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Notes from ICCB/ECCB 2015 (Day 2) – Citizen Science data quality

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The second day of the ICCB/ECCB 2015 started with a session that focused on the use and interpretation of citizen science data. The  Symposium Citizen Science in Conservation Science: the new paths, from data collection to data interpretation was organised by Nick Isaac and included the following talks: Bias, information, signal and noise in citizen science data … Continue reading Notes from ICCB/ECCB 2015 (Day 2) – Citizen Science data quality

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The privatisation of cities’ public spaces is escalating. It is time to take a stand – The Guardian

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The privatisation of cities’ public spaces is escalating. It is time to take a stand
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Oliver Dawkins, doing degree work at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (Casa), created a “Pops Profiler” that enables us to see how this plays out in the Square Mile. Publicly available data on Open Street Maps (OSM) do not indicate a single …

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The privatisation of cities’ public spaces is escalating. It is time to take a … – The Guardian

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The privatisation of cities’ public spaces is escalating. It is time to take a …
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Oliver Dawkins, doing degree work at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (Casa), created a “Pops Profiler” that enables us to see how this plays out in the Square Mile. Publicly available data on Open Street Maps (OSM) do not indicate a single …

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Notes from ICCB/ECCB 2015 – Traditional ecological knowledge, Conservation 3.0 & citizen science

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These are my notes from the first day of the International Congress on Conservation Biology (ICCB) & the European Congress on Conservation Biology (ECCB) in Montpellier. I’ve took notes from some of the talks in 3 sessions about traditional knowledge, ‘Conservation 3.0′ and the citizen science posters. In the session on Traditional Knowledge and Conservation noteworthy … Continue reading Notes from ICCB/ECCB 2015 – Traditional ecological knowledge, Conservation 3.0 & citizen science

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UKDS Census Applications Conference

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I was in Manchester a couple of weeks ago for a UKDS conference on applications of the Census 2011 datasets that have been made available, through the ONS, NOMIS, UKDS and other organisations/projects. The conference was to celebrate the outputs and projects that have happened thus far, now that the Census itself is four years … Continue reading UKDS Census Applications Conference →

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OpenStreetMap: London Building Coverage

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OpenStreetMap is still surprisingly incomplete when it comes to showing buildings for the London area, this is a real contrast to other places (e.g. Birmingham, New York City, Paris) when it comes to completeness of buildings, this is despite some good datasets (e.g Ordnance Survey OpenMap Local) including building outlines. It’s one reason why I … Continue reading OpenStreetMap: London Building Coverage →

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Twitter’s swearing mapped: Which UK country is the most foul-mouthed on social … – The Independent

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Twitter’s swearing mapped: Which UK country is the most foul-mouthed on social …
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Researchers from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the University College London last year revealed a particular peak around transfer-deadline day following Arsenal’s signing of Danny Welbeck, a Manchester United forward, in September …
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Twitter’s swearing mapped: Which UK country is the most foul-mouthed on social … – The Independent

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Twitter’s swearing mapped: Which UK country is the most foul-mouthed on social …
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Researchers from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the University College London last year revealed a particular peak around transfer-deadline day following Arsenal’s signing of Danny Welbeck, a Manchester United forward, in September.
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Lectureship In Quantitative Health Geography, Uni of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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Tweet  There is a three year fixed term Lectureship in Quantitative Health Geography available to the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.   Ideal for a newly completed PhD student or postdoc.   More details can be found here.   Thanks   Simon   Professor Simon Kingham Professor of Geography and Director of the […]

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Kings Cross dashboard – can we bring to life the Knowledge Quarter’s … – Kings Cross Environment

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A couple of years ago the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at the UCL Bartlett School, based on Tottenham Court Road produced this great City Dashboard that puts flesh on the bones of all the ‘smart city’ and ‘big data’ guff. Can we do one …
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Esri survey123 tool – rapid prototyping geographical citizen science tool

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There are several applications that allow creating forms rapidly – such as Open Data Kit (ODK) or EpiCollect. Now, there is another offering from Esri, in the form of Survey123 app – which is explained in the video below. Survey123 is integrated into ArcGIS Online, so you need an ArcGIS account to use it (you … Continue reading Esri survey123 tool – rapid prototyping geographical citizen science tool

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