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Geolytix France
18th May 2022
Geolytix is excited to announce we open our French office. Welcome Stéphane Martis to the team.
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Welcome to Oxygen!
18th May 2022
Back at the beginning of April we were invited to embrace our inner children and bounce our way around Oxygen Freejumping at the O2.
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Mental Health & Team Wellbeing at Geolytix
10th May 2022
Mental Health and Our Team's wellbeing is something we prioritise at Geolytix. Click to read more about what we do for our team...
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A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist
10th May 2022
Ever wondered what the life of a Data Scientist is like at Geolytix is like? Read more to find out...
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A Day in the Life of a Data Analyst
10th May 2022
Ever wondered what the life of a Data Analyst is like at Geolytix is like? Read more to find out...
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Geolytix: The Graduate Route
10th May 2022
Matt joined Geolytix straight from University, after graduating with a Degree in Geography. Here he tells us about his role as a Data Analyst....
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A Day in the life of a Location Planning Partner
10th May 2022
Ever wondered what the life of a Location Planner is like at Geolytix is like? Read more to find out...
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Geolytix: The Apprentice Route
10th May 2022
Becca joined Geolytix straight from college as a data apprentice. Now a fully qualified Data Analyst, Becca tells us about a day in her role...
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Geolytix, Geolytics, Geolytic
28th March 2022
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet” - William Shakespeare
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The Women of Geolytix
17th March 2022
International Women’s Day is celebrated every year on the 8th March. This year the women of Geolytix shared a more personal side to them through story maps.
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GEOLYTIX and GEOMOB podcast
15th February 2022
Blair sat down with Steve of GEOMOB to talk about all things GeoInnovation. Scroll down to listen to the podcast..
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Mental Health in the Geolytix workplace
26th January 2022
The first week of January saw the MHFA team in Geolytix plan on how we could help embrace and protect mental health amongst the team. Read more to see our plans...
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Studying through a pandemic
25th November 2021
Last Thursday was postgraduate results day at the University of Leeds, and although graduation is still a long way away (thanks to Covid-19 I haven’t even had my undergraduate graduation ceremony yet), it feels like a perfect time to reflect on this chapter of my life.
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Becoming a micro multinational
25th November 2021
Over the years, Geolytix has grown internationally. Ben Purple, our Business Director, tells how our growth wasn't exactly how we originally envisioned.
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10% of our team are now Mental Health First Aiders
23rd November 2021
Donna, Rachel, Josh and Kate recently qualified as Mental Health First Aiders. Here they talk about their reasons for qualifying and their plans for supporting the team at Geolytix.
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How 5 coloured gazebos, social bubbles and community spirit got us through Lockdown...
28th September 2021
Martin, an associate at Geolytix, volunteers at Mudlarks, a charity which was deemed a front line care service during the pandemic. Here he discusses the challenges he faced, and how Geolytix helped support him, support others
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GEOLYTIX Leeds - Setting up our new home
15th September 2021
With an ever growing team, twelve of whom are based in Leeds, we decided it was time to move into a new Leeds office. We have the Yorkshire tea at the ready...
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Department for International Trade Export Champions 2021
17th June 2021
Geolytix are proud to announce that we have recently been recognised as ‘Export Champions’ from the UK’s Department for International Trade.
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Working in an International Community
28th April 2021
Virtually working from home has been a change a lot of people have had to get used to in the past year. So imagine how tough it is to tackle that along with multiple time zones... Coco, based in China, discusses the perks (and challenges) of being part of a team spread across the globe
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Geolytix - Going Global
28th April 2021
As Geolytix has been recognised with the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade in April 2021, we look at our successes as a small but global company.
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Apprenticeship Reflection
17th March 2021
After joining the team in August 2019, I have completed my Level 4 Analyst apprenticeship and was awarded a Distinction. I thought it would be time to reflect on my time at Geolytix so far.
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MAPP shortlisted for best Business Intelligence & Analytics Solution at the Cloud Awards 2020
27th January 2021
GEOLYTIX MAPP has been shortlisted for the Clouds Award 2020. Having grown considerably in the last 5 years, our bespoke predictive location intelligence and mapping tool is now used by many major retailers, leisure and F&B operators globally. We're eagerly anticipating the announcement next month
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Happy New Year
13th January 2021
2020 was tough for all, but we hope 2021 offers some brighter news.
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Historic England - High Street Heritage Action Zones
21st October 2020
How can you use data to identify ‘similar’ locations? For retailers, looking for areas similar to those with high performing stores, this may be a simple enough task. Counts of surrounding population, competition and demographic data lend themselves well to similarity modelling.
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Geolytix scoop the ‘Data for Environment’ top spot at the Data IQ Awards
1st October 2020
“Because once Green Spaces are lost, they are lost forever” - Fields in Trust
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COVID-19, Community Spirit, Colleague Support and Candy
19th March 2020
It’s not often that I get involved in blogs for Geolytix and you won’t hear much from me in the future but I thought I would take the opportunity to write one on this occasion. It's mainly to promote the difference that an enjoyable working environment & team can make to the wellbeing of its people.
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Geolytix in The House. Helping the Co-op support Wellbeing in the Community
6th March 2020
On Tuesday Blair, Dan and Jasmin attended the parliamentary launch of the Co-op Community Wellbeing Index at the House of Commons. Geolytix worked in partnership with the Co-op to develop this index which aims to quantify the wellbeing of communities.
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Life as an Apprentice
17th February 2020
Geolytix were looking for their first apprentice. Becca was looking for an alternative route to university.
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Geolytix Down Under
30th October 2019
Geolytix is officially open for business in Melbourne, Australia!
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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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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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Coming Out as a Part Timer
19th August 2019
Part time working doesn’t work for professional occupations, right?
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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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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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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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FOSS4G Boston 2017
8th September 2017
From August 13th – 19th Dennis & Kerst flew to Boston to take part in the annual FOSS4G conference – thanks GEOLYTIX!
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We’ve nearly outgrown our favourite Curly Whirly cake
7th July 2017
We were delighted to welcome Agata and Dan to our growing team last month.
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We’re still telling our customers where to go – a year in the world of location planning and network strategy
30th March 2017
Whilst for many 2016 was heavily tainted by Brexit and Trump, for Geolytix it has been a year of establishing our European and Global Strategy.
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Happy New Year!
8th January 2017
So we have survived our first work week of 2017 – even if it was only 4 days.
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Location Planning and Data Analytics firm Geolytix win Queen’s Award for Enterprise
1st July 2016
London-based Geolytix have today won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for creating innovative spatial algorithms that help retailers profitably attract and serve customers in a complex multi-channel world.
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Samantha’s Week One – Back to Maps…
14th October 2015
It’s been a buzz so far! I’ve been reminded of the power of data and a map together. Once combined questions that seemed unanswerable are suddenly simple.
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National Business Awards Double Finalists
25th July 2014
Geolytix announced as double awards finalist
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A year in and I’m still being the Customer
1st November 2013
The move from corporate life to helping build a start-up business is not insignificant – but what a year it’s been!
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Sarah Hitchcock joins Geolytix
12th October 2012
Geolytix is delighted to welcome Sarah Hitchcock to the team.
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Blair's Story
1st October 2011
When I was four, while my nursery friends drew dragons, butterflies and castles, I drew maps. I mainly drew maps of fantastical treasure islands, I still do.