Andy Turner's Blog 2011-02 Web Page

Blog

• Events on the horizon:
  • Geocomputation 2011
    • http://standard.cege.ucl.ac.uk/workshops/Geocomputation/cfp.html
    • http://standard.cege.ucl.ac.uk/workshops/Geocomputation
    • http://www.geocomputation.org/2011/
    • 2011-07-20 to 2011-07-22, London, UK.
  • Workshop on Dynamic Distributed Data-Intensive Applications, Programming Abstractions, and Systems (3DAPAS)
    • https://sites.google.com/site/3dapas/
    • To be held in conjunction with the 20th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing
      • http://www.hpdc.org/2011/
    • 2011-06-08, San Jose, California, USA.
  • The Future of Computational Social Science (JITP2011)
    • http://umass.edu/jitp/
    • 2011-05-16 to 2011-05-17, Seattle, USA.
  • Spatial Statistics 2011: Mapping Global Change
    • http://www.spatialstatisticsconference.com/
    • 2011-03-23 to 2011-03-25, Enschede, The Netherlands.
  • International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (ISGC 2011)
    • http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2011/index.html
    • In conjunction with the Open Grid Forum (OGF 31)
      • http://www.ogf.org/OGF31/
    • 2011-03-21 to 2011-03-25 Taipei, Taiwan.
  • JISC Conference 2011
    • http://www.jisc.ac.uk/jisc11
    • 2011-03-14 and 2011-03-15, Liverpool, UK.

• Google Research Awards
  • http://research.google.com/university/relations/research_awards.html
  • Application deadlines for the Research Awards program are February 1 and August 1 of each year.
• JISC
  • Roadmap of future grant funding 2010-08 to 2011-07
    • http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/futurecalls/grant.aspx

2011-03-01

2011-02-28

• Browsing
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  • http://www.eguk.org.uk/TPCG11/
• Teaching
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  • GEOG3600
    • Meeting with Charlie
      • http://ppq.sagepub.com/content/13/6/669.full.pdf
      • Statistical analysis and writing up
• e-Science
  • ...

2011-02-25

• Browsing
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall
• Teaching
  • ...
  • GEOG3600
    • Meeting with Charlie
      • http://ppq.sagepub.com/content/13/6/669.full.pdf
      • http://www.research.plymouth.ac.uk/elections/elections/staff/staff_gborisyuk2.htm
• e-Science
  • ...

2011-02-24

• Browsing
  • http://data.gov.uk/blog/the-open-data-master-class-series-guest-post
  • http://blog.okfn.org/2011/02/24/experts-to-underpin-wikipedia%E2%80%99s-open-wisdom-turning-anecdotes-into-data/
  • http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/2011/02/23/a-bit-quiet/
  • http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/02/23/first-inklings-of-a-small-contract-market-around-data-services-and-a-concern/
  • http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/23/qa-site-stackoverflow-launches-careers-2-0-to-get-its-hacker-community-hired/
• Teaching
  • ...
  • GEOG3600
    • One-to-one feedback meeting with Tom
      • ...
    • One-to-one feedback meeting with Sarah
      • ...
    • One-to-one feedback meeting with Charlie
      • Feedback on second annual report
      • Lesson in regression and statistical analysis
      • What methods are being applied? Need for explanation and referencing as well as analysis of data
      • Consideration of data preprocessing and generation of other geographical variables
      • Need to enhance literature review and consider other research into predicting voting outcomes
      • Need for a section on ethical and legal issues dealing with data protection and research dissemination (Data Management Plan) as per email sent the other day.
    • One-to-one feedback meeting with George
      • Feedback on second annual report
      • Data sources
      • Citations and referencing
      • Context map
      • Larger clearer maps
      • Search for academic literature
        • http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/be/staff/nickfrench.html
        • http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=0960-2712
        • http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1463-578X
        • http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1753-8270
        • http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1753-8270&volume=2&issue=2&articleid=1793395&show=abstract
        • http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1753-8270&volume=3&issue=4&articleid=1886399&show=abstract
• e-Science
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2011-02-23

• Browsing
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  • http://oliverobrien.co.uk/2011/02/the-geography-of-cheap-train-tickets/
  • http://blog.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/2011/02/bringing-the-power-of-open-data-to-the-citizen/
  • http://thenumericalalgorithmsgroup.blogspot.com/
  • http://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/policies/immigration/immigration_intro_en.htm
• Teaching
  • ...
  • GEOG3600
    • Marked Second Interim Reports
      • http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=743
• e-Science
  • ...

2011-02-17

• Browsing
  • http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/update-to-google-social-search.html
  • http://www.grist.org/article/2011-02-17-norways-facebook-killer-is-for-buses-only
  • http://www.research.kobe-u.ac.jp/csi-viz/research/yin-yang-grid/yin-yang-grid.jpg
  • http://www.science3point0.com/blog/2011/02/17/wordpress-for-scientists-scientific-publishing/
  • http://www.nationalrural.org/
  • http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/02/visualize-your-own-data-in-google.html
  • http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/4/19
  • http://www.clir.org/pubs/ruminations/01wilkin/wilkin.html
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works
  • http://code.google.com/p/elda/
  • http://www.publishers.org/main/PressCenter/Archicves/2011_Feb/Special301Filing2011PressRelease.htm
• e-Science
  • ...
  • e-ISS
    • Developer chat/Data Archive Meeting
      • There are several types of simulations we aim to support
      • For some big data, big computation GENESIS simulations we are gearing up to use a Logical File Catalog (LFC)
        • There are two ways to get data in and out
          • Issue lcg type comands from the staging script
          • Issue lcg type commands or use some other Storage Resource Manager (SRM) based way to do Java program initiated IO
      • Tim looked at Dataminx
        • ...

2011-02-16

• Browsing
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming
  • http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/
  • http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html
  • http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/open-source-community-simplified/
  • http://geographyspecialinterestgroup.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/geography-and-voting-trends-galway-east-constituency/
  • http://www.extractiv.com/
  • http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/developers-value-to-higher-education
  • http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=citeURL
  • http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
• e-Science
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2011-02-15

• Browsing
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  • http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002155.html
  • http://www.surveymapper.com/mapView.aspx?id=172
  • http://pdcengagement.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/pdc/
  • http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/use-and-relevance-web-20-researchers
  • http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/news/110127-new-inquiry---peer-review/
  • http://nationalgridservice.blogspot.com/2011/02/if-so-then-you-really-should-consider.html
• Teaching
  • GEOG3600
    • Meeting with George
      • ...
• e-Science
  • ...
  • GENESIS
    • ...

2011-02-14

• Browsing
  • http://www.statmethods.net/graphs/scatterplot.html
  • http://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-honor
  • http://freegeographytools.com/2011/how-the-fcc-plans-to-destroy-gps-a-simple-explanation
• Miscellanea
  • MASS catch up with Nick
    • ...
• e-Science
  • GENESIS
    • Comparison plots of model input probabilities versus model output probabilities
      • ...

2011-02-11

• Browsing
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  • http://punkish.org/copyright/treaties.html
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/travelingsales/
  • http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/travelingsales/
• Teaching
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  • GEOG1300
    • Essay Choices
      • Global Inequalities Cannot be justified- Discuss
        • Source
          • PIED1542 joint set by Bradley Evans
        • Students
          • Lou
      • Racial identities are actively created in our everday landscapes. To what extent would you agree with this statement?
        • Source
          • GEOG1200 titles provided for GEOG1300
        • Students
          • Charlie
          • Jo
          • Jen
      • Public spaces are often socially constructed as heteronormative. Discuss this statement and illustrate your answers with examples.
        • Source
          • GEOG1200 titles provided for GEOG1300
        • Students
          • Amy
          • Barny
          • Chris
          • Dan
      • Outline the central features of academic debate on gentrification
        • Source
          • GEOG1200 titles provided for GEOG1300
        • Students
          • Alex
• e-Science
  • e-ISS
    • Working with Tom on Grid enabling GENESIS models
    • Developer chat
      • ...
  • GENESIS
    • Progress Report 2009-10-01 to 2010-09-30
      • ...
      • Summary of work done
        • Andy Turner has continued to develop two types of Social Simulation models
          • Traffic
          • Demographic
        • At the start of the reporting period, basic Traffic and Demographic Simulation models had already been implemented
          • The basic Traffic Model
            • Routed simulated individuals from the centroid of a UK Output Area to the centroid of another UK Ouput Area using a road network based on Open Street Map.
            • Had produced some results for a small town in the UK, but it was known that scaling up involved much computational work
              • To generate city scale results involving millions of simulated individuals and journeys traversing a virtual road network representative of a typical contemporary UK city, data handling methods were needed to swap data between different computational data stores and optimisation of the algorithms was required to generate results in a reasonable time (the optimiasation would likely involve parallelisation of the algorithms employed).
              • This was not simply a matter of utilising larger scale computational resources.
          • The basic Demographic Model
            • Was a-Spatial and dealt only with natural change (birth and death), people movements (migration) was not incorporated.
            • Results for a city of approximately a million individuals had been generated and some of computational work for scaling this up further had begun
              • To generate UK national scale results involving potentially hunderd of millions of simulated individuals, better data handling methods were needed and optimisation of the algorithms was required to generate results in a reasonable time (the optimiasation would likely involve parallelisation of the algorithms employed, but also involved a re-ordering of how the population was processed to reduce the multiple times the data for individuals was requested in a time step).
        • Improving these models, generating a community of users and publishing these efforts has been the focus of Andy's efforts on GENESIS.
      • Monthly activity report from 2009-10-01 to 2010-09-30:
        • 2009-10
          • 2009-10-15 Leeds Project Meeting
            • http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/personal/blog/archive/2009/10/#2010-10-15
          • Modelling/coding
            • Developing file based data store and refactoring model code to use it
        • 2009-11
          • Modelling/coding
            • Developing file based data store and refactoring model code to use it
        • 2009-12
          • 2009-12-15 Full Project Meeting
            • http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/personal/blog/archive/2009/12/#2010-12-15
          • 2009-12-21 Infuse Meeting
          • UK e-Science All Hands Meeting
            • Andy Turner's NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Worksite: Wiki : AHM 2009 Page
            • http://portal.ncess.ac.uk/access/content/user/a.g.d.turner@leeds.ac.uk/blog/AHM 2009/genesis-ahm-poster-2009.ppt
            • http://portal.ncess.ac.uk/access/content/user/a.g.d.turner@leeds.ac.uk/blog/AHM 2009/poster-AHM.ppt
          • Developing a file based data store and refactoring model code to use it
        • 2010-01
          • 2010-01-12 Data-Intensive Research Meeting
            • http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/personal/blog/archive/2010/01/#2010-01-12
          • Modelling/coding
            • Developing file based data store and refactoring model code to use it
        • 2010-02
          • 2010-02-24 to 2010-02-27 Dev8D
            • Andy Turner's NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Worksite : Wiki : Dev8D Page
          • Modelling/coding
            • Traffic Simulation Model
              • Testing new File based data store
        • 2010-03
          • 2010-03-05 to 2010-03-12 ISGC 2010
            • Andy Turner's NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Worksite : Wiki : ISGC 2010 Page
          • Modelling/coding
            • Traffic Simulation Model
              • Testing new File based data store
        • 2010-04
          • Modelling/coding
            • Traffic Simulation Model
              • Constraining traffic
            • Demographic Simulation Model
              • Refactoring to add heredity information
              • Pregnancy initialisation
              • Initial work on migration modelling
              • Initial work on using BigDecimal probabilities
        • 2010-05
          • 2010-05-11 to 2010-05-12 eSI Workshop: The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on Various Applications
            • http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1078/
            • Andy Turner's NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Worksite : Wiki : Research3 2010-05 Page
          • Modelling/coding
            • Memory Handling
        • 2010-06
          • 2010-06-15 Future Research Directions in Agent Based Modelling Meeting
            • http://tyne.dl.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/GridAndHPC/LeedsABMWorkshop
            • http://portal.ncess.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/~a.g.d.turner%40leeds.ac.uk/future%20research%20directions%20in%20agent%20based%20modelling.html
          • Modelling/coding
            • Traffic Simulation Model
              • ...
            • Demographic Simulation Model
              • Store simulated male and female persons in distinct collections
              • Predetermining the gender of unborns
              • Using pregnancy rate determined from fertility rate
        • 2010-07
          • Modelling/coding
            • Demographic Simulation Model
              • Store simulated male and female persons in distinct collections
        • 2010-08
          • Modelling/coding
            • Developing NeISS e-Infrastructure for Models
        • 2010-09
          • 2010-09-09 Leeds Project Meeting
            • http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/personal/blog/archive/2010/09/#2010-09-09
      • Progress summary:
        • Modelling Realistic Social Simulation Models is not trivial as they are necessarily complex and computationally demanding.
        • Generic code for handling the swapping of data from different data stores during model execution has been developed.
        • There has been considerable progress in developing both Traffic and Demographic models. However, migration is still not incorporated into the Demographic models and the Traffic Simulations are still not producing results at a city scale.
      • Key dissemination, awareness-raising and capacity-building activities:
        • Turner A.G.D. (2010) 'GENESIS Social Simulation'. Chapter in "Data Driven e-Science: Use Cases and Successful Applications of Distributed Computing Infrastructures (ISGC 2010)" edited by Simon C. Lin and Eric Yen and (to be) published by Springer.
        • Voss A., Turner A.G.D., You J.-Y., Yen E., Lin S., Lin J.-P. (2010) 'Social Simulation: investigating population-scale phenomena from the bottom up'. Paper presented at the International Conference on Survey Research Methodology, Center for Survey Research, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
        • Voss A., Turner A.G.D., You J.-Y., Yen E., Lin S., Lin J.-P. (2010) 'Scalable Social Simulation: Investigating population-scale phenomena using commodity computing.' Paper reviewed, accepted and awaiting revision for and presentation at The 6th IEEE e-Science Conference (IEEE e-Science 2010), Brisbane, Australia.
        • Turner A.G.D. (2010) 'GENESIS Social Simulation Modelling Progress'. Paper submitted for The International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC 2010) peer review, 2010-03-31.

2011-02-10

• Browsing
  • http://www.leedsinitiative.org
  • http://inkdroid.org/journal/2011/02/09/oclcs-mapfast-and-cors/
  • http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~elogeo/index.html
  • http://home.badc.rl.ac.uk/lawrence/blog/2011/02/09/pushing_water_analogies_too_far
  • http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/2011/02/insider-tips-on-bidding-to-win-grant-0408/
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/2011/02/something-happened-today-that.shtml
  • http://data.dev8d.org/2011/programme/
  • http://www.mondaynote.com/2011/02/07/tear-down-this-pdf
  • http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/02/08/shaping-the-future-of-open-data/
  • http://reboot.fcc.gov/blog?entryId=1246676
  • http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/nerd-saves-entire-bbc-archive-for-399-you-can
  • http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/2011/02/connected-company.html
  • http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/security/SecureRandom.html
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_time_Java
  • http://geocommons.com/maps/50803
• Teaching
  • GEOG1300
    • http://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/rlists/polis/pied1541.htm
    • http://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/rlists/polis/pied1542.htm
• e-Science
  • e-ISS
    • Working with Tom on Grid enabling GENESIS models

2011-02-09

• Browsing
  • http://drupals.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/neiss3/
  • http://newsroom.melbourne.edu/news/n-347
• e-Science
  • ...
  • Became a member of the dames.org.uk VO
    • https://voms.ngs.ac.uk/voms/dames.org.uk
  • e-ISS
    • Manchester NeISS website
      • http://drupals.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/neiss3/
    • Taking steps to get the neiss.ac.uk VO gridpp approved
      • ...
      • https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/deployment/contact.html
      • https://voms.ngs.ac.uk/voms/neiss.org.uk/
    • NeISS GENESIS simulator
      • Working with Tom on Grid enabling GENESIS models

2011-02-08

• Browsing
  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/feb/07/russian-architecture-soviet-union-photography
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point
  • http://hadoop.apache.org/
• Miscellanea
  • CSAP Research Strategy Meeting
    • ...
• Teaching
  • GEOG1300 Meeting with Dan
• e-Science
  • e-ISS
    • Working with Tom on Grid enabling GENESIS models

2011-02-07

• e-Science
  • GENESIS
    • Implementing a new store for the simulated dead
      • ...

2011-02-04

• Browsing
  • http://www.slate.com/id/2282651/
  • http://benosteen.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/on-an-open-registry-of-academic-developers/
• e-Science
  • e-ISS
    • Data Meeting using Evo...
  • GENESIS
    • Implementing a new store for the simulated dead
      • ...

2011-02-03

• Browsing
  • http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/02/03/openness-on-digital-planet/
  • http://rdtfmetadata.jiscpress.org/
  • http://martwine.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/i-declare-my-science-offically-open-mostly/
  • http://owni.eu/2011/02/03/open-data-empowering-the-empowered-or-effective-data-use-for-everyone
  • http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/31/scientific-collaboration
  • http://www.digitalurban.org/2011/02/london-cycle-flows-sociable-physics.html
  • http://blog.thematicmapping.org/2011/02/natural-earth-vectors-in-cloud.html
• e-Science
  • GENESIS
    • Implementing a new store for the simulated dead
      • ...

2011-02-02

• Browsing
  • http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-sshsecurity/index.html
  • http://www.bentham.org/open/todemoj/index.htm
  • http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/
• Teaching
  • ...
  • GEOG1300
    • Group tutorial preparation
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      • Preliminary Agenda
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        • Leeds for Life end of Semester 1 reflection forms
        • Essay Deadlines in Semester 2
        • New location for Turnitin assignment submission
          • Look in the module Tutors' Folders for Andy Turner Folder and then look in there...
        • Essays and Literature Reviews
          • What is the difference?
          • More essay titles provided from other module lecturers
            • GEOG1200 Social Geography
              1. Public spaces are often socially constructed as heteronormative. Discuss this statement and illustrate your answer with examples.
              2. Racial identities are actively created in our everyday landscapes. To what extent would you agree with this statement? Include examples to support your answer.
              3. Conduct a literature review outlining the central debates on the relationship between society and space.
            • GEOG1200 Urban Geography
              1. Assess the wider implications to British cities of developments in central and inner-city Leeds over the last three decades.
              2. Outline the central features of academic debate on gentrification.
              3. Outline the central features of academic debate on gated communities.
        • Completed assessment of Second Essays
• e-Science
  • ...
  • GENESIS
    • Implementing a new store for the simulated dead
      • ...
  • Preparing simulation input data for publications
    • http://www.ons.gov.uk/about/who-we-are/our-services/unpublished-data/vital-events-data/mortality-records
    • http://www.ons.gov.uk/about/who-we-are/our-services/unpublished-data/vital-events-data/vso--birth-and-death-registration/index.html
    • Age Specific death rates 1991-2001 England and Wales
      • http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/xsdataset.asp?vlnk=5669&More=Y
    • Age Specific fertility rates 1991-2001 England and Wales
      • http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/xsdataset.asp?vlnk=5677

2011-02-01

• Browsing
  • http://wiki.openorg.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php/Main_Page
  • http://www.digitalurban.org/
  • http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26283
  • http://developer.geoiq.com/blog/2011/02/01/wms-and-tiles/
  • http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-our-search-results-62914
  • http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/explore-museums-and-great-works-of-art.html
  • http://www.police.uk/api/docs/
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vR8Vddf7-s
• Teaching
  • ...
  • GEOG3600 Meeting with Tom
    • ...
  • GEOG3600 Meeting with George
    • ...
    • http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.londonbaptist.org.uk/images/stories/graphics/london_postcode_map.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.londonbaptist.org.uk/church-finder/postcode.html&h=575&w=630&sz=36&tbnid=6mPm1-yM9JAVqM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpostcode%2Bmapping%2BUK&zoom=1&q=postcode+mapping+UK&usg=__NZIUJQIMFfTq5QV1tzdkhLnQC8o=&sa=X&ei=aw1ITZ4u1IqFB5-QqPsE&ved=0CHEQ9QEwDA
    • https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html
    • http://areaclassification.org.uk/
• e-Science
  • GENESIS
    • Implementing a new store for the simulated dead
      • ...

2011-01-29