- Events:
- ...
- The 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid2010)
- Synthetic data meets simulation workshop
- 2010-10-22, Manchester, UK.
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- JISC Future of Research Event
- Events planning to attend/attended
- JISC Future of Research Event
- Events on the horizon:
- Spatial Statistics 2011: Mapping Global Change
- The 6th IEEE International Conference on e-Science
- International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science (CACS 2010)
- WhereCampUK
- Managing and sharing social science research data, Leeds
- Funding Opportunities
- JISC
- Grant 15/10: JISC infrastructure for education and research programme
- Roadmap of future grant funding 2010-08 to 2011-07
- Scottish Government Research Project to carry out a further study on mapping the non-domestic building stock of Scotland
- No specific URL for tender call
- Building Standards Division will shortly issue a tender for a research project to carry out a further study on mapping the non-domestic building stock of
Scotland. The purpose of this project is to provide suitable information on the existing non-domestic building stock in Scotland. This information
should be structured data and contain estimates on the numbers of non-domestic buildings, broken down into key variables including sizes and
classification.
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- Closing date: 2010-10-28
- TSB Harnessing Large and Diverse Sources of Data call
- Promoting Cross-Disciplinary Research: Engineering and Physics Sciences and Economic and Social Sciences
- http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/open/cdip/Pages/default1.aspx
- The objective of this call is to fund a small number of cross-disciplinary packages consisting of research and people-based activities which will develop and strengthen the interfaces between engineering and physical sciences and economic and social sciences. We are interested in two thematic areas;
- Quantitative Aspects of Understanding Behaviours
- Innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid
- Closing date: 2010-10-12
- British Academy Joint British and Taiwanese Funding
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- Browsing
- Teaching
- GEOG3600 Sent George Chilton House Price sale data for London by email
- GEOG1300 Sent follow up email from Second Group Meeting
- e-Science
- Renewed UK e-Science Certificate.
- e-ISS
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Set up SurveyMapper Survey about locating road traffic accidents
- For indicating the location of road traffic accidents (RTA). Many RTA that involve a death or injury (if a casualty attends hospital) are recorded in official statistics which details the location and time and other characteristics of the the RTA, however there is little compilation of data for accidents that do not involve a death or injury and virtually no record of accidents that nearly occurred. This data could be useful for improving road safety and efficiency.
- This Survey Attempts to Generate a Map of All RTA not involving a Death or Injury
- Line Manager Meeting with Mark Birkin
- Agenda
- GENESIS
- When do I stop working on this project?
- What proportion of my time have I supposed to have been working on the project?
- What proportion of my time do I work on the project now and next month?
- When are the next project meetings?
- Funding Applications
- Publications
- Mentoring Arrangements
- Accident Analysis & Prevention
- 2 GENESIS abstracts and workplans
- MoSeS publication on Census Data Integration for developing individual level population data
- Away Day
- AoB
- Notes
- GENESIS
- When do I stop working on this project?
- Still awaiting fiance figures to be sure on this.
- It could be already and it could be not for a year, but it is most likely around 6 months.
- What proportion of my time have I supposed to have been working on the project?
- Somewhere between 80% and 50% up until this month, probably 75% officially.
- What proportion of my time do I work on the project now and next month?
- When are the next project meetings?
- Funding Applications
- Should we work on something together? Is there work coming in that Andy is suited to? Should Andy start developing proposals independently?
- Andy looking at JISC funding calls:
- Mark thinking about a GENESIS follow up maybe targetting EPSRC with Jim Hall
- Has Nick Malleson in mind as the researcher for this
- EC funding
- No follow up from Marco Paganoni, Rob Procter, Alex Voss as yet...
- Suggested I look at S4
- Jie Xu considering EPSRC cross disciplinary projects
- Look out for what Technology Strategy Board is doing
- Publications
- Mentoring Arrangements
- Mark made aware of mentoring arrangements in place with Graham Clarke.
- Accident Analysis & Prevention
- Mark made aware of Riyadh RTA paper preparations...
- 2 GENESIS abstracts and workplans
- Need to circulate abstracts and workplans and extend authorship across relevant projects (also NeISS)
- Traffic simulation work on hold...
- MoSeS publication on Census Data Integration for developing individual level population data
- Kirk Harland, Dianna Smith and Mark Birkin Paper in revision on a similar theme
- Nick might be interested and could run IPS for England or maybe UK for comparison at this level.
- Methodologically it is OK, but unlikely to get published without developing an application of the data...
- Method
- GA is a more powerful method capable of broader search of solution space
- It can swap groups of records not just single records like simulated annealing...
- Results for Leeds for our IPS GA comparison showed this, but Andy does not have Marks data or programs...
- Away Day
- Mark not going and not bothered if Andy goes as it is probably mainly about teaching this time.
- Andy not obliged to go as research staff, but will ask Graham Clarke if he wants me to go.
- AoB
- Stream Temperature Grid Generalisation
- Teaching
- GEOG1300 Second Group Meetings
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Stream Temperature Grid Generalisation
- Philosophy: Some thinking about thinking
- Brains are amazing!
- Brain thinking is parallel interactive processing involving structural self organisation.
- The self organisation is driven by the evolution of more efficient ways of recollecting and thinking laterally about things.
- Interactive and massively parallel interactive processing is what helps people come up with good new ideas.
- In other words our brain thinking is messed up which is how we can suddenly come up with new thoughts about things.
- Grok well and may peace be with you!
- Open Access Fail
- Open Science 2.0: How Research and Education Can Benefit from Open Innovation and Web 2.0
- Publication Review/Mentoring Meeting
- People
- Riyadh RTA article
- Nawaf and Graham accepted Andy's plan for the publication
- Keys for the publication are to:
- Use a novel method for analysing change over time
- Andy outlined the method based on work he had done 5-10 years ago, but not got around to writing up as a PhD Thesis or publishing in peer reviewed journals
- Apply new and existing methods to a region not before studied in this way
- Andy to ask IT to reactivate Nawaf's computer account
- Graham to comment on drafts and act as internal reviewer
- Andy and Nawaf to meet regularly on Wednesdays to work on the publication up to Christmas
- Other articles
- MoSeS article about generating individual and household level population data for the UK
- Andy is to talk to Mark Birkin about this and report back to Graham...
- GENESIS Traffic Simulation
- Andy would like Graham's to consider the draft abstract and work plan.
- GENESIS Demographic Simulation
- Andy would like Graham's to consider the draft abstract and work plan.
- Teaching
- GEOG3600 Meeting with George Chilton
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Stream Temperature Grid Generalisation
- e-Science
- JISC Future of Research Event
- Panel Session
- ...
- Focus on positive views of the future
- Good research practice is to archive research data
- If England ends up more like US with a public private split in HE, this could be good for research collaboration?
- New focus bringing together universities, government, business, charities, other agencies and people living, working and travelling through regions.
- STEM
- Humanities and Social Science
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Stream Temperature Grid Generalisation
- e-Science
- Browsing
- Teaching
- GEOG1300 Referencing work...
- Miscellanea
- Completed JISC Research Conference Pre-Conference Questionnaire for Potential Online Participants
- e-Science
- e-ISS, GENESIS
- Tom produced results for the first GENESIS Demographic Simulation run on NGS
- Browsing
- Teaching
- GEOG3600 Dissertation Group Meeting
- e-Science
- Browsing
- Teaching
- Preparation for GEOG3600 Tutorial on 2010-10-13
- Miscellanea
- CSAP Seminar
- Stream Temperature Grid Generalisation
- Completed the BBC Growing Knowledge Second Survey
- e-Science
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Jonathan Carrivick Stream Temperature Data Generalisation
- This is about a days work when I find time.
- I have the data, next I need to find time to code...
- Teaching
- GEOG3600 Dissertation Meeting with Tom Brown
- Tom to arrange a meeting with John Stillwell
- Evidence of background reading
- Data
- Initial mapping of SMS data and other data available via CIDER/WICID
- The hunt is on for data with which to produce maps of where assylum seekers are housed.
- Awareness of upcoming interim report
- e-Science
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Preparing to work with Nawaf Alotaibi
- e-Science
- Browsing
- Review meeting
- Teaching
- Miscellanea
- e-Science
- Browsing
- Preparation for review meeting 2010-10-07
- Miscellanea
- Meeting with Livi Michael about writing
- Livi Michael
- Stan Openshaw biography
- Livi had read a bit online about Stan :-)
- Who are the audience?
- Primarily Stan's work friends and peers
- Wiki first
- GEOG1300 Tutorials
- Use previously written essays to highlight problems
- It is important to tackle problems with sentence construction
- Students can benefit by looking at others essays and trying to identify problems
- I recall that this might be an exercise in the Tutorial Workbook
- Word count vs character count
- It is important for me to ensure the students have looked at the Tutorial Workbook in the first formal tutorial meeting!
- Other writing
- A reply to Grandfather, Father, Son
- Peer review journal publications
- Actions
- Andy to refer to Livi if writing based issues surface in GEOG1300 Tutorials and feedback on tutorials...
- Andy to draft Stan Openshaw wiki page
- Meet again before Christmas
- Browsing
- e-Science
- Browsing
- Preparation for review meeting 2010-10-07
- e-Science
- ...
- Registered for PolicyGrid II Survey... and submitted a response...
- e-ISS, GENESIS
- Browsing
- Teaching
- GEOG1300
- GEOG3600
- Emailed students to arrange group meeting in week beginning 2010-10-11
- Preparation for review meeting 2010-10-07
- e-Science
- e-ISS, GENESIS
- Grid Enabling Demographic Model with Tom Doherty
- Browsing
- http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/Building/Building-standards/news
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdo8fy41nRA
- http://www.larkc.eu/
- http://blog.larkc.eu/
- http://www.osgeo.org/ojs/index.php/journal
- http://www.scs.org/simulation
- http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~cscxlh/
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575
- Saffet Erdogan, Ibrahim Yilmaz, Tamer Baybura, Mevlut Gullu, Geographical information systems aided traffic accident analysis system case study: city of Afyonkarahisar, Accident Analysis & Prevention, Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 174-181, ISSN 0001-4575, DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2007.05.004. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V5S-4P00JY8-1/2/9167251eba9cdb87454219df182f65a0)
- http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/copyright#whatrights
- http://journals.elsevier.com/00014575/accident-analysis-and-prevention/
- http://people.cs.vt.edu/~shaffer/
- http://geosim.cs.vt.edu/huip.html
- http://geosim.cs.vt.edu/Java/MigModel/
- Preparation for review meeting 2010-10-07
- Teaching = Research
- Set plan in motion to develop a peer reviewed journal article with Nawaf Alotaibi based on his excellent MSc in GIS Dissertation
- Nawaf Alotaibi to request publication permission from data providers.
- Appropriate target journals
- Miscellanea
- Publishing calendar so students can check availablity for meetings
- My first attempt at this failed as Microsoft have discontinued a service for viewing the calendar although I was able to create a public ics file:
- My second attempt was to sync my Outlook Calendar with a Google Calendar and this looks promising, but it failed as I don't have sufficient privillages for the install
- e-Science
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