From March to May I had an unpaid leave from Ernst Basler + Partner<\/a>\u00a0(EBP) and worked in the UK for the Oxford Internet Institute<\/a>\u00a0(OII) on a research project around user-generated content or VGI. Also, after that period I continued working part-time for the OII and even had the opportunity to physically return to Oxford and visit my colleagues there.<\/p>\n Also in 2013, my interest in data-driven journalism grew and I deepened my connections with the Open (Government) Data movement here in Switzerland and globally.<\/p>\n Work at EBP<\/a> has yielded various interesting projects, the most recent one being a strongly research-focused project regarding road traffic accidents and the relationships with infrastructure and weather conditions.<\/p>\n Stephan Heuel<\/a>\u00a0and I organised various instalments of the\u00a0GeoBeer series<\/a>\u00a0throughout different regions of Switzerland. The event proved to be a large (and very rewarding) success: it attracted (in total) several hundred people from very different GIS\/cartography backgrounds and trajectories. Both Stephan and I are delighted how well the idea took off after the\u00a0first event at our employer’s offices<\/a>\u00a0(and with their support).<\/p>\n Throughout the year I have met nice people and also communicated and discussed with interesting people over on Twitter<\/a> as well as in the geo blogosphere.<\/p>\n All in all: 2013 was a great year!<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As a last touch of nostalgia I give you 2013’s 10 most popular posts<\/strong> by yours truly:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And now:<\/strong><\/p>\n I’m looking forward to stimulating discussions and interesting developments in our field!<\/strong><\/p>\n See you around here, on Twitter or in Palm Springs at the Esri DevConf.<\/strong><\/p>\n \n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2013 has been a very interesting year for me: I rebuilt\u00a0my website, started to self-host this blog and successfully applied for it to be included in the\u00a0Planet Geospatial\u00a0aggregator. I also revamped the\u00a0Ernst Basler + Partner GIS blog. From March to May I had an unpaid leave from Ernst Basler + Partner\u00a0(EBP) and worked in the … Continue reading Happy 2014!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[155,52,154,125],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-note","category-review","tag-ebp","tag-geo","tag-oii","tag-visualization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/OII.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-p9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/OII.jpg\")
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Three visualizations of mine (a Switzerland population cartogram<\/a>, a temporal aggregation of webcam pictures<\/a>\u00a0and a visualization of OII data on Wikipedia in Africa<\/a>) have made several appearances in the media and found some audience (e.g.<\/a>).<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/geobeer_logo.png\"){kind=logo}
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Happy 2014! <\/span><\/h1>\n