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Professor of Transport Data Science @ITSLeeds Geocomputation, evidence, #opensource software for good ๐Ÿš€

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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
3 months
๐Ÿ“ข Public service announcement for #rstats users and learners working with geographic data: Geocomputation with R's Binder link is working again ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰You can give it a spin at and then clicking on the "Binder" link. #DataScience #geocompx
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
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It's well-known that the rightly popular/ubiquitous version control software Git is good for tracking changes in computer code. But did you know that it's also an outstanding tool for tracking changes in natural language/prose? Source:
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
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Looking forward to the Speed Learning session tomorrow at Active City York, where me and Angus Calder from Sustrans will demo the Network Planning Tool for Scotland (NPT). Excited to show new StreetSpace data layer ๐ŸŽ‰ For a taster, see here:
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
1 month
Delighted to announce: the NPT for Scotland was Highly Commended at the Scottish Transport Awards! ๐ŸŽ‰ Funded by Transport Scotland and delivered in collaboration with Sustrans, A/B Street and CycleStreets. Congrats to the team! #TransportPlanning #ActiveTravel
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
1 month
RT @TransportTimes: The Best Practice in Transport Planning award at the STAs25 goes to the Edinburgh & South East Scotland City Region Deaโ€ฆ.
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
1 month
Looking forward to chairing a session on New ways of working for a new generation of transport modellers at Modelling World 2025. There's a great line-up of speakers and lots to discuss
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
1 month
Looking forward to teaching the upcoming 2-day course Data Science for Transport Planning at the University of Leeds' Institute for Transport Studies. See more and follow the links to get your tickets here
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
1 month
Just signed-up to the #UTSG2025 conference in Dublin, 25th-27th June. Looking forward to presenting our work on transport data integration to calculate Level of Service on every road in Scotland. Thanks to colleagues, Transport Scotland + Sustrans. See you there! #NPT #geocompx
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
1 month
RT @giulio_mattioli: Interesting-looking new study finding that "mode shift alone represents only 1/5th of the potential GHG benefits of inโ€ฆ.
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
1 month
This is very nice! Does it just cover Edinburgh at the moment and would it be easy to scale-up?
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
1 month
This looks really good. A bit like our ActDev prototype but has a next-generation user interface, AI summaries, and more! Not had a deep dive but would welcome any further info on this including sources of planning data.
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Harry Williams
1 month
๐Ÿ””Over the weekend I publicly shared my site,.. Super happy with the traffic and feedback Iโ€™ve received. Can you guess when it was mentioned in the @EdinburghMinute ?. Looking forward to working on my plans for the site for the future. I find myself using
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
2 months
RT @giswqs: ๐ŸŒ I've developed an interactive web app that allows you to search and visualize open geospatial data from the Amazon Sustainabiโ€ฆ.
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
2 months
RT @martikagv: ๐Ÿš— ๐Ÿ’ฅ Excited to share that our latest article is now published in Sustainable Cities and Society!. ๐Ÿ”— .
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
2 months
RT @opengeohub: ๐Ÿš€ Second Round of Registrations for EO-Summer School 2025 is Now Open!. Donโ€™t miss outโ€”register by July 1st to secure yourโ€ฆ.
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
2 months
RT @UrbanDemog: ๐Ÿ“ฃGlad to share the logo of {geocodebr}, a really fast, scalable and completely free #rstats package to geocode Brazilian aโ€ฆ.
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
2 months
This #DataScience job opportunity looks good!.
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Alex Singleton
2 months
If you are in the market for an exciting new data science job, I am recruiting for two Senior Data Scientists at the Geographic Data Service ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡.
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
2 months
There's an upcoming in-person talk in ITS Leeds on modelling major change for transport decarbonisation. Specifically, what would happen if 50% of road space was reallocated for active travel? Book a ticket here to out!
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
2 months
I'm doing a seminar in St Andrews ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ a week today. Looking forward to it and planning to use the nice weather as an excuse to get on my bike โ˜€๏ธ ๐Ÿšฒ Anyone tips on Leuchars to St Andrews routes? Can do some ground-truth validation of our Network Planning Tool (NPT) also!
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
3 months
โšก Excited to announce a PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds! โšก If you're interested in developing spatial interaction models for fast and fair decarbonisation, check it out: Please share with anyone interested ๐Ÿ™
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
3 months
The Transport Data Minihack in ITS Leeds is underway! Great to be here developing reproducible data processing pipelines with interesting datasets to answer real-world problems. For anyone who would like to follow online see links to datasets here:
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Robin Lovelace @[email protected]
3 months
It's been many months since I last tried out the Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) design tool developed by Dustin Carlino, and I'm blown away, it's on another level ๐Ÿคฏ Responsive, informative, intuitive, accessible, fully open. See for yourself here:
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