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...

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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!

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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!

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

Final book which I weirdly never touched as an UG as I had ruled it out because of colour content. As a postdoc I ended up working on the books teaching materials, but generally is still my favorite GIS intro. The first few chapters are classics and fundamentally shaped how I see GIS and GISc.

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

I was given this book by Stewart, Martin and Chris 3 months into my PhD as part of a workshop on GWR hosted at UCSB. This provided an excellent reader on this particular approach, which at the time was my first foray into more sophisticated statistical methods.

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

This was another UG book that I read. Probably the most niche topic for a book that I have ever read, but contains everything that you need to know about the fundamentals of locating things by postcode! Foundational stuff if you are in the UK.

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

This one got me interested in research as an UG. By complete chance I end up doing a PhD in the lab where Martin D was based a couple of years later. This is still a fascinating read from a pre social media era!

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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

If you use any of them we would love to hear about successful use cases! 👍

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

Not on AGOL yet! But you can get London here: data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/lond...; E&W here: data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/outp... and UK here: data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/uk-oac

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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.

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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

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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...

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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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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

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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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