Past events
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Mapping crime data in R: An introduction to GIS and spatial data
11:00 - 12:30 13 February 2024
Do you want to display crime data on maps but don’t know how? Crime data often contains spatial components. As a result, analyses of crime data can create patterns that are clearly linked to geography. Naturally, putting the data or analysis on a map makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, if you have...
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Computational social science drop-in
13:00 - 14:00 13 February 2024
Join our free UK Data Service data drop-in to get or give some help on computational social science projects. This event will take place on Zoom. There will be a data expert from the UK Data Service present to chair the session. Feel free to join for general advice on getting data, learning to code and...
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So the Chinese do do sci fi!
18:00 - 19:00 13 February 2024
Join us for the first Manchester CI public talk of 2024, which will focus on Chinese sci-fi and will be given by Xueting C. Ni. Six years ago, Xueting gave a talk called “The Chinese Don’t Do Sci-Fi?!”. Two Hugos, some blockbusters and several anthologies later, the world is at least aware that...
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Chips war? Global production networks and geopolitics in the post-pandemic US and East Asia
15:00 - 16:30 12 February 2024
Lecture organised by the Global production networks, trade and labour group Based on his lead-authored chapter on semiconductors in Global Value Chain Development Report 2023 and his monograph Interconnected Worlds (Stanford University Press, June 2022), Professor Yeung’s presentation will offer some...
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Using multivariate census 2021 data to develop area profiles
10:00 - 11:30 7 February 2024
Census 2021 for England and Wales enables the production of local area profiles using multivariate data. In this workshop we will explore how to access and prepare this data to develop custom datasets to allow the development of small area information. We will cover the following areas: - Sources...
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