The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Many OAC User Group members will be delighted to learn that not only has ONS coded its Wealth and Assets Survey with OAC, but there’s a paper “Exploring the geographical distribution of wealth using the output area classification” in the latest Economic & Labour Market Review (Jan 2011). http://www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/elmr/elmr-jan11.pdf – pages 59-78. You’ll see some […]
Continue reading »Researcher Oliver O’Brien at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) has just published a new version of the national OAC Map to Maptube. This is now enhanced with Group labels, along with clickable details on each Ouptut Area. Many thanks Ollie! Map is available here.
Continue reading »The 2010 Family Spending report is available here and presents a series of interesting OAC profiles. “The supergroups with the highest expenditure are supergroups 2 (city living) and 4 (prospering suburbs), spending an average of £457.90 and £454.10 per week, respectively, followed by supergroup 3 (countryside), with expenditure of £433.70. Supergroup 5 (constrained by circumstances) […]
Continue reading »There are 3 interesting papers on OAC in the current issue of the Journal of Maps: Visualising the Output Area Classification ( http://www.journalofmaps.com/crossrefMap.php?mid=1102) Mapping the geodemographic classifications of migrants’ origins and destinations (http://www.journalofmaps.com/crossrefMap.php?mid=1106) Rectangular Hierarchical Cartograms for Socio-Economic Data (http://www.journalofmaps.com/crossrefMap.php?mid=1090) The final paper has also appeared as a piece in the Telegraph recently on ‘social […]
Continue reading »What is the OACoder Software? The OAC classification has previously been disseminated by the ONS at the Output Area Level. For a lot of users this has been problematic given that address records typically consist of lists of unit postcodes. A recent development at the ONS has created an open licence version of the National […]
Continue reading »We have just finished compiling version 1.0 of the OAC grand index. This is a tool which we hope you will find useful in its current form, however, we will be adding more data in the future as and when this becomes available. For this first edition we would like to thank Daryl Lloyd – […]
Continue reading »Many thanks to all those who attended our OAC User Group Annual Conference, and additional thanks to all of our speakers. The slides from the talks have all been uploaded to slideshare: Introduction. Alex Singleton: University of Liverpool OAC in an age of austerity. John Fisher: Local Futures Using geo-demographic classifications for customer insight. Miranda […]
Continue reading »We have just finished putting the final touches to our annual OAC event. The programme and abstracts can be downloaded here. We are really looking forward to seeing you all at the RSS on Monday! For directions, the RSS is located at: 12 Errol Street, L…
Continue reading »Long standing QMRG member Professor Ron Johnston (University of Bristol) has been given a lifetime achievement award from the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Johnston, has been a major influence on the discipline both through his research and writing and his professional engagement. His scholarly productivity has always been exceptional, now standing in aggregate at […]
Continue reading »The QMRG are able to offer up to three post graduate student bursaries for the 2010 GISRUK conference (http://gisruk2010.spatial-literacy.org/) with value of up to £300 each to cover conference fees and travel. Additionally, the GIScRG are able to offer an additional post graduate student bursary, again with a value of up to £300 for conference […]
Continue reading »The QMRG are glad to be involved with another WUN online e-seminar series. This new series is titled “Dynamic Modeling in a GIS Environment“. Full details can be found in the following PDF. Information on access and using the online system (with details of the previous seminars) can be found on the WUN website. The […]
Continue reading »Only a few more days to the RGS conference this year, so this is a timely announcement of the 2009 QMRG dissertation prize winner. Many thanks for all the great entries and it was a pleasure for the committee to read such a wide ranging use of quantitative methods. The field this year was very […]
Continue reading »Department: Department of Geography, University of Sheffield Ref No: R07432 Closing Date: 11th August, 2009 Salary: £36,532 – £43,622 per annum Summary: The appointee will cover teaching in quantitative areas of Human Geography, pursue an independent research agenda, contribute to departmental administration, and the expanding range of Masters teaching. The post-holder will have experience in […]
Continue reading »I am pleased to announce that the QMRG prize for the best dissertation in quantitative geography will again be awarded in 2009 and that nominations are now invited. As in previous years, the prize is for the best dissertation in *any* area of quantitative geography, which include the application of existing techniques or the development […]
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