GIS Research at UCL

UCL GIS Research: PhD Update
James Cheshire
UCL Department of Geography and Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
Supervisors: Prof. Paul Longley and Dr Pablo Mateos Tuesday 9 th March 2010 spatialanalysis.co.uk @spatialanalysis

This Talk...
GIS and Academia: UCL Example
A spatial analysis of surnames
Dissemination
Future Collaboration Opportunities

Research

Research London LCAP traffic delay data (Inbound) 15 January 2010 8:00-10:00 am Bus lane users Non bus lane users ArcGIS 9.3 Network Analyst Garavig Tanaksaranond: London Congestion

Research ArcGIS 9.2 digitizing and Spatial Analyst Kiril Stanilov: Metropolitan growth of W. London

Research Nahid Mohajeri: Street Orientation, Dundee Scotland GEOrient, ArcGIS 9.3, Google Earth

Research Snatch Pickpocket Robbery ArcGIS 9.3 Spatial Analyst (Density) Paul Richards: Fear of Crime in Camden, London

Research ArcGIS 9.4 (Beta), Python Script Daniel Lewis: Access to GPs in Southwark

Research R Muhammad Adnan: Real-Time Geodemographics

Spatial Analysis of Surnames
- What’s in a name?
- Analysis.
- Individual surnames as spatial phenomena.
- Groups of surnames as spatial phenomena.
- Surnames as cultural phenomena.

What’s in a surname? Everyone has one! Informed by culture- this is invariably spatial. Generally “patrilineal” that is inherited from your father. There are exceptions to the above.... ....however, my interests lie in general observations

Individual Surnames as Spatial Phenomena R

Individual Surnames as Spatial Phenomena: Applications For each name we can produce the following for both 1881 and 2001: - Where it is most commonly found. -The spread/ density of the name. -Whether a name is characterised by a single core area or multiple core areas. This information has fostered collaboration with geneticists who are interested in the link between our ancestral genes and surnames. Spatial analysis of surnames enables: - The targeting of sampling. - Validation of samples. - Prioritisation of sample analysis.

Individual Surnames as Spatial Phenomena For this research names need to be filtered by: - The spread of the name- achieved with a convex hull. - The frequency of the name (freq. > 100 removed). - The density estimates are also weighted by the location quotient. Software - R was used for the majority of this analysis. - It is much quicker in this context. All this in less than 1 second: MySQL Database query-> Convex hull-> Area of hull-> KDE-> Extract by mask->Contour-> Area of Contour-> Export results. - Hawth’s Tools in ArcGIS provides an alternative. Much, much slower. - RPyGeo enables the advanced geoprocessing modules in ArcGIS to be called from R. It provides the best of both worlds. R is pretty bad at a lot of spatial stuff- especially converting one spatial data type (such as a line) to another (such as a polygon).

Analysis on 45000 names...

Groups of Surnames as Spatial Phenomena 95Z 99ZZ OOLN 00BL 7.520982 7.336616 7.219516 00BM 7.428889 7.315671 7.425037 00BN 7.347616 7.356772 7.394888 00BP 7.452982 7.299915 7.330886 00BQ 7.410027 7.300150 7.387787

Groups of Surnames as Spatial Phenomena North East North West Yorkshire and the Humber East Midlands West Midlands East of England South East South West Wales Scotland R

Groups of Surnames as Spatial Phenomena ArcGIS 9.3, R

Surnames as Cultural Phenomena ArcGIS 9.3

spatialanalysis.co.uk
- GIS as a hobby.
- 1000 - 2000 users a month.
- Part of “Planet CASA” (blogs.splintdev.geog.ucl.ac.uk):
Digital Urban (Andy Hudson-Smith).
Urbantick (Fabian Neuhaus).
Volunteered Geographic Information (Daniel Lewis).
Suprageography (Oliver O’Brien).
Area Profiles (Alex Singleton).
GIScience Research Group (RGS- me).
Quantitative Methods Research Group (RGS- Alex Singleton)- Includes the CATMOG series.

spatialanalysis.co.uk ArcGIS 9.3, Cartogram tool.

spatialanalysis.co.uk

spatialanalysis.co.uk ArcGIS 9.3

Dissemination
Papers:
Journal of Maps (forthcoming).
CASA Working Paper.
4 book reviews (2 in progress).
Proceedings of IEEE Geospatial Computing Workshop.
Proceedings of GISRUK 2009 and 2010.
ArcGIS 9.3, ColorBrewer Palette, R.

Dissemination
Conferences:
CASA S4 Conference, GISRUK 2009, Popfest 2009, Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Annual Conference 2009,Regional Science 2009, IEEE Geospatial Computing Workshop 2009, British Cartographic Society (June 2010), GISRUK (April 2010, presentation and poster), RGS 2010.

Dissemination
Prizes:
Best Young Researcher: UK Regional Science Association Conference 2009.
EDC Student of the year 2010.
2 nd Place: UCL Postgraduate Poster Competition.
Committees:
Postgraduate Rep. GIScience
Research Group.

Future Research
Follow up ESRC CASE award:
Integration of Opensource data/ software.
Applications development.
Cloud computing applications.

More Information: - spatialanalysis.co.uk - www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames - www.casa.ucl.ac.uk - james.cheshi [email_address]

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