Geographer working to help expand the use of spatial technologies in Public Health.

Joined February 2010
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Fun making #GISArt today... Distance to your nearest GP from every address in Australia.
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On the theme of spooky šŸ‘» @levijohnwolf, @rsfrankl and myself have a brand new episode of #theGLaDpodcastšŸŽ§šŸŽ§šŸŽ§This one, no less, on Digital Twins. You love them, you hate them, you can't ignore them... šŸ“¢gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/ep…
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Achieving #HealthForAll requires concrete changes in economic policy. My latest article with @DrTedros on the cover of the @TheLancet outlines next steps on how to align health, economic, and environmental priorities at national and international levels. Read it here āž”ļø thelancet.com/journals/lance… and more on the underpinning Council @Economy4Health recommendations here āž”ļø who.int/publications/i/item/…
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An unexpected diversion in this talk; Ian spoke very positively about @WalthamstowAcad which he had recently visited; I'm proud to be a school governor there
At @bspsUK conference, plenary discussion between @amrcampop and Sir Ian Diamond on future of population statistics, and Ian's career leading up to role as National Statistician #bsps
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28 Aug 2024
Did we mention that @FOSS4G_Oceania is happening in Tasmania this year? It's definitely not being held at Boring Creek!
Place names in Tasmania are really something else
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23 Aug 2024
Given SEIFA is going on 40 years old, perhaps @ABSStats should look at some more nuanced approaches. For example, the Alkire-Foster (AF) Method. Technical introduction to the AF Method | OPHI ophi.org.uk/research/af-meth….

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30 Jul 2024
the new PySAL is out today! This release introduces the new Graph class and includes a *ton* of new stuff all across the metapackage github.com/pysal/pysal/relea…
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Overture Maps launched the Address Theme with over 200M addresses from 14 countries. šŸŒ Our goal is to build a single, conflated, global address dataset and we invite our community to provide feedback on the schema. Read our blog for details: hubs.la/Q02H_5hx0
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Overture Maps Foundation Releases General Availability of its Open Maps Datasets overturemaps.org/overture-ma… from @OvertureMaps Download process docs.overturemaps.org/gettin… release notes docs.overturemaps.org/releas… (no persistent link) #geospatial #osm #opendata 1/2
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5 Jan 2024
The most important geospatial concept? The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem. It can be the difference between reliable and deceptive results. Here’s what you need to know about it:
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22 Jul 2024
The most important geospatial concept? Spatial Autocorrelation. It can make the difference between spurious and accurate results. Here’s what you need to know about it:
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Distance to the closest GP Practice from every address in NZ arcg.is/01uf19 c/o @MarcusMapMaker @whitehead_nz
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We're excited to release Global Streetscapes - a massive open dataset of 10 million street-level images labelled with 300 attributes across 688 cities, supporting urban science and analytics! šŸ›£ļøšŸŒ I am proud of the team led by @yujun_hou @urbanalyticslab! ual.sg/project/global-street…
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