2. Making the switch to Pelican

    Sun 12 May 2013
    cfarmer

    Welcome to the new and improved carsonfarmer.com! If you are reading this, then you are enjoying my new, responsive static website/blog. The new site is powered by Pelican — a static website generator written in Python — and is hosted on GitHub using GitHub Pages. Most of the content on the site is written in Markdown, which makes it really easy to add headings, anchors, and all sorts of goodies to simplify writing blog posts and web-pages.

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  4. Geocomputational landscapes and spaces

    Fri 15 March 2013
    cfarmer

    Special session titled “Geocomputational landscapes and spaces” at the International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science (AMMCS-2013), to be held at Wilfrid Laurier University, August 26-30, 2013.

    The deadline for abstracts is April 15, 2013.

    Description of the session:

    This session focuses on new applications and theoretical developments in geocomputation. Increasingly, spatial analysis and modelling requires advanced computational techniques (MCMC, INLA, GAs etc.) to address problems related to land and resource management. This session is devoted to current developments and advances in geocomputation for understanding landscape patterns, processes, and building spatial decision-support systems. For example, talks will ...

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  5. Humans as systems

    Thu 14 February 2013
    cfarmer

    From xkcd comes another brilliant insight into the human condition:

    A human is a system for converting dust billions of years ago into dust billions of years from now via a roundabout process which involves checking email a lot.

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  6. Will it Python?

    Tue 12 February 2013
    cfarmer

    Over the past few weeks, I’ve been following a really great blog by Carl Vogel. This blog has an excellent (growing) collection of Python examples based on porting code and examples from R to Python. In general, it is useful for those “interested in the Python data analysis toolkit and its viability as an alternative to R”. Carl draws on examples from Machine Learning for Hackers by Drew Conway and John Miles White, as well as Gelman and Hill’s Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models.

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  7. Science, Canadian Style!

    Sun 20 January 2013
    cfarmer

    Recently, a colleague of mine from Wilfred Laurier University has started a website with some colleagues called RinkWatch (http://rinkwatch.org/). The website is designed to track climate-change by keeping tabs on local community ice rink(s). This innovative use of Citizen Science is getting quite a bit of buzz up in Canada, but the idea has implications for any country with a culture of outdoor skating rinks. It is also a great way to get the public involved in the climate debate, and science in general! RinkWatch received a mention in the Canadian Association of Geographers’ Mailing list, which I’m posting here to help spread the good word. You can also check out the full story and video here.

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  8. Postdocs and Lectureships at St Andrews

    Thu 08 November 2012
    cfarmer

    The Centre for GeoInformatics (CGI) at the University of St Andrews in Scotland has the following open positions:

    1. Lectureship in Geoinformatics, permanent position, application DL 21 Dec 2012
    2. Postdoctoral researcher in Geoinformatics, preferably Visual Analytics/Visualization (three year fixed post, application DL 7 Dec 2012)
    3. Postdoctoral researcher in Geoinformatics (two year fixed post, application DL 21 Dec 2012)

    In addition, there are three lectureships open at the Department of Geography & Sustainable Development in which CGI is located:

    1. Two lectureships in Environmental Geography
    2. Lectureship in Human Geography

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