Department of Information Science

Aidan Slingsby

Willis Research Fellow

Photo of Dr Aidan Slingsby Dr Aidan Slingsby
Willis Research Fellow
Room: A304
Information Science
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB

sbbb717@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 0180
fax: +44 20 7040 8584

Aidan is a Research Fellow in the giCentre whose research interests include data visualisation techniques for spatial and temporal data, spatial data modelling, data quality and uncertainty.

His current research relates to spatial data analysis and geovisualisation as part of the Willis Research Network who funds his position, but is also interested in data modelling of terrain and cityscapes (MSc, PhD and ongoing work). He does not currently teach, but has taught GIS and programming at UCL, Birkbeck and City University London.

Recent news

February 2009: I attended the kick-off meeting for vizTweets, our VRERI JISC-funded project. I also attended the subsequent developer workshop, a stimulating collections of talks, challenges and discussion.

February 2009: Three GISRUK papers that I co-authored have been accepted: "OAC Explorer: Interactive exploration and comparison of multivariate socioeconomic population characteristics" [pdf], "Layout and Colour Transformations for Visualising OAC Data" [pdf] and "vizLegends: Re-Imagining Map Legends with Visualization" [pdf].

February 2009: I attended the Willis Research Network (WRN) quarterly meeting in London - a week of meetings with other WRN members, catastrophe (CAT) modelling companies, insurers, reinsurers and spatial data providers.

February 2009: I've just become a typesetter for the Journal of Maps.

January 2009: Jo, Jason and I won a university staff prize for our collaborative research outputs over the past year.

December 2009: Jo, Jason and I won JISC funding for a 9 month project entitled 'vizTweets' in which we will be using HiVE for sharing interactive graphics using microblogging techniques for colloborative visual analysis.

See earlier news.

Recent publications

See the full list.

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J., Wood, J. and Radburn, R. In press. OAC Explorer: Interactive exploration and comparison of multivariate socioeconomic population characteristics, proceedings of GIS Research UK (GISRUK 2010). [pdf]

Wood. J., Slingsby. A., Dykes. J. In press. Layout and Colour Transformations for Visualising OAC Data, proceedings of GIS Research UK (GISRUK 2010). [pdf]

Clarke. J., Dykes. J., Hemsley-Flint. F., Medyckyj-Scott. D., Sietinsone. L., Slingsby. A., Urwin. T., Wood. J. In press. vizLegends: Re-Imagining Map Legends with Visualization, proceedings of GIS Research UK (GISRUK 2010). [pdf]

Wood, J., Dykes, J., Slingsby, A. In press. Visualization of Origins, Destinations and Flows with OD Maps, The Cartographic Journal

Slingsby, A., Wood, J. and Dykes, J. In press. Rectangular Hierarchical Cartograms for Social Data. Journal of Maps

Slingsby, A., Wood, J. and Dykes, J. In press. Treemap Cartography for showing Spatial and Temporal Traffic Patterns. Journal of Maps [in press]

Key publications

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Slingsby, A., Dykes, J. and Wood, J. 2009. Configuring Hierarchical Layouts to Address Research Questions. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 15 (6), Nov-Dec 2009 [in press | pdf | video]

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J. & Wood, J., 2008. Using treemaps for variable selection in spatio-temporal visualisation. Information Visualization 7 (3-4), 210-224. [pdf]

Slingsby, A. and Raper, J. 2007, "Navigable Space in 3D City Models for Pedestrians", in Oosterom, Zlatanova, Penninga and Fendel (eds), Advances in 3D Geoinformation Systems (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation), pp49-64. ISBN: 978-3-540-72134-5 [pdf]

Wood, J, Dykes, J., Slingsby, A. and Clarke K. 2007. Interactive visual exploration of a large spatio-temporal data set: reflections on a geovisualization mashup. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 13 (6), pp1176-1183, November/December 2007. [pdf]