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- Census 2011: impact and potential: Exploring the research potential of the 2011 census: A conference convened by the ESRC Census Programme with the Royal Statistical Society Census Study Group
- Town Meeting to discuss the Future of e-Science and HPC Infrastructures and Applications in the UK
- Open Data and the Institutional Web: A two day event hacking content, systems and services for institutional / open data
- DevCSI Workshop on Open Data and the Institutional Web
- Events planning to attend/attended
- LSSI Meeting Building Sustainable Societies Master Class Series - Mike Campbell
- LSSI Meeting Building Sustainable Societies Master Class Series - Tom Riordan
- Geocomputation 2011
- Events on the horizon:
- The seventh IEEE e-Science conference (IEEE e-Science 2011)
- UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2011
- The Difference that Makes a Difference: an interdisciplinary workshop on information and technology
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- http://localenterprise.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/employment-and-skills-21st-century-stylee/#comment-1981
- Maybe developing Linked Open Data (LOD) for Leeds offers a way for us organisationally. A linked data initiative is being pushed at the University of Leeds and we are reaching out to all related organisations especially those in the region. LOD development is starting with data specifically about the University of Leeds, focussing on research, education provision and the development of knowledge. But it is key for the university to demonstrate and engage in knowledge exchange and impacts locally and so there is a push to encourage the development of similar data in other organisations. This should give us a useful model of how the region operated, a model which we can use to improve the Productivity, Upgrading, Matching, Ambition (PUMA) virtuous circle that Mike Campbell talked about on 2011-07-28 at the Sustainable Cities Masterclass and for which my notes are available on-line via the following URL:
- To find out more about the development of Leeds LOD, please sign up to the opendatagroup email list via http://data.leeds.ac.uk
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- GEOG1025 Leeds: From Local to Global Module Development Meeting
- People
- Persons present
- Steven Clover (Faculty of Environment Virtual Learning Environment Support)
- Myles Gould
- Martin Purvis (Faculty of Environment Pro-dean for Student Education from Monday)
- David Bell (Module Manager and School of Geography Director of Student Education from Monday)
- Sara Gonzalez
- Louise Waite (Module Manager of the other main Undergraduate level one Human Geography Module GEOG1010/1015 Justice and Difference in a Globalizing World)
- Nichola Wood and Rachael Unsworth are taking leave
- John Stillwell has withdrawn from the module
- Documentation
- GEOG1010/1015 module outline
- This has three main threads which run over both semesters
- Urban Living
- Global Population
- Justice and Difference
- Developing and delivering material can be a separate activities
- Indeed this should encourage better material to be developed
- Population and social change block
- John Stillwell has withdrawn from the module, so Myles needs help with this
- To be delivered in the first 5 weeks
- Who will step into the breech?
- Ethnicity (Nichola)
- Health (Myles)
- Andy offered 3 lectures
- Population Data
- Census
- Social network data
- Citizen data
- Commerical data
- Lifestyle data
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- Social Simulation
- Demographic Forecasting
- Martin offered content on
- Leeds Based Business
- Example of Clothworkers or Quarry Hill or something
- Sport
- 2012 Olympic Torch
- Damned United
- The Promissed Land
- Economic
- Employability and students looking at business' in Leeds
- Critical scruitinisation of web site content to get an idea of the business
- Is it really green and ethical
- Linked data map of all the business and organisations
- Who are the biggest employers in Leeds
- What goes on around here?
- Old, new, future and dynamic maps
- Neoliberalism
- Retail
- VLE and delivery capture and IT
- Wanting to use it as a surveillance mechanism
- We need to track who is doing what
- POD cast audio record
- LUTube and YouTube channel
- Digital Replay System
- Synching all the material can be time consuming
- Sharepoint
- Andy to send round the link to all (not forgetting Louise)
- Ethical Approval
- Form needs completing for the module
- GEOG1010/1015 module outline
- This is well organised and specified.
- Louise wants us to get the documentation in place so she can start being explicit about cross module linkages.
- Further activity ideas
- Box of apples in the market everyone is to go and get an apple and find out something about where it came from or something about the organisations involved. Bring it back eat it and make a map.
- Human resources
- How to get the right people doing the right things with commensurate pay and support.
- We make a move for more pay for the under paid :-)
- Financial resources
- Field trips
- We should pay for all this for all students from a central pot
- Early in the Year (October) Joint Social with GEOG1010/1015
- Coach trip out en masse or in groups
- Ideas of places to go
- Saltaire
- Harrogate Spa
- Ilkley Moor
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park
- York
- Bradford Ilkley
- Media museum
- Bolton Abbey for a picnic then Harry Ramsden's for tea
- Something and returning for a meal at the refectory altogether
- Get some coaches and have a rainy day and fair weather plan
- Louise to lead the organisation of this
- Date and venue and academic content
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- Meeting with Peter Jimack (Dean of Engineering, University of Leeds)
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- Business Case Version 0.8
- Case for Support Version 0.3
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- School of Geography All School Meeting
- These are my notes and are only a partial record of the meeting...
- Performance Review Feedback and Main School Business
- Gill Valentine
- SoG is being performant and is seemingly healthy from a performnace perspective
- Need to invest in the student experience
- 8% increase in financial resource
- Field research
- Employability
- Enhance skills
- Teaching innovation and pedagogic training
- Staff/student engagement
- Strategic Investment in New Posts
- Various posts being advertised
- I wonder if we can attract Ian Turton back...
- New post as a GIS lecturer getting put on the redeployment register
- Some important dates for 2011-2012
- Intro week start 2011-09-19
- New academic year teaching meeting 2011-10-15
- School Away Day 2011-11-04
- Teaching ends 2011-12-09
- School of Geography Support Staff Report
- Jackie Goodall
- SESM?
- What does (geography) support look like in the future?
- The meetings be more application focussed
- Meetings now undocumented for efficiency reasons!
- More support
- 0.5 FTE for Improving student exerience and admin support
- 0.5 FTE for HR support
- 0.5 FTE for helping with move to Garstang
- School Strategy
- Gill Valentine
- Jo Rowell identified a gap in understanding about the SoG Strategy among academics
- Vision
- (Roy Castle used to sing: dedication is what you need - if you want to be the best - if you want to beat the rest - oh dedication is what you need - do you want to be a record breaker?)
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- 95% of staff for REF with good profiles
- Research income &gbp;5M
- A strange proxy for value for money!
- Student experience
- Who makes Strategy?
- We all do, we're in it together!
- Call for management board meeting minutes to be distributed with the newsletter
- These are already stored on a shared drive, so perhpas a link would do...
- Employability in SoG
- Diane Collet
- HESA Data tells us that 55% of our graduates are in graduate jobs 6 months after graduation
- Pakorn Phornnarit is developing a database on organisations and individuals within these that we have dealings with
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- Data usage agreements
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- Tessa Grant is developing a student and alumni database and pushing Facebook as a medium for this.
- Faulty level employability group
- Gill Barber(sp?) and Martin Purvis
- Skills focus :-)
- We are encouraged to be drumming the message into students that their employability will improve if they enhance their skills profile
- Common sense, but I am very please to learn that I have been doing the right thing for GEOG1300 this year.
- An argument was raised that some students don't take a degree to seek employment...
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- Thanks to everyone
- David Bell
- Having completed the curriculum review David is no longer Director of Learning and Teaching as the role is being lost and he is about to get a new one :-)
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- Openshaw S. (1978) Using Models in Planning
a practical guide. Printed by J & P Bealls Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne
ISBN 0 905269 05 5
- Stan's personal book dedication:
- To Mam,
Without whom this
would not have been
possible
Love
Stan
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- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- A Preliminary Appraisal
- A brief history
- Planning as a science
- Technical and political bases of planning
- Towards a sepration of the political and technical aspects of planning
- Towards a balanced approach
- Why planners should take an interest in models
- Models in planning
- Factors Influencing the Use of Models in Planning
- Computer hardware
- Software considerations
- The planning context: a cynical view
- The attitudes of senior planners and team leaders
- Planning research and intelligence teams in the planning department
- Are you a model builder?
- Using Analytical Models
- Perspectives on the use of analytical models
- Applying analytical models
- Using analytical models
- Some implications of model use
- The polotics of model use
- Choosing a model
- Statistical Models
- Data description and data summary
- Some sampling considerations
- Testing hypotheses
- Data exploration
- Some problems
- Statistical methods and planning
- Time Series Forecasting Models
- Planning and time series forecasting
- Forecasting: an overview
- Rules of the forecasting game
- Forecasting models and policy making
- A classification of time series forecasting models
- Simple models
- Trend models
- Smoothing models
- The Box and Jenkins type of model
- Recommendations
- Demographic Models
- A classification of demographic models
- A survey of practice in 1975
- Indirect and black box models
- Incomplete accounting models
- Complete accounting models
- The identification of uncertainty in population forecasting: an example
- Recommendations
- Spaial Interaction Models
- One derivation of a basic model
- An entropy-maximising derivation
- A model users checklist
- Stages in using an analytical model
- A classification of spatial interaction models
- Shopping models
- A simple residential location model
- An example of how to use a spatial interaction models
- Recommendations
- Optimisation Models
- Optimisation models and planning
- Formulating an optimisation programme
- Choice of solution method
- Spatial planning
- Decision optimisation models
- Recommendations
- Simulation models
- Continuous system simulation
- Discrete simulation models
- Microanalytical simulation models
- Space time models
- Recommendations
- Conclusions and Advice
- References
- Preface
- One of the most pressing practical problems facing planners today concerns how they can make best use of the existing battery of computer based models and quantitative techniques for planning purposes vis-a-vis those of urban and regional research. In many ways planners are in a very weak position. As a result of their training they are primarily model users rather than model builders, and the models available for their use have largely been built for non-planning purposes. Not surprisingly, there have been many instances of model misuse and abuse as they have attempted to use inappropriate and inadequate tools for planning purposes. Perhaps as a result, there is now a growing feeling among professional planners that either models do not work and have little to commend themselves or that the available models are difficult to use for policy purposes. In both cases the differences in the perspectives purpose, and language of model builders and model users have created a barrier to inter-communication. This situation is also reflected in the widening gulf between models produced by disciplines such as geography, which are often claimed to have planning relevance, and the planner's limited abilities to comprehend and make appropriate use of these models Another contributing factor is the emphasis by many model builders on theoretical aspects and the scant attention that has been given to the empiracal and practical application aspects of models and quantitative techniques.
- This book is an attempt to bring together both academics and planning practitioners who have an interest in the use and further developemt of models in planning. For the academics who have never left their ivory towers, an attempt is made to explain some of the restrictions under which models are used in planning in the hope that this will result in the development of more relevant models and a better understanding of the applied aspects of the subject. For planners or researchers interested in the application of models in planning, an attempt is made to explain why and how models should be chosen for applied purposes
- On some occasions, practical advice and recommendations can be offered. On other occasions all that can be done is to provide an interpretation or critical commentary on certain aspects of current practice, leaving to others the task of working out a solution. The latter may not seem very helpful but criticism is a necessary first step in the development and use of better models, especially for a subject which is still in its infancy.
- The book adopts a deliberate and explicit applications orientation, in so far as this is possible without becoming amodelling case-study cook-book. It is emphasised that it is not designed as a technical 'nuts and bolts' book with details of all the models and quanitative techniques relevant to planning. Nor does it contain enough details of either models or model building methodologies to equip the model builder with all the necessaryskills. People interested in the 'nitty gritty' of models, model building, and model applications are referred to one or other of the introductory texts that are available (Lee, 1973; Masser, 1972), or to the more theoretical model building books of Wilson (1974) and Batty (1976) or to the more applications orientated works of Baxter (1976) or Wilson, Rees and Leigh (1977). These books largely present an academic or research orientated approach to the subject of models in planning. This book tries to compliment these works by presenting a distinctly practice orientated, planning practicioner's viewpoint of models in planning. Accordingly it does not pretend to offer a detailed survey of practice nor a comprehensive 'pot-boiler' review of all the academic literature, rather it is an attempt to provide a critical commentary on the state of the art as it is being pracitced with recommendations as to how it may be improved.
- This book is implicitly organised into three sections.
- The first section comprises chapters 1 to 3. It is concerned with the more general aspects of using models in planning and describes those factors relating to their use in a local government context. The various technical, political, organisational, and conceptual factors are discussed in some detail because of their importance to the practical use of models and because they seem to have been largely ignored by previous books on the subject of models in planning. Particular attention is drawn to the recommendations of chapter 3 for using existing models for planning purposes.
- The second section consists of chapters 4 to 7. Attention is now focussed on the types of models that are used in certain areas of planning. Coverage is eclectic rather than comprehensive with an emphasis placed upon identifying general principles which can be applied elsewhere. In this respect chapter 7 is particularly important, since many of the topics relevant to spatial interaction models are of general significance to many other types of analytical model.
- The third section is formed by chapters 8 and 9. They look at two families of models which have generally not been used very much in British planning. However, it is suggested that these models have much more planning potential than those covered in the previous four chapters but whether this potential is realised depends on planners developing both a greater awareness of the limitations of the current analytical models and a better appreciation of what models can and cannot be expected to do.
- Finally, chapter 10 summarises some of the more important findings and suggests we should look forward to the future of models in planning with a certain degree of optimism. At times it appears that more emphasis has been given to the negative rather than the positive features of model use. But it is suggested that only through a greater understanding of the deficiencies of current practice can the necessary stimulus for new and more appropriate developments be outlined.
- Throughout the book sections of particular relevance have been underlined to emphasise theirr importance.
- I would like to acknoledge the assistance and encouragement given by my colleagues in the Newcastle Planning research Group at Newcastle University, especially Allan Gillard and Paolo Scattoni who read and provided useful comments on an earlier draft of the book, by Peter Sanderson who drew the figures and designed the cover, and by former colleagues at Durham County Council.
- Andy Turner's review
- I am ashamed to have only read this book in 2011 almost exaclty 33 years after it was writen when I was turning 3 years old. Better late than never! At least I have read it now as I try to compile an updated record of Stan's work in hopeful preparation for a celebration as Stan reaches the grand old age of 65 years old some eleven years after his retirement following a severely disabling stroke.
- Many of the books messages are as relevant today as they were the day they were written. As mentioned in the Preface, the most important sections of text are underlined which provides a fast and easy way to read through it at a generic level. The book though is a marvel and it should be appreciated in its full glory. Having read it, it is something I look forward to refering to again and again. It is a work from a great master of geography. It is perhaps lacking only an index which would have made it an even more useful reference for looking things up. I look forward to one day finding a digital and open access copy of the entire document on-line.
- I see that there is an on-going information revolution and the development of open data and open source is bringing greater freedom for all that want to understand and use their environment. We might be at something of a cruicial time, either we find a good way to take our knowledge and life to other parts of our solar system and onwards into space before society breaks down and we lose the opportunity, or we don't. I think we are heading for harmony, not catastrophe, but we need a good deal of luck in the next 100 years or so. There is a lot of resource out there and The Culture as described by Ian M. Banks beckons. I agree with what a Robert Wright once wrote in that we are not in a zero sum game, the logic of human destiny is non-zero. Peace be with you.
- This reminds me of the Groundtruth and Truth about Groundtruth (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9671.1997.tb00002.x/abstract) debate from the late 1990 GIS era. If things had turned out differently, my friend and mentor Stan Openshaw may have added a very critical rant to this. I don't have the capacity to argue so much, but I do appreciate all your considerations. You might be interested in what John Holloway was talking about in Leeds recently (http://reallyopenuniversity.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/john-holloway%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98crack-capitalism%E2%80%99-at-university-of-leeds/#comment-604), but then again, you might not find it relevant at all. I will link to this from there too. We live in interesting times. May peace be with you :-)
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