David Lloyd
PhD Candidate
David Lloyd PhD Candidate
Room A520
Information Science
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB
at775@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 0212
fax: +44 20 7040 8584
David submitted his PhD on Tuesday 29 September 2009...and successfully defended his thesis (with minor amendments) at his viva on 8 Jan 2010!
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David graduated in astronomy from University College London
and later in statistics from Birkbeck College London, becoming
a Chartered Statistician in 1993. He
worked for BT for 24 years in a variety of management roles
in marketing, finance, human resources and business planning.
In 2004, he completed the Masters in
Geographic Information (MGI) with a dissertation on the reasons
behind the anomalous catchment area of a large retail store in the
Leeds-Bradford area. He has run his own successful GI
analysis consultancy business since 2003 specialising in work
for local, regional and other governmental bodies, and began his PhD
in October 2005. David has a particular interest in alternative
representations of spatial data including cartograms.
Research focus: Human Centred Geographical Interfaces for Evidence-Based Policy
David is funded by the EPSRC and Leicestershire County Council through an Industrial CASE award with the aim of designing, developing and evaluating visualization tools in the context of policymaking in local government. The work is supervised by Dr. Jason Dykes of the Department of Information Science and Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris of the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, School of Informatics at City University, and Robert Radburn of Leicestershire County Council.
Supervision information
Supervision (password protected)
Conferences attended/Forthcoming conferences
- GISRUK06, Nottingham, 5-7 May 2006
- Fourth UK National Crime Mapping Conference, London, 24 & 25 May 2006
- Geographic Visualization Across the Social Sciences : State of the Art Review, Manchester, 12-13 June 2006
- 4th International Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization, London, 4 July 2006
- 10th International Conference on Information Visualisation, London, 5-7 July 2006
- GISRUK07, NUI, Maynooth, Ireland, 11-13 April 2007
- 2007 event of ICA Commission on Visualization and Virtual Environments, Technical University of Helsinki, August 2/3 2007
- LARIA local government researchers' conference, 1-3 April 2008 (attending 1 April only)' Slidepack'
- GISRUK08, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2-4 April 2008 - extended abstract here: 'Mediating geovisualization to potential users and prototyping a geovisualization application'
- Public Libraries Association conference, PLA 2008, Liverpool 8-10 Oct 2008
Some Useful links
- MSc courses in Geographic Information (MGI)
- Powerpoint, PhD Upgrade Presentation: 8 Nov 2006
- Jason Dykes' home page
Recent News
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International Cartographic Association Commission on Visualization andVirtual Environments 1-3 Aug 2007 Left: Presenting paper by Lloyd & Dykes. No, it's not an aluminium helmet. 'Mediating potential users of a geovisualization application to geovisualization experts using a scenario' Right: Somewhere in the Helsinki archipelago - Iso Vasikkasaari (Big Calf Island) where we had a dinner in Restaurant Gula Villanf (thanks, ESRI Finland) |
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GISRUK07 Conference at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, April 2007 Left: Presenting paper by Lloyd, Dykes & Radburn 'Understanding geovisualization users and their requirements – a user-centred approach' Right: Teach yourself authentic Irish penny whistle at the Conference dinner. |
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Geographic Visualization Across the Social Sciences State of the Art Review, Manchester, 12-13 June 2006. Left: The lecture theatre in the new Michael Smith building showing Manchester's state of the art audiovisual facilities including the AccessGrid. Right: Workshop dinner which took place in a restaurant on Manchester's famous "Curry Mile". |
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The annual GISRUK conference in Nottingham on 6 April 2006. Left to right: David trying out a demonstration of a virtual reality system; reception at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground with fellow giCentre researchers Susanne Bleisch and Cristina Arciniegas; presenting an extended abstract by David Lloyd/Jason Dykes. The work highlighted part of David's Masters dissertation Investigating catchment area anomalies for a north England store. |
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"David Lloyd has been appointed to work on an EPSRC funded Industrial CASE to conduct research in using geovisualization in evidence-based policy. The work involves a collaboration between Leicestershire County Council and City University that will draw upon expertise in Geovisualization and Human Computer Interaction Design to design, develop and evaluate visualization tools in the context of policymaking in local government. The work build upon Robert Radburn's successful use of data graphics in the local authority and Fenia Attilakou's MGI dissertation at City. David and Robert are pictured outside City Hall following a presentation at the "Developing Best Practice for Presenting Statistics" in London". |