Geoanalysis
Geoanalysis is the analysis of data, eg demographic or customer data, by geographical area or other form of spatial referencing.
3D Visual Data Mining
The 3DVDM research group is an interdisciplinary venture at Aalborg University in Denmark that aims to develop ways of mining large databases using virtual reality visualisations. The website contains a large amount of information on the current projects being undertaken within the group.
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ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining SIG
As a Special Interest Group within the Association for Computing Machinery, the SIGKDD aims to encourage research into new ways of using data and to promote the adoption of standards in data mining activities. The 'Events' page includes downloadable conference papers and other resources.
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American Demographics
The website of American Demographics magazine, a publication that concentrates on the application of demographic knowledge and geodemographic principles within a marketing context. The site contains a search facility to locate articles from back issues of the magazine, which can be read online. Although the content is obviously biased towards America, many of the articles make interesting reading for anyone involved in the use of geodemographic market targeting techniques.
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Association for Geographic Information
The main website of the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) in the UK.
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Association for Geographic Information GIS WWW Resource List
AGI GIS WWW resource list, maintained by the Geography Department at the University of Edinburgh. Some of the sites listed on this page have relevance to the geodemographics industry.
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Beacon Dodsworth
Beacon Dodsworth specialise in geographic business solutions, including market analysis GIS and geodemographics. Their Prospex product combines the ability to analyse geodemographic data with traditional GIS functionality to produce a complete market visualisation and decision support tool. Their geodemographic people classification, P2 People & Places, uses geography to classify people by where they live. Beacon Dodsworth can also supply and tailor a web mapping application to suit all needs. Beacon Dodsworth are suppliers of Census 2001 and mapping data.
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Cartogen - Retail location analysis and reporting for the UK
Cartogen specialises in retail location planning, offering a range of demographic, market segmentation and mapping solutions.
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CASSINI
CASSINI is a consortium of over 20 French academic organisations performing research into GIS and spatial information technology. Among the pieces of work currently being carried out is an investigation into modelling spatial reasoning, which is appropriate to geo-marketers interested in locational analysis etc. The site provides links to the partner institutions' websites.
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Census/Atlas
Census/Atlas is an online demonstration application developed by Geowise Ltd providing simple-to-use, map-based reporting for the newly released 2001 Census data. CensusAtlas provides data for the whole of Great Britain at local authority level. It allows users to select multiple authorities and produce aggregate results. This site is not linked to the Census Access projects being run by national statistics agencies. Geowise Ltd is working in partnership with GROS and NISRA in this area.
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Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London
The web page for the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. It includes the department's working papers and journal publications, on a range of topics including the application of angular analysis to quantify space, the development of cellular models of urban systems and the study of the dynamics of urban areas.
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Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity (CSCA)
The Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity (CSCA) is a non-profit research unit based at Ryerson University in Canada. The Centre studies private-sector economic activities that deal directly with consumers, including retailing, services, financial institutions, and the developers who create the physical infrastructure of malls and offices. CSCA provides a research focus for members of the retail and development sectors and facilitates the discussion of issues of mutual concern, the exchange of ideas, and the development of a network of professional contacts. It promotes research, innovation, education, and discussion. The Centre has the support of almost seventy private-sector members and associations.
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Department of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton
The research performed in the Department of Social Statistics concentrates on sample survey theory, demography and statistical modelling. It covers issues such as the modifiable areal unit problem and the concept of ecological fallacy. The latest working papers produced by the department are available to download from this site.
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EUROGI
EUROGI, the European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information, aims to promote and support geographic information technology. Their site includes a number of directories of relevant information, ranging from 'GI people' to 'GI Industry'. It also contains a large amount of information on the European Geographic Information Policy Framework.
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GeoBusiness Solutions
GeoBusiness Solutions is one of the UK's independent store location and retail modelling consultancies. The company, formed in 1998 by Andy Thompson, Jonathan Walker and Steven Halsall, specialises in retail modelling, site location analysis, geographical data and information systems for the retail, leisure, property, transport and consumer product industries.
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GeoCommunity
The GeoCommunity is a portal for Geographic Information Systems (GIS), CAD, Mapping, and Location-Based industry professionals, enthusiasts, and students. The GeoCommunity also offers a daily SpatialNews Newswire.
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GeoComputation and Business Geographics at the University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is one of the prime academic institutions in the UK for geodemographic and geocomputational research. This page provides links to the members of staff involved (many of whose sites include downloadable versions of their published work), and also to a list of working papers produced by the department, some of which relate to geodemographics and the 2001 Census.
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Geographical Information Science and Remote Sensing Network, The (GISRS)
This site describes the work done by the GISRS which is part of the Department of Geography at University College London (UCL). It includes details of the staff and researchers involved, and also provides a list of recent publications.
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Geomatics.org.uk
Geomatics.org.uk is a web-based initiative launched in 2000 to promote geomatics in schools and colleges. Geomatics is the science of the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, especially instrumental data, relating to the earth's surface. The site is supported by the UK land and offshore survey industry.
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Geospatial Analysis: Web site, Book & E-Book
Geospatial Analysis is a comprehensive guide to principles, techniques and software tools.
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Geo-Refer
The Geo-Refer project site contains a digital library of learning materials on referencing social science data geographically.
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GIS and Remote Sensing Unit at Lancaster University
A list of the reports produced by the NWRRL, (many with online abstracts), and information on ordering copies of the complete documents. Topics covered include the classification of residential districts, the issues of aggregation and the MAUP in the British Census, and the potential for fuzzy classification systems in geodemographic targeting.
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GMAP
GMAP is a market analysis company with roots in the geography department at the University of Leeds. Their products include GMAP Market Modelling, GMAP Optimiser, GMAP Benchmark and GMAP Revenue.
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Hornsby, Kathleen
Kathleen Hornsby is a postdoctoral research associate at the NCGIA whose work concentrates on spatio-temporal reasoning and spatial data mining. These pages include a list of her publications, some of which can be downloaded from the site.
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InSite
InSite, from CACI, is a market analysis tool that brings together database, mapping and reporting functionality. It enables users to uncover intelligence in marketing data, from finding trends and opportunities in customer information to understanding locations in terms of people and demographics.
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InstantAtlas
InstantAtlas enables geographical and statistical information to be displayed within web browsers, it can be used to create stand-alone, interactive atlases, dashboards, profiles, or key performance indicator reports that allows people to view and explore patterns, monitor key indicators, present trends and support decision-making.
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Institute for Geoinformation, TU Vienna
The website of the IoG at the Technical University of Vienna. Research within the Institute includes the analysis of spatial problems, spatial reasoning and the use of geoinformation in a business context. The site includes freely-downloadable papers and publications, many of which are in English.
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iShareMaps
iShareMaps are mapping products from Astun Technology. UK Geocoding integrated into your website or on the desktop, and location-based web server for local government.
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Laboratory on Geoinformatics and Cartography, Masaryk University Brno
The LGC is a division of one of the Czech Republic's foremost academic geography departments, and includes among its activities a market analysis service for companies looking to locate in the Czech and Slovak Republics.
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Mapinfo
MapInfo provides location-based solutions and services that help organisations better understand their customers and markets in order to gain a competitive advantage. MapInfo solutions offer a combination of software and data allowing customers to map, visualise, profile, compare and act upon customer and market information.
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MapMechanics
MapMechanics is a supplier of GIS software and data. Its website offers up to date information on the latest uses of digital mapping data including geodemographic data.
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Micromarketer Generation3
Micromarketer Generation3 is Experian’s suite of powerful geographical analysis software. Available for use either on the desktop or over the web, it is an integrated GIS tool that provides customer profiling, catchment definition, sales territory analysis, data modelling, mapping and visualisation.
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National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
The NCGIA is an independent organisation dedicated to furthering research in geographic information science. Current areas of research at the centre include the issue of accuracy in spatial data, and the potential for increasing the cognitive abilities of GIS.
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North East Regional Research Laboratory at Newcastle University
The work of NERRL, based at Newcastle University, focuses on geographically weighted regression techniques for spatial data analysis.
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Openshaw, Professor S
Professor Stan Openshaw's pages at the University of Leeds. His research encompasses geodemographics, spatial analysis and GIS, and his site includes links to some of his working papers at the Leeds School of Geography.
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RGS-IBG Quantitative Methods Research Group (QMRG)
The QMRG is made up of members of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers with an interest in the progress of quantitative geography in Britain.
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Roddick, Professor John F
Professor John Roddick's site at Flinders University. Among his research interests he lists spatial and spatio-temporal data mining and his publications pages include numerous downloadable papers and articles produced by his research group.
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SARU - Socio-Spatial Analysis Research Unit
Based at Queen's University Belfast, research within SARU investigates socio-spatial relationships with particular emphasis placed on the importance of these relationships in 'Targeting Social Need' (TSN).
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Software for Spatial Data Analysis
This page, created by Professor Mikhail Kanevski at the Russian Academy of Sciences Nuclear Safety Institute, provides the opportunity to download free software designed to analyse and visualise spatial data. The programs available include 3Plot, INTER-X, Data Man, WinGSLIB, VarRose and Upfile.
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Spatial Data Handling Division, University of Zurich
This page outlines the research taking place within the SDHD into socio-economic applications of geographic information processing. The page provides contact information for the academics working in the Division.
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Spatial Data Mining at LMU Muenchen
The homepage of a research group at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, headed by Professor Hans-Peter Kriegel. The site includes a list of the group's publications, some of which can be downloaded in full.
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Surpop V2.0
Surpop provides registered census data users with the opportunity to access population estimates for 200 metre cells derived from both the 1981 and 1991 Censuses. The estimations were achieved by applying surface modelling algorithms to the aggregated census data, and aim to represent the population distribution within enumeration districts. Detailed descriptions of the techniques involved are available on the site.
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Thrall, Professor G
Professor Grant Thrall's pages at the University of Florida. His research concentrates on business geography and geodemographics, incorporating market analysis and retail location. The site includes reprints of nine papers he has written, and also an 'Internet Tour' of business geography, interesting despite the inevitable American bias in its content.
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Tranmer, Dr M
The home page of Dr Mark Tranmer, based at Manchester University. His research interests include the ecological fallacy, the modifiable areal unit problem and Census data analysis. His site includes links to downloadable versions of some of his publications, including one on the use of Census data in investigating the causes of the ecological fallacy.
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UK travel flows now available from Nomis
18 June - Travel to work data from the 2001 Census can now be viewed and downloaded free of charge. Tables show daily flows of workers from residence to place of work for all local authorities and wards in Great Britain, and parliamentary constituencies and wards in Northern Ireland. They also include breakdowns of the characteristics of the people in the flows.
UPTAP: Understanding Population Trends and Processes
The primary aims of the UPTAP initiative are to: build capacity in secondary data analysis;promote the use of large-scale social science data sets, and improve our understanding of demographic trends and processes which affect society and the population.
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Varenius - NCGIA's Project to Advance Geographical Science
Varenius is a project fostered at the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, the goal of which is to define the science upon which GIS and GIS-related subjects is based by advancing research into a selection of topics chosen for their relevance to today's IT-centric world.
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Williamson, Dr P
Dr Paul Williamson's homepage at the University of Liverpool. His research concentrates on small area population microdata and the use of neural networks and fuzzy logic in geographical analysis. The page includes links to the products of his latest research, including the website of a project aiming to create a national set of validated small area population microdata.
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The Town Centres Project
This UK Government funded project aims to develop a nationally consistent system of retail data collection including areas of town centre activity, floorspace, employment and retail sales turnover. A pilot study covering the London area has been completed and the project is now extending to the rest of England and Wales.
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