Prof Chris Brunsdon
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National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG), Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI), Geography, Hamilton Institute
Professor
(01) 708 6149
Biography
I am currently Professor of Geocomputation, and Director of the National Centre for Geocomputation at Maynooth University. Prior to this I was Professor of Human Geography at the University of Liverpool in the UK, and before this I worked in the Universities of Leicester, Glamorgan and Newcastle, all in the UK. I have degrees from Durham University (BSc Mathematics) and Newcastle University (MSc Medical Statistics, PhD in Geography).
Research Interests
Broadly my interests cover spatial statistics, data science and spatial analysis. In particular I advocate the use of open source software, and reproducible methods, mainly via the R Statistical Programming Language. In terms of subject areas, I have interests in crime pattern analysis, health geography and environmental applications.
Research Projects
Other Journal
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2015 | B Lu, P Harris, M Charlton, C Brunsdon (2015) 'Calibrating a geographically weighted regression model with parameter-specific distance metrics' Procedia Environmental Sciences, 26 :109-114. [Full-Text] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
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2020 | Brunsdon C.; Comber A. (2020) 'Opening practice: supporting reproducibility and critical spatial data science'. Journal of Geographical Systems, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2020 | McAuliffe E.; Hamza M.; McDonnell T.; Nicholson E.; De Brún A.; Barrett M.; Brunsdon C.; Bury G.; Collins C.; Deasy C.; Fitzsimons J.; Galligan M.; Hensey C. (2020) 'Children's unscheduled primary and emergency care in Ireland: a multimethod approach to understanding decision making, trends, outcomes and parental perspectives (CUPID): project protocol'. BMJ Open, 10 (8). [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2020 | Brunsdon, C (2020) 'Geocomputation with R'. Environment And Planning B: Urban Analytics And City Science, . [DOI] | |
2020 | Yazgi Walsh B.; Brunsdon C.; Charlton M. (2020) 'Open Geodemographics: Classification of Small Areas, Ireland 2016'. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, . [DOI] | |
2019 | Murakami D.; Lu B.; Harris P.; Brunsdon C.; Charlton M.; Nakaya T.; Griffith D. (2019) 'The Importance of Scale in Spatially Varying Coefficient Modeling'. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109 (1):50-70. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2019 | Corcoran J.; Zahnow R.; Kimpton A.; Wickes R.; Brunsdon C. (2019) 'The temporality of place: Constructing a temporal typology of crime in commercial precincts'. Environment And Planning B: Urban Analytics And City Science, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2019 | Lu B.; Brunsdon C.; Charlton M.; Harris P. (2019) 'A response to ‘A comment on geographically weighted regression with parameter-specific distance metrics’'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33 (7):1300-1312. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Dong G.; Nakaya T.; Brunsdon C. (2018) 'Geographically weighted regression models for ordinal categorical response variables: An application to geo-referenced life satisfaction data'. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 70 :35-42. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Murakami, Daisuke and Lu, Binbin and Harris, Paul and Brunsdon, Chris and Charlton, Martin and Nakaya, Tomoki and Griffith, Daniel A (2018) 'The importance of scale in spatially varying coefficient modeling'. :1-21. [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Pforte, Lars and Brunsdon, Chris and Cahalane, Conor and Charlton, Martin (2018) 'Data imputation in a short-run space-time series: A Bayesian approach'. 45 (5):864-887. [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Brunsdon C.; Charlton M.; Rigby J. (2018) 'An Open Source Geodemographic Classification of Small Areas in the Republic of Ireland'. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 11 (2):183-204. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Beecham R.; Slingsby A.; Brunsdon C. (2018) 'Locally-varying explanations behind the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union'. Journal Of Spatial Information Science, 16 :117-136. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Boo G.; Leyk S.; Brunsdon C.; Graf R.; Pospischil A.; Fabrikant S. (2018) 'The importance of regional models in assessing canine cancer incidences in Switzerland'. PLoS ONE, 13 (4). [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Harris, R; Charlton, M; Brunsdon, C (2018) 'Mapping the changing residential geography of White British secondary school children in England using visually balanced cartograms and hexograms'. Journal of Maps, 14 :65-72. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Brunsdon C. (2018) 'Quantitative methods III: Scales of measurement in quantitative human geography'. Progress in Human Geography, 42 (4):610-621. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Harris R.; Charlton M.; Brunsdon C. (2018) 'Mapping the changing residential geography of white British secondary school children in England using visually balanced cartograms and hexagrams'. Journal of Maps, 14 (1):65-72. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Brunsdon C. (2017) 'Quantitative methods II: Issues of inference in quantitative human geography'. Progress in Human Geography, 41 (4):512-523. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Pforte, L; Brundson, C; Cahalane, C; Charlton, M (2017) 'Data imputation in a short-run space-time series: A Bayesian approach'. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, . https://doi.org/10.1177/0265813516688688 [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Richard Harris, David O’Sullivan, Mark Gahegan, Martin Charlton, Lex Comber, Paul Longley, Chris Brunsdon, Nick Malleson, Alison Heppenstall, Alex Singleton, Daniel Arribas-Bel, Andy Evans (2017) 'More bark than bytes? Reflections on 21+ years of geocomputation'. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 44 (4):598-617. [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Rigby J.; Boyle M.; Brunsdon C.; Charlton M.; Dorling D.; French W.; Noone S.; Pringle D. (2017) 'Towards a geography of health inequalities in Ireland'. Irish Geography, 50 (1):37-58. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Lu B.; Brunsdon C.; Charlton M.; Harris P. (2017) 'Geographically weighted regression with parameter-specific distance metrics'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 31 (5):982-998. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Comber A.; Brunsdon C.; Charlton M.; Harris P. (2017) 'Geographically weighted correspondence matrices for local error reporting and change analyses: mapping the spatial distribution of errors and change'. Remote Sensing Letters, 8 (3):234-243. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Pforte L.; Brunsdon C.; Cahalane C.; Charlton M. (2017) 'Data imputation in a short-run space-time series: A Bayesian approach'. Environment And Planning B: Urban Analytics And City Science, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Harris P.; Brunsdon C.; Lu B.; Nakaya T.; Charlton M. (2017) 'Introducing bootstrap methods to investigate coefficient non-stationarity in spatial regression models'. Spatial Statistics, 21 :241-261. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Harris R.; Charlton M.; Brunsdon C.; Manley D. (2017) 'Balancing visibility and distortion: Remapping the results of the 2015 UK General Election'. Environment and Planning A, 49 (9):1945-1947. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Rousell A.; Jarvis C.; Brunsdon C. (2016) 'The Role of Contextual Info-Marks in Navigating a Virtual Rural Environment'. Transactions in GIS, 20 (1):1-19. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Brunsdon C. (2016) 'Quantitative methods I: Reproducible research and quantitative geography'. Progress in Human Geography, 40 (5):687-696. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2015 | P Harris, C Brunsdon, I Gollini, T Nakaya, M Charlton (2015) 'Using bootstrap methods to investigate coefficient non-stationarity in regression models: an empirical case study'. Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, 27 :112-115. [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Brunsdon C. (2014) 'Spatial science - Looking outward'. DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 4 (1):45-49. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Lu, BB; Charlton, M; Brunsdon, C; Harris, P (2016) 'The Minkowski approach for choosing the distance metric in geographically weighted regression'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 30 :351-368. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Singleton A.; Spielman S.; Brunsdon C. (2016) 'Establishing a framework for Open Geographic Information science'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, :1-15. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2015 | Gollini, I; Lu, BB; Charlton, M; Brunsdon, C; Harris, P (2015) 'GWmodel: An R Package for Exploring Spatial Heterogeneity Using Geographically Weighted Models'. Journal of Statistical Software, 63 :1-50. [Full-Text] | |
2015 | Comber, A; Brunsdon, C (2015) 'A spatial analysis of plant phenophase changes and the impact of increases in urban land use'. International Journal of Climatology, 35 :972-980. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2015 | Harris, P; Clarke, A; Juggins, S; Brunsdon, C; Charlton, M (2015) 'Enhancements to a Geographically Weighted Principal Component Analysis in the Context of an Application to an Environmental Data Set'. Geographical Analysis, 47 :146-172. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Comber, Alexis Brunsdon, Chris (2014) 'A spatial analysis of plant phenophase changes and the impact of increases in urban land use'. International Journal of Climatology, 34 . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Lu B.; Harris P.; Charlton M.; Brunsdon C. (2014) 'The GWmodel R package: Further topics for exploring spatial heterogeneity using geographically weighted models'. Geo-Spatial Information Science, 17 (2):85-101. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Harris, P; Brunsdon, C; Charlton, M; Juggins, S; Clarke, A (2014) 'Multivariate Spatial Outlier Detection Using Robust Geographically Weighted Methods'. Mathematical Geosciences, 46 :1-31. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Singleton, A; Brunsdon, C (2014) 'Escaping the pushpin paradigm in geographic information science: (re)presenting national crime data'. Area, 46 :294-304. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Brunsdon, Christopher (2014) 'Spatial Science - Looking Forward'. DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 4 :45-49. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Harris, P; Clarke, A; Juggins, S; Brunsdon, C; Charlton, M (2014) 'Geographically weighted methods and their use in network re-designs for environmental monitoring'. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 28 :1869-1887. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2013 | Demsar, U; Harris, P; Brunsdon, C; Fotheringham, AS; McLoone, S (2013) 'Principal Component Analysis on Spatial Data: An Overview'. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103 :106-128. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2013 | Harris, P; Brunsdon, C; Charlton, M (2013) 'The comap as a diagnostic tool for non-stationary kriging models'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27 :511-541. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2013 | Hirschfield, Alexandra; Birkin, Mark; Brunsdon, Christopher; Malleson, Nicolas; Newton, Andrew (2013) 'How places influence crime: the impact of surrounding areas on neighbourhood burglary rates in a British city'. Urban Studies, 51 :1057-1072. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2013 | Cheng, Toa Tanaksaranod, Garavig Brunsdon, Christopher Haworth, James (2013) 'Exploratory visualisation of congestion evolutions on urban transport networks'. TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART C-EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, 36 :296-306. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2012 | Comber, AJ; Brunsdon, CF; Farmer, CJQ (2012) 'Community detection in spatial networks: Inferring land use from a planar graph of land cover objects'. ITC Journal, 18 :274-282. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2011 | Harris, P; Brunsdon, C; Fotheringham, AS (2011) 'Links, comparisons and extensions of the geographically weighted regression model when used as a spatial predictor'. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 25 :123-138. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2011 | Brunsdon, C; Charlton, M (2011) 'An assessment of the effectiveness of multiple hypothesis testing for geographical anomaly detection'. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 38 :216-230. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2011 | Harris, P; Brunsdon, C; Charlton, M (2011) 'Geographically weighted principal components analysis'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 25 :1717-1736. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2010 | Harris, P; Brunsdon, C (2010) 'Exploring spatial variation and spatial relationships in a freshwater acidification critical load data set for Great Britain using geographically weighted summary statistics'. Computers and Geosciences, 36 :54-70. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2007 | Brunsdon, C; Fotheringham, S; Charlton, M (2007) 'Geographically weighted discriminant analysis'. Geographical Analysis, 39 :376-396. [Full-Text] | |
2006 | Brunsdon, C; Charlton, M (2006) 'Local trend statistics for directional data - A moving window approach'. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 30 :130-142. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2005 | Tate N.; Brunsdon C.; Charlton M.; Fotheringham A.; Jarvis C. (2005) 'Smoothing/filtering LiDAR digital surface models. Experiments with loess regression and discrete wavelets'. Journal of Geographical Systems, 7 (3-4):273-290. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2005 | Nakaya, T; Fotheringham, AS; Brunsdon, C; Charlton, M (2005) 'Geographically weighted Poisson regression for disease association mapping'. Statistics in Medicine, 24 :2695-2717. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2004 | Fotheringham, S; Brunsdon, C (2004) 'Some thoughts on inference in the analysis of spatial data'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 18 :447-457. [DOI] [Full-Text] |
Conference Publication
Year | Publication | |
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2018 | Yazgi Walsh, B. & Brunsdon, C. (2018) 58th ERSA Congress Interactive Visualization of Urban Data: Interactive Geodemographics [Full-Text] | |
2017 | G. W. Young, J. Naji, M. Charlton, C. Brunsdon, R. Kitchin (2017) ISU Talks #05: Future Cities Future Cities and Multimodalities: how multimodal technologies can improve smart-citizen engagement with city dashboards [Link] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Harris P.; Brunsdon C.; Comber L.; Sint H.; Orr R.; Lee M.; Murray P. (2016) Proceedings of Spatial Accuracy 2016 Modelling, interpreting and visualizing uncertainties for the North Wyke Farm Platform baseline field surveys [Full-Text] | |
2015 | Harris, P; Brunsdon, C; Gollini, I; Nakaya, T; Charlton, M (2015) SPATIAL STATISTICS CONFERENCE 2015, PART 2 Using Bootstrap Methods to Investigate Coefficient Non-stationarity in Regression Models: An Empirical Case Study [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2015 | Lu, BB; Harris, P; Charlton, M; Brunsdon, C (2015) SPATIAL STATISTICS CONFERENCE 2015, PART 1 Calibrating a Geographically Weighted Regression Model with Parameter-Specific Distance Metrics [DOI] [Full-Text] |
Conference Contribution
Published Report
Year | Publication | |
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2015 | Lu, Binbin; Harris, Paul; Charlton, Martin; Brunsdon, Christopher (2015) The GWmodel R package: further topics for exploring spatial heterogeneity using geographically weighted models. . [Full-Text] |
Editorial
Year | Publication | |
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2017 | Harris, R; O' Sullivan, D; Gahegan, M; Charlton, M; Comber, L; Longley, P; Brunsdon, C; Malleson, N; Heppenstall, A; Singleton, A; Arribas-Bel, D; Evans, A (2017) More bark than bytes? Reflections on 21+years of geocomputation. LONDON: [Editorial] [DOI] [Full-Text] |
Note
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | Brunsdon C. (2020) Modelling epidemics: Technical and critical issues in the context of COVID-19. [Note] [DOI] |
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