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We were delighted to host Prof @TuuliToivonen @HelsinkiUni 🇫🇮 for a visit to our research group NUS earlier today! We are thankful for her time and for sharing the impressive work of DigitalGeographyLab. We look forward to welcoming more distinguished guests in the near future.

Our team is growing😀! We are excited to introduce Rory Taylor as project planner at DGL! Rory focuses on supporting the GREENTRAVEL project as well as the administration of broader lab activities🙏. Learn more about Rory: blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geogra…

We are so so thrilled to introduce Rachel Robinson-Lehtinen as a new Research Coordinator in our lab fam. Rachel will be working to drive forward grant proposals and scientific project management at DGL. 🤩 Learn more about Rachel here: blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geogra…

🌿 @TuuliToivonen discusses how greenery in everyday travel environments impacts #wellbeing and offers solutions to promote fairness & equity. More on her session at #EURegionsWeek 👉 europa.eu/!DhDK8R #FrontierResearch #GreenTravel #UrbanGreenspaces #SustainableCities

Still some time to apply for this postdoc position working with me to advance our knowledge of what makes protected areas work

Presented at the International Conference on Regional Science in Cuenca for the MobiTwin project. While this is not my usual focus, I was impressed by how advanced economists’ works are in statistics and had some awesome conversations with researchers there. MOBI-TWIN

Tatu @tadusk0 from our lab has been visiting the geocomputation unit at the University of Zürich for a few months now. Check out what he's been up to in Switzerland in this travel diary 🏔️ blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geogra…

Our contribution to the #30DayMapChallenge comes from Tuomas Väisänen 📼 🇺🇦 vis.social/@waeiski with special thanks to Oula Inkeröinen. The map shows the value of aggregation and edge-bundling for complex mobility data. The data and methods will be published openly in the near future as a part of the MOBI-TWIN.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 4 #Hexagons comes from Håvard Wallin Aagesen showing the locations of Tweets from cross-border movers in Europe during 2021–2022. The data is used in the #BORDERSPACE project lead by Olle Järv 🇺🇦 to study cross-border #mobility. #H3 #CrossBorder #Research #EU

#30daymapchallenge day 3 - Polygons. Known ranges of mammals of the #IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

#30DayMapChallenge 5: Journey Riku is a floorball champ! maps.app.goo.gl/buojzcTVsEmtX5… "Since 2000, I’ve played in 121 different venues in 🇫🇮🇸🇪🇱🇻🇨🇭🇪🇸. The list is still expanding, but only at a rate of 1–2 / year. 'Places where I’ve coached floorball' looks quite different! 🇫🇮🇸🇪🇪🇪🇨🇿"

#30daymapchallenge day 8 - Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) This map shows the population distribution across the observed #flood extent in Valencia on 31 October 2024. Visualization: Leyi Xu

#30daymapchallenge day 10 - Pen & paper This planning map (draft) was created by Xiao Cai. It aims to enhance the sense of community in the Vana-Ihaste neighborhood (Tartu, Estonia), as existing residents have no such public place to interact with each other.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 20, #OpenStreetMap Where are the users of #OSM? The daily logs from OSM's tile server give some hints 🌍 Data source: planet.openstreetmap.org/tile_logs/ By: @tadusk0

#30daymapchallenge Day 24 - Only circular shapes Xiao Cai visualized the results of the hot spot analysis, comparing the age and gender differences in the bike-sharing usage patterns of eight demographic groups in Tartu, Estonia. #hotspotanalysis #bikesharing #Tartu

SAVE THE DATE: Friday 7th February 2025!! Seminar hosted by the Digital Geography Lab: "Spatial big data research for fair and sustainable societies: Celebrating 15 years of the Digital Geography Lab at the University of Helsinki" More details here 👉blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geogra…

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 28 - The Blue Planet. #RelativeElevationModel of the Murray River. Check out those meander scars! Data source 👉 elevation.fsdf.org.au . - by Rory Taylor

#30daymapchallenge Day 30 - The final map What color is Helsinki on the street level? Each point is colored by the average RGB colors of Street View panoramas. Data: Google Street View By: Jussi Torkko #Helsinki #Greenery #StreetView #GIS #Cartography

In GREENTRAVEL we’re using #VirtualReality to explore how #GreenUrbanEnvironments impact our everyday active travel. Ashish Shete explains what's happening behind the scenes 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geogra…