Andy Turner's Blog 2010-01 Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Andy Turner's Blog 2010-01 Web Page

Blog
Events:
- The 2nd International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation (ICCMS 2010)
  - http://www.iccms.org
  - 2010-01-22 to 2010-01-24, Sanya, China.
- Workshop on Users, Usability and User-engagement Based on e-Research, and Web 2.0
  - http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1053/
  - http://research3.org/events/Schedule.pdf
  - http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=1053
  - 2010-01-18 and 2010-01-19, Oxford, UK.
- Leeds Social Sciences Institute Workshop: Disciplining the Social Sciences? Inter / disciplinarity, impact and a strategy for the future
  - http://lssi.leeds.ac.uk/events/83
  - 2010-01-12, Leeds, UK.
- Events planning to attend/attended
  - Data-Intensive Research meeting
    - http://tinyurl.com/yj8gsos
    - http://wikis.nesc.ac.uk/escienvoy/Date-Intensive_Research_meeting
    - 2010-01-12 11.00am-4.30pm in the Active Learning Lab (9.30a), level 9, School of Computing, E C Stoner Building, University of Leeds, UK
- Events on the horizon:
  - Sixth International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2010)
    - http://www.giscience2010.org
    - 2010-09-14 to 2010-09-17, Zurich, Switzerland.
  - FOSS4G 2010
    - http://2010.foss4g.org
    - 2010-09-06 to 2010-09-09, Barcelona, Spain.
  - JISC Inovation Forum 2010
    - http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jif10
    - http://jif10.uservoice.com/pages/32842-general
    - 2010-07-28 to 2010-07-29 London, UK.
  - Second Open Source GIS UK Conference - OSGIS 2010
    - http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis10/os_home.html
    - 2010-06-20 to 2010-06-21, Nottingham, UK
  - 36th Annual Conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST 2010)
    - http://ciser.cornell.edu/IASSIST/
    - 2010-06-01 to 2010-06-04, New York, USA.
  - European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010
    - http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2010
    - 2010-05-02 to 2010-05-07, Vienna, Austria
  - WWW2010
    - http://www2010.org
    - 2010-04-26 to 2010-04-30, Raleigh, USA.
  - Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2010
    - http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
    - 2010-04-24, London, UK.
  - GISRUK 2010
    - http://gisruk2010.spatial-literacy.org/
    - 2010-04-13 to 2010-04-16, London, UK.
  - JISC Conference 2010
    - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/events/2010/04/jisc10.aspx
    - 2010-04-12 to 2010-04-13, London, UK.
  - Workshop on Urban Dynamics URBANICS
    - http://www.urbanics.cl
    - 2010-03-22 to 2010-03-25, Chile
  - DIstributed SImulation & Online gaming (DISIO)
    - http://disio.cs.unibo.it/
    - 2010-03-15, Malaga, Spain.
  - The Collaborations Workshop 2010 (CW10)
    - http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/CW10
    - 2010-03-10 to 2010-03-11, Edinburgh, UK.
  - Ordnance Survey Terrafuture 2010
    - 2010-03-10, Southampton, UK.
  - International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC) 2010
    - http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2010/
    - http://indico.twgrid.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=861
    - 2010-03-07 to 2010-03-10, Taipei, Taiwan.
  - JISC Developer Days
    - http://www.dev8d.org/why.html
    - 2010-02-24 to 2010-02-27, London, UK.
Funding Opportunities
- Vitae Yorkshire and North East Hub Conference and Events Grant
  - http://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/190641/Vitae-Yorkshire-and-North-East-Hub-Conference-and-Events-Grant.html
  - 2010-01-29 deadline
2010-02-01
2010-01-29
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - GEOG1300 Tutorial Handover
    - ...
- e-Science
  - GENESIS
    - Memory handling coding
      - ...
2010-01-28
- Browsing
- e-Science
  - GENESIS
    - Meeting with Paul and Scott...
    - Speeding things up
      - figuring why things slow down...
2010-01-27
- Browsing
- e-Science
  - GENESIS
    - Testing
      - _Year 3_Day 213...
2010-01-26
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - Publication plans meeting with Mark
    - For the REF exercise 4 publications for each person are wanted:
      - Each publication can only be cited once within each unit of assessment.
      - First authored, peer reviewed articles in ISI rated Journals are preferred (can be regarded as gold standard)
      - Census date is likely to be in 2012
      - http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2009/09_38/
    - The School of Geography are to choose if individuals publication records will be part of REF submission.
    - Other forms of non-gold standard publication may be considered, all considerations are likely to be based on a subjective quality assessment of an individual.
    - It is the push for gold standard which encourages us to plan now as these type of publication traditionally take much longer to be processed than for example publishing at conferences.
    - Mark was of the opinion that we could publish the same work both at a conference and again in a journal
      - I didn't think that was best practice, seeing it as either or.
    - ISGC
      - GENESIS Abstract
        
        Mark keen to develop two further publications from this, a key one is based on the transport model.
      - Early bird registration ends on the 2010-02-05
        
        It would be good to know if I am going before then.
      - Discussion about content and modelling progress
        
        Epidemiology - Flu, Foot and Mouth
        
        Mike Murphy
        
        Reality Mining MIT
        
        http://reality.media.mit.edu/
        
        Using Twitter/OMB data to feed activity models
        
        Plasc and other school/shopping data
    - I should focus on developing the models - the transport model in particular.
    - This discussion should continue and we should identify specific targets of where to publish.
- e-Science
  - UKBuildingGeometry
    - Emailed Jin to ask about progress in writing up
      - ...
      - Reading
        
        http://www.gisdevelopment.net/technology/survey/ma07168.htm
        
        http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXIII/congress/part3/927_XXXIII-part3.pdf
        
        http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/bdc/virtualcities.pdf
        
        http://www.gisdevelopment.net/technology/survey/ma07168.htm
        
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_data_acquisition_and_object_reconstruction
        
        http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1077-3142(03)00027-4
  - GENESIS
    - Testing demographic simulation for 1000000 initial population
      - _Year 3_Day 258
      - ...
      - Not seemingly swapping AgentCollections, just individual Agents...
2010-01-25
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - MASS Catchup meeting
    - ...
- e-Science
  - GENESIS
    - OutOfMemoryErrorHandling and testing demographic simulation with 1000000 initial population
      - ...
2010-01-22
- Browsing
- e-Science
  - GENESIS
    - Debugging
      - ...
2010-01-21
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - Equality & Diversity briefing
    - I am now trained...
- e-Science
  - GENESIS
    - Debugging
      - ...
2010-01-20
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - Half Way Tutors Meeting
    - Agenda
      - General
        
        Set menu or a la carte: A number of people, including AE, have expressed a desire for a prescriptive menu for tutorials at levels 1 and 2. The current module outlines are fairly detailed, but are not thought to go far enough. The points Andy makes are that students complain of disparity of treatment and that there are lots of examples of good practice and these should be shared. Others have indicated to me that they prefer to set their own tutorial plans and are opposed to a one-size-fits-all approach. Maybe a compromise position is to have a set menu but allow an a la carte selection. In this case, what elements should everyone be covering?
        
        Wikipedia: What advice should we give about its use?
        
        Essays: How many essays should students write? Clearly, the number of assessed essays is set but should students be allowed to write more than the set number.
        
        GEOG1300
        
        Feedback on lectures: I would like to know if tutors have specific, constructive feedback on the lectures. Do tutors have a view on the lectures?
        
        Feedback on skills portfolio workbook: The same questions for the skills portfolio workbook.
        
        Leeds for life: Any views?
        
        Other things we should be doing in GEOG1300?
        
        GEOG2300 and GEOG2350 (apologies if this is mainly 2300 related)
        
        Link with GEOG2310 Ideas in HG/ GEOG2320 Ideas in PG: We have a number of students taking GEOG 2300 and 2350 who are JH students and have chosen not to take the respective Ideas modules. Should we attempt to end this because of complications it can cause when planning module content and setting essay titles? If we were to do this we would have to stop using the tutorial modules to support the ideas modules.
        
        Essay questions: Related to this (and relevant to 2300 if not to 2350) is the question of essay titles. Should we be setting tutees essay titles that might give them an advantage in the exam? Indeed, is there any point in setting them so early in the semester essay titles drawing on the Idea module when perforce little has yet been covered. Perhaps the essays might cover only the first half of the module and the exam the second half?
        
        Literature review: In 2300, as of this year there are two types of literature review on offer, one is much broader but related more closely to conceptual approaches introduced in the Ideas module. The other attempts to get students to relate conceptual approaches to the literature drawn from other modules they are studying. Do people like these two options? Is one better than the other?
        
        Please bring other issues for discussion to the meeting.
    - Notes
      - General
        
        Students being able to set some of their own essay titles is important
        
        This sort of thing is not in tune with the more prescriptive advice coming from Andy Evans
        
        Essay titles can be vetted and graded in terms of difficulty as with other exercises
        
        Every academic staff should have a first and second year tutorial group.
        
        How do we allocate people to tutor groups in the second and third year?
        
        This is done by Diane trying to strike a gender balance
        
        We considered various ways of how to do this better.
        
        The major concerns in changing this are dangers of exclusion and the amount of work to do it well.
        
        Wikipedia - We should be encouraging its use and development, but there is still resistance to citing articles from it...
      - Geog1300
        
        Additional skills profile training suggestions
        
        What skills should student develop as part of skills training?
        
        Social Bookmarking
        
        Using Wikis and Blogs
        
        Developing personal open web profiles using http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk
        
        Sharing Best Practice (Ideas exchange)
        
        Andy Baird is doing something good...
        
        Max suggested using a wiki that we once had for this...
    - Chat with Robert, we should have another brief meeting to handover...
- e-Science
  - GENESIS
    - Debugging
      - ...
2010-01-19
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - CSAP Cluster Meeting
    - ...
- e-Science
  - SIM-UK
    - Identifying Potential Funding Sources
  - GENESIS
    - ...
2010-01-18
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - MASS Catch up meeting
    - This week I'll be mainly:
      - Working on the SIM-UK proposal
      - Getting back to grips with GENESIS programming
      - Managing the 3D modelling work with Ordnance Survey (UKBuildingGeometry)
- e-Science
  - Completed OpenABM survey:
    - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WT2KJM3
  - GENESIS
    - Getting back to grips with my code
      - ...
2010-01-15
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - PC Crash :-(
    - ...
  - Organising archive and backups and tidying PC file system...
2010-01-14
- Browsing
- Teaching
  - Feedback about Tutorials ahead of the mid-year tutors meeting on 2010-01-20
    - Group email in reply to one from Gill Valentine...
- e-Science
  - Completed survey for Franklin Consulting on behalf of JISC on the use of modelling, to help determine the current level of use of modelling, the types of models being and what support might be appropriate.
2010-01-13
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - Feedback to Katherine Arrell on School of Geography Admissions ahead of Academic Staff Forum 2010-01-20
    - ...
- e-Science
  - Data
    - http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/data/data.gov.uk
    - ...
2010-01-12
- Browsing
- e-Science
  - Data-Intensive Research meeting
    - Andy Turner's NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Worksite : Wiki : Data Intensive Research Meeting 2010-01-12 Page
    - http://wikis.nesc.ac.uk/escienvoy/Date-Intensive_Research_meeting
    - 2010-01-12 11.00am-4.30pm in the Active Learning Lab (9.30a), level 9, School of Computing, E C Stoner Building, University of Leeds, UK
  - SIM-UK
    - ...
2010-01-11
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - Sorting out publications
    - http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/publications
    - http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/publications/presentations
2010-01-08
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - Sorting out publications
    - My SoG Web pages need attention:
      - http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/publications
  - Research collaboration with Olugboyega Onimole (Gboyega) MSc Student
    - This follows further items as captured on my blog in Miscellanea under the same heading:
      - http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/personal/blog/archive/2009/12/#2009-12-11
      - http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/personal/blog/archive/2009/11/#2009-11-17
    - Gboyega has made good progress with liaison with Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA)...
- e-Science
  - UKBuildingGeometry
    - ...
  - e-ISS
    - The Elements of a Computational Infrastructure for Social Simulation
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/573036/NeISS/neiss_ahm.pdf
    - ...
2010-01-07
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - OGC Membership renewal
    - Preparing the case...
- Teaching
  - Marked Geog1300 second essays
    - Good efforts :-)
- e-Science
  - Account working on data.hmg.gov.uk:
    - http://data.hmg.gov.uk/home
    - http://www.data.gov.uk/wiki
  - UKBuildingGeometry
    - ...
2010-01-06
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - SoG Staff Meeting
    - Strategy White Paper
      - It's not stragey that counts, it is what is done!
      - http://www.hefce.ac.uk/Research/ref/
      - http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/
      - ...
- e-Science
  - UKBuildingGeometry
    - Getting started
      - ...
  - e-ISS
    - Getting latest NeISSSpatialPopulationEngine running with tomcat
2010-01-05
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - Completed the following surveys for faculty training group:
    - http://www.survey.leeds.ac.uk/mentoringpdra
    - http://www.survey.leeds.ac.uk/publication
2010-01-04
- Browsing
- e-Science
  - Completed All Hands Feeback Online via:
    - http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/all-hands-feedback#documentContent
  - Invited to: Workshop on Users, Usability and User-engagement Based on e-Research, and Web 2.0
    - http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1053/
    - 2010-01-18 and 2010-01-19, Oxford, UK.
2009-12-22

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