This repository contains the data and code associated with the paper titled "Facebook City: Place-named groups as urban communication infrastructure in Greater London". This is part of the "Localis…

An index to calculate the uniqueness of multivariate observations (R code)

Open Geospatial Datasets for GIS Education: This is a repository of open geospatial datasets to be used in an educational context. I created these files over years of teaching Geographic Data Scien…

Urban litter, such as cans, packaging, and cigarettes, has significant impacts and yet little is known about its spatio-temporal distribution, with little available data. In contexts of data scarci…

Jupyter notebooks to teach an introduction to Programming for GIS, including core Python concepts and packages to work with vector, raster, and network data.

Data and code related to research on Search Engine Geographies. Every day, billions of Internet users rely on search engines to find information about places to make decisions about tourism, shoppi…

This repository contains a vocabulary of nouns used to describe places, such as river, restaurant, mountain, and park. The vocabulary is the result of a merge between the GeoNames Ontology, the DBp…

Google Places API in R: This R script takes geospatial geometries as input and retrieves all Google Places Points of Interest (POIs) in the area, generating as many as sub-queries as needed. This s…

Academic publications by Andrea Ballatore (author copies)

Research material for usability evaluation of Participatory GIS: While many approaches and procedures have been proposed to assess usability in general, to date there is no standardized way to meas…

This is JavaScript framework to support map navigation by placing contextual information around the map, bridging the on- and off-screen spaces. The proposed framework allows the dynamic generation…

This data is related to a study on how sound can be used to convey information about data uncertainty in an intuitive way. To answer the research question How intuitive are sound dimensions to comm…

Research data on crowd-mapping project Wikimapia: Wikimapia is a major privately-owned volunteered geographic information (VGI) project to collect information about places. Over the past ten years,…