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Robin Lovelace
@robinlovelace
Data scientist, transport modeller, geographer, programmer and researcher
@ITSLeeds
and
@lida_uk
into maps, bikes and energy.
Leedsrobinlovelace.netJoined October 2009
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Robin Lovelace
@robinlovelace
Really excited about this: for the next ~18 months I will be working with the
@10DowningStreet
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@DataSciCampus
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@ESRC
and others on the new 10DS Fellowship. Looking forward to working with Federico, Alex and everyone on data science in government 🚀
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ADR UK
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ADR UK & ESRC are pleased to announce the first No.10 Data Science (10DS) Fellows, Robin Lovelace & Federico Botta! They will collaborate with 10DS & ONS to design #research and produce #analysis to inform #policy. Read about the potential of this scheme: bit.ly/3HxJWzz
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Robin Lovelace
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#RStats/#Python crossover/collaboration in action. Both great languages that enable reproducible, transparent and accessible #DataScience with #opensource software. Opportunities for cross-pollination and inspiration in both directions 🚀
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Dr Arthur Turrell
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Hey #DataScience folks, enjoyed @hadleywickham & co's R 4 Data Science? Inspired by their excellent example, I'm putting together "Python 4 Data Science" here: aeturrell.github.io/python4DS/welc Definitely a work in progress but great to get any early user feedback! #rstats #python #pydata
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Robin Lovelace
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This is impressive and scary in equal measure!
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Aaron Zuspan
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I made an #EarthEngine app that uses #CellularAutomata and elevation data to simulate sea level changes. Try it out: aazuspan.users.earthengine.app/view/cellular- 🌊🏔️
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Map of topography in the Pacific Northwest, showing water levels rapidly rising until only a few peaks are above water
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Robin Lovelace
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Was super fun collaborating on this project! As Francisco says,
@rstudio
(especially in the amazing new Visual Editor mode) +
@zotero
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@rmarkdown
= 🤩 4 collaborative, reproducible+ open manuscript writing. Be the change 🚀
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Francisco Rowe
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Ahhh...and the great @robinlovelace introduced to a new (to me) reproducible writing set up which I am now keeping for the foreseeable future using @rstudio and latex. 💯 recommended. Link to the repo👉🏼 github.com/fcorowe/sim_chp
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Robin Lovelace
@robinlovelace
Great to see this out there #OpenAccess 🎉 Contains reproducible example using the new {simodels} #RStats package, test it out! If you're interested in modelling movement and spatial interaction models (SIMs), this could be the ideal place to start 🚀 #RStats #gischat
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Francisco Rowe
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New preprint!!! This is a collaborative project w/ a dream team: @robinlovelace & @adam_dennett 🔥🔥🔥 It's a new chapter for a book led by another dream team @levijohnwolf, @ajheppenstall & @profrichharris 🔗doi.org/10.31219/osf.i 🧵
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Robin Lovelace
@robinlovelace
John Lindsay is a great speaker and outstanding developer. Met him at
@GISRUK
back in 2014 which inspired me to work on #opensource software in academia. This is highly recommended! #gischat #rspatial
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Qiusheng Wu
@giswqs
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Another excellent @MapScaping podcast with the legendary #WhiteboxTools creator Dr. John Lindsay! A #geospatial analysis platform with 500+ tools🚀📣 Twitter: @whiteboxgeo Website: whiteboxgeo.com GitHub: github.com/jblindsay/whit Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whi
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Edzer Pebesma
@edzerpebesma
This is magnificent - there's a lot for sf to catch up with now, to bring all this automatically to all users of sf.
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Dewey Dunnington
@paleolimbot
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Announcing 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 #rstats s2 🌏 version 1.1.0 on CRAN! Packed with new features, performance improvements, and completely rewritten internals to support implementations for other languages/runtimes. Blog post with all the goods here: dewey.dunnington.ca/post/2022/s2-v
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Robin Lovelace
@robinlovelace
Want to use geographic data analysis to support + *influence* (more) sustainable planning policies nationwide 🌱? Could be ideal place for people with #RStats, #Python, #RSpatial, #geopy skills. Unique opportunity to use reproducible #DataScience 4 public benefit!
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Tom Smith
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24 hours left to apply for two fantastic 'heads of data' jobs in the Spatial Data Unit @luhc on data capability/ infrastructure, and data strategy/ transformation. Details in the 🧵 below #DataJobs #DataScienceJobs #data #DataScience #LevellingUp
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@robinlovelace
Same could be said of decarbonisation research in #academia: research fiddling at the margins for less than 1% gains is being overtaken by bold work by the likes of
@CREDS_UK
,
@SEIresearch
and
@tyndallcentre
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George Monbiot
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With astonishing speed, the established environmental and conservation groups have been eclipsed by grassroots movements like @ExtinctionR, @Fridays4future, @GNDRising and @JustStop_Oil. Why? Because most failed to show the courage and leadership we need. theguardian.com/commentisfree/
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Robin Lovelace
@robinlovelace
This is a HUGE release, just read the blog post and there are loads of impressive changes here. Coolest one for me was reproducible example that highlights: most GIS software assumes that... THE WORLD IS FLAT (pretty sure this applies to
@qgis
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Announcing 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 #rstats s2 🌏 version 1.1.0 on CRAN! Packed with new features, performance improvements, and completely rewritten internals to support implementations for other languages/runtimes. Blog post with all the goods here: dewey.dunnington.ca/post/2022/s2-v
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Ana Basiri
@AnahidBasiri
🚨🚨We have extended #Paper & session submission deadlines for #spatial #DataScience 2022 until 26th July🚨🚨 #SDSS22 will be online but we will have some local gatherings all around the world bc we all miss in-person #conferences (& drinks, of course!) bit.ly/3aKfS8r
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Rui Zhu (Ray)
@RuiZhuRich
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We are pleased to announce the 3rd Spatial Data Science Symposium, September 22-23. The paper deadline is July 18 and session deadline is July 26. sdss2022.spatial-data-science.net #sdss2022 @STKO_UCSB @spatialUCSB @grantdmckenzie @AnahidBasiri @Joe_GISc Join us!
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Robin Lovelace
@robinlovelace
For anyone wanting to get stuck into exploratory data analysis and modelling, and learn to use visualisation as a powerful way to better understand phenomena revealed in datasets, using reproducible code, this is highly recommended!
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Essex Summer School - Social Science Data Analysis
@EssexSumSchool
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Places are still available for both online and in-person study for our course with @rJBeecham Computational Methods for Social Data Science: Exploring Society Through Visualization and Modelling. Applications are open until Friday! essexsummerschool.com/summer-school-
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Robin Lovelace
@robinlovelace
About time! Very glad that this dataset, which has huge potential to save lives, will finally be made open access 🎉 Many thanks
@basemap
,
@OrdnanceSurvey
and to the companies who collect this *actual* (not legal) speed data, look forward to using it 4policy+research 🚀
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Basemap
@basemap
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Delighted to announce we've signed a contract with @OrdnanceSurvey to provide speed data for The Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA), allowing public-funded organisations to freely access this data from April 2023. bit.ly/3P8KwHq #geospatial #data #mapping
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Robin Lovelace Retweeted
Adam Reynolds
@awjre
Why Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are critical for reclaiming residential streets for *people*.
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Nicu Calcea 🇺🇦
@nicucalcea
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Research shows this is most likely not coincidence. In an attempt to shave seconds off its users' commutes, Google Maps is routing traffic through minor streets, once primarily used by local residents and delivery vehicles.
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Robin Lovelace
@robinlovelace
A key point from the paper: modelling crashes on the road network makes sense because it allows aggregation + interpolation, + flagging dangerous route segments in need of intervention. For more on the paper itself, see this thread (and read it!):
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RSS_SeriesA
@RSeriesa
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Recent article by Andrea Gilardi, Jorge Mateu, Riccardo Borgoni, @robinlovelace adopting a hierarchical approach to model car crashes considering the street network layout 🔥 🔗Open access doi.org/10.1111/rssa.1 🧵
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Giulio Mattioli
@giulio_mattioli
The Welsh Government: currently planning to lower speed limits to 20mph (=32km/h) *in all built-up areas* across the country bbc.com/news/uk-wales- The German government: currently stopping 100+ cities that would want to do so from introducing a generalised 30km/h limit
bbc.com
Speed limit to be lowered to 20mph in Wales
Wales will become the first UK nation to adopt a 20mph default limit speed in built-up areas.
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Robin Lovelace
@robinlovelace
In hindsight, may not have been the most constructive thing to retweet. We need more collaboration and understanding between different ecosystems and less polarisation. Next thing I put out on this will be about collaboration, it's possible + good:
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Dewey Dunnington
@paleolimbot
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Video is live here! youtube.com/watch?v=PbO5FV
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Robin Lovelace
@robinlovelace
Never thought I'd see mojitos as a criteria for deciding which language to use! Valid point in my experience tho: for data analysis, visualisation and modelling on regular (or #rspatial) datasets R just works, out-of-the-box ⚡️Fuel for #RStats/#Python/#JuliaLang debates 🔥
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Daniela Witten
@daniela_witten
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So sorry to all who I offended with a joke about R versus python. They are both fine, it’s just personal preference! Like, do you prefer to do a quick and correct data analysis and then sit by the beach sipping mojitos, or
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Robin Lovelace
@robinlovelace
This looks like a key study into the level of trust (and perceived safety?) that people walking and cycling have in autonomous vehicles vs conventional cars. Details below.. Interestingly: not much difference. Hypothesis: this is because ~10% of worst human drivers are so bad!
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John Parkin
@JohnParkin28
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We found in 3 common priority-based maneouvres (right turn into side road, overtaking a parked car, passing over a zebra) in simulation and the real-world that pedestrian, cyclist and driver trust in automated vehicles was similar. Other findings see: tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.10
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Robin Lovelace
@robinlovelace
Key point: not all cycle (or indeed walking, wheeling or driving) infrastructure is alike 🛣️🚲 There are at least 6 different types of what many simply call 'cycleways'! Important to distinguish between them. Great illustration from just-published paper for future reference.
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Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics and 7 others
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caroline tait
@troublestrife
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Only 6% of on-road cycle lane length is physically segregated from motor vehicles (br image ask for area).We have also estimated, for the first time, compliance of on-road cycle lanes with UK national design guidance (LTN 1/20) in terms of cyclist separation from motor vehicles…
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Robin Lovelace
@robinlovelace
This is a big finding: while ~100% of roads are compliant with national guidance designed for motor vehicles, only ~20% of cycle lanes comply with national guidance *in London* (probably much lower outside London) according to analysis presented in this paper.
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caroline tait
@troublestrife
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Just 20% of on-road cycle lanes were estimated as compliant. There is considerable variation between boroughs with Hammersmith and Fulham @LBHF having the most (65% of their cycle lanes compliant) and @harrow_council having the least (1%) @London_Cycling 4/5
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Robin Lovelace
@robinlovelace
This is, to my knowledge, the most detailed #openaccess dataset on cycling infrastructure in the world 🌍 detailed description of it plus lots of beautiful visualisations made with reproducible #RStats code: just published 🎉
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caroline tait
@troublestrife
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In it we demonstrate that there are spatial inequalities in cycling infrastructure between boroughs – infrastructure is generally located in Inner London – and these inequalities persist even we take population size and geographical area into account. 2/5
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