- Events:
- GISRUK 2011
- UKSG 34th Annual Conference and Exhibition: Harrogate
- Events on the horizon:
- The seventh IEEE e-Science conference (IEEE e-Science 2011)
- Geocomputation 2011
- Town Meeting to discuss the Future of e-Science and HPC Infrastructures and Applications in the 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
- 2011-06-08, San Jose, California, USA.
- Third Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS 2011)
- The Future of Computational Social Science (JITP2011)
- Funding Opportunities
- ESRC
- Demonstrator projects
- Sustainability projects
- Deadline for applications: 2011-06-02
- Google Research Awards
- JISC
- Roadmap of future grant funding 2010-08 to 2011-07
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- Subscribed to OKFN email lists
- Teaching
- Meeting with Ian Hunter about his Masters project related to GENESIS
- e-Science
- e-ISS, GENESIS
- Getting back to grips with running GENESIS on the grid
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- e-Science
- Trying to help Junaid Arshad by appreciating his security architecture for clouds
- e-ISS, GENESIS
- Getting back to grips with running GENESIS on the grid
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- Thought on European insurance and road saftey given the EU regulations that it is unfair to discriminate on basis of age and gender
- This is a good driver for change!
- It levels the playing field for all drivers and provides a considerable insentive to get those smart boxes installed in vehicles.
- I feel this can only be a good move for road safety.
- I want not only my record on insurance claims, but also my driving metrics taken into account when I pay insurance.
- Pay as you go insurance for private vehicles might become common.
- Go steady!
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- Teaching
- Leeds: from local to global Module Planning Meeting
- People
- Notes
- Things discussed in something of a brainstorm trying to find topics for module themes of 4 main topics
- Economies
- Evolution of urban form
- History
- Changing economies and urban hierarchies
- What is the importance of Leeds and Yorkshire?
- When has Leeds been more important than Bradford or York and how can this be measured?
- Global cities
- Rural and urban links
- Tanneries, textiles and food
- Industry
- Conflict
- War
- North south divide
- Only some history survives and certain histories are more likely to survive
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- International National and Regional Economies
- Infrastructure
- Web links
- Population
- Local and migrant people
- Demographic transition
- Ethnicity
- Culture (linking to Culture topic)
- Housing change (linking to Economies topic)
- Census and other survey data
- Merchant middle class
- Headingley one of the first middle class suburbs?
- Royal Armouries person
- Politics and power
- Role of entrepreneurs
- Linking town and country (again)
- Contrasts with other cities (again)
- UK and worldwide
- Birmingham
- Sheffield
- Organisations (linking to Economies topic)
- Councils
- Community
- Cooperatives
- Building societies
- Trade unions
- Retail/Entrepreneurial
- Class
- Health
- Leeds Mind
- Leeds hospital fund
- Web links
- Culture media and sport
- City connections
- Twin Cities
- Place called Leeds and called after Leeds
- Representing the city
- Famous people
- Atkinson Grimshaw
- Tony Harrison
- Leeds lights
- Playwrights
- Citylights
- Alan Bennet
- Homeless guy (cesto)
- Bronte sisters
- Armitage poet (Huddersfield)
- Henry Moore
- Find the area and rocks which influenced so many of his works?
- Culture I've been to Leeds
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- Opera North
- Carnegie
- Playhouse
- Sport (linking to Economies topic)
- Rugby league fans take over
- Shopping and retail
- Independent Leeds
- Leeds bridge
- Music
- Holmfirth - Bamforth postcards became film makers
- Last of the summer Wine
- Emmerdale
- Harewood and coal road to Temple Newson
- GOAD plans
- Survey the city
- Cumulative development
- Who ran who runs who will run leeds?
- Civic identity
- Town Planning
- Origins in public health
- Run a mock planning/public enquirey
- Online plans
- LGI Paediatric
- Topical stories
- Efficiency versus access
- Location decision making
- Guardian local
- Religion
- Why was Woodhouse Moor not developed?
- Allotments and Parks
- Urban harvest
- Meanwood urban farm
- Nichola Wood and Debbie Phillips
- Interested in same idea as Sara Bordoley about mapping ethnic change (and teaching about it as community outreach)
- 1894 map
- Old paper map that Rachael Unsworth managed to squirrel away
- See also the Bartholemew 1866 Map
- Tourism
- Successfull Campaign to promote Yorkshire (Lead by great guy)
- Web links
- Futures and change (includes looking at what was planned and comparing this with what happened)
- Trips to the future
- Holbeck urban village
- Tower works
- Quarry Hill
- John Thorpe has glass slides of the construction process
- Community living
- Utopias become the slums of the future
- Saxon gardens
- Leodis Website
- Sustainable neighbourhoods
- Meanwood workhouse
- Do gooder, but where did the people go?
- Roundhay road retail change
- Chapel Allerton
- Image and city branding
- Web links
- Notes collaboration, research teaching and learning, pedagogy and module structure and key components
- Learning objectives
- How to rate data and information
- Metadata, provenance, order and bias
- Data and knowledge development
- Mapping and describing Leeds
- Organisations
- Physical things
- People, cultures, media sport
- Critical thinking about futures
- Module structure and pedagogical concerns
- From where do we start?
- Will order arise?
- The wisdom in the group considers that themes should probably jump around rather than try to describe Leeds development chronologically although this chronolgy and history is also important.
- Two themes run in parallel and two each semester
- Data ownership and ethics, concerns and benefits of open data
- Re-inforcement and repeating a good thing
- Focus on learning and development of data and methods in practise and not on assessment :-)
- Introspective stuff
- Focus on the university itself and the students studying themselves and geography at Leeds
- Linkage across levels of study?
- Involving level 2 and dissertation students, Masters and PhDs
- Accomodating joint honours
- Field trips/Learning resource
- Infrastructure
- Canal, rivers, railway
- Walk on the abandoned rail-route
- Old tram routes on buses
- Take photos
- Do some mapping
- Finding points/places of interest
- Kirkgate market
- BBC cities and urban living documentary programs/series
- Thackray museum
- Armley Mills - Leeds Industrial Museum
- Libraries/Museums/Exhibitions
- Saltaire
- Yorkshire Scultpure Park
- Miscellaneous
- Web links
- 2011-04-14 Meeting with David Bell
- The truth about ground truth
- Andy to send a link to David
- Mainly the exercise was distilled using post it notes which were clustered and layered in hierarchies
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- Subscribed to OSGeo email lists
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- Mapping, Law and Government Organisation over time discussions with Wenjuan Zhu (Crystal) and Janpeng Jiang
- From honours to the French revolution to developing open linked data in China, we covered a lot of ground!
- Browsing/contributions
- Meeting with Haibo Chen
- Data
- Creating an open metadata archive of the data Haibo manages
- Completed Oxford Experimental Psychology Programmers Survey
- https://oxfordpsych.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9HxZBe3RpmaGNw0
- Non-zero is the logic of human destiny - if we're lucky... Openness is perhaps the best chance we have to survive and this means open data and open data processing software and sharing computational resources. Let's face it, we live in uncertain times and the more we learn, the more precarious our society seems. Life will find a way, but I want our knowledge to last a long time. Peace be with you!
- Teaching
- Meeting with David Bell about Open Data, Linked Data and the "Leeds: from the local to the global proposed module"
- I think the idea for the meeting was mainly for me to share some ideas about educating students and getting them involved in generating geographical open linked data
- Identity management and safety
- References and personal and professional use of social networking tools
- Concepts of openness and public access
- Demonstrated editing wikimapia and wikipedia
- Created a stub page about Mike Kirkby on wikipedia
- Discussed issues to do with wikipedia use in academia and the various alternatives for mainly text based wiki's
- Added Potternewton Playing Fields A.K.A Scothall Playing Fields to wikimapia
- Added Rutland Lodge Medical Practice to wikimapia
- Discussed issues to do with different types of digital map data and about comparing them
- Common desire to map the world geographically through time and would like the University of Leeds School of Geography to act as a focus for that and show over time that we can make a significant contribution
- JISC infrastructure for education and research programme proposal
- Brief look at OpenStreetMap and discussed the various barriers to entry, mapping parties and the likely gadgets and experience student arrive at university with in this respect.
- Blogs
- Encouraging students to use University of Leeds personal web space and Blogs to bootstrap the development of geographical subjects
- Organisational Open Linked Data (Linked Open Data) and mapping our university organisations and those they interact with
- A force for good to unify the School of Geography and the local community and to promote the development of resources by collaborative teams
- Next Steps
- Have a think, develop ideas and momentum for making the course work
- What components are wanted and does the order in which conspets are introduced matter?
- Compile resource links
- Meet with planning group next month
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomorphometrics
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- http://www.orcid.org/
- http://mapperz.blogspot.com/2011/02/embed-arcgis-online-maps-for-free.html
- http://www.osgeo.org/books
- http://engd-usar.cege.ucl.ac.uk/profilepreview/view/id/23
- http://datasift.net/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Hill,_Sheffield
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_Gardens
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_in_the_sky#Streets_in_the_sky
- http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/the-great-estate/6514467.blog
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0109dvs
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/growingknowledge/current_data_vis.shtml
- http://2011.foss4g.org/
- http://hemanifesto.tumblr.com
- http://grass.osgeo.org/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_determination
- http://mappinghacks.com/2011/04/13/capitalism-is-a-technology/
- http://mappinghacks.com/2011/04/12/maps-tell-stories-redux/
- http://publicuniversity.org.uk/manifesto/
- http://publicuniversity.org.uk/2011/03/25/towards-a-pedagogy-for-a-public-university/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_bubble
- http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2011/04/higher_education
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B.M. Wu, M.H. Birkin, P.H. Rees, A spatial microsimulation model with student agents, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 32, Issue 6, GeoComputation: Modeling with spatial agents, November 2008, Pages 440-453, ISSN 0198-9715, DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2008.09.013.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V9K-4V2J6DD-1/2/91dc1d2d400c0947cd4ce032059de9d5)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_OpenGL
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- Reference for STUDENTX
- A student that I had mentored for a dissertation project asked me for a reference for job applications
- I prepared an academic reference under guidance from my colleagues and emailed it to the student as a pdf file
- It is my understanding that what is wanted from these is a record that I know the student and that I confirm they have been studying at my institution and provide on the course supposedly detailed in their CV
- I provide my contact details in case those who it may concern can follow up as part of an appointment process
- The academic reference is quite formal and could be automatically generated
- I did not put the provisional marks against each of the modules completed on the course as I expect this may only serve to confuse and distract
- I recommended to the student that if they were applying for a job where they wanted more input from me then they should provide me with the details of the post as a first step
- It maybe that based on this and further liaison that I could provide a more detailed reference
- I am informed that writing references can be a time consuming process...
- Two things helped with this, the first is a system that gave me access to details of the students study (Leeds for Life), the other was that details of the modules that the student had undertaken as part of their study were openly available online
- The reference was along the following lines
- STUDENTX has been a student at the University of Leeds from DATE0 to DATE reading for a DEGREE and is close to completing this degree.
- The student has undertaken the following modules (listed in reverse chronological order by year of study):
- 2010/11 Academic Year
- GEOG301001 Advanced Retail Planning
- GEOG303201 Radical Geographies
- GEOG309001 GIS: Urban & Regional Planning
- GEOG360001 Dissertation
- GEOG392001 Autonomous Geographies
- 2009/10 Academic Year
- FLTU134502 Advanced French
- GEOG200201 Population, Health & Wellbeing
- GEOG213001 Social Data Analysis
- GEOG223001 GIS and Spatial Analysis
- GEOG230001 Human Geog Dissertation Design
- GEOG231001 Ideas in Human Geography
- GEOG271001 Retail Geography
- GEOG282001 Cities and Regions
- GEOG293001 The Modern City
- GEOG296001 Career Prep for Geographers
- 2008/09 Academic Year
- GEOG120001 Changing Worlds Changing Place
- GEOG121001 Environmental Sys & Processes
- GEOG122001 Geography, Environment and Soc
- GEOG124001 Geog. Scholarship & Fieldwork
- GEOG126001 Geography of the UK
- GEOG127001 GIS for Human Geography
- SOEE103201 Dynamic Earth & Earth History
- SOEE103401 Natural Hazards
- 2007/08 Academic Year
- MODL101001 IT for Language Students
- SPPO101001 Pract Lang Skills in Spanish 1
- SPPO104201 Historical Developmnt of Spain
- SPPO108001 Portuguese Language for Beg 1A
- SPPO108101 Portuguese Language for Beg 1B
- SPPO116001 Intro Cultural Prod: Spain
- SPPO117001 App to Spanish & Latin Studies
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- Preparing to write reference for Student X
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- Meeting with Zahi Akiki ITS MSc student preparing for a dissertation on analyzing Stats19 data for the M1 motorway and considering lighting
- We considered data, geographical analysis methods, visualisation, automation and collaboration
- Geographically Weighted Regression
- The Geographical Analysis Machine GAM/K
- Zahi is being mentored by Haibo Chen
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- GEOG2300 Marking
- GEOG3600 Marking
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- Added my equalitydata details to the University of Leeds system upon request
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- GEOG1300 Tutorial Group Meetings
- GEOG2300 Marking
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