Thoughts on place, code, and spatial data science.
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Exploring place, systems, and human-computer interaction.
Centralised Data Infrastructure for Slavery and War — a unified query layer over dispersed, heterogeneous datasets on slavery and war across space and time.
A Royal Society-funded STEM partnership project where T Level Data Analytics students at Halesowen College design, build, and deploy air quality sensors around the college estate.
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Combining full-text relevance with geo_distance, bounding box filtering, and spatial decay scoring
Elasticsearch's geospatial capabilities let you ask questions that pure text search cannot answer: not just 'find documents about coffee' but 'find the most relevant coffee shop within 500 metres of where I am standing, weighted by recency and rating'. This post walks through how to build that kind of query from first principles.
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