New paper “Juxtaposing thematic regions derived from spatial and platial user-generated content” has been accepted as a full paper in the COSIT 2017 proceedings. Link
The Geospatial Knowledge Exploration and Acquisition (GeoKEA) research group is exploring new ways of using computing technology to advance human understanding of our environment and world. We are interested in understanding, modeling, and improving how the people who want to learn about the world (e.g., scientists, students, and policy makers) interact with and make decisions based on geographic knowledge represented in a computer. The research undertaken by GeoKEA is both explanatory and constructive. In the first case we develop theories to explain how the information that we produce and share in digital form reflects human conceptualizations of the world. In the second case we build software tools that help people use geographic information better to solve problems. Our research methodology is informed by methods from data science, machine learning, spatial information science, interactive systems, and cognitive science.
New paper “Juxtaposing thematic regions derived from spatial and platial user-generated content” has been accepted as a full paper in the COSIT 2017 proceedings. Link
Ben Adams will be co-organizing the SPHINx 2017 Workshop SPatial Humanities meets Spatial INformation Theory: Space, Place, and Time in Humanities Research, a pre-conference workshop at COSIT 2017.
New paper “Why good data analysts need to be critical synthesists. Determining the role of semantics in data analysis” published in Future Generation Computer Systems. Link
Discrete global grid Linked Data gazetteer service
Geographic exploratory search engine
Ben Adams is a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Canterbury. He received a PhD in Computer Science with an emphasis in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has expertise at the intersection of geography, geographic information science, and computer science, including the application of machine learning, text mining, statistical methods on big data, and other high-performance computing tools for geographic analysis. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, CA, USA and more recently as a research fellow at the Centre for eResearch at the University of Auckland.