Category: Contributor

Contribution delivered in the School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences (SEGG, now SELS) at the University of Portsmouth in the 2015-2016 academic year.

An introduction to ArcGIS Pro’s Spatial Analyst feature for L5 (2nd year) students of Geography.

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Contribution delivered in the School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences (SEGG, now SELS) at the University of Portsmouth in the 2015-2016 academic year.

Modelling, Analysis and the Web was open to L5 (2nd year) students of Geography, Adrian’s contribution covered one two-hour teaching and demonstration slot using slides previously prepared for the Business Geographics course in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh.

Together with demonstration the material illustrated some of the potential for downloading, or otherwise harvesting, [geo]data from the web, whether from new government ‘open data’ silos or from nascent depositories such as Twitter’s tweet stream.

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Contribution delivered in the School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences (SEGG, now SELS) at the University of Portsmouth in the 2015-2016 academic year.

GIS and Database Management Systems was open to L5 (2nd year) students of Geography, Adrian’s contribution covered one two-hour teaching and demonstration slot.

A step back in time, involving scanning and converting a Professor’s ancient acetates into PowerPoint to explain and, more importantly, demonstrate the concept of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) and Structured Query Language (SQL) in GIS.

The Oracle 8 (?) user manual had never looked so good and the lecture was better received than this slice of history would suggest…

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Contribution delivered in the School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences (SEGG, now SELS) at the University of Portsmouth in the 2016-2017 academic year.

Applied GIS was open to L4 (1st year) students of Geography, Adrian’s contribution covered one two-hour teaching and demonstration session introducing students to recent developments in Big Data processing and the [geo]visualisation of Web scale datasets.

Some of the websites mentioned in the slides have now been brought back from archive on this site, as they still provide some excellent examples of GIS used in anger on the web.

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Contribution delivered in the School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences (SEGG, now SELS) at the University of Portsmouth in the 2019-2020 academic year.

Research Design and Data Analysis was open to L4 (1st year) students of Geography, Adrian’s contribution covered one three-hour teaching and practical session introducing students to online social media data and enabling a simple analysis and mapping of Twitter tweets collected during the 2012 French Presidential Election.

For those wishing to test themselves the practical instructions for the session are shown below.

The data necessary to complete the practical may be downloaded below.

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Contribution delivered in the School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences (SEGG, now SELS) at the University of Portsmouth in the 2022-2023 academic year.

Introduction to the Human World was open to L4 (1st year) students of Geography. Adrian’s contribution covered three one-hour lectures introducing students to key concepts in Human Health and Urban Environments, Human Habitats and Social Epidemiology and Neighbourhood Effects and Life Chances.

The References for Introduction to the Human World are shown below.

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