- Events:
- The Future of Geography in the Market Place Seminar with: Viv Pointon, Geographical Association (http://www.geography.org.uk/aboutus/committeesspecialinterestgroups/post16he/members/); Catherine Souch, Head of Research and Higher Education, RGS-IBG (http://www.rgs.org/); Derek France, Chair, RGS-IBG HIgher Education Research Group, Co-Editor, Journal of Geography in Higher Education (http://www.chester.ac.uk/node/338)
- 2011-03-30, Leeds, UK.
- What skills should a university education in Geography prioritise?
- Advanced research computing open event
- OR Society Simulation Special Interest Group Meeting
- Spatial Statistics 2011: Mapping Global Change
- International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (ISGC 2011)
- JISC Conference 2011
- Events planning to attend/attended
- Events on the horizon:
- Geocomputation 2011
- 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
- 2011-06-08, San Jose, California, USA.
- The Future of Computational Social Science (JITP2011)
- Funding Opportunities
- Google Research Awards
- JISC
- Roadmap of future grant funding 2010-08 to 2011-07
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- Participated in the BBC/British Library Growing Knowledge March survey
- Participated in the University of Leeds Careers in Research Online Survey (CROS) 2011:
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- Feedback to Hugo about data for studying the White Rose Centre in Leeds
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- Help for Will with referencing http://0-www.publicinformationonline.com.wam.leeds.ac.uk/secure/d11296.pdf
- Notice that the document has numbered paragraphs which is useful for referencing purposes. As a reference I recommend something along the following lines:
- House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (2009) Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation: No hope without forests. Fifth Report of Session 2008-09 Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence. House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited. [on-line] URL: http://0-www.publicinformationonline.com.wam.leeds.ac.uk/secure/d11296.pdf [Accessed on 2011-03-28]
- For citations I recommend something along the following lines:
- House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (2009)
- (House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee 2009 paragraph 1)
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- Video demo of GENESIS Simulator
- Standardising XML and XSD
- What to do to implememnt the first changes suggested by Guy?
- Editing parameters.xsd
- Developer chat
- GENESIS
- Coding program to compare two simulated population results
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- Checked Turnitin originality reports
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- NeISS Data Meeting
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- Item 1
- I provided a summary of my email and again raised the question of NeISS data storage provision and backup
- Does the project have any resources to buy into data storage and where best to use/deploy them?
- WRG/Scotgrid/NWGrid/other NGS partner data storage
- Cloud/commercial providers
- What different types of data storage do we want?
- Long, medium, short term, backups, online/offline
- Create DVDs (or other portable media) from the LFC stores and post them? Rely on over the wire transfers only?
- Tom to ask John about robot certificate
- Andy to ask June about video demo
- Andy to chase Guy about XML metadata
- Item 2
- Tim says that Paul Lambert emailed about the iRODS at DAMES/Stirling and there is a resource on the NCeSS Sakai Portal : NeISS Worksite about it
- I sent a preparatory email on Item 1
- Email gist with regard Item 1 - Using the ScotGrid LFC to store large simulation results
- ScotGrid has provided us with 2TB of storage for simulation results interfaced as a Logical File Catalog (LFC)
- I do not know for how long this will be available, but it is now on-line and we are using it
- Tom and I plan to now use this storage for developing some GENESIS demographic simulation model results for Leeds (and possibly other cities or larger regions, but Leeds first)
- The aim is to run the simulation (which has daily time steps) for successive annual periods
- Each annual period may be simulated many times using different pseudo random sequences for the stochastic operations (to begin with, we aim to do two and select the result that's output probabilities most closely match input probabilities)
- Once we have a result, we'll figure out the next step
- It depends on how big the result is and how much data about the whole process we can archive
- I was thinking that a result for Leeds might be even 2TB in size for a 10 year simulation
- However, pictures of the result are generally much smaller and it may be these that we want to preserve for longer along with metadata for recreating the full result and other metadata about the result
- These outputs we currently pass back to the user via a portlet as well as being stored in the LFC, but it would be good to automatically store these in the NCeSS Sakai Portal : NeISS Worksite : Resources too
- Looking to the next stage, we are preparing to use Arc1 at Leeds for processing and having configuration to allow the IO - push and pull of results from the LFC
- There are no security issues with the data
- The next steps are for Andy to provide a program to compare two results and report their similarities and suggest which to use for the next annual simulation step.
- Tom is getting set up for the next stage of running on Arc1 and doing IO to the LFC
- In terms of integration, it would be good to automate the caching of results on the NCeSS Sakai Portal : NeISS Worksite : Resources.
- I suggest a demo of the portlet interface developed by Tom at the F2F
- What I think NeISS and GENESIS may need to consider is that social simulations are very data hungry
- 2TB might seem a lot, but if it can only store 1 result...
- What other data storage might be wanted...
- Can we for instance get another 2TB of data storage at Leeds and get this working with the LFC...
- Can we couple in NGS users data storage as part of the LFC?
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- Wikipedia
- Obituaries
- Richard Hogg
- Wikiversity
- Biographical Science Journalism
- Alan Wilson
- Mike Goodchild
- Focus on Links and List of Works
- Availability for meeting with Laura on Wednesday
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- Mentoring meeting with Graham
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- GEOG2300 One-to-one meeting with Sophie
- Andy Turner's GEOG2300 2010 to 2011 Web Page #Sophie
- Analysing the impact of the Trafford Centre on local retail provision and the characteristics of nearby places
- The Trafford Centre is a large regional retail shopping complex
- It is easily accessed by a relatively new motorway and has a large catchment area
- Since it has opened there has been increased competition for nearby shopping centres which are thought to have largerly shrunk although some are thriving by reconfiguring as grocery/convenience and to support the local community and less mobile populations
- There are lots of impacts to local residents and business and this project is to explore some of this with reference to changing retail function
- Some impacts may have positive and negative aspects
- This dissertation is aiming to produce a geographical map of the current and historical retail provision in the Trafford region focussing on the changes of nearby local centres
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- Completed Travel to Work Survey
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- One-to-One Meeting with Sarah-Jane Saint-Ruth (Sarah)
- Andy Turner's GEOG2300 2010 to 2011 Web Page #Sarah
- Topic: Business/Retailing
- We had a bit of a brain storm for ideas as Sarah was still trying to narrow this down
- Fairtrade/Carbon Neutral/Fashions in Food Retailing
- 'Repetoire' Shopping
- Students/elderly/poor/ethnic groups
- Choice
- Loyalty
- Price
- Convenience
- Speciality goods
- Fashion and retail psychology
- Supermarkets/markets/local shops/prepared food/take away
- Food deserts
- GEOG2300 Tutor: Rachael Unsworth
- What I think would be good is to try to map out:
- The food/grocery retail landscape of Leeds
- Where University of Leeds students live and shop for food
- How to turn ideas into a dissertation project
- Consider what data you can get
- Build on others work
- Mixed methods exploratory approach
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- School of Geography Academic Staff Forum
- Students to develop aptitude, skills and a portfolio of work and supporting documentation
- A geography degree graduate has been failed without
- The ability to write a critical essay
- Conduct field research
- Write up and present a research project
- A persistent online profile
- The ability to disseminate information on the web
- Contributing to open data and helping to develop articles on resources like Wikimapia, Open Street Map, YouTube, wikipedia
- Debating skills and having engaged in scholarly debate
- Political lobbying skills and knowledge
- Data mapping and analysis skills using (open source) GIS software
- Extensive knowledge about what data are collected and what these can be used for
- Awareness of what skills are required and desired by potential employers
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- Handled Referencing query from Jo
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- Completed Census Users Survey 2011
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- GEOG1300 Group Tutorial Meetings
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- Developing MoSeS publication first draft
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- Marking Essay 3
- Drafted Academic Representative section of Santander Application for Jo
- GEOG3600
- Final Dissertation Support Group Meeting prior to submission...
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- Emailed ESDS to further data deposit
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