This website is a shop window for Geospatial Stuff through which I offer contract expertise in data analytics and visualisation, simulation modelling, and training, especially in relation to all things geospatial. For more information contact me.
Commmunicating ideas
I have written 3 books and numerous articles, reviews, and book chapters.
I have taught for over 20 years and can put together a mean slide show. I use web-formats, primarily revealjs and quarto. See my presentations, or the slides from this course.
Communicating data
I work all the time in R and Python developing workflows to tidy, reformat, analyse, and visualize data, especially spatial data. I am a trained cartographer, and while I haven’t done a lot of publication cartography per se I have regularly worked on visual analytics or maps of complex data in research projects and publications.
Wrangling data
I have been programming since forever. The languages I use all the time are Python and R, but I have experience in several others (notably Java and JavaScript). I am not a software developer, but can write well organised and documented code. I am not a web developer, but will roll up my sleeves and figure stuff out if called on! Most of my web stuff is linked from these pages, so just have a look around. The most complicated web-thing I’ve built is this New Zealand 2018 commute visualization.
Simulating stuff
I love NetLogo, but freely admit that it is somewhat niche (albeit surprisingly powerful, see this geographical COVID model I built in lockdown). I’ve also written a book about this.
Project management
Before academia I was a project engineer leading build, test, commissioning and maintenance of production line laser-scanning inspection equipment, working with major multinationals such as IBM, Kodak, Dow Chemical, and Sony. In that role I learned a great deal about project and people management.