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Oleksandr Karasov @karasov.bsky.social · 21d

In our new @ijgis.bsky.social paper, @ollejarv.bsky.social and I analysed 9M geolocated tweets from the Greater Region of Luxembourg within the #BORDERSPACE project at the @digigeolab.bsky.social, funded by the Research Council of Finland and @koneensaatio.fi.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 29d

Our lab is growing! We're super happy to introduce Anna Saarinen, who joins DGL to support coordination and management of the Geoportti Research Infrastructure!! 🌟

Learn more about Anna here 👉 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog....

Welcome Anna! We're very excited to be working with you 💚

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hei #sinitaivas tarvitsemme osanottajia tulevaan työpajaamme!

Jos aluekehitys, aluepolitiikka ja muuttoliikkeet kiinnostavat etenkin kun kyseessä on #Suomi ja tarkemmin itäiset ja pohjoiset osat, niin mukaan vaan!

#Finland #Finnish #Region #Europe #EU

Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hei sinä Itä- tai Pohjois-Suomalainen!

Kiinnostaako sinua kotiseutusi aluekehitys ja tulevaisuus? Tule mukaan työpajaamme!

🗓️ Syyskuun 12. päivä 2025
⏰ Kello 11:00 – 12:30

Osallistumistiedot blogissamme:

blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

#Savo #Lappi #Kainuu #Alue #Tulevaisuus #Mikkeli

English: A map of Europe and its NUTS 2 regions with Eastern and Northern Finland highlighted. At the bottom there are the logos of Mobi-Twin research project and the European Union.

Suomeksi: Kartta Euroopasta NUTS 2 -alueineen ja Itä- ja Pohjois-Suomen alue on korostettuna. Alareunassa on Mobi-Twin -tutkimushankkeen ja Euroopan Unionin logot.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hei sinä Itä- tai Pohjois-Suomalainen!

Kiinnostaako sinua kotiseutusi aluekehitys ja tulevaisuus? Tule mukaan työpajaamme!

🗓️ Syyskuun 12. päivä 2025
⏰ Kello 11:00 – 12:30

Osallistumistiedot blogissamme:

blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

#Savo #Lappi #Kainuu #Alue #Tulevaisuus #Mikkeli

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · Sep 2

What a cool conference #ERSA2025 was! Many sessions from @mobi-twin-project.bsky.social project, lots of new people, interesting research, and great food!

It was my first time at #ERSA and hopefully one of many to come!

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · Aug 28

Wrapping up the second day of #ERSA2025 we have @ollejarv.bsky.social from @digigeolab.bsky.social presenting his work on using #BigData describing #mobility of people to assess #CrossBorder integration in #Europe.

Olle explaining how to delineate functional border regions using mobile big data and kernel density estimation.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · Aug 13

Summer in Helsinki always brings smiles to our faces, as do the scholars that visit and collaborate with us 😊 We're thrilled to introduce Francesc Comalada, a PhD Researcher who visits us this autumn from the Catalan Institute of Water Research!

Learn more here 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · Aug 6

Check out the course! 🌍 cartogis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
#mooc #maps #opensource

Cartographic Visualization in GIS 2025

Course information

cartogis.readthedocs.io

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · Aug 6

Our open course on #cartography and #GIS was run for the second year. Kamyar reflects back on this year and the course principles: how we focus not (only) on building technical capabilities, but on maps as means of visual storytelling:
Read more here! blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · Jun 4

📢 New Paper Out! Led by our very own Kerli Müürisepp 👉 “Spatial Integration or Isolation? Capturing the Rhythms of Daily Lives Across Neighbourhoods in Helsinki Using Mobile Phone Data” in Population, Space and Place!

📄 Read the open access article here: doi.org/10.1002/psp....!

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · May 20

We are very happy to congratulate our very own @ollejarv.bsky.social for receiving the Research Council of Finland Award on his work on #CrossBorder #Mobility #Transnationalism #Segregation and #NatureRecreation using #BigData such as #SocialMedia and #MobilePhone data.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · May 9

Robert Klein presented his cool work on exposure to greenery during everyday travel at #LBS20205

Photo by Davi Gressler

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · May 9

Location Based Services conference #LBS2025 continues with @miladmzdh.bsky.social presenting his work on characterizing the attractiveness of regions in Europe.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · May 8

Rounding the day off was @waeiski.bsky.social who presented his work on regional student mobility and how Covid-19 has affected the regional structure of the flow network at #LBS2025.

Photo by Oleksandr Karasov.

Tuomas presents his findings on the structural changes in regional student mobility in Europe.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · May 8

Our visiting researcher Davi Gressler presents his work on assessing realized 15-minute trips in US cities and comparing that to trips that were longer but could have been made in 15 minutes using SafeGraph data.

#15MinuteCity #Segregation

Davi explaining the 15 minute city concept.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · May 8

Next up is @tadusko.bsky.social presenting his work on the rise and fall of Flickr and use of its data in geographical analyses at #LBS2025 conference.

Tatu presents his work on using Flickr for geographical analyses and whether it is actually a good idea after all.

Tatu showing how the popularity of Flickr has diminished but research using Flickr data has increased.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · May 8

Next up at #LBS2025 is our alumni member @karasov.bsky.social presenting his work on exploring cultural ecosystem services in #Ukraine using #PPGIS data collected from #Telegram.

Oleksandr describing the context of his study at Location Based Services conference.

Oleksandr showing preliminary results from the first month of data collection.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · May 8

Our amazing Leyi Xu presents her work on place modeling using Place2Vec to capture euclidean and semantic aspects of POI information at #LBS2025

Leyi explaining the methodology related to assessing semantic similarity of points-of-interest.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · May 8

Our brilliant @matabatchi.bsky.social is presenting his work on quantifying the role of nature in tourism on global and regional scales at #LBS2025.

Matti presenting his results from the Canary Islands.

Matti presenting his work on global flows of nature-based tourism.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · May 8

Second day of #LBS2025 is about to start and so are the @digigeolab.bsky.social presentations.

The scientific entourage of the Digital Geography Lab members and alumni in front of the Dipoli building at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland.

Front row from the left: Henrikki Tenkanen, Davi Gressler, Leyi Xu

Back row from the left: Oleksandr Karasov, Milad Malekzadeh, Robert Klein, Tatu Leppämäki, Matti Hästbacka and yours truly.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · Apr 30

Exciting milestone for our GREENTRAVEL team!!

We’ve officially wrapped up data collection for our VR cycling experiments—with an impressive 151 participants 🚴‍♀️

Juulia Lehtinen explains more 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

Now it’s time to dive into data analysis with fresh excitement!

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Tuuli Toivonen 🇺🇦🌏🌎🌍🕊️ @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social · Apr 17

Celebration in our #GREENTRAVEL project @digigeolab.bsky.social

#VR experiments now concluded!! 🚴🏻‍♀️🌲🌳 🥳

Two months, 151 participants, a lot of learning. Kudos to the incredible team Silviya Korpilo, Om Ravindran, Ashish Shete, Jussi Torkko, Sini Ruohomäki, Juulia Lehtinen and Mansi Garg 💎🤩

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · Apr 14

Mobility viewpoint needs to be recognized in urban greening policies! 🚴‍🌳🏙️

New #GREENTRAVEL paper out!

A perspective paper by Silviya Korpilo et al., published in Ambio, describes how people’s contact with urban nature often happens when moving through space.

Interested? Read the paper here 👇

Restoring nature, enhancing active mobility: The role of street greenery in the EU’s 2024 restoration law - Ambio

This article argues for the importance of integrating a mobility perspective into urban greenspace planning and practice related to the 2024 EU Nature Restoration Law. Street greenery can play an impo...

doi.org

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · Apr 3

The onset of spring in Helsinki always inspires and energizes us, as do the amazing researchers who come to visit us! We're delighted to introduce Eline Rega, a PhD researcher from KU Leuven in Belgium who visits us this April! 🤩

Learn more about Eline here 👉

Meet Eline Rega, a PhD researcher from KU Leuven! – Digital Geography Lab blog

Digital Geography Lab blog

blogs.helsinki.fi

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · Apr 3

📢 New master's thesis finalised!

"Activity tracking data for protected area visitor monitoring: A case study of mountain biking using Strava Metro", by Mikko Kangasmaa 😍

🎓 Find the thesis here: helda.helsinki.fi/items/73ae87...
📄 Find Mikko's summary here: blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

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