📣New paper published by Eman Zied 🌻 ezied.bsky.social, Cait Robinson, Rachel Franklin 🦚, Kate Court, and Jack Roberts: 'A spatial decision support framework for equitable sensor network distribution in the smart city'. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/geoj.1…

One month remaining to prepare and submit an abstract for IPC2025. Don’t miss this opportunity! iussp.org/en/civicrm/mai… or iussp.org/en/civicrm/mai…

👀ICYMI: Paul Allin, sets out why the Royal Statistical Society is launching a new campaign for public statistics. #Stats #Data #PublicData wp.me/p4m9em-d9M

We’re looking for a lecturer in quantitative social science including sociology, economics, policy, etc. Big data folks are especially welcome. Happy to answer questions

🎓📣 Many congratulations to everyone who has received an offer to study with us Newcastle University Geography Newcastle University in September 🎉👏🏼🍾 We look forward to welcoming you to our city, dept, and thriving academic community in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

It’s not every day I get to write blog posts about data infrastructure but when I do I use titles like 🥁🥁🥁 “The very model of a modern data infrastructure”

We are looking for a new Associate Editor for the Journal of Transport Geography. Especially welcome those with expertise in the Global South (sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…). Feel free to email me with questions! 🚋🚊🚆🚲🚶‍♀️🚗🚂🛤️

📣 Our review paper on measuring transport related inequalities is out! We explore how to measure transport inequalities in complex urban environments and how they are related to disparities in housing, neighborhoods, and health. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Catch up on our latest World of Smart Data blog! This time Rachel Franklin 🦚 reflects on "The very model of a modern data infrastructure" 🎼🎼 ! sdruk.ukri.org/2024/08/15/the…

Trying to remember if I’ve ever seen a bivariate map and not immediately thought, that’s so cool I wish we had more bivariate maps in this world

UBDC and The Alan Turing Institute are hosting this year's Turing #UrbanAnalytics meeting at University of Glasgow from 11-13 November. There will be lightning talks, keynote presentations, panel discussions, and workshops on the theme of AI and digital twins. Full details: ow.ly/lzMn50T8NG5

A very true story is that I downloaded and plotted all the historical US social security administration names data in an effort to demonstrate to my daughter that “Perseverance” was totally a real name that she should absolutely bestow upon her unborn child.

Still waiting. This needs sorting out.

📣 calling all CURDS Newcastle friends and especially alumni, join us on 19th September to reconnect. Register here 👇🏼 for details

We are welcoming students, academics and industry colleagues to our 2024 CDT Annual Assembly. We've got a great couple of days ahead including talks form our final MRes cohort and posters highlighting student outputs over the past 12 months.

It's that time of year again! Time to get those nominations submitted for the Spatial Analysis and Modeling Group - AAG + Geographical Analysis Annual Lecture at next year's American Association of Geographers annual meeting in Detroit. Nominations should be sent to SAM Chair, Hyun Kim, and GA Editor, Rachel Franklin 🦚, by October 15, 2024 #aag2025

🎧 Yup, that’s right—the GLaD podcast has returned, with a special Back to School episode in which ljw Dani Arribas-Bel `@[email protected]` and I confront our summer work goal demons and strategize how to have the best academic year ever…sort of…#GLaDpodcast open.spotify.com/episode/7pAljq…

Receiving the closing keynote talk of our 2024 Annual Assembly, from Professor Paul Longley from UCL Geography We really appreciate Paul taking the time to travel up to Newcastle to speak to us.