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Guy LansleyDepartment of Geography, [email protected]
@GuyLansley
The Demographics User GroupAnnual Away Day1st December 2016New
Analytical Methods for Geocomputation
Geocomputation
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Big Data and SoftwareNew software has had to adapt to the
growing size and complexity of data
Kira Kowalska
Big Data shifts
The concept of Big Data is changing and becoming more
challenging
Emphasis on place rather than space
Challenges to representing the dynamics of real world
phenomena
Old years = ibm. WE ARE NOW DATA RICHPalce = social media,
networksTime = interactivity4
Open Source Software
Issues of there being no insuranceembedded5
Coding Languages
Python and R6
R and RstudioCommand line interface.Object oriented. You create
things with names using the
