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Alex Singleton
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Prof Geographic Information Science at the University of Liverpool; Author of Urban Analytics (https://amzn.to/2l5txth) https://mapstodon.space/@alexsingleton
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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July 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
If you are in the market for an exciting new data science job, I am recruiting for two Senior Data Scientists at the Geographic Data Service 👇👇👇👇👇

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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May 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Love the visual summary of #sdsc25

No pandas were harmed in the process 😉

@movingpandas #movementdataanalysis
May 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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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May 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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
April 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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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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February 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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...
www.geods.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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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
January 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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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
January 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🚀 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!!!
December 10, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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!
30 Day Map Challenge: The Final Map – Alex Singleton
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November 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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.
30 Day Map Challenge: Overture – Alex Singleton
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November 29, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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.
30 Day Map Challenge: The Blue Planet – Alex Singleton
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November 28, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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.
30 Day Map Challenge: Micromapping – Alex Singleton
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November 27, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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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.

👉
news.liverpool.ac.uk/2024/11/27/l...
November 27, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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.
30 Day Map Challenge: Map Projections – Alex Singleton
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November 26, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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.
30 Day Map Challenge: Heat – Alex Singleton
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November 25, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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.
30 Day Map Challenge: Only Circular Shapes – Alex Singleton
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November 24, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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
30 Day Map Challenge: Memory – Alex Singleton
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November 23, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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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November 23, 2024 at 7:28 AM
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!
30 Day Map Challenge: 2 Colours – Alex Singleton
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November 22, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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!
30 Day Map Challenge: Conflict – Alex Singleton
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November 21, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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.
November 20, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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.
30 Day Map Challenge: OpenStreetMap – Alex Singleton
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November 20, 2024 at 10:00 AM