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.

Our Team

From Ahmedabad to Zibo

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.

Team Thoughts

A mostly True Fairy Tale (any similarities to the 2004 Morrisons/Safeway merger are purely co-incidental)

Long long ago, in a land not very far away, the King of GeoConsultingInc was not happy, not happy at all.

Our Team

Official Chop! GEOLYTIX China opens its doors

GEOLYTIX announces its official registration in China; the country with largest population and second largest economy! We now have our chop…

Market Visits

Creamstastic: An explosion of ice cream parlours

Ice cream parlours make me think of a Sunday afternoon, currant tea cake, jersey ice cream and miniature train ride at Charlottes in West Yorkshire. Times have changed.

Open Data

Retail Points Updated

6 facts about this release for the 6th day of December.

Our Team

Geolytix Leeds

We are pleased to announce the opening of our second UK office.

Our Team

MAPIC – what’s it all about?

Last week Sarah and I were lucky enough to exhibit at MAPIC in Cannes with ESRI, one of our long-standing partners.

Open Data

European Census Data and Boundaries

Censuses have been a critical element of running a civilisation since civilisation began.