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The results of our vizLib project are published in a short graphical report as part of the UPTAP Research Findings series.
In 'Developing Capacity for Exploratory Analysis in Local Government Visualization of Library Usage Data' we present a number of graphical methods and comment on library user characteristics and geography for libraries in Leicestershire.
Variable 'performance' in terms of user recency and frequency is evident along with differing local patterns of usage. The importance of the geography of library location amongst frequent recent users is evident.
Our paper on OD maps has just been published in the Cartographic Journal. It describes our new technique for visualising origin and destination data that avoids some of the problems of other techniques, such as occlusion. We do this nesting spatially arranged destination matrices inside origin matricies to produce an OD map. This technique is similar to that of an OD matrix but with the spatial arrangement of origins and destinations preserved. This work is based on the award-winning paper that Jo presented at GISRUK last year.
Jason Dykes attended the Dagstuhl Seminar on Information Visualization.
The meeting provided a great opportunity to discuss giCentre work with international colleagues in the context of the latest advances and ideas in Information Visualization.
Jason participated in research groups working on 'The Analytic Process' and 'Visualization Aesthetics' and led a session on 'Information Visualization Education'. He is contributing to ongoing efforts to develop the ideas generated at the meeting.
Aidan, Jo and Jason's paper which demonstrates a treemap-based approach to cartography for presenting spatial and temporal characteristics of traffic has just been published in the Journal of Maps. It enables multiple aspects of traffic to be viewed concurrently. We also have an interactive demo of the technique.
Dr. David Lloyd graduated on 18 May 2010 in a ceremony at the Guildhall.
David's comprehensive piece of work details ways in which various human-centred methods can be used in establishing communication between data experts and visual methods experts to foster co-discovery through long-term collaboration. David's work was EPSRC funded and is part of an on-going successful relationship with Leicestershire County Council.
The thesis can be downloaded from the giCentre publication pages: Lloyd (2009) Evaluating Human-Centered Approaches for Geovisualization.
Aidan presented our vizTweets project for collaborative visual data analysis at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2010 in Vienna. We are extending our Hierarchical Visualisation Expression (HiVE) language to support the types of graphics used in insurance natural hazard risk management. Aidan demonstrated how HiVE could be used with microblogging sites to discuss data asynchronously, using graphics.
The giCentre won best paper at GIS Research UK 18th Annual Conference (GISRUK) for the fourth year running. Aidan presented OAC Explorer [see paper], demonstrating techniques for visually analysing uncertainty and variation within the OAC geodemographic classifier through a fast and responsive visual interface that makes effective use of interaction, layout and colour. Thank you to everyone who voted!
The giCentre won the UKMap challenge at GISRUK. The challenge was to demonstrate an "innovative way in which UKMap [could] be used and displayed for the potential benefit of a specific market sector, organisation or research area". Our entry responded to this by applying some ideas from our vizLegends work with EDINA to produce a responsive map legend to support map interpretation in an interactive environment. You can try it out here.
The giCentre was well-represented at the UK's annual GIS research conference, presenting a wide cross-section of its work. Susanne and David contributed to the pre-conference useability workshop that was also attended by Jason and Lian-Chee; Naz represented work on uncertainty in home locations from volunteered geographic information [pdf]; Jo and Aidan presented work on looking at uncertainty within OAC [pdf and pdf]; Jason presented new ways thinking about map legends [pdf]; Rob showcased the vizLib work and described how it was having an impact in Leicestershire County Council [pdf]; and Aidan led the giCentre UKMap challenge entry.
David Lloyd recently submitted his PhD to the satisfaction of the examiners - well done David!
This comprehensive piece of work describes an intensive and long-term collaboration with Leicestershire County Council and details the ways in which various human-centred methods for establishing communication between data experts and visual methods experts can be used to foster co-discovery.
The thesis can be downloaded from the giCentre publication pages: Lloyd (2009) Evaluating Human-Centered Approaches for Geovisualization.
Anna Broberg of Aalto University, Helsinki is visiting the giCentre to discuss her work on the analysis of softGIS data and visualization methods to support this activity.
Anna is participating in the MSc GeoVizualization module and has presented some of her analysis of geo-referenced perceptions of Helsinki and Espoo, which we are analyzing according to the characteristics of those who register them.
The work is part of the Urban Happiness project, which has identified relationships between density of urban environment and registered response amongst some groups of respondents.
Anna-Lena Kornfeld of the g2Lab at HafenCity University Hamburg is visiting the giCentre to discuss her work on visual encodings to map sounds.
Anna presented her preliminary ideas and a proposed set of style guides for audio cartography at a giCentre seminar.
We have been discussing and developing these subsequently with Anna to develop her ideas, which promise effective means of mapping noise, soundscape and sound propagation in urban environments.
Jason Dykes and Robert Radburn delivered a seminar showcasing their vizLib work at Loughborough University Library.
The event aimed to communicate best practice in analysing and visualizing and included presentations by Paula Forster and Sharon Pye of Leicestershire County Council on innovative marketing and analytical methods being used in Leicestershire.
Library Services managers from across the country attended the seminar which included presentation of some of the techniques and findings developed by Rob and Jason through the ESRC funded UPTAP project.
Aidan, Jo and Jason attended the kick-off meeting for the JISC funded VRE Rapid Innovation programme at the University of London.
Jason presented a short introduction to the vizTweets a research project which is now underway.
The event was a useful showcase of VRE RI projects and formed part of JISC's dev8D developer days, which Aidan attended.
Aidan Slingsby and Jason Dykes visited the Interaction Design Centre at Middlesex University.
They presented developing giCentre ideas on Spatial Interaction Design with a series of applications, prototypes and guiding principles.
Following the seminar the UK Visual Analytics scene and visualization education were discussed with Prof. William Wong and colleagues at Middlesex.
giCentre reseachers have had five papers accepted for the GIS Research UK 18th Annual Conference which will be held at UCL in April: two on visualising the OAC geodemographic classifier [pdf and pdf]), innovative map legends [pdf], visual analysis of library use [pdf] and uncertainty in home locations from volunteered geographical information [pdf] .
Aidan Slingsby and Jason Dykes attended the Willis Research Network's quarterly meeting in London.
Aidan presented recent giCentre work and Jason and Aidan participated in a series of meetings with other WRN members, some of the world's largest insurers/reinsurers, catastrophe modelling companies and spatial data providers.
Various key issues were discussed and research opportunities identified relating to the role of spatial data and data visualisation in the insurance industry.
On 21 Jan 2010 Jonathan Raper and David Mountain played host to Geomob - the London Geo/Mobile Developers Meetup Group - at City University.
Speakers included Andrew Eland of Google UK's Mobile Team, Julianne Pearce of Blast Theory, Laurence Penney discussing SnapMap and Andy Walker of Public Earth.
The final talk was given by Mikel Maron discussing OpenStreetMap's Response to the Haiti Earthquake.
Jo Wood, Jason Dykes and Aidan Slingsby's research has been recognised in the university's annual Staff Research Prize scheme. They received a "commendation" for their novel approaches to information visualisation, their engagement with data users and their research outputs over the past year which include best paper (GISRUK), honorable mention (IEEE InfoVis), visual analytics prize (VAST) and "KML in research" prize (Google).
Jonathan Raper chaired the launch of the London Datastore through which huge quantities of previously unavailable data about London is being made available to the public.
A number of high profile speakers contributed to the event at City Hall including Boris Johnson (Mayor of London) and Aneesh Chopra (Chief Technology Officer of the United States).
The giCentre team has been awarded funding by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) under their VRE Rapid Innovation (VRERI) Grant scheme.
In the 'vizTweets' project we'll be developing the HiVE language in the context of various applications areas. We will also produce clients that can generate and interpret HiVE. Doing so will help researchers save and share visualization.
We will develop a means of communicating this information that draws upon and utilises existing microblogging infrastructures to develop a Virtual Research Environment.
Our work with Leicestershire County Council featured in issue 32 of 'E-Government Bulletin' under the title "Leicestershire Pioneers ‘Data Visualisation’ For Service Improvement".
The piece describes our 'vizLib' and ongoing 'Timely Information Pilots' projects with LCC. As Rob Radburn says: "How do you go about looking through 450,000 records?" Well - we developed some innovative and informed approaches with LCC analysts.
Lian-Chee Koh has joined the Department of Information Science as a research candidate.
She will be working in the giCentre with Aidan Slingsby and Jason Dykes in a project that applies user-centred design to develop data visualization methods and software.
Lian-Chee is based in Singapore where she is an instructor at the Singapore Management University and will be using the Singapore property market as a case study in the planned research.
Jo Wood and Aidan Slingsby attended the AGI annual Awards Dinner and were presented with the AGI Best of GISRUK Paper award for their paper with Jason Dykes and Robert Radburn on OD Maps. The paper was presented by Jo last April at GISRUK09 in Durham and they have just submitted a full paper based on this work that is now under review.
City University is currently offering 35 studentships for PhD research starting in October 2010.
We’d like strong applicants to apply to work with us in the giCentre.
The competitive application process requires the production of a short research proposal including objectives, likely methods and an indication of the contribution the work will make to the academic discipline.
If you are interested please contact us and we can discuss research ideas and help develop strong and coherent proposals.
Anna Broberg is visiting the giCentre from the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (YTK) at the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK).
Anna is working on the Urban Happiness project, in which the eco-social sustainability of the urban environment is being determined by collecting and analysing experiential localized knowledge of the residents of six Finnish cities. These data are being generated online by city residents using softGIS methods.
Colleagues in the giCentre are working with Anna and her data on innovative ways of visually analysing the kinds of data generated through the softGIS approach.
giCentre researchers recently completed the vizLegends consultancy with EDINA - the JISC national academic data centre in Edinburgh. Five 'digital wireframes' have been produced to explore a number of themes that relate to the use of visualization in re-thinking approaches to map legends.
Jason Dykes, Aidan Slingsby and Jo Wood delivered a seminar on the project and current hot topics in Information Visualization to EDINA at the finale project meeting.
The vizLegends digital wireframes are likely to be evaluated by the EDINA user community and will feed into requirements for future EDINA Digimap products.
Jason Dykes has been invited to participate in the world's first GeoDesign Summit in California in the New Year.
The event aims to shape 'GeoDesign' - an approach to planning that combines spatial thinking, computational approaches and creativity to improve the way the built environment is designed. Academics and practitioners from a broad set of disciplinary backgrounds will discuss and demonstrate approaches that may result in synergies.
The meeting will consist of invited keynote speakers, lightning talks, and idea labs and materials will be developed at the meeting to advance the concept of GeoDesign and published subsequently online.
Aidan Slingsby participated in the third annual Willis Research Network Reinsurers' meeting in Bermuda (2-3 Nov) in which researchers from the Willis Research Network presented their work to some of the world's largest reinsurance companies. These were followed-up with in-depth meetings with each of the organisations, discussing research directions and how the research could be operationalised.
Aidan presented recent giCentre information visualisation research, discussed its relevance to the industry and how it could be developed further to better meet the needs of the insurance and reinsurance industry.
Jason Dykes has been asked to join the organizing committee of the IEEE Information Visualization Conference 2010.
InfoVis is the premier meeting in the field of information visualization and the meeting, which is a key part of VisWeek, includes high quality papers, posters, tutorials, workshops, panels and exhibits. Accepted papers are published in a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
Jason will be acting as posters co-chair with Chris Weaver of Oklahoma University for the meeting which will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah in October 2010.
Jason Dykes is acting as a member of the Programme Committee for IEEE Pacific Visualization 2010.
This involves reviewing papers, eliciting and collating reviews from colleagues in the visualization community and advising the paper chairs on recommendations based upon the received reviews.
The third PacVis meeting will be held in Taipei, Taiwan in March 2010.
Aidan presented our paper at IEEE InfoVis and demonstrated the use of HiVE to describe, communicate and restore hierarchically configured graphics.
We received an Honorable Mention for the paper "Configuring Hierarchical Layouts to Address Research Questions" which is accompanied by a video showing the notation in action.
We have been discussing the approach and the OD Maps that it supports with a number of delegates at the meeting.
The paper is published in Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 15 (6) (Nov/Dec 2009) [pdf].
We ran a half day tutorial at visWeek 2009 in Atlantic City. The materials and software are available online and enable you to explore the visual design process.
About 70 delegates attended the tutorial and we've received really useful positive feedback on the event.
Jason Dykes chaired the session on 'Space and Time' at IEEE InfoVis 09.
The session contained novel analytical visualization of spatial and temporal data sets relating to aircraft locations, travel booking transactions, large scale migration data and medical records and an evaluation of responses to alternative representations of point patterns.
The InfoVis meeting was held in Bally's Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey and formed a key component of VisWeek 2009.
We've released the HiDE visualization software as part of our VisWeek 2009 tutorial.
You can use HiDE to explore some of the design parameters associated with hierarchical visualization. It's highly interactive and responsive software that lets you explore layouts and choose colours in the context of a data set recording the results of eight US elections.
The software implements our HiVE expression language for hierarchical layouts and provides additional features for visualization design.
David Lloyd, Robert Radburn and Jason Dykes presented a paper at the ReVISE 09 workshop during VisWeek in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The presentation entitled "Evaluating human-centred approaches to geovisualization application development" documented the results of the work that David is leading on geovisualization design in Leicestershire County Council.
We proposed recommendations to guide the use of human centred approaches in the geovisualization domain in terms of: context of use, requirements, designing, prototyping and prioritizing developments. Our approaches involve continually Refactoring Visualization from Experience with subject experts as 'co-developers'.
Jason Dykes chaired the Spatio-Temporal Analytics session at the VAST Symposium during VisWeek 2009.
The session contained six papers in which novel and varied visualization techniques were used to analyse traffic flows to establish viable commuter routes, locations of employees within a building evacuation, multivariate data concerning hurricane trends, medical records, radio frequency fingerprints for georeferencing and mobile phone networks.
Jason serves on the IEEE VAST programme committee.
Jo, Aidan, David, Naz and Jason won an award at the 2009 IEEE VAST challenge during VisWeek 2009 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Here Jo is receiving the award from VAST Challenge Chair, Catharine Plaisant of the University of Maryland.
We won the award for good visualization of uncertainty and analysis of geographical data in the Flitter Mini Challenge, which involved graphically analysing a data set that simulated suspicious behaviour in a highly connected social network.
Jason Dykes has been appointed to the Regeneration and Economic Development Analysis (REDA) Expert Panel.
The panel has been convened by the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) to strengthen the links between research, evidence and policy. This will be achieved through closer liaison with senior academics and researchers from a range of disciplines through the panel as CLG develops its analytical capacity.
Jason has a geovisualization remit on the panel and will advise on issues relating to graphical approaches for data exploration and communication.
Congratulations to David LLoyd who recently submitted his PhD thesis.
David has been working on 'Evaluating Human-Centred Approaches for GeoVisualization' with Leicestershire County Council through an EPSRC-funded Industrial CASE studentship over the last four years.
He will be defending the work at a viva voce examination in the new year.
Aidan Slingsby will be speaking at the Developments in Geodemographic Visualisation workshop on 15th September at the Royal Statistical Society. He will present giCentre work on rectangular hierarchical cartograms for national maps of population classified by OAC category. More information about the event and details about how to register are here.
Aidan has put together an interactive demo that can be used to explore traffic volume and average speed of courier vehicles in central London. It accompanies a recent submission by Aidan Slingsby, Jo Wood and Jason Dykes to the Journal of Maps (under review) in which we describe the use of treemaps in cartography using eCourier traffic data in London as a case study.
Aidan, Jason and Jo have received an Honorable Mention for their paper at the annual IEEE Information Visualization Conference - the World’s premier meeting in Information Visualization. This is the third year in succession that the giCentre has had work accepted and the paper is one of 5 to receive an award at this year's meeting.
The work introduces and describes the HiVE notation and will be presented in October in Atlantic City, New Jersey. We have produced a short video to demonstrate. The paper will appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 15 (6).
A 'possibilities report' and four 'digital wireframes' were presented to EDINA in Edinburgh through the vizLegends project.
The giCentre is using its expertise in visualization to design prototype map legends that act as exploratory interfaces to maps produced using Digimap datasets.
Our four examples demonstrate and explore possibilities for dynamic and data-dense legends for maps through the following themes: 'The Map is The Legend', 'The Legend as a Bar Chart', The Legend as a Matrix Plot', 'The Legend as Hierarchy'.
giCentre researchers met with the Digimap GeoServices team for the second of three meetings spanning the vizLegends project.
The project is exploring visualization interfaces to map legends and we delivered and discussed four highly interactive digital wireframes that we have developed as part of the 'imagination exercise' at the meeting. We also saw the new Digimap client and discussed its various features.
The digital wireframes will be further evaluated by EDINA and developed by the giCentre when requirements are prioritised.
The giCentre team has won an award for 'Good Visualization of Uncertainty and Geographical Data' at the IEEE VAST Challenge 2009. Competing against an international field including large research groups and commercial software vendors, the team developed several applications for exploring the geography of social networks.
The judges commented that the entry was one of the few able to show uncertainty and showed skills in geospatial analysis.
Susanne Bleisch and Jason Dykes have had a paper accepted for presentation at the INTERACT'09 workshop on "Human Aspects of Visualization".
The paper "A meta-framework of methodological approaches exemplified by 3D geovisualization research" reports upon an approach that combines methodological approaches that vary along a continuum from perceptual experiments to studies in applied settings as we try to understand use of geovisualization applications in analysis.
Susanne is a giCentre MSc graduate who studied as a distance learner.
She is developing the framework as part of her PhD at the giCentre.
Jason Dykes and Jo Wood have described their work with the geograph data set in a contribution to a new O'Reilly book Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions.
The chapter, entitled The Geographic Beauty of a Photographic Archive explores various aspects of the Geograph data set and its visualization.
Beautiful Data was released on 27th July 2009.
Aidan Slingsby, Jason Dykes and Jo Wood have a paper accepted at the IEEE Information Visualization conference to be held in October in Atlantic City.
"Configuring Hierarchical Layouts to Address Research Questions" describes HiVE, a notation for exploring data through hierarchical layouts. A video shows the notation in action.
The paper will appear in Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 15 (6) (Nov/Dec 2009) [pdf].
This is the third year running that the giCentre team has had papers accepted at this prestigious conference with typical acceptance rates at around 30%.
Jo Wood is participating in the London-Edinburgh-London cycling endurance event from the 26th July. This event, held once every four years, attracts an international field of endurance cyclists. Jo will be using location-based technologies and innovative mapping techniques to report progress as he cycles over 200 miles per day over four days.
Jo Wood, Jason Dykes and Aidan Slingsbywill be delivering a new tutorial "Exploring Design Decisions for Effective Information Visualization" at IEEE VisWeek 2009.
The tutorial - to be run in Atlantic City, New Jersey in October - explores the use of colour, layout, symbolism and animation for good data visualisation design.
This is the third year running that the giCentre has run a tutorial for this prestigious event.
The giCentre Data Visualization Day MasterClass was held at City University London on 7 July 2009.
More than 40 delegates from across the country participated in the seminars and visualization workshop.
A series of methods and frameworks for using maps and graphics effectively in data analysis and communication were presented by giCentre researchers.
Alan Smith of the Office of National Statistics and Alistair Edwardes of Communities and Local Government contributed perspectives on the importance of visualization and its use in government in an enjoyable, informative and very graphical day.
The giCentre Data Visualization day was attended by delegates from across the country who participated in a day of active learning focussing on cutting edge methods of visualization.
Presentations from Alan Smith of ONS, Alisdair Edwardes of CLG and Rob Radburn of Leicestershire County Council were complimented by giCentre presentations on design guidelines and demos of the latest techniques and activities.
The giCentre is holding a 1 day Data Visualization MasterClass on 7 July 2009.
The day is designed for those using maps and graphics in data presentation and analysis. Core ideas in visualization will be identified with example applications and novel approaches introduced and discussed. Pragmatic advice will be provided on how to use visualization methods in practice.
Alan Smith of the Office of National Statistics and Alistair Edwardes of Communities and Local Government will be contributing perspectives. For more details and to book see http://gicentre.org/dataVizDay/.
The giCentre has been successfully awarded funding by the Department of Communities and Local Government to improve the information citizens receive about their local council services through their 'Timely Information' initiative.
The project, in partnership with Leicestershire County Council, will develop four visualization applications that will allow residents of Leicestershire to be better informed about the quality of local services, and to influence service provision.
Prof. Jonathan Raper contributed to an article in The Guardian reviewing developments in location technologies.
Jonathan commented on obstacles and likely developments as work continues to produce a the 'universal travel widget'.
You can read more about Jonathan's views in The Guardian, or talk to Jonathan and colleagues at our Masterclass on 'The Future of Location Technologies'.
Jason Dykes represented the giCentre at a meeting of the EU VisMaster working group on spatio-temporal aspects of Visual Analytics. VisMaster aims to forge a strong European Visual Analytics community to effectively utilise the immense wealth of data generated, acquired and stored by modern information systems by combining visual and computational methods. The group are producing a research agenda and developed scenarios key themes at the workshop in Warnemünde, Germany.
The giCentre is using expertise in visualization to develop exploratory visualization interfaces to map legends for the diverse collection of spatial data available through EDINA's Digimap service to the Higher and Further Education communities.
Novel digital wireframes are being produced to demonstrate possibilities for exploratory legends as interfaces to Carto and developing EDINA clients.
The work is being undertaken during the Summer of 2009 with a kick-off meeting in Edinburgh in May.
The GIS field trip takes place at the end of April in the English Lake District. Students are participating in data collection and analysis in projects that consider digital terrain models, geodemographics and landcover analysis through remote sensing.
The projects are developed by students in discussion with teaching staff. This year's elevation model project involved hiking up Long Crag with excellent views of Coniston Water.
The latest version of LandSerf has been released after extensive testing.
New features include the LandScript scripting language for macro programming and map algebra processing, flow magnitude calculations, new map projections, significantly enhanced Ordnance Survey NTF and MasterMap import and USB GPS communication.
The paper 'OD Maps for Exploring Spatial Trajectories' by Wood, Dykes, Slingsby and Radburn was awarded the AGI Best Paper at GISRUK 2009 in Durham.
The paper presents an innovative technique for viewing geographic vectors and was well received by the audience at the conference.
This is the third year running that the giCentre at City has won the best paper prize at the national GIS research conference.
Our entry to GISRUK's mashup challenge illustrated some different approaches to displaying point data as part of a mashup. This includes density surfaces, chi-expectation surfaces and tag maps. We used a gazetteer of British placenames classified by their prefix/suffix and their likely linguistic origin.
The conference was hosted by Durham University and the giCentre contributions were a nice mix of projects resulting from MSc dissertations, PhD research and funded projects.
StratAG is an Irish Research Cluster focusing on advanced geotechnologies for monitoring and early warning. Jason, Alan MacEachren (Penn State University) and Gennady Andrienko (Fraunhofer Institute) presented complimentary perspectives on geovisual analysis to kick-off the StratAG work on discovering knowledge in large complex data sets through interactive visual methods.
The giCentre featured in Insurance Day following our success in the Google KML in Research Competition.
We used KML in novel ways to represent variation in long term forecasts for South America in Google Earth.
The work was undertaken as part of our contribution to the Willis Research Network with David Stephenson and Rachel Lowe at Exeter University, Erik Andersson at ECMWF and the EUROBRISA project.
Lloyd, D., Dykes, J. and Radburn, R. 2009.
Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process to prioritise candidate improvements to a geovisualization application Proceedings of GISRUK, 1-3 April, Durham, UK
Bleisch, S., Dykes, J. and Nebiker, S. 2009.
Building bridges between methodological approaches: a meta-framework linking experiments and applied studies in 3D geovisualization research Proceedings of GISRUK, 1-3 April, Durham, UK
Khalili,N., Wood, J. and Dykes, J. 2009.
Mapping the Geography of Social Networks Proceedings of GISRUK, 1-3 April, Durham, UK
Radburn, R., Dykes, J. and Wood, J. 2009.
vizLib: Developing Capacity for Exploratory Data Analysis in Local Government - Visualization of Library Customer Behaviour Proceedings of GISRUK, 1-3 April, Durham, UK
Slingsby, A., Lowe, R., Dykes, J., Stephenson, D., Wood, J, Jupp, T. 2009.
A Pilot Study for the Collaborative Development of New Ways of Visualising Seasonal Climate Forecasts. Proceedings of GISRUK, 1-3 April, Durham, UK
Wood, J., Dykes, J., Slingsby, A., Radburn, R. 2009.
Flow Trees for Exploring Spatial Trajectories Proceedings of GISRUK, 1-3 April, Durham, UK
Brown, D., Mountain, D. & Wood, J. 2009.
Automated and Subjective Terrain Feature Extraction: A Comparative Analysis. Proceedings of GISRUK, 1-3 April, Durham, UK
The paper summarised Delroy's MSc thesis, comparing the prominent terrain features (peaks, valleys, ridges, etc) pointed out by hikers in the Lake District, with those identified by feature extraction algorithms. Main conclusion: scale matters!
Use RAEViewer to explore the RAE Results and Funding through an interactive graphical representation of the 67 Units of Assessment. Institutions can be ordered according to the selectable criteria. City has improved its research ratings across the University following the publication of the 2008 RAE results, with over 80% of submitted activity rated as recognised internationally or better. Our visualization application helps identify trends in research quality and funding.