1. Visualization featured on wired.co.uk

    Tue 29 May 2012
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    A few weeks back the CGI and I were approached by Miguel Nacenta from SACHI about putting together an infographic for an article on FatFonts (also see my previous article) to be featured on the Wired (UK) magazine website. Since Wired is one of my favourite magazines, I jumped at the chance! Using data that Dr Timothy Stojanovic and I are working with as part of Tim’s work linking off-shore cumulative human impacts to on-shore terrestrial urbanization, I put together several infographics depicting human impacts on the oceans surrounding Edinburgh and London. One of these graphics was selected for ...

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  2. Presentation at CAG 2012 in Waterloo

    Mon 28 May 2012
    cfarmer

    I am giving a talk and chairing a session at the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Annual Meeting this week in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. My session, entitled “Spatial Modelling”, is scheduled for Thursday at 08:30, and is supported by the CAG GIS Study Group. If you are in the neighbourhood, check out the session, and stick around for my talk: “Spatial interaction modelling of commuting flows within local labour markets”, which is also available online (best viewed at 90% on full screen).

    Hope I see you there!

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  3. Introducing the Centre for GeoInformatics

    Thu 24 May 2012
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    The new Centre for GeoInformatics (CGI) within the School of Geography and Geosciences and the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development is now an official university Research Centre at the University of St Andrews in Scotland! A few months ago, I started my new job as Research Fellow with CGI, where I am continuing to work with Prof. A. Stewart Fotheringham, who is the director of the new centre, along with several new and continuing PhD students and faculty members. Now that we have the centre officially up and running, we are quickly getting ready for our official launch next ...

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  4. It’s about time…

    Wed 09 November 2011
    cfarmer

    Well its been a long time since my last post, but I do have a relatively good reason: I was finishing up my PhD thesis. The good news is that I’m now done and graduated! I’m hoping I’ll have a bit more time to blog and continue working on side-projects that I had to put on-hold while finishing up. My plan for the next few months is to finish up here in Maynooth, (unofficially) start some post-doc work, and finish/get going on several papers on my PhD research. I’m also going to try to learn Bayesian statistics, fiddle about with some visualizations I’ve been working on, and start getting back into QGIS and Python development again

    In the mean time, I’ve put together a fun little visualization of my PhD thesis in the form of a word-cloud.

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  7. Adding a bit of class(ification) to QGIS…

    Wed 29 September 2010
    cfarmer

    In my last post, I implemented several classification algorithms for quantitative data which could be used directly from the Python console in QGIS. While this was a handy addition to my PyQGIS toolkit, it wasn’t quite handy enough for me, so I decided to (re)implement the same algorithms in C++ so that they could be added directly to the QGIS API. Before I did that however, I wanted to fix a few issues, and speed things up a bit, particularly for the Jenks Natural Breaks algorithm, which can be quite slow for large datasets.

    After porting everything over ...

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