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Jacob Macdonald

@jacobmacdonald.bsky.social

NFLDer in the UK. Lecturer in GIS and Spatial Analysis - U. Sheffield. Digital media/ regional graphics editor for β€˜Regional Studies, Regional Science’. Urban econ, data, spatial stats & open science πŸŒŽπŸ—ΊοΈ

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Working on spatial data, flood risk management or urbanization in developing countries? Would love to chat!

Really happy with this great collaborative project we have ongoing in Quelimane.

21.05.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great to be back at it with #GISRUK2025 - looks like a super nice programme of GIS research and methods!

23.04.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Urban surfing in Rotterdam! Now that’s β€œliving with water”. Nearing the final stretch of our UG field trip, and couldnt be happier with our great students.

04.04.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A tale of two flood barriers! From Hull over to Rotterdam, looking at one of the biggest storm surge barriers protecting Europe’s largest port. One of my favourite stops on the great urban planning undergrad field trip

03.04.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunny days out in Spurn! Great talks by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for field trip Day 2 with our amazing urban studies and planning students @sheffielduni.bsky.social (they didn’t like my April Fools joke that our ferry tomorrow got canceled…)

01.04.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A great start to the annual @sheffielduni.bsky.social urban planning field trip to Hull and Rotterdam. Learning all about the defences in the city and living with water 🌊 - big thanks for welcoming us @hullcitycouncil.bsky.social

31.03.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunny ol’ Sheffield 🌼

06.03.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Open Research Conversation: Spotlight on Data Journals Recording of the following session, part of the 'Open Research Conversations' seminar series at the University of Sheffield (organised by the University Library, Scholarly Communications Team), held o...

The recording of yesterday's Open Research Conversation on data journals is now available to view: doi.org/10.15131/she...

Thanks so much to @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social , @teclabonci.bsky.social and @vanessahiggins.bsky.social for a fantastic session.

#OpenResearch #OpenData #AcademicSky

13.02.2025 08:13 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was fantastic to hear from Jacob, Vanessa Higgins & Tecla Bonci about their experiences with data journals at today's Open Research Conversation.

We'll share the link to the recording once it's available.

12.02.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Was great to present some of my data work for part of #LoveDataWeek2025 at @sheffielduni.bsky.social

A great session today on publishing in data journals. And lots more great sessions to come!! β€οΈπŸ“Š

www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

@openresshef.bsky.social
@lovedataweek.bsky.social

12.02.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Nice to be back in the class today for another semester of research methods, flooding, spatial data science and international field trips. πŸŒŠπŸ‘¨β€πŸ«

11.02.2025 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Christmas come early, and one major stress off the to-do list! Looks like I’ll be sticking around some time yet. πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§

16.12.2024 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome to Sheffield Urbanism! Here we'll be posting about research, publications, events, online resources & networking opportunities shared by urban researchers at the University of Sheffield (within and beyond @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social), as well as issues of wider urban interest.

03.12.2024 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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πŸ—ΊοΈ DAY 16: CHOROPLETH - What does the UK look like when coloured in by #PremierLeague football club colours? That’s today’s #30DayMapChallenge! Obviously the polygon sizes aren’t proportionate to importance - LFC hidden away in their NW corner! ⚽️

16.11.2024 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—ΊοΈ DAY 15: MY DATA - β€œMap something personal”… What’s the distribution of Jacob-based places around Great Britain? Using Ordnance Survey place names for today’s #30DayMapChallenge. Lots of Jacob’s ladders about.

15.11.2024 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—ΊοΈ DAY 14: WORLD - How Worldly is the distribution of the history of world fairs? Not much it seems according to today’s #30DayMapChallenge. If you’re into planning, architecture, the world fair and serial killers couldn’t recommend β€œDevil in the White City” enough!

14.11.2024 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—ΊοΈ DAY 13: NEW TOOL - Not exactly new, but relatively. ArcGIS Pro! I’m so used to QGIS and the former ArcMap, that Pro is still pretty new to me. Learning all along the way! #ESRI #ArcGIS #30DayMapChallenge

Redoing some maps from my PhD tree canopy identification.

13.11.2024 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Would love to be added if possible

13.11.2024 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I made a data visualization academics starter pack! go.bsky.app/wzjzNi

Let me know who I should add. #datavis

11.11.2024 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 99    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 3

New starter pack - library teams and librarians interested in open research πŸ“šπŸ“£

DM us if you'd like to be added

#OpenResearch #OpenAccess #OpenData

go.bsky.app/T17BEF9

12.11.2024 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3

Hey people! If you are into #geospatial anysis and data #visualization, I created a #GIS starter pack to help you connect with accounts with valuable resources in the field.

Check it out here and please suggest new names to expand it:

go.bsky.app/TJ7qQF6

12.11.2024 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 139    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 4
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πŸ—ΊοΈ DAY 12: SPACE & TIME - Spatio-temporal patterns for a random moose in Northern Alberta today for the #30DayMapChallenge 🫎 Here’s to Moose number YL4 🫑

www.movebank.org/cms/movebank...

12.11.2024 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—ΊοΈ DAY 11: ARCTIC - The @ArcticMonkeys have never been to the Arctic for today's #30DayMapChallenge Of course working in #Sheffield I had to go Sheffield-centric for the theme today.

Some rough data work taken from concertarchives.org

11.11.2024 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—ΊοΈ DAY 9/ 10: AI/ Pen and Paper - The UK as interpreted by ChatGPT, and Pangaea as interpreted by my hand for these two #30DayMapChallenge Been a while since I’ve gotten to do some arts and crafts! AI-UK just gets stranger the more you look

11.11.2024 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—ΊοΈ DAY 8: HDX Data - Some great datasets on Humanitarian Data Exchange for the #30DayMapChallenge Here’s a map of population density in Mozambique using the WorldPop 2020 synthetic gridded data

11.11.2024 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—ΊοΈ DAY 7: VINTAGE - Catch up time for the #30DayMapChallenge A pretty basic map playing with some QGIS coastal styles from @awoodruff.bsky.social to capture that vintage hand drawn effect.

11.11.2024 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Started on the deep dive of Venus, Magellan, radar rasters, and translating earth coordinates into the Venusian CRS… time to start using QGIS for some more SPACE-ial analysis πŸ˜‰

06.11.2024 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—ΊοΈ DAY 6: RASTER - I think we could use a little break from earth for todays #30DayMapChallenge. I’ve been deep into planetary sci-fi books lately so today we have a raster of the surface of Venus from NASA’s Magellan mission πŸͺπŸ”­πŸš€

06.11.2024 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—ΊοΈ DAY 5: JOURNEY - Going personal for todays #30DayMapChallenge on the theme of Journey. Here's a rough mapping out of my academic journey from bachelors to lecturer. πŸ‘ΆπŸ‘¨β€πŸŽ“πŸ‘¨β€πŸ«

05.11.2024 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Retail Centre Boundaries and Open Indicators | CDRC Data

data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/reta...

04.11.2024 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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