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Reflections on 2021 🎇

ActDev First solo authored paper New fellowship: placement in the No. 10 Data Science team (10DS) Software development Geocomputation with R Second Edition Becoming a father Just look up ☄ References It’s been another crazy year for many people with lifestyles still disrupted by COVID, huge advances, setbacks and challenges faced collectively by people worldwide.
Last updated on Jan 1, 2022 8 min read life

Open access events on data science in transport

This is a short post about a couple of events in which myself and colleagues will present on our work on building tools for evidence-based decision making and teaching data science skills for transport planning:
Last updated on Dec 3, 2021 1 min read

Cycleways in East Leeds: a Photoblog

Taking advantage of a sunny Sunday, a friend and I decided to check-out some recent active travel infrastructure developments in East Leeds. We planned the route around two destinations and one well-established route:
Last updated on Apr 11, 2021 6 min read cycling

Human compatible book review

Rating Highly recommended, 5/5. One sentence review Outstanding and original description of artificial intelligence (AI) in the 21st Century, the problems it could pose, and a lucid proposal for ‘provably beneficial AI.
Last updated on Feb 21, 2021 7 min read reviews

Open Science In Transportation Workshop

Today I am presenting at the Transport Research Board’s 2021 Annual meeting, aka #TRB2021. I say ‘presenting’ but in fact, the talk was a pre-record - see the video below!
Last updated on Jan 21, 2021 1 min read talk

Reflections on 2020 and ideas for 2021

2020 has been a crazy year all-round with US elections, Brexit negotiations reaching their conclusions and of course the global pandemic that has swept across countries and disrupted lives worldwide.
Last updated on Jan 1, 2021 8 min read

Evidence to prioritise pop-up cycleways

I gave a talk today at the ‘Ideas with Beers’ seminar series, hosted each Tuesday for the past several months by Brian Deegan, an experienced transport infrastructure engineer and Principal Design Engineer at Urban Movement.
May 26, 2020 2 min read cycling

Installing spatial R packages on Ubuntu

Having recently acquired a new laptop, an Entroware Proteus (shown below), I had to remind myself how to set-it-up for my needs. This includes the usual things like document editing, web browsing and email.
Mar 30, 2020 1 min read R

CASA summer school on geographic data

Last week I presented at UCL’s summer school which, by all accounts, was a very successful event in which many people learned many new skills. The presentation format was a refreshing changes from the PowerPoint slides you’re often asked to prepare.
Aug 28, 2019 1 min read R, talks

Six great things about UseR! 2019

UseR! is the highest profile and, I believe, most popular annual meeting for R enthusiasts, known affectionately as ‘UseRs’ for the purposes of the event. For those who have been living under a stone for the past decade ;) R is an open source statistical programming language that has seen explosive growth since ‘data science’ became a buzzword.
Jul 13, 2019 11 min read R, Conferences