Our student Shahreen Nawfee will present her new short paper at the flagship conference GIScience 2021, which is happening online this year. Check out the conference programme here. Abstract. Spatial user-generated content (UGC) is increasingly being used to study a variety of geographical phenomena, including urban change in social and economic dimensions. Wikipedia content evolves over … Continue reading The spatial and temporal variability of Wikipedia content in London
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This city is not a bin: User-generated content to map litter
I am pleased to share this new article that just appeared in the Journal of Industrial Ecology. It is a inter-disciplinary study between industrial ecology and geographic data science that I crafted with my esteemed colleagues in Leiden Stefano Cucurachi et al. It is nice to see that the study received some media coverage. The … Continue reading This city is not a bin: User-generated content to map litter
Fixed-term Associate Lecturer in Geographic Data Science/GIS at Birkbeck, University of London
We are looking to appoint an Associate Lecturer in Geographic Data Science. This is a short-term, teaching only position. As teaching at Birkbeck happens in the evening (6-9pm), this position would suit someone who has a day job and wants to gain teaching experience (UG and PG) and/or an extra income. Candidates must have sound … Continue reading Fixed-term Associate Lecturer in Geographic Data Science/GIS at Birkbeck, University of London
Defining Natural Points of Interest
In this new short paper by our student Charlie Hewitt at GISRUK 2021, which will run online again later in April. Abstract. This paper contributes to the working definition of natural points of interest (NPOI). We combine a theory-driven approach exploring existing definitions of points of interest and natural features and a data-driven approach in … Continue reading Defining Natural Points of Interest
Teaching material for geospatial Python
This year I developed new teaching resources aimed at MSc students in geographic data science. The technology stack includes Anaconda, Jupyter notebooks, and an array of open-source Python packages for geospatial analytics and machine learning. I put it all on GitHub at https://github.com/andrea-ballatore/teaching-programming-for-gis. Anaconda 3 logo As computer programming was one of the most feared … Continue reading Teaching material for geospatial Python
Social Media and/as Urban Research: A Workshop for Beginners
When: 30 March 2021, 14:00 — 17:00Venue: Online Book your place now [booked up] Event description Registration Deadline: 12 March 2021, 5pm GMT (UK Time) About: Are you an urban researcher interested in using or focusing on social media in your project? Are you curious about some of the conceptual and methodological issues at stake? Social Media and/as Urban Research is … Continue reading Social Media and/as Urban Research: A Workshop for Beginners
Research project: Museums in the Pandemic
The Mapping Museums research team has been awarded £190,000 to investigate and analyse risk, closure, and resilience in the UK museum sector during the pandemic. Museums in the pandemic The project combines qualitative and quantitative research, and it has three inter-related strands. Developing new ways to collect data on museums. We will use web-scraping techniques, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis to digitally track trends as they … Continue reading Research project: Museums in the Pandemic
I put some open geospatial datasets on GitHub
I spent some time collecting open geospatial datasets to be used in an educational context. All original datasets are freely available online with open data licenses (see the dataset attribution for details). All the datasets in this repository have been selected, cleaned, harmonised, and repackaged in open formats (GeoJSON and GeoTiff) for GIS exercises in a higher-education context. This … Continue reading I put some open geospatial datasets on GitHub
Urban Intersections webinar: Race, Policing and the City – 1 Dec 2020, 6pm
This is part of the new ‘Urban Intersections’ series that I organise with Mara Nogueira and Scott Rodgers. "RACE, POLICING & THE CITY" When: 1 December 2020, 18:00 — 20:00 (GMT)Venue: Online Book your place now In this webinar, Megan McElhone (Birkbeck) and Jaime Alves (UC Santa Barbara) will discuss the racialised policing practices as well as the racialised resistance strategies of urban communities. Part of the Urban Intersections series hosted by Birkbeck, University … Continue reading Urban Intersections webinar: Race, Policing and the City – 1 Dec 2020, 6pm
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Localising Content Governance), Dept of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
Please see job ad and full job pack here: https://cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/postdoctoral-research-fellow-localising-content-governance-422711.html The Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (12 months, full-time). The postholder will contribute to a mixed-method study into the politics of content governance in neighbourhood Facebook Groups. At the local scale, social media … Continue reading Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Localising Content Governance), Dept of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
Data Science in Place 