Chora: The First Python Library for Place-Based Computing
Model place as experience, not just location
Unlike standard GIS which asks 'What is at coordinates X,Y?', Chora asks 'Why does this park feel like Home to Alice, but Danger to Bob?' Place isn't a polygon—it's an emergent phenomenon arising from memory, habit, emotion, and social interaction.
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Spatial Narrative: A Rust Library for Spatiotemporal Event Analysis
Modelling, indexing, and analysing events across geographic space and chronological time
Events happen in places, at times, and within contexts. Spatial Narrative is a Rust library built for researchers who need to work with spatiotemporal data—whether that is historical archives, GPS tracks, conflict records, or urban mobility patterns.
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PlaceCrafter: Curating Urban Functional Regions through Platial Clustering
A web-based geospatial tool for identifying place-based regions in cities using OpenStreetMap data
The world is not just made of streets, buildings, and zones—it is shaped by how people engage and interact with places in their everyday lives. PlaceCrafter supports researchers in identifying platial regions: functional, human-centred areas that cross administrative and formal boundaries.
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OS³: Open Source Security Studio - Launching A Hands-On Cybersecurity Teaching Platform
Deliberately vulnerable, modular, and instructor-friendly labs for cyber security education and engagement
OS³ (Open Source Security Studio) is a free, open-source platform for teaching cyber security through safe, practical labs. Built in Python/Flask for CMU540 at Birmingham Newman University and STEM outreach, it offers paired insecure vs. secure demos of common vulnerabilities and network security simulations.
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Platial Atlas: Mapping How People Experience Places
A global research project redefining place through lived experience rather than coordinates
Traditional maps often delineate our world with rigid lines and boundaries, yet these divisions seldom reflect the nuanced ways individuals experience and interact with their environments. The Platial Atlas project seeks to bridge this gap.
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