ISPRS WG IV/5

This just in … — The giCentre at City University London has research interests in information visualisation design, application and theory to support exploratory data analysis, visual analytics and the dissemination of information. We specialise in data and analyses that have geographical and temporal components. City University London is offering studentships for 3-year full-time PhD candidates. Successful candidates will have tuition fees paid and a tax-free bursary that will cover living costs. This university-wide scheme is very competitive, so we…

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Couple of folks at the urbanprototyping.org are running a data challenge which may be just right for this audience, take a look! Below quote is from http://urbanprototyping.org/prototype/challenges/urban-data-challenge-zurich-sf-geneva/: What’s the heartbeat of your city? Does data make your pulse race? Example Project: Ville Vivante “Buses, trams, bicycles, pedestrians, and cars zoom about modern cities like blood pulsing through the body. But with urban growth comes challenges—one of them is how to improve transportation. Luckily, advances in technology combined with active open…

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A cool position at Oxford Uni – full time, 12 months, with a deadline Jan 9. You’d work with Dr. Mark Graham, who’s a member of our working group but he wears many hats (Director of Research, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/graham, www.geospace.co.uk, www.wikichains.org, twitter.com/geoplace) Here’s the ad that was circulated, grab the opportunity if you have the skills and interest: *** We are hiring a full-time Researcher to work with Dr. Mark Graham on a project to…

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Three commissions of the ICA (International Cartographic Association), joined together, organize a pre-conference workshop titled Eye tracking: why, when and how? The event is in Dresden, Germany on 23-24 August 2013. The event comes with a data challenge too. I have opened the eye tracking data from one my studies for this event. You will find the details in the call below: —- ICA Commission on Cognitive Visualization, ICA Commission on Geovisualization, ICA Commission on Use and User Issues International…

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At the Centre for Geoinformatics at the University of St Andrews in Scotland the following positions are advertised; some of which might be of interest to our followers (e.g. no. 2 – postdoc in visual analytics): 1. Lectureship in Geoinformatics, permanent position, application DL 21 Dec 2012: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geoinformatics/jobs-and-studentship/lectureship-in-geoinformatics/ 2. Postdoctoral researcher in Geoinformatics, preferably Visual Analytics/Visualisation Three year fixed post, application DL 7 Dec 2012 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geoinformatics/jobs-and-studentship/research-fellow-in-geoinformatics/ 3. Postdoctoral researcher in Geoinformatics Two year fixed post, application DL 21 Dec 2012…

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With the last call for papers arriving our inboxes today, we also have noted that the deadlines were renewed for submitting to ICA conference (thus to our joint sessions on Web-based geovisualization). The new date is Nov 15th. For more details, please see the post below by Chris.

Guardian just published a really nice-sounding data visualization competition, for some reason only “The competition is open to citizens of the UK, US, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden” — so you have the wonderful solution, yet not from one of these countries; .. well .. we will publish it here and/or match you with our members who are located in these countries perhaps for a collaborative action? The news piece is titled: How transparent is world aid data? Visualise where…

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Last live update from ISPRS Congress: As I am sitting in the closing ceremony, I feel compelled to report to you all that our WG members Mark Imhof, Matthew Cox, Chris Pettit and their co-authors D.W. Harvey and G.E. Heemskerk have received an ISPRS award based on their presentation of the rich multimedia Victorian Resources Online website. How great is that? We cordially congratulate the team and look forward to reporting many more of success stories by our WG members.

Hi again folks! I am back – below is a little coverage of what happened in the remaining geoviz sessions, as far as I could capture. Please comment away or drop me a line if you think something needs correcting or adding. Our two technical sessions on Thu AUG 30th 2012 started with our working group chair Chris Pettit presenting his paper (co-authored by five others) titled Visualisation Support for Exploring Urban Space and Place; demonstrating clearly the challenge we’re…

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