e-Rum2020 satellite event: Hackathon on Spatial Networks
Event Information
About this Event
News
- 10th June 2020: Added the Webinar and Hackathon Agenda.
Webinar Agenda (10h00 ~ 11h30/12h00 (CEST))
- A short introduction to the sfnetworks package:
- Collaborative slides presenting a general overview.
- Technical details about sfnetworks approach (by Lucas van der Meer & Lorena Abad Crespo)
- Applications of spatial networks (by Robin Lovelace & Andrea Gilardi)
2. Q&A
Hackathon Agend (14h00 ~ 17.30/18h00 (CEST)): We propose four different projects:
- Visualization of sfnetwork objects, lead by Lorena Abad Crespo;
- Estimation of basic exploratory data analysis measures, lead by Andrea Gilardi;
- Slope-sensitive routing, lead by Robin Lovelace.
- Multi-modal routing with dodgr and gtfsrouter, lead by Mark Padgham.
You can check a summary of all proposals here. Feel free to add your ideas.
The events will be organized using Zoom.
- 16th April 2020: Restructuring the Hackathon. We decided to follow the lines of the e-Rum2020 conference and we trasformed our event into an online hackathon. We also added a webinar presentation of the sfnetworks package. More details in the next paragraphs.
Description
Hi everyone! R is becoming an increasingly popular language for interactive geographic data and graph analysis thanks to robust and well-maintained packages like sf and igraph/tidygraph. Spatial networks, such as transport networks, river basins, power grids and geolocated social networks, have both a graph and a spatial nature that can be better understood and analysed when represented in a clear and consistent class system. At present, however, no mature, well tested and 'tidy' class exists for spatial network data, representing a gap in R’s spatial and network analysis ecosystems.
For these reasons we invite you to join an online webinar and a hackathon on spatial networks on the 16th of June as official satellite events of the e-Rum2020 conference. The events will be focused on introducing and testing of the new R package on spatial networks: sfnetworks. We recently released the version 0.2.0 "Neutor" of the package and you can read the first introductory vignette here.
Following the lines of the e-Rum2020 conference, we decided to transform our previous hackathon into a fully virtual event which will be structured as follows. In the morning we will organize an online webinar to present the basic functionalities of the package, while, in the afternoon, you can join one of us (and other experts in the field) to work on one problems related to spatial networks in R. We will add more details on this point over the next weeks. The webinar and the hackathon are part of a single event, but you can use the same (free) eventbrite ticket to take part into just one of them.
Anyone with an interest in spatial networks and open source software is invited, especially if you have experience with real world spatial network data that could be used in documentation or experience developing software for working with spatial or graph datasets (particularly R packages).
We want to offer an effective, easy-to-use package and we think that the best way to start would be to tackle real problems that R users in this field face. Hence, participants are encouraged to propose their own problems using our GitHub issue tracker with the ad-hoc hackathon template and labels. We are going to explore a few of these issues and create Pull Request (or just feedback comments) to improve the package.
Summary
- What: A webinar and a hackathon on spatial networks where we will present our new R package and work with the participants on problems they face dealing with spatial networks.
- Who: Everyone working on or interested in spatial networks can join the events. The only minimal requirement is a basic knowledge of sf and igraph packages. We will provide a few vignettes explaining how our package works, so you don't need to be an expert in the field. This is the first introductory vignette.
- When: 16th of June, 10AM to 6PM (GMT + 2).
- Where: These are online events so we are going to use tools like Zoom, Slack and Gitter. We will provide more details as soon as possible.
The organizing team
The hackathon is organized by:
- Lorena Abad: Lorena is a researcher in the Department of Geoinformatics at the University of Salzburg. She holds a master degree in Geospatial Technologies.
- Andrea Gilardi: Andrea is a PhD student in Statistics and Mathematical Finance at the University of Milan-Bicocca.
- Robin Lovelace: Robin is a researcher at the Leeds' Institute for Transport Studies and is an experienced developer, with contributions to numerous packages including sf and stplanr, which contains the S4 sfNetwork class.
- Lucas van der Meer: Lucas has a master degree in Geospatial Technologies, and is currently working as a researcher at the University of Salzburg, Department of Geoinformatics.
Code of conduct
This hackathon is an official satellite event of the e-Rum2020 conference so all attendees are bound to the same Code of conduct of the e-Rum2020 conference.
Questions
If you have any questions, feel free to write an email to hackathon@erum.io
