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Dr James Goulding

Associate Professor in Data Science/ Director, N/Lab Research Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Dr James Goulding is Director of N-LAB, a centre for International Analytics at the University of Nottingham. He is an Associate Professor in Data Analytics at NUBS, has a PhD in Machine Learning, a BSc in Econometrics, and formerly led the Data Science programme at EPSRC's Horizon Digital Economy Institute. James specializes in novel forms of data science - time series analysis, explanatory AI and visualization of mass data sets - with particular focus on analysis of closed source, commercial datasets for promotion of health, international development and social good. He is a leader in the growing domain of AI-driven Social Sciences, with his working

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Recent Publications

  • PAUL BRINDLEY, JAMES GOULDING and MAX L. WILSON, 2017. Generating Vague Neighbourhoods through Data Mining of Passive Web Data International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 32(3), pp. 498-523
  • BARRACK, D, GOULDING, J and PRESTON, S, 2017. Classification and clustering for samples of event time data using non-homogeneous Poisson process models CoRR. (In Press.)
  • DZOGANG, F, GOUDLING, J, LIGHTMAN, S and CHRISTIANINI, N, 2017. Seasonal variation in collective mood via Twitter Content and Medical Purchases Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 10584,
  • MARK ILIFFE, JAMES GOULDING and CHRIS ROADKNIGHT, 2016. Mobile Money - Towards Understanding Spending Patterns in Emerging Economies In: American Marketing Association Conference.
  • PAUL BRINDLEY, JAMES GOULDING and MAX L. WILSON, 2017. Generating Vague Neighbourhoods through Data Mining of Passive Web Data International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 32(3), pp. 498-523
  • BARRACK, D, GOULDING, J and PRESTON, S, 2017. Classification and clustering for samples of event time data using non-homogeneous Poisson process models CoRR. (In Press.)
  • DZOGANG, F, GOUDLING, J, LIGHTMAN, S and CHRISTIANINI, N, 2017. Seasonal variation in collective mood via Twitter Content and Medical Purchases Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 10584,
  • MARK ILIFFE, JAMES GOULDING and CHRIS ROADKNIGHT, 2016. Mobile Money - Towards Understanding Spending Patterns in Emerging Economies In: American Marketing Association Conference.
  • GAVIN SMITH, JAMES GOULDING and ANDREW SMITH, 2016. Beyond Customer Segmentation - Temporal Topic Modelling for Big Retail Data. In: American Marketing Association Conference.
  • SULTAN ALANAZI, DEREK MCAULEY and JAMES GOULDING, 2016. Cross-domain Recommendation via linguistic modelling of social media data In: ACM SIGWEB Conference on Hypertext, Montreal, 2016..
  • GOULDING, J, PRESTON, S.P. and SMITH, G, 2016. Event Series Prediction via Non-homogeneous Poisson Process Modelling In: IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).
  • HAIXIA LIU, JAMES GOULDING and TIM BRAILSFORD, 2015. Computation of Novel Ideas from Scientific Corpora Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. 9285, 541-556
  • GAVIN SMITH and JAMES GOULDING, 2015. A novel symbolization technique for time-series outlier detection In: IEEE Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData).
  • JAMES GOULDING, TANG PUI-SHAN and DUNCAN SHAW, 2015. Potential impact of air pollution coverage in the media on respiratory disease admissions In: Britsh Thoracic Society Winter Meeting (BTS),.
  • BARRACK, D, GOULDING, J, HOPCRAFT, K, PRESTON, S and SMITH, G, 2015. A New time-frequency feature extraction method for intermittent time-series data CoRR.
  • SMITH, G, GOULDING, J, BARRACK, D and WEISER, R, 2014. A Refined Limit on the Predictability of Human Mobility In: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PERCOM).
  • BARRACK, D, GOULDING, J, SMITH, G and PRESTON, S, 2014. A Basis Projection Method for the clustering of Intermittent Time-Series In: International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM).
  • ANDREW SMITH, JAMES GOULDING and LEIGH SPARKS, 2014. Using Commercial Big Data to inform social policy In: Macromarketing Conference.
  • BRINDLEY, P, GOULDING, J and WILSON, M L, 2014. A Data Driven approach to mapping urban neighbourhoods In: ACM International Conference on Advances in GIS (SIGSPATIAL),. 437-440
  • SAM MEEK, JAMES GOULDING, GARY PRIESTNALL and MIKE SHARPLES, 2013. Remote Mobile Capture of Points of Interest Using Line of Sight Modelling Computers & Geosciences. (In Press.)
  • SKATOVA, A, HOUGHTON, R, MORTIER, R, LODGE, T, GOULDING, J, CROWCROFT, J and MADHAVAPEDDY, A, 2013. Dataware, A Personal Data Architecture In: Digital Economy 2013: Open Digital.
  • DIMOND, M, GOULDING, J and SMITH, G, 2013. Improving Route Prediction through User Journey Detection In: ACM International Conference on Advances in GIS (SIGSPATIAL).
  • SMITH, G and GOULDING, J, 2013. Towards optimal symbolization for time series comparisons, In: IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).
  • H. ASHMAN, J. GOULDING, T. BRAILSFORD, A. MOORE, G. BURNETT, C. STEWART and M. TRURAN, 2012. HCI and the Web. In: The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • M. DIMOND, J. GOULDING, G. SMITH, M. JACKSON and X. MENG, 2012. Comparing predefined and learned trajectory partitioning with applications to pedestrian route prediction In: GISRUK 2012, 20th annual GIS Research UK.
  • S. MEEK, J. GOULDING and G. PRIESTNALL, 2012. The Influence of Digital Surface Model choice on visibility-based Mobile Geospatial Applications In: GISRUK 2012, 20th annual GIS Research UK.
  • J. FISCHER, M. FLINTHAM, D. PRICE, J. GOULDING, N. PANTIDI and T. RODDEN, 2012. Serious Mixed Reality Games In: Mixed Reality Games Workshop, The 2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '12).
  • J. SWAN, J. DRAKE, E. OZCAN, J. GOULDING and J. WOODWARD, 2012. A Comparison of Acceptance Criteria for the Daily Car-Pooling Problem In: ISCIS 2012, 27th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences.
  • MARK DIMOND, GAVIN SMITH and JAMES GOULDING, 2012. Evaluating extraction functions for detection of users’ journeys In: LBS 2012, 9th Symposium on Location Based Services.
  • WILLIAM PRESTON, JAMES GOULDING and GARY BURNETT, 2012. Dynamic Waypoint Placement for Pedestrian Navigation in Augmented Reality Based On Visibility & Heuristic In: LBS 2012, 9th Symposium on Location Based Services.
  • JAMES GOULDING, GAVIN SMITH and DUNCAN BARRACK, 2012. Neo-demographics: Distributions in the Digital Shadow In: Digital Futures 2012.
  • WILLIAM PRESTON, JAMES GOULDING, XIAOLIN MENG and MIKE JACKSON, 2012. Heuristics & Usability of Virtual Attack Point Navigation In: ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems (MobiGIS) 2012.
  • PRIESTNALL, G., GARDINER, J., DURRANT, J. and GOULDING, J., 2012. Projection Augmented Relief Models (PARM): tangible displays for geographic information In: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2012). 180-187
  • GOULDING, J, SMITH, G and BARRAC, 2012. Neo-demographics and Distributions in the Digital Shadow In: 3rd Digital Economy Conference.
  • D. MCAULEY, R. MORTIER and J. GOULDING, 2011. The Dataware Manifesto In: The 3rd International Conference on Communication Systems and networks (COMSNETS).
  • D. MCAULEY, J. GOULDING, H. RAHEMTULLAH and C. SOUCH, 2011. The Open Data Revolution and Data Literacy in Higher Education. In: Blue Skies: New thinking about the future of higher education Pearson.
  • A. SANDHAM, T. ORMEROD, C. DANDO, R. BULL, M. JACKSON and J. GOULDING, 2011. Scent trails: countering terrorism through informed surveillance In: 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
  • J. GOULDING and G. SMITH, 2011. Pedestrian Route Prediction using Augmented Cover Trees, In: NEMO, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases.
  • D. PRICE, C. GREENHALGH, S. ALI, J. GOULDING and R. MORTIER, 2011. A Framework for Crowd-Sourcing Personal Data In: DE2011, Digital Engagement 2011.
  • J. GOULDING, D. MCAULEY and R. MORTIER, 2011. Privacy Preserving Personalization via Dataware In: DE2011, Digital Engagement 2011.
  • D. LEIBOVICI, S. ANAND, J. SWAN, J. GOULDING, G. HOBANA and S. PAWLOWICZ, 2010. Workflow issues for Health mapping mashups of OGC Web Services 13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science.
  • J. GOULDING, T. BRAILSFORD and H. ASHMAN, 2010. Hyperorders and Transclusion: Understanding Dimensional Hypertext: (Best Paper) In: HT10: Proceedings of the 21st ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia.
  • J. GOULDING and M. JACKSON, 2009. Using Positioning and Geospatial Data to Identify and Investigate Deceptions in Public Settings: The role of Scent Trails In: DGI09: Defence Geospatial Intelligence, Europe.
  • A. MOORE, J. GOULDING and E. BROWN, 2009. AnswerTree – a Collaborative Mobile Location-Based Educational Game In: mLearn '09: 8th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning.
  • J. GOULDING and A. MOORE, 2009. Hyperplace: A platform for Location Based Gaming In: 6th International Symposium on LBS & TeleCartography.
  • J. GOULDING and M. JACKSON, 2009. Exploiting Geospatial Technology To Investigate Criminal Activities And Improve Civil Defence: The D-SCENT Project In: DGI09: Defence Geospatial Intelligence, Middle East.
  • D. LEIBOVICI, S. ANAND, J. SWAN, J. GOULDING, G. HOBANA, M. JACKSON and R. JAMES, 2009. Geospatial mashups for health and epidemic mapping using OGC standards In: HealthGIS, Royal Geographic Society.
  • D. ZHOU, M. TRURAN, T. BRAILSFORD, H. ASHMAN and J. GOULDING, 2008. Gcon: a graph-based technique for resolving ambiguity in query translation candidates SAC '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing.
  • J. GOULDING, H. ASHMAN, T. BRAILSFORD, G. BURNETT, A. MOORE, C. STEWART and M. TRURAN, 2008. HCI and the Web. In: he Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications 2nd. 559-572
  • M. TRURAN, J. GOULDING and H. ASHMAN, 2007. Autonomous authoring tools for hypertext ACM Computing Surveys.
  • J. WELLS, M. TRURAN and J. GOULDING, 2007. Search habits of the computer literate ACM HT '07: Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia.
  • D. ZHOU, J. GOULDING, M. TRURAN and T. BRAILSFORD, 2007. LLAMA: automatic hypertext generation utilizing language models ACM HT '07: Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia.
  • H. ASHMAN, D. ZHOU, J. GOULDING, T. BRAILSFORD and M. TRURAN, 2007. The Global Perpetual Dictionary of Everything In: AusWEB 2007, The 13th Australasian World Wide Web Conference.
  • J. GOULDING and L. BAI, 2005. Orthofaces and Dimension Reduction In: International Conference on Image on Imaging Science, Systems and Technology.
  • M. TRURAN and J. GOULDING, 2005. Co-active intelligence for image retrieval In: MULTIMEDIA '05: Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia.
  • A. MOORE, J. GOULDING, T. BRAILSFORD and H. ASHMAN, 2004. Practical applitudes: case studies of applications of the ZigZag hypermedia system In: HYPERTEXT '04: Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia.
  • SKATOVA, A, NG, E and GOULDING, J, Data Donation: Sharing Personal Data for Public Good? In: 5th Digital Economy Conference.

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