Prof Chris Brunsdon

    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

    Title Role Description Start date End date Amount
    Catalyst award, submitted via Brunsdon IvP proposal PI 25000
    Mapping Lineages: Quantifying the Evolution of Maps of the British Isles PI 2084
    Mapping Lineages: Quantifying the Evolution of Maps of the British Isles PI 2084
    Mapping Lineages: Quantifying the Evolution of Maps of the British Isles PI 2084
    Building city dashboards: Addressing fundamental and applied problems PI 01/01/2016 31/12/2020 2351251.26
    Consultancy work for SiteZeus PI 29/12/2014 03/06/2015 63467.48
    H2020 Support for ERC Adv RIGAR: Reproducibility in Geocomputational Analytics and Research PI 11/07/2014 21/10/2014

    Book

    Year Publication
    2015 Brunsdon, Christopher Singleton, Alex (2015) Geocomputation: A Practical Primer. : Sage.
    2015 Brunsdon, Christopher Comber, Alexis (2015) An Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis and Mapping. : Sage.

    Other Journal

    Year Publication
    2017 Rigby J, Boyle M, Brunsdon C, Charlton M, Dorling D, French W, Noone S, and Pringle D (2017) 'Towards a geography of health inequalities in Ireland' Irish Geography, 50 (1) :37-58. [Full-Text]
    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

    Year Publication
    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
    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

    Year Publication
    2019 Chris Brunsdon, Martin Charlton (2019) European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography Cartograms Work Backwards - Towards a Generalised Cartogram Approach Luxemburg, .
    2019 Martin Charlton, Chris Brunsdon, Paul Harris, Lex Comber (2019) European Colloquium of Theoretical and quantitative Geography Spatial Prediction with Categorical Response Variables Luxembourg, .
    2018 Yazgi Walsh, B. & Brunsdon, C. (2018) Open Analysis Conference of Irish Geographers Maynooth, .
    2016 Martin Charlton and Chris Brunsdon (2016) GISRUK 2016 Gehlke and Biehl Revisited Greenwich, UK, .
    2015 Chris Brunsdon, Aidan Slingsby (2015) GISRUK 2015 A Visual, Statistically Robust Anomaly Detector For Migration Data Leeds, UK, .
    2015 Chris Brunsdon, artin Charlton (2015) GISRUK 2015 Spoilt for Choice? An Investigation Into Creating Gastner and Newman-style Cartograms Leeds, UK, .
    2014 Chris Brunsdon, Martin Charlton, Jan Rigby (2014) GISRUK 2014 An Open Source Geodemographic Classification of Small Areas In the Republic of Ireland Glasgow, UK, .

    Published Report

    Year Publication
    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
    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: ED [DOI] [Full-Text]

    Note

    Year Publication
    2020 Brunsdon C. (2020) Modelling epidemics: Technical and critical issues in the context of COVID-19. NOTE [DOI]
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