Andy Turner's MoSeS General Meeting 2007-10-03 Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Introduction
- Web Page about the MoSeS General Project meeting on 2007-10-03
- Contents
People
- Mark Birkin
- Martin Clarke (Chair)
- Justin Keen
- Phil Rees
- Andy Turner
- Dianna Smith
Documentation
- None
Notes
- There was no provisional agenda for this meeting which was organised by Martin.
- I was hoping Paul and Belinda would be present but they were not.
- Martin started the meeting by outlining it's aims (an agenda of sorts):
  1. To take stock
  2. Start planning for final year
  3. Announcement of more resource
  4. New recruit introductions
- Stock taking
  - Dianna and Mark meeting Leeds City Council Director of Regeneration
  - Need to deliver to academic and partner communities
  - Publication
  - Progress on modelling work
    - Population Reconstruction/Initialisation
      - Are exiting models any good?
        
        IPS GA comparison
      - Deals explicitly with Communal Establishment Populations
    - Dynamic Simulation
      - There are 2 working versions (Mark's and Belinda's)
      - Belinda's is working again on the details of fertility and mortality
        
        The rates have changed since 2001.
      - Still struggling with household formation and migration
        
        Students are being handled as special agents that are more likely to return to origin or London upon graduation
        
        Paper submitted to Computing Environment and Urban Systems on this.
  - Applications
    - Housing Market
      - Dianna is working on this using Mark's data.
        
        Belinda's data won't be ready until the very end of the project.
        
        Aiming to present this work at the AAG Annual Meeting, Boston USA, April 2008
    - Health
      - Are we ever going to get some data and what will it be like?
      - Justin has submitted an ethics form but envisages we will have to fill out more for more data and this process will be slow.
      - Mark has and is to circulate the specifications of these data.
      - QMAS is the new FHSA?
        
        Is it spatially referenced?
        
        Not really, it is done by GP practice and their catchments overlap considerably.
      - Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) residential location, hospital location and outcome
        
        Justin thinks that the outcome variable is very unreliable.
      - Quality of Outcomes (QOO)
        
        This is what GP's create and Justin reckons it is probably the best and most reliable data in the NHS!
      - Wanless 5th report on Social Care is coming soon.
      - Health meeting on the 18th
      - Are elderly people being denied health and social care?
    - Transport
      - Haibo has more Chinese visitors coming soon.
  - Technology and e-Social Science
    - Paul and Jie not available, but Mark reckons that progress is good, but that another "techies" meeting should be arranged.
- Miscellaneous
  - Dianna says that Kirk Harland and Nick Malleson are working on a generic agent based model.
  - Recruitment:
    - Aiming to get Junaid Arshad and Chengchao Zu working on MoSeS
      - Both have done masters projects that have helped MoSeS
      - Chengchao is about ready to start.
      - Andy needs to write a job description for the e-Infrastructure work aimed at Junaid.
- Actions
  - Mark to circulate specifications of the health data Justin is getting cleared by ethics.
  - Further meetings to be arranged.
References
- Andy Turner's MoSeS Meeting Web Page

Andy Turner's MoSeS Technical Meeting 2007-10-03 Page

Introduction

People

Documentation

Notes

References

Validation and Metadata