Dr James Williams
Geospatial CS Researcher
Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Current Role
Research Fellow in Slavery and War: Geospatial and Data Science
Rights Lab & Leverhulme Centre, University of Nottingham
Latest Blog Post
Spatial Narrative: A Rust Library for Spatiotemporal Event Analysis
5 Feb 2026
Featured Research
PlaceCrafter
A web-based geospatial framework for identifying and visualizing 'platial' functional regions by clustering OpenStreetMap Points of Interest.
Recent Publications
Diabetes Disparities in Mexico: A Spatio-Temporal and Marginalization Index Analysis
Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems • 2025
PlaceCrafter: Curating Urban Functional Regions through Platial Clustering of OpenStreetMap Points of Interest
Proceedings of OSMScience 2025 • 2025
A Framework for Curating Personalised Leisure Walking Experiences
University of Nottingham • 2025
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