Alex Singleton

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

#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...

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...

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...

Love the visual summary of #SDSC25

No pandas were harmed in the process 😉

@movingpandas #MovementDataAnalysis

#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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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

🚀 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!!!

30 Day Map Challenge: The Final Map – Alex Singleton Alex Singleton

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: Overture – Alex Singleton Alex Singleton

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: The Blue Planet – Alex Singleton Alex Singleton

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: Micromapping – Alex Singleton Alex Singleton

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.

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...

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

30 Day Map Challenge: Map Projections – Alex Singleton Alex Singleton

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: Heat – Alex Singleton Alex Singleton

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: Only Circular Shapes – Alex Singleton Alex Singleton

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: Memory – Alex Singleton Alex Singleton

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

Year, but only on the full viz after the link

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

informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...

30 Day Map Challenge: 2 Colours – Alex Singleton Alex Singleton

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: Conflict – Alex Singleton Alex Singleton

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!

Yeah 🙌 @frogo.bsky.social

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.

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.

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.

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!