Blog
Thoughts, stories and ideas.
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European Census and Indices
27th January 2020
Census data is a powerful source of statistics able to describe a population. The data can be complex, messy, expensive, difficult to access and vary from country. Geolytix has taken the time to remove this hassle and make the data accessible, functional and open.
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UK Supermarket Retail Points
24th January 2020
The latest release of the GEOLYTIX open Retail Points data set with the most recent openings and closures captured.
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When SOLOMO met ME and things got physical.
20th January 2020
What on earth does SOLOMOME mean and why should you care?
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The Workplace Revolution
26th November 2019
The workplace revolution has prompted a change in the office landscape. Co-working spaces have fast become the popular solution.
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Add search to your Ghost blog
21st November 2019
A couple of weeks ago, roughly around the time when the Prime Minister of the UK promised to do the very same to himself, we finally ditched Wordpress.
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GEOLYTIX Supermarket Retail Points
18th November 2019
The collective market share of the ‘Big Four’ supermarkets (Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons) has fallen to 62.7%.
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Geolytix Down Under
30th October 2019
Geolytix is officially open for business in Melbourne, Australia!
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India Retail Landscape… A decade on
30th October 2019
How exciting to be back in India, and particularly Mumbai, after almost a decade away.
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Geolytix is Small but Global
28th October 2019
I’ve been following Geolytix with interest since it was founded back in 2012.
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Paris Retail Landscape – First Impression
14th October 2019
I was always intrigued by the breath-taking history and the industry-leading fashion Paris presents to the world.
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My Theory on How the Pie Chart was Invented? And what that tells us about innovation.
7th October 2019
The pie chart was invented by a Bastille-storming, money-forging, dueller-libelling, spying, blundering, libertine and jailbird. But no one has figured out how and why.
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The Added Value of Banking Data
30th September 2019
Across the numerous sectors and markets we support and operate in there is one common theme that keeps arising… and don’t worry it’s not Brexit.
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The Politics of Palm Oil
19th September 2019
Having just landed back, I intended to write a blog about Malaysian retail from my recent trip. But some things are more important.
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Unveiling SLA China (Society for Location Analysis, China)
12th September 2019
Twenty-four previous, current, future location planners from around the globe gathered on Wednesday 11th Sept 2019 in Xin Tian Di, Shanghai, and unveiled our own new communities – Society for Location Analysis, China.
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Blackwell’s and the book buying experience
9th September 2019
A well-stocked bookshop, with the scent of new paper and an adventure on every shelf, has been a staple of the British high street for hundreds of years.
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Coming Out as a Part Timer
19th August 2019
Part time working doesn’t work for professional occupations, right?
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Machine Learning with spatial Big Data: How Uber helped us get there.
5th August 2019
Sometimes we look for answers outside our cosy little GIS bubble. In this case we applied well-established information retrieval techniques to truly understand hyperlocal movement patterns in mobility data.
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How a fruit and veg supplier won my heart
22nd July 2019
I am a reluctant online shopper. I enjoy the actual shopping experience – choosing goods there and then and getting them immediately without expected delivery time.
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Inferring Traffic Counts from Network Centrality
12th July 2019
We were recently asked by a client to incorporate an element of traffic and road utilisation into the modelling of their network blueprint as they investigate opportunities to locate drive-thrus.
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One More Jigsaw Piece to Fit into Suning’s Smart Retail Empire
5th July 2019
This time it is Carrefour China…
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Geolytix in Dubai
11th June 2019
It has the aquarium, the waterfall, the ice-rink and of course the towering Burj Khalifa as a neighbour.
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From Shopping to Dining, Entertaining & Social Networking
20th March 2019
The Role Transition of a Retail Venue in Chinese Daily Life
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Shanghai – A Flagship City
11th March 2019
From a fishing village in the 11th Century, to the world’s busiest port today, Shanghai has long been synonymous with international trade and commerce.
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Chinese Retailers Entering the UK
14th November 2018
It’s been just over a year since I left China to join Geolytix, back in the UK.
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Open EU 2011 Census Data Pack
13th November 2018
Free is an odd word. Free has a duality; gratis “for free”, and libre “with few restrictions”.
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4 Years of Retail Points
23rd October 2018
It’s been 4 years since the first release of Retail Points (previously Open Supermarkets) and hasn’t it been an exciting time in the world of grocery.
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From Ahmedabad to Zibo
18th May 2018
It’s gone unbelievably quickly but we are now six months in to our Asia Pacific adventure with Geolytix offices now up and running in Tokyo and Shanghai.
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A mostly True Fairy Tale (any similarities to the 2004 Morrisons/Safeway merger are purely co-incidental)
30th April 2018
Long long ago, in a land not very far away, the King of GeoConsultingInc was not happy, not happy at all.
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Official Chop! GEOLYTIX China opens its doors
25th April 2018
GEOLYTIX announces its official registration in China; the country with largest population and second largest economy! We now have our chop…
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Creamstastic: An explosion of ice cream parlours
9th December 2017
Ice cream parlours make me think of a Sunday afternoon, currant tea cake, jersey ice cream and miniature train ride at Charlottes in West Yorkshire. Times have changed.
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MAPIC – what’s it all about?
23rd November 2017
Last week Sarah and I were lucky enough to exhibit at MAPIC in Cannes with ESRI, one of our long-standing partners.
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European Census Data and Boundaries
7th November 2017
Censuses have been a critical element of running a civilisation since civilisation began.