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Month: April 2017

  • Talk at AAG Meeting in Boston

    On Friday, our member René Westerholt held a talk at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in Boston. The talk which is entitled “Topological and scale-related issues in Twitter analyses through superimposed forms of spatial heterogeneity” was part of a special session on geographic data science organised by Alex Singleton from…

  • Seminar on “Spatial urban analytics” at Harvard

    Our team member René Westerholt recently held a joint session with Dr Guibo Sun from Hong Kong University. The session on “spatial urban analytics” was part of the Geography colloquium at Harvard University. Both talks were dealing with methodological issues. Thereby, René emphasised on technical issues in the spatial analysis of social media data. Dr…

  • Open Data Meeting of AG Open Government Städtetag Baden-Württemberg

    today the interdisciplinary working group “Open Government” of “Städtetag Baden-Württemberg” meets in Heidelberg for a workshop on Open Data. Among the invited speakers are for example – Michael Winckler, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für wissenschaftliches Rechnen Uni Heidelberg (IWR) talking about “Open Data aus Sicht einer Forschungseinrichtung” – Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf, GIScience Heidelberg / HeiGIT), with…

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  • The Identification of Geographic Activity Contexts – Invitation to Colloquium Mon 03rd April HD

    We cordially invite anybody interested to the first public GIScience Colloquium presentation on Monday for this summer term. The Identification of Geographic Activity Contexts: Considering Behavioral Effects Asher Yair Grinberger, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Geography Time: Mon, April 3, 2017, 2.15 pm Venue: Dep of Geography, INF 348, Room 015 Correctly identifying…