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George Willis

@GeorgeWGeog

Working towards a PhD in Geography. Big data for Urban Shrinkage @ University of Birmingham @DREAMCDT

Joined November 2018
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📣Our new paper with @Andre_Carrasca & @GeorgeWGeog just came out at the Annals of the AAG @theAAG : 🔥Using the Web to Predict Regional Trade Flows: Data Extraction, Modeling, and Validation🔥 🧵of what we did 👇. Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/24694452.202… 1/n
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Bright and early at 9.00am BST, I'll be presenting our work with @EmmanouilTranos & @GeorgeWGeog on #digital #connectedness and #resilience in #UK Local Authority Districts. In the unmissable #SS12 we are organising together with @rsaibis. Link to join 👇 nitter.cf/EmmanouilTranos/status…
Emmanouil Tranos (@EmmanouilTranos) profile pictureEmmanouil Tranos@EmmanouilTranos11 Jun 2021
📣Are you working on #digital #technologies, #cities and #regions? Don't miss our #RinR21 session with presentations from @DarjaReuschke @Tasos_Kitsos Hasan Engin Duran and myself. Monday 14/6 9:00am BST events.rdmobile.com/Sessions…
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Time for #rstats
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@MaxCRoser5 Oct 2020
In the UK the number of cases rose rapidly. But the public – and authorities – are only learning this now because these cases were only published now as a backlog. The reason was apparently that the database is managed in Excel and the number of columns had reached the maximum.
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Really happy for my first paper to be published! 🙂Hopefully the first of many.. many thanks of course to @EmmanouilTranos!
Emmanouil Tranos (@EmmanouilTranos) profile pictureEmmanouil Tranos@EmmanouilTranos17 Sep 2020
📢New #paper alert: Using 'Big Data' to understand the impacts of Uber on taxis in New York City just published by Travel Behaviour & Society. @GeorgeWGeog and I combine the NYC yellow cab data @NYCTLC and data from the NYTimes API @nytopen to ... 1/5 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Really enjoyed not only my first AAG, but also my first conference, glad to get the first presentation out of the way! Great to put some faces to names #aagdc2019
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Our own @GeorgeWGeog from @GeogBham and @DreamCDT is presenting his work on Uber and taxis in #NYC at the #aagdc2019
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He used data from the Yellow Taxis data set - open data of 1.3 billion journeys from 2009 to present (2016) as well as NY time API to do a text analysis to capture diffusion of innovation by searching uber and taxis #aagDC
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First up: George Willis with Using 'big data' to investigate the impacts of Uber on Yellow Taxis in New York #aagDC
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It's time for another poll! Which session should be live tweeted tomorrow morning at #aagDC?
26%Energy & Environ Justice
32%Feminist political geog
42%Big Data & geoanalytics
65 votes • Final results
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DREAM CDT@DreamCDT21 Mar 2019
Our @DreamCDT Symposium has drawn to an end. A great couple of days with a fantastic range of #PhD presentations and posters, really excellent keynotes, and plenty of good advice and commentary from our advisory board members. Thanks @unibirmingham!!
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DREAM CDT@DreamCDT21 Mar 2019
First year @DreamCDT student George Willis outlines his research concerning the patterns and causes of growth and shrinkage of cities and urban centres worldwide.
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