Ate Poorthius provides the first look at an extremely early version of the DOLLY project (Data on Local Life and You) under development at the University of Kentucky. The project is designed to provide a website to map geographic social media and official data to enable users to analyze their local communities.
SheepCamp 2012, Ate Poorthius from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.
The DOLLY Project: http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/post/25545876923/the-dolly-data-on-local-life-and-you-project
July 31, 2012
SheepCamp 2012: Sasha Savelyev on Geovisual Analytics for Text
The talk by Sasha Savelyev highlights his work on qualitative information (particularly text) visualization with specific attention to text footprint, text overlap and typeface.
SheepCamp 2012, Alexander Savelyev from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.
Sasha's website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/azs5362/
SheepCamp 2012, Alexander Savelyev from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.
Sasha's website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/azs5362/
July 30, 2012
Sheep Droppings: 7/16-7/29
After a week's hiatus, we're back with another - albeit shorter - Sheep Droppings for those needing to scratch the itch of geoweb news.
First, for those looking to publish, the journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems has a CFP out for a special issue on geospatial analysis of VGI. Paper submissions aren't due until December, so you've got plenty of time to whip that manuscript into shape.
Speaking of publications, an interesting-looking paper by Andre Oboler, Kristopher Welsh, Lito Cruz entitled, "The danger of big data: Social media as computational social science" snuck by us in the July issue of First Monday. And it also looks like Barney Warf has a shorter-ish book on internet geography coming out sometime soon from Springer.
For those readers in the UK seeking out the £££, the ESRC has a Google-sponsored workshop and grant CFP out related to applications of big data for social science research.
There's also an opportunity for folks interested in studying in Germany, where there are a handful of PhD studentships at Heidelberg University in spatio-temporal analysis of user-generated content.
In the interesting-maps-from-around-the-web department, Mark has a new map up comparing the prevalence of different predominantly-Middle Eastern languages in Wikipedia:
We also stumbled across this video from some folks at MIT promoting a new toolbox for urban network analysis for ArcGIS... While the tool itself seems pretty interesting, the futuristic projections of urban augmented reality are really what makes it most interesting.
Urban Network Analysis from City Form Lab on Vimeo.
We also came across a new (?) attempt at mapping the internet -- focusing on website traffic, but clustering the sites based on nationality and language.
In one final bit of more specifically Sheep-related news, we'd like to again congratulate Monica on her successful dissertation defense last week, and wish her well as she begins a new job at Humboldt State University in California, coincidentally the center of U.S. marijuana production, as confirmed by the Price of Weed map that Monica made. Don't worry, though, she's not leaving us, per se, just moving on to greener (ahem) pastures.
Until next time, sheeple!
First, for those looking to publish, the journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems has a CFP out for a special issue on geospatial analysis of VGI. Paper submissions aren't due until December, so you've got plenty of time to whip that manuscript into shape.
Speaking of publications, an interesting-looking paper by Andre Oboler, Kristopher Welsh, Lito Cruz entitled, "The danger of big data: Social media as computational social science" snuck by us in the July issue of First Monday. And it also looks like Barney Warf has a shorter-ish book on internet geography coming out sometime soon from Springer.
For those readers in the UK seeking out the £££, the ESRC has a Google-sponsored workshop and grant CFP out related to applications of big data for social science research.
There's also an opportunity for folks interested in studying in Germany, where there are a handful of PhD studentships at Heidelberg University in spatio-temporal analysis of user-generated content.
In the interesting-maps-from-around-the-web department, Mark has a new map up comparing the prevalence of different predominantly-Middle Eastern languages in Wikipedia:
We also stumbled across this video from some folks at MIT promoting a new toolbox for urban network analysis for ArcGIS... While the tool itself seems pretty interesting, the futuristic projections of urban augmented reality are really what makes it most interesting.
Urban Network Analysis from City Form Lab on Vimeo.
We also came across a new (?) attempt at mapping the internet -- focusing on website traffic, but clustering the sites based on nationality and language.
In one final bit of more specifically Sheep-related news, we'd like to again congratulate Monica on her successful dissertation defense last week, and wish her well as she begins a new job at Humboldt State University in California, coincidentally the center of U.S. marijuana production, as confirmed by the Price of Weed map that Monica made. Don't worry, though, she's not leaving us, per se, just moving on to greener (ahem) pastures.
Until next time, sheeple!
July 28, 2012
Sheep and the Olympics
We note with interest that the the opening ceremonies of the Olympics included "...70 sheep, 12 horses, ten chickens, three cows, and two goats."
We, of course, take full credit for the high representation of sheep. Clearly someone on the Olympic committee has been reading our blog and studies of the online popularity of farm animals and decided it was time to do the right thing...
We, of course, take full credit for the high representation of sheep. Clearly someone on the Olympic committee has been reading our blog and studies of the online popularity of farm animals and decided it was time to do the right thing...
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Beasts of England, Beasts of France-land,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the Golden future time.
Soon or late the day is coming,
Tyrant Pig shall be o'er thrown,
And the fruitful fields of our lands
Shall be trod by sheep alone.*
* Apologies to George Orwell
July 27, 2012
SheepCamp 2012: Kristen Grady on Mapping Emotion and Experience
The talk by Kristen Grady is Mapping Emotion and Experience and explores the idea of using the geoweb as source material for efforts to map perceptions of local neighborhoods.
SheepCamp 2012, Kristen Grady from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.
Kristen's website: http://about.me/Kristen.Grady
On Twitter: @kg_geomapper
SheepCamp 2012, Kristen Grady from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.
Kristen's website: http://about.me/Kristen.Grady
On Twitter: @kg_geomapper
SheepCamp 2012: Jonathan Rush on Twitter and the Death of Distance
The talk by Jonathan Rush looks at using Twitter data to study Ohio State Bill 5 (which would restrict the collective bargaining rights of public employees) to look at distances in mention networks to see how proximity does (or does not) play a role within online social movements.
SheepCamp 2012, Jonathan Rush from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.
On Twitter: @rushgeo
SheepCamp 2012, Jonathan Rush from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.
On Twitter: @rushgeo
July 26, 2012
SheepCamp 2012: Matt Moehr on Digitagging Neighborhoods
In his talk, Matt Moehr discusses how the geoweb can provide a means of identifying neighborhoods (with all their associated benefits) that is more reflective of actual, on-the-ground perceptions than the standard census tract definitions used currently.
SheepCamp 2012, Matt Moehr from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.
On Twitter: @mattmoehr
SheepCamp 2012, Matt Moehr from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.
On Twitter: @mattmoehr
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