Mark Birkin Author
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Spatial Analysis, Geography
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Mark Birkin is Professor of Spatial Analysis and Policy in the School of Geography, University of Leeds. He has longstanding interests in mathematical modelling of urban and regional systems including geodemographics, microsimulation, agent-based modelling, and spatial decision-support systems.
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Author(s): Mark Birkin
Big Data Challenges for Geoinformatics
It has been said that scientific research is now entering a ‘fourth paradigm’. While the earlier paradigms are characterised by experimentation and reasoning, the latest approaches are strongly driven by the availability of data at an unprecedented scale, and by the computational resources with which to extract the maximum value. Perhaps the classic exemplar discipline is bioinformatics, in which the human genome project has allowed a complete representation of the micro-level components and interactions which make up our physical bodie... view moreĀ»