Jacob Macdonald
@jacobmacdonald.bsky.social
NFLDer in the UK. Lecturer in GIS and Spatial Analysis - U. Sheffield. Digital media/ regional graphics editor for ‘Regional Studies, Regional Science’. Urban econ, data, spatial stats & open science 🌎🗺️
Great to be back at it with #GISRUK2025 - looks like a super nice programme of GIS research and methods!
April 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Great to be back at it with #GISRUK2025 - looks like a super nice programme of GIS research and methods!
Urban surfing in Rotterdam! Now that’s “living with water”. Nearing the final stretch of our UG field trip, and couldnt be happier with our great students.
April 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Urban surfing in Rotterdam! Now that’s “living with water”. Nearing the final stretch of our UG field trip, and couldnt be happier with our great students.
A tale of two flood barriers! From Hull over to Rotterdam, looking at one of the biggest storm surge barriers protecting Europe’s largest port. One of my favourite stops on the great urban planning undergrad field trip
April 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A tale of two flood barriers! From Hull over to Rotterdam, looking at one of the biggest storm surge barriers protecting Europe’s largest port. One of my favourite stops on the great urban planning undergrad field trip
Sunny days out in Spurn! Great talks by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for field trip Day 2 with our amazing urban studies and planning students @sheffielduni.bsky.social (they didn’t like my April Fools joke that our ferry tomorrow got canceled…)
April 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Sunny days out in Spurn! Great talks by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for field trip Day 2 with our amazing urban studies and planning students @sheffielduni.bsky.social (they didn’t like my April Fools joke that our ferry tomorrow got canceled…)
A great start to the annual @sheffielduni.bsky.social urban planning field trip to Hull and Rotterdam. Learning all about the defences in the city and living with water 🌊 - big thanks for welcoming us @hullcitycouncil.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A great start to the annual @sheffielduni.bsky.social urban planning field trip to Hull and Rotterdam. Learning all about the defences in the city and living with water 🌊 - big thanks for welcoming us @hullcitycouncil.bsky.social
Sunny ol’ Sheffield 🌼
March 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Sunny ol’ Sheffield 🌼
Was great to present some of my data work for part of #LoveDataWeek2025 at @sheffielduni.bsky.social
A great session today on publishing in data journals. And lots more great sessions to come!! ❤️📊
www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...
@openresshef.bsky.social
@lovedataweek.bsky.social
A great session today on publishing in data journals. And lots more great sessions to come!! ❤️📊
www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...
@openresshef.bsky.social
@lovedataweek.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Was great to present some of my data work for part of #LoveDataWeek2025 at @sheffielduni.bsky.social
A great session today on publishing in data journals. And lots more great sessions to come!! ❤️📊
www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...
@openresshef.bsky.social
@lovedataweek.bsky.social
A great session today on publishing in data journals. And lots more great sessions to come!! ❤️📊
www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...
@openresshef.bsky.social
@lovedataweek.bsky.social
Christmas come early, and one major stress off the to-do list! Looks like I’ll be sticking around some time yet. 🇬🇧
December 16, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Christmas come early, and one major stress off the to-do list! Looks like I’ll be sticking around some time yet. 🇬🇧
🗺️ DAY 16: CHOROPLETH - What does the UK look like when coloured in by #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! ⚽️
November 16, 2024 at 10:05 AM
🗺️ DAY 16: CHOROPLETH - What does the UK look like when coloured in by #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! ⚽️
🗺️ DAY 15: MY DATA - “Map something personal”… What’s the distribution of Jacob-based places around Great Britain? Using Ordnance Survey place names for today’s #30DayMapChallenge. Lots of Jacob’s ladders about.
November 15, 2024 at 9:09 AM
🗺️ DAY 15: MY DATA - “Map something personal”… What’s the distribution of Jacob-based places around Great Britain? Using Ordnance Survey place names for today’s #30DayMapChallenge. Lots of Jacob’s ladders about.
🗺️ 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!
November 14, 2024 at 6:22 PM
🗺️ 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!
🗺️ 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.
Redoing some maps from my PhD tree canopy identification.
November 13, 2024 at 8:19 PM
🗺️ 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.
Redoing some maps from my PhD tree canopy identification.
🗺️ DAY 12: SPACE & TIME - Spatio-temporal patterns for a random moose in Northern Alberta today for the #30DayMapChallenge 🫎 Here’s to Moose number YL4 🫡
www.movebank.org/cms/movebank...
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November 12, 2024 at 3:59 PM
🗺️ DAY 12: SPACE & TIME - Spatio-temporal patterns for a random moose in Northern Alberta today for the #30DayMapChallenge 🫎 Here’s to Moose number YL4 🫡
www.movebank.org/cms/movebank...
www.movebank.org/cms/movebank...
🗺️ DAY 11: ARCTIC - The @ArcticMonkeys have never been to the Arctic for today's #30DayMapChallenge Of course working in #Sheffield I had to go Sheffield-centric for the theme today.
Some rough data work taken from concertarchives.org
Some rough data work taken from concertarchives.org
November 11, 2024 at 8:03 PM
🗺️ DAY 11: ARCTIC - The @ArcticMonkeys have never been to the Arctic for today's #30DayMapChallenge Of course working in #Sheffield I had to go Sheffield-centric for the theme today.
Some rough data work taken from concertarchives.org
Some rough data work taken from concertarchives.org
🗺️ 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
November 11, 2024 at 4:16 PM
🗺️ 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
🗺️ 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
November 11, 2024 at 2:24 PM
🗺️ 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
🗺️ DAY 7: VINTAGE - Catch up time for the #30DayMapChallenge A pretty basic map playing with some QGIS coastal styles from @awoodruff.bsky.social to capture that vintage hand drawn effect.
November 11, 2024 at 2:18 PM
🗺️ DAY 7: VINTAGE - Catch up time for the #30DayMapChallenge A pretty basic map playing with some QGIS coastal styles from @awoodruff.bsky.social to capture that vintage hand drawn effect.
🗺️ 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 🪐🔭🚀
November 6, 2024 at 8:24 AM
🗺️ 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 🪐🔭🚀
🗺️ 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. 👶👨🎓👨🏫
November 5, 2024 at 11:27 AM
🗺️ 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. 👶👨🎓👨🏫
🗺️ DAY 4: HEXAGONS - I had a lot of fun working on this CDRC 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
November 4, 2024 at 6:43 PM
🗺️ DAY 4: HEXAGONS - I had a lot of fun working on this CDRC 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
🗺️ 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
November 4, 2024 at 3:08 PM
🗺️ 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
🗺️ DAY 2: LINES - Todays map is looking at the elevation of regional roads across Ireland. Making use of some global elevation data and Gov. Ireland Open Data road networks #30DayMapChallenge
November 2, 2024 at 10:05 AM
🗺️ DAY 2: LINES - Todays map is looking at the elevation of regional roads across Ireland. Making use of some global elevation data and Gov. Ireland Open Data road networks #30DayMapChallenge
🗺️ 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!
November 2, 2024 at 2:05 AM
🗺️ 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!