Team Thoughts

The Workplace Revolution

The workplace revolution has prompted a change in the office landscape. Co-working spaces have fast become the popular solution.

Add search to your Ghost blog

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.

Open Data

GEOLYTIX Supermarket Retail Points

The collective market share of the ‘Big Four’ supermarkets (Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons) has fallen to 62.7%.

Our Team

Geolytix Down Under

Geolytix is officially open for business in Melbourne, Australia!

Market Visits

India Retail Landscape… A decade on

How exciting to be back in India, and particularly Mumbai, after almost a decade away.

Our Team

Geolytix is Small but Global

I’ve been following Geolytix with interest since it was founded back in 2012.

Market Visits

Paris Retail Landscape – First Impression

I was always intrigued by the breath-taking history and the industry-leading fashion Paris presents to the world.

Team Thoughts

My Theory on How the Pie Chart was Invented? And what that tells us about innovation.

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.

GeoData

The Added Value of Banking Data

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.

Team Thoughts

The Politics of Palm Oil

Having just landed back, I intended to write a blog about Malaysian retail from my recent trip. But some things are more important.

Our Team

Unveiling SLA China (Society for Location Analysis, China)

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.

Market Visits

Blackwell’s and the book buying experience

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.

Our Team

Coming Out as a Part Timer

Part time working doesn’t work for professional occupations, right?

GeoData

Machine Learning with spatial Big Data: How Uber helped us get there.

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.

Team Thoughts

How a fruit and veg supplier won my heart

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.

Team Thoughts

Ways to do your grocery in Shanghai

I am a native of Shanghai.

GeoData

Inferring Traffic Counts from Network Centrality

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.

Team Thoughts

One More Jigsaw Piece to Fit into Suning’s Smart Retail Empire

This time it is Carrefour China…

Market Visits

Lush and the war on plastic

Until 12 months ago Lush wasn’t on my radar.

Market Visits

Geolytix in Dubai

It has the aquarium, the waterfall, the ice-rink and of course the towering Burj Khalifa as a neighbour.

Team Thoughts

From Shopping to Dining, Entertaining & Social Networking

The Role Transition of a Retail Venue in Chinese Daily Life

Team Thoughts

Shanghai – A Flagship City

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.

Team Thoughts

Chinese Retailers Entering the UK

It’s been just over a year since I left China to join Geolytix, back in the UK.

Open Data

Open EU 2011 Census Data Pack

Free is an odd word. Free has a duality; gratis “for free”, and libre “with few restrictions”.

Open Data

4 Years of Retail Points

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.