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Welcome to the Geodemographics Knowledge Base, a comprehensive directory of hand-selected websites for people interested in the application of geodemographics and geo-spatial analysis. The site has been produced by the Census and Geodemographics Group of MRS, the world’s largest association representing providers and users of market, social, and opinion research, and business intelligence.
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Developments in geodemographic visualisation seminar - 15 September 2009
18 June 2009 - This Output Area Classification User Group (OACUG) seminar at the Royal Statistical Society in London on the afternoon of Tuesday 15 September is about enhancing the interpretation of geodemographic analysis by visualisation - getting messages across through maps and graphics. The programme features expert presentations on the latest innovative developments, and is aimed at those with special research interest as well as users of geodemographics.
There is no charge for participation, but reservation of places is necessary. For more details and to book a place see the OACUG website:
AGI GeoCommunity ’09 – “Realising the Value of Place”- 23 - 24 September 2009
11 June 2009 - The AGI GeoCommunity '09 conference will take place on 23 & 24 September 2009 at the Holiday Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon. This year's theme 'Realising the Value of Place' will address the role of the GeoCommunity, its challenges and opportunities in a time of global economic flux. AGI GeoCommunity '09 will provide an opportunity for all involved or interested in GI to network, share experience, educate and debate important issues and policy as well as develop and enhance skills through the conference training and workshop programme.
In Business - Location, Location
14 May 2009 - In this edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Business’ programme, Peter Day finds out about the mobile phone, GPS and other wireless technologies which are helping all sorts of useful objects 'know' where they are - and tell everybody else about it. He hears from the people building companies out of this dramatic new sensing ability. A number of useful links are provided for the companies featuring in the programme.
Additional keywords: location tracker positioning skyhook.
European Geodemographics Conference - Report and Presentations published
17 April 2009 - A conference report and the presentation slides are now available from the recent MRS CGG conference: How geodemographics is being applied across an ever expanding Europe. It includes presentations from CACI, Demographic Decisions, EuroDirect, Experian, Free University of Berlin, GfK GeoMarketing, Pitney Bowes and UK Data Archive.
UK SDI & INSPIRE Spring Workshops
16 April 2009 - Official outreach events in support of INSPIRE and UK SDI will take place in Belfast, London,
Edinburgh, Manchester and Cardiff between 28 April and 12 May. The objectives are to gain feedback and input into the INSPIRE Consultation Document supporting the programme transposition; to present and gain feedback on Conceptual Design and Implementation elements of the programme and to continue to build awareness and understanding of INSPIRE and the aspirations of UK SDI.
www.agi.org.uk/pooled/articles/BF_NEWSART/view.asp?Q=BF_NEWSART_310328
British Household Panel Survey Wave 17
8 April 2009 - The latest wave of BHPS data and documentation is now available from the UK Data Archive.
BHPS 2009 Conference - 9-11 July 2009
8 April 2009 - The conference provides an international forum for the exchange of research based on longitudinal data, in particular research using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), the European Household Panel (ECHP), or the European Union Statistics of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). The keynote speaker will be Thomas DiPrete (Columbia University).
www.iser.essex.ac.uk/events/conferences/bhps-2009-conference/overview
Consultation on the Transposition of the INSPIRE Directive [2007/2/EC]
7 April 2009 - INSPIRE aims to make available consistent spatial data sets about the environment and create services for accessing these datasets so that they can to be more easily shared or combined to benefit the development and monitoring of environmental policy and practice.
Defra seeks views on the policy principles that will inform the drafting of Statutory Instruments to transpose the Directive and on the Directive’s impact. The consultation runs for 12 weeks and closes on 26 May 2009.
LinkedData.org
6 April 2009 - Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data by exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF. The site exists to provide a home for, or pointers to, resources from across the Linked Data community.
OpenStreetMap
6 April 2009 - OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It allows users to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way.
LinkedGeoData
6 April 2009 - LinkedGeoData.org is a project by AKSW research group at Universität Leipzig aiming at extracting and publishing geo data collected by the OpenStreetMap.org project as RDF and Linked Data.
Tim Berners-Lee talk: The next Web of open, linked data
6 April 2009 -
Tim Berners-Lee speaking at the TED conference in February 2009 in which he espouses building a web for open, linked data "to do for numbers what the Web did for words and pictures: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together".
www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
DBpedia
6 April 2009 - DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
INSPIRE Conference 2009
31 March 2009 -The Third INSPIRE Conference will take place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 15-19 June 2009, in conjunction with the Eleventh International Conference of the GSDI Association and the national conference on Dutch SDI: Results and Challenges.
inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2009/registration.cfm
ESDS International
30 March 2009 - ESDS International disseminates and supports both aggregate and survey international datasets for UK FE and HE. The service is jointly run by Mimas and the UK Data Archive.
Place Matters: The Location Strategy for the United Kingdom
26 January - A new Strategy to tackle problems from traffic management to flooding, improved policy formulation and decision making by using better geographical information, was recently launched by the government in a report Place Matters: The Location Strategy for the United Kingdom. The UK Location Strategy aims to simplify finding and using location data so that information can be accessed speedily to enhance decision-making.
www.communities.gov.uk/publications/communities/locationstrategy
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