scholarly journals Integrating geographic analysis in transport planning

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Lovelace
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Transport Planning ◽  
Geographic Analysis

Research into and paper about open source software for geographic transport data analysis and planning

scholarly journals Open source tools for geographic analysis in transport planning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Lovelace
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
First Century ◽  
Transport Planning ◽  
Geographic Analysis ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Interactive Map

AbstractGeographic analysis has long supported transport plans that are appropriate to local contexts. Many incumbent ‘tools of the trade’ are proprietary and were developed to support growth in motor traffic, limiting their utility for transport planners who have been tasked with twenty-first century objectives such as enabling citizen participation, reducing pollution, and increasing levels of physical activity by getting more people walking and cycling. Geographic techniques—such as route analysis, network editing, localised impact assessment and interactive map visualisation—have great potential to support modern transport planning priorities. The aim of this paper is to explore emerging open source tools for geographic analysis in transport planning, with reference to the literature and a review of open source tools that are already being used. A key finding is that a growing number of options exist, challenging the current landscape of proprietary tools. These can be classified as command-line interface, graphical user interface or web-based user interface tools and by the framework in which they were implemented, with numerous tools released as R, Python and JavaScript packages, and QGIS plugins. The review found a diverse and rapidly evolving ‘ecosystem’ tools, with 25 tools that were designed for geographic analysis to support transport planning outlined in terms of their popularity and functionality based on online documentation. They ranged in size from single-purpose tools such as the QGIS plugin AwaP to sophisticated stand-alone multi-modal traffic simulation software such as MATSim, SUMO and Veins. Building on their ability to re-use the most effective components from other open source projects, developers of open source transport planning tools can avoid ‘reinventing the wheel’ and focus on innovation, the ‘gamified’ A/B Street https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/#abstreet simulation software, based on OpenStreetMap, a case in point. The paper, the source code of which can be found at https://github.com/robinlovelace/open-gat, concludes that, although many of the tools reviewed are still evolving and further research is needed to understand their relative strengths and barriers to uptake, open source tools for geographic analysis in transport planning already hold great potential to help generate the strategic visions of change and evidence that is needed by transport planners in the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Open Plot Project: an open-source toolkit for 3-D structural data analysis

Solid Earth ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Tavani ◽  
P. Arbues ◽  
M. Snidero ◽  
N. Carrera ◽  
J. A. Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Structural Data ◽  
Geological Modelling ◽  
Analysis Tools ◽  
Transect Analysis ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract. In this work we present the Open Plot Project, an open-source software for structural data analysis, including a 3-D environment. The software includes many classical functionalities of structural data analysis tools, like stereoplot, contouring, tensorial regression, scatterplots, histograms and transect analysis. In addition, efficient filtering tools are present allowing the selection of data according to their attributes, including spatial distribution and orientation. This first alpha release represents a stand-alone toolkit for structural data analysis. The presence of a 3-D environment with digitalising tools allows the integration of structural data with information extracted from georeferenced images to produce structurally validated dip domains. This, coupled with many import/export facilities, allows easy incorporation of structural analyses in workflows for 3-D geological modelling. Accordingly, Open Plot Project also candidates as a structural add-on for 3-D geological modelling software. The software (for both Windows and Linux O.S.), the User Manual, a set of example movies (complementary to the User Manual), and the source code are provided as Supplement. We intend the publication of the source code to set the foundation for free, public software that, hopefully, the structural geologists' community will use, modify, and implement. The creation of additional public controls/tools is strongly encouraged.

Conquery: an Open Source Application to analyze High Content Healthcare Data (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Kovacs ◽  
Max Thonagel ◽  
Marion Ludwig ◽  
Alexander Albrecht ◽  
Manuel Hegner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Study Cohort ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Analytical Approaches

BACKGROUND Big data in healthcare must be exploited to achieve a substantial increase in efficiency and competitiveness. Especially the analysis of patient-related data possesses huge potential to improve decision-making processes. However, most analytical approaches used today are highly time- and resource-consuming. OBJECTIVE The presented software solution Conquery is an open-source software tool providing advanced, but intuitive data analysis without the need for specialized statistical training. Conquery aims to simplify big data analysis for novice database users in the medical sector. METHODS Conquery is a document-oriented distributed timeseries database and analysis platform. Its main application is the analysis of per-person medical records by non-technical medical professionals. Complex analyses are realized in the Conquery frontend by dragging tree nodes into the query editor. Queries are evaluated by a bespoke distributed query-engine for medical records in a column-oriented fashion. We present a custom compression scheme to facilitate low response times that uses online calculated as well as precomputed metadata and data statistics. RESULTS Conquery allows for easy navigation through the hierarchy and enables complex study cohort construction whilst reducing the demand on time and resources. The UI of Conquery and a query output is exemplified by the construction of a relevant clinical cohort. CONCLUSIONS Conquery is an efficient and intuitive open-source software for performant and secure data analysis and aims at supporting decision-making processes in the healthcare sector.

scholarly journals Takin: An open-source software for experiment planning, visualisation, and data analysis

SoftwareX ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 121-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Weber ◽  
Robert Georgii ◽  
Peter Böni
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Experiment Planning

scholarly journals Integrated open-source software for multiscale electrophysiology

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Nasiotis ◽  
Martin Cousineau ◽  
François Tadel ◽  
Adrien Peyrache ◽  
Richard M. Leahy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Dense Array ◽  
Unrestricted Access ◽  
Research Transparency ◽  
Programming Skills ◽  
User Friendly

Abstract The methods for electrophysiology in neuroscience have evolved tremendously over the recent years with a growing emphasis on dense-array signal recordings. Such increased complexity and augmented wealth in the volume of data recorded, have not been accompanied by efforts to streamline and facilitate access to processing methods, which too are susceptible to grow in sophistication. Moreover, unsuccessful attempts to reproduce peer-reviewed publications indicate a problem of transparency in science. This growing problem could be tackled by unrestricted access to methods that promote research transparency and data sharing, ensuring the reproducibility of published results. Here, we provide a free, extensive, open-source software that provides data-analysis, data-management and multi-modality integration solutions for invasive neurophysiology. Users can perform their entire analysis through a user-friendly environment without the need of programming skills, in a tractable (logged) way. This work contributes to open-science, analysis standardization, transparency and reproducibility in invasive neurophysiology.

The MetaProteomeAnalyzer: A Powerful Open-Source Software Suite for Metaproteomics Data Analysis and Interpretation

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 1557-1565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thilo Muth ◽  
Alexander Behne ◽  
Robert Heyer ◽  
Fabian Kohrs ◽  
Dirk Benndorf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Software Suite

scholarly journals Electron Microscopy (Big and Small) Data Analysis With the Open Source Software Package HyperSpy

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (S1) ◽  
pp. 214-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco de la Pena ◽  
Tomas Ostasevicius ◽  
Vidar Tonaas Fauske ◽  
Pierre Burdet ◽  
Petras Jokubauskas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Software Package ◽  
Small Data ◽  
Open Source Software Package

scholarly journals Program R: applications in plant breeding

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (spe) ◽  
pp. 91-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Alexandre Peternelli
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Plant Breeding ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Statistical Procedures ◽  
Statistical Program ◽  
Public Domain Software ◽  
Default Setting

Nowadays the demand for so-called free, or open source software for data analysis as well as the appeal to use it is great. An public domain software that has become extremely well-known, with ever-increasing numbers of fans and even co-workers, is Environment R, or simply R. R is extremely useful for data analysis and manipulation in view of a range of tools already implemented. Also, R is not simply a statistical program, because, by its easy on using internal functions and also creating new ones, statistical procedures applied to data can also be created, manipulated, evaluated and interpreted. R contains numerous libraries (or packages), some already included in the default setting. This course will focus on the application of R in statistical analyses in plant breeding. Explanations on the use of various commands and functions will be illustrated with examples, to facilitate the interpretation and adaptation to other similar problems.

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