Jacob L. Macdonald

NFLDer in the UK. Lecturer in GIS and Spatial Analysis - U. Sheffield @USPSheffield. Urban econ, big data, spatial stats & open science 🌎 (he/him)🇨🇦🇵🇹🇬🇧

[Jacob L. Macdonald @jacobmac02]

🗺️ DAY 16: CHOROPLETH - What does the UK look like when coloured in by #PremierLeague @premierleague football club colours? That’s today’s #30DayMapChallenge! Obviously the polygon sizes aren’t proportionate to importance - LFC hidden away in their NW corner! ⚽️

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🗺️ DAY 15: MY DATA - “Map something personal”… What’s the distribution of Jacob-based places around Great Britain? Using @OrdnanceSurvey place names for today’s #30DayMapChallenge. Lots of Jacob’s ladders about.

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🗺️ DAY 14: WORLD - How Worldly is the distribution of the history of world fairs? Not much it seems according to today’s #30DayMapChallenge. If you’re into planning, architecture, the world fair and serial killers couldn’t recommend “Devil in the White City” enough!

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🗺️ DAY 13: NEW TOOL - Not exactly new, but relatively. ArcGIS Pro! I’m so used to QGIS and the former ArcMap, that Pro is still pretty new to me. Learning all along the way! #ESRI #ArcGIS #30DayMapChallenge

Redoing some maps from my PhD tree canopy identification.

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🗺️ DAY 12: SPACE & TIME - Spatio-temporal patterns for a random moose in Northern Alberta today for the #30DayMapChallenge 🫎 Here’s to Moose number YL4 🫡

https://t.co/zIyKwsIFRY

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🗺️ DAY 11: ARCTIC - The @ArcticMonkeys have never been to the Arctic for today's #30DayMapChallenge Of course working in @USPSheffield #Sheffield I had to go Sheffield-centric for the theme today.

Some rough data work taken from https://t.co/opNbqK4Yaa

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🗺️ DAY 9/ 10: AI/ Pen and Paper - The UK as interpreted by ChatGPT, and Pangaea as interpreted by my hand for these two #30DayMapChallenge Been a while since I’ve gotten to do some arts and crafts! AI-UK just gets stranger the more you look

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🗺️ DAY 8: HDX Data - Some great datasets on Humanitarian Data Exchange for the #30DayMapChallenge Here’s a map of population density in Mozambique using the WorldPop 2020 synthetic gridded data

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🗺️ DAY 7: VINTAGE - Catch up time for the #30DayMapChallenge A pretty basic map playing with some QGIS coastal styles from @awoodruff to capture that vintage hand drawn effect.

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Started on the deep dive of Venus, Magellan, radar rasters, and translating earth coordinates into the Venusian CRS… time to start using QGIS for some more SPACE-ial analysis 😉

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🗺️ DAY 6: RASTER - I think we could use a little break from earth for todays #30DayMapChallenge. I’ve been deep into planetary sci-fi books lately so today we have a raster of the surface of Venus from NASA’s Magellan mission 🪐🔭🚀

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🗺️ DAY 5: JOURNEY - Going personal for todays #30DayMapChallenge on the theme of Journey. Here's a rough mapping out of my academic journey from bachelors to lecturer. 👶👨‍🎓👨‍🏫

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https://t.co/ri3dqSf0e6

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🗺️ DAY 4: HEXAGONS - I had a lot of fun working on this @CDRC_UK retail data product. Lots of retail points and hexagons involved. Here we have the retail centres around Rotherham - but we've got full UK coverage! Explore the data in #OpenAccess linked below #30DayMapChallenge

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https://t.co/WvWOoHlteY

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Great detail on the colour the city here:

https://t.co/oVREwK2bRG

https://t.co/xEljU3cnzh

Would love to see a digitised version of the colours to the houses!

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🗺️ DAY 3: POLYGONS - A simple random palette on the houses of St. John's to represent just how colourful the city is with our Jellybean Rowhouses! Considered manually trying to recreate the colour palettes from @hfnlca historic paints, but too many! #30DayMapChallenge

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https://t.co/CnNqmZptir

https://t.co/lRWwqBAqnu

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🗺️ DAY 2: LINES - Todays map is looking at the elevation of regional roads across Ireland. Making use of some global elevation data and @GovDataIE road networks #30DayMapChallenge

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Let's see how many municipal open data platforms I can use this year. Viewpoints data from Lisbon's municipal master plan. @CamaraLisboa

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🗺️ DAY 1: POINTS - Decided to throw my hat in the ring again this year for the #30DayMapChallenge. Told myself I wasn't going to do this, but couldn't stand in front of the GIS design workshops and tell students to make some maps while NOT making maps myself. So here we are!