Okay good afternoon everybody,
welcome to our virtual open day on the
MSc Spatio-Temporal Analytics and Big Data Mining. So you're interested in studying our course,
next year, so we're going to try and answer some of the questions you have about the course, and give you a quick overview.
So, to begin, just to explain how this works,
we're going to talk, myself and Prof Tao Cheng, for about 20 to 30 minutes about the course.
And then, while we're doing that, we'll be recording this, so we can share it with you afterwards,
And then we'll stop the recording at the end, and we'll open a chatroom for you to ask us questions.
We find it easier for you to type the questions in, and we can answer them via the text,
then we have got a record of the answers which we can share afterwards.
So who is here today? My name is Dr James Haworth, I'm one of the lecturers on the course
I'll be teaching two of the modules that you'll learn.
I'm also here - let me just say hello to Prof Tao Cheng [Hello] - I'll pass over to Prof Cheng for some of the talk later on.
And also here we have Emma Whitney, CEGE Senior Comms Officer [Hello]
So between us we should be able to answer all the questions you have about the course.
But we're available on email if there's anything else.
A brief overview of the talk - we're going to start with Why study at UCL?
You'll be joining a huge institution,
so it's useful to know a bit about that. Prof Cheng will talk about what Spatio- Temporal Analytics is,
and why it's important to
study this subject. Then I'll go through some of the details of the programme,
so the modules that you'll learn, the dissertation, and the various
other activities that we run throughout
the year and then some administrative  details, like the entry requirements, and obviously the fees.
which I'm sure you'll be very interested in.
And then after that, we'll pass over to you, and you can ask any questions you like about the course.
So why study at UCL?
You probably already know that UCL is a globally world-leading university.
In the latest QS World Rankings (2019) we were ranked no. 10.
We're located in central London,
you know
so
you may need to it
so you can somehow keep driving which is
the one we can do they start driving a
car so the traffic that you might wanna
just it which shows in the color
so so in particular we will teach you
the technical skills you need to work
with as well as the theory behind us -
so we should understanding of the way in
which data plus the applied knowledge
that you can then take for research
degree or into a professional degree so
Nancy we really want to equip you for a
career and graduates are very employable
we plan to have a student in this
meeting that he's unfortunately has to
go to a job interview so
tells you the position that our students
they're in so in terms of modes of
delivery and we have a combination of
lectures and we have things so things
like takes them as map projections ways
of collecting spatial and temporal data
computer science side that's designed to
bring up to speed with the geospatial
side in terms of spatial analysis
interpretation here we'll talk about it
will give you a grounding in spatial
statistics and spatial analysis
techniques the properties of spatial
data that out also that earlier will
give you that basis in these and this
will provide the second-tier modules
wave for this month's special temple
that's built obviously we're dealing
with large data sets
and the spatial aspect to them so you
need to understand how to deal with
databases that can work with that data
and then finally geo special programming
is starting to actually level with a
steep learning curve
learning I've been to the geospatial
data so
then you may choose to study about gene
landing which is a module from the
computer science department master's
level machine learning module so very
very technical rewarding of your if
you're that way inclined finally urban
simulation is looking at how we can use
simulation techniques to model urban
processes so that's based in the Center
for Advanced spatial analysis so you can
see that in the second term is quite a
varied and does allow you to to go in a
range of different directions before
this we also do a value to exchange one
module for an aggressive module provided
that it's irrelevant module server from
from her own University and we provide
something that's relevant to your to
instill
then you can have a chat with mr. Chang
and we can arrange me to take that
subject to living space so from a
certain beauty or dissertation our
dissertations there's a range of options
to choose from so general way it works
is that your research will be linked to
a supervisor so your research can be
linked to an academic project doing so
for example with myself you might be
interested in that
with Professor Chang you might be
working with crime data we also have a
range of industrial projects with
industrial partners so I would say my
students each year do an industrial
project where you may have a chance to
work with the offices of a business we
have links also with the consumer debt
Research Center in geography who where
they dissertations linked to retail
buyers so plenty of opportunities to
engage with industry when it comes to
doing a dissertation is ten thousand
words in length and he will end up
producing a report and a poster like
this one here towards the end of your
degree so so this team will be able to
advise you on whether your degree visa
requirements if you don't have a 2:1
equivalent and you can if you have
relevant work experience so generally we
look around two years relevant work
experience and we just on a case by case
basis sent out an email and we can we
can advise you on that
so we have the okay so that is the cause
so you can discuss with you
so that means you're interested in this
course and we're gonna pass over to you
so if you start typing your questions
into the chat box and we will answer
that directly and then we'll share a
transcript of the conversation once
