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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Jul 9

We are still recruiting for another PhD for the next academic year, working with IBM Research - geods.ac.uk/2025/07/02/p...

PhD Funding: Multi-Scale Urban Remote Sensing with AI

We have another exciting Geographic Data Service PhD opportunity based at the University of Liverpool. This project is sponsored by IBM Research as part of a EPSRC Industrial Doctoral Landscape Award ...

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · May 27

Final call www.linkedin.com/posts/geogra...

#hiring #datascience #geospatial #llm #ukri #smartdata #researchjobs… | Geographic Data Service

🚀 We’re hiring TWO Senior Data Scientists! 🚀 Help us unlock the power of smart data to tackle regional inequalities and improve lives across the UK. About the roles 📍 Based at the University of Liver...

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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · May 16

Love the visual summary of #sdsc25

No pandas were harmed in the process 😉

@movingpandas #movementdataanalysis

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · May 12

Exciting news today from our Geographic Data Service team - who doesn’t want access to a load of geographic and consumer data: www.linkedin.com/posts/geogra...

#data #smartdata #geods #datascience | Geographic Data Service

The Geographic Data Service Catalogue Now Live🎉 We are delighted to release the GeoDS data catalogue 📈 Building on the success of the Consumer Data Research Centre’s (CDRC) data platform this new ...

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Apr 23

Exciting PhD opportunity alert!!!! 👇👇👇🌶️🌶️https://geods.ac.uk/2025/04/22/fully-funded-phd-opportunity-advancing-urban-analytics-through-ai-driven-geodemographic-classification/ 🌶️🌶️ #AI #GIS #DataScientist #GeoAI

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Feb 25

Who fancies coming to do a PhD with me in the newly established www.geods.ac.uk - the topic is "AI and Geodemographics".... UK Students only unfortunately - but a great opportunity to join our exciting team - www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · Jan 30

More open address datasets released by councils in England www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

New blog post with download links for Council Tax lists from Birmingham City Council and Lichfield District Council, including full addresses, CT bands, and UPRNs.

#FOI #openaddresses #opendata

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · Jan 5

Why there should be a Wales-only census nation.cymru/opinion/why-...

Argument from Dr Huw Evans that, if the UK Government discontinues the decennial Census for England and Wales, the Welsh Government should be able to mandate a Census for Wales alone.

#Census2031 #opendata #devolution

From the perspective of Wales and, specifically, Welsh speaker numbers, EWC discontinuation poses a real issue – in particular, over the quality of alternative data.

The decision about whether there will be another EWC will be made by the UK Government. A decision about a census in Wales should be made in Wales: i.e. by the Welsh Government subject to Senedd consent.

It should be put beyond doubt that the CA is devolved to Wales, as it is to Scotland. It is not clear why the decision to hold a census for Wales is made by the UK Government because the reserved powers model now applies to Wales.

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Dec 10

🚀 Job Alert!!! 🚀 The first in a series of long term posts within the SDRUK Geographic Data Service which will launch next year -this one is based in UCL- https://buff.ly/4fSyChU - and builds on the work that we have done over the past ten years as part of the CDRC. Deadline 12th Dec!!!

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 30

Day 30 #30DayMapChallenge - Final Map

Todays map is an exploration of small area Gross Value Added (GVA) data in England and was an excuse to look at these in the context of retail centres. All #rstats code provided, but a bit rough!

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 29

Day 29 #30DayMapChallenge - Overture
We have been working with these data quite a bit since they arrived and have created ETL to produce an updatable POI dataset for the UK. This #rstats map illustrates how you can use these data to map coffee shops.

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 28

Day 28 #30DayMapChallenge - The Blue Planet
One of the most popular CDRC open data products is our Access to Healthy Assets and Hazards index. This includes a measure of access to bluespace which is today's map. The blog post contains links to the interactive version.

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 27

Day 27 #30DayMapChallenge - Micromapping
This is a quick example of using #rstats to produce cartography from OpenStreetMap. In this instance a map is create for my local park.

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University of Liverpool News @livuninews.bsky.social · Nov 27

NEWS| The Liverpool City Region has been announced as a £6.75 million creative cluster for the music sector. 🙌🎶

Led by @liverpooluni.bsky.social and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social MusicFutures will establish the LCR as a music research and development powerhouse.

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 26

This is really nice; what’s the data source?

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 26

Day 26 #30DayMapChallenge - Map Projections

Today is a quick #rstats exploration that compares areas to explore distortion between two projections - the Eckert IV projection and the Mercator projection.

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 25

Day 25 #30DayMapChallenge - Heat
Staying warm is difficult for many people as the price of heating their homes has risen in the UK. In this work we explored the geography of gas consumption trends in the residential sector across England and Wales.

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 24

Day 24 #30DayMapChallenge - Only circular shapes

This is another #rstats post which uses Ordnance Survey greenspace data and a simple accessibility measure to map proximity to an allotment in Greater London. The circles are scaled by their proximity.

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 23

Day 23 #30DayMapChallenge - Memory
I have taken a collective view on this topic today. This is a map of cognitive geography and place associations extracted from some work looking at where people talk about on Reddit

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 23

Year, but only on the full viz after the link

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 23

This is a very interesting #dataviz comparison of most of the major LLM ranked by performance, using MMLU (Massive Multitasks Language Understanding)

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 22

Day 22 #30DayMapChallenge - 2 Colours
This map was created in #rstats and features just 2 colours. Left is where Labour were the majority party in the 2024 UK General Election. The map on the right is the subset where the Reform party held second place!

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 21

Day 21 #30DayMapChallenge - Conflict
This is not an area that I research in particular, however I have done some work on the visualisation / mapping of UK crime data, and I wrote a short paper about this a reasonable length of time ago!

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 21

Yeah 🙌 @frogo.bsky.social

Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 20

Final book which I weirdly never touched as an UG as I had ruled it out because of colour content. As a postdoc I ended up working on the books teaching materials, but generally is still my favorite GIS intro. The first few chapters are classics and fundamentally shaped how I see GIS and GISc.

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 20

I was given this book by Stewart, Martin and Chris 3 months into my PhD as part of a workshop on GWR hosted at UCSB. This provided an excellent reader on this particular approach, which at the time was my first foray into more sophisticated statistical methods.

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 20

This was another UG book that I read. Probably the most niche topic for a book that I have ever read, but contains everything that you need to know about the fundamentals of locating things by postcode! Foundational stuff if you are in the UK.

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 20

This one got me interested in research as an UG. By complete chance I end up doing a PhD in the lab where Martin D was based a couple of years later. This is still a fascinating read from a pre social media era!

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 20

Happy GIS Day… a few of my favorite books which got me interested in GIS and spatial analysis more generally. This first one was my first intro to GIS as my UG textbook. At the time I liked the fact it was in B&W. Very good pedagogic content.

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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · Nov 20

Day 20 #30DayMapChallenge - OpenStreetMap
Todays map is probably interesting to anyone who wants a map of US retail destinations. It is built from a variety of data including OSM using in #rstats and with an interactive website.

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