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New lectureship in GeoInformatics
The CGI and the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development within the School of Geography and Geosciences at St Andrews is seeking a Lecturer in GeoInformatics: This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the newly formed Centre for GeoInformatics … Continue reading
Take a tour of St Andrews
For visitors to CGI, there is always a ton of things to see, places to visit, and food to eat when in St Andrews. The real difficulty is fitting it all in! I recently found this walking tour online somewhere … Continue reading
PhD studentship in GeoInformatics and Housing reserach
CGI is looking for a PhD student to work on development of new analysis and/or visualisation methods for long-term Scottish housing data. “How can GeoInformatics help with Reducing Risks and Enhancing Effectiveness in Non-Profit Housing Provision” The University of St … Continue reading
Fun with Olympic medal cartogram
CGI Research Fellow Carson Farmer has put together a simple graphic of London 2012 Summer Olympic medal tallies using a rubber-sheet cartogram. Carson’s graphic is inspired by the dynamic world medal map on The Telegraph Olympic coverage website. The graphic should be updated on … Continue reading
Open session on interaction and visualisation technologies
The CGI will be involved in an open session on “Interaction and Visualisation Technologies in the Library” next week in support of colaborative research through advanced visualisations which is being hosted by the St Andrews library and SACHI. Dr. Carson … Continue reading
Carson to present research at CAG conference in Canada
CGI Research Fellow Carson Farmer is giving a talk and chairing a session at the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Annual Meeting this week in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. His session, entitled “Spatial Modelling”, is scheduled for Thursday at 08:30, and is … Continue reading
CGI visualisation featured on wired.co.uk
A few weeks back the CGI were approached by Miguel Nacenta from SACHI about putting together an infographic for an article on FatFonts to be featured on the Wired (UK) magazine website. Using data that Dr Timothy Stojanovic and Dr Carson Farmer are working with as part of their work linking off-shore cumulative human … Continue reading
Introducing the Centre for GeoInformatics
The Centre for GeoInformatics is now an official university Research Centre at the University of St Andrews! Congrats to director Prof. A. Stewart Fotheringham and his team of new and continuing PhD students, faculty members, and staff. Now that we have the centre officially up and running, we … Continue reading
Visualising matrices with FatFonts
Researchers at CGI have teamed up with researchers in SACHI (St Andrews’ Computer Human Interaction Research Group), to generate some exciting visualisations using FatFonts, a typographic visualisation technique developed by SACHI co-founder Miguel Nacenta and colleagues (Uta Hinrichs, and Sheelagh Carpendale): The FatFonts technique is … Continue reading
Who’s shaping up to win big?
After playing around with our Olympic medal cartogram (mentioned in this previous post), here are a few interesting observations we’ve come up with: Despite its large population, the UK seems to be punching above its weight compared to most countries The … Continue reading →