Aljawharah Supervision Meeting - 21st October 2021
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###### tags: `Supervision Meeting` `Topic B` `Topic C`

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- **Location:** Zoom
- **Date:** Thursday 21st October, 2021 15:30 PM
- **Attendees:** Aljawahrah, Nick, Matt
- **Apologies:** None
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Why do we have this template?

- Provide a structure for our meetings.
- Provide a way for us to collaboratively note-take during the meetings.
- Give a nice summary of the discussion for anyone unable to attend the meeting.
- Give some content which can then be attached to [NU Reflect](https://reflect.ncl.ac.uk/) entry for the meeting.
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# Updates since the last meeting.
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Jot down 3-4 bullet points as updates on progress since the last meeting.

This can be "for info" items which you would like to inform us of, but we do not necessarily need to directly discuss.
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- [ ] A
- [ ] B
- [ ] C
- [ ] D

# *"The Worry List"*

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- Jot down a list of any outstanding issues or queries.
- If you are able to, give an estimate of how much of our meeting time you would like to dedicate to this.
- Order your items in priority order. This will allow us to make sure we cover off the most important issues first.
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- [ ] A (5 minutes)
- [ ] B (10 minutes)
- [ ] C
- [ ] D

# Short-term plans for next steps
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- Jot down what you plan to work on next.
- The timescales will typically be between now and the next meeting, up to one month.
- This can be high level. We'll prioritise these items on the call, change some of them, and we'll put them in the Actions list.
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- [ ] A
- [ ] B
- [ ] C
- [ ] D

# Deadlines on the horizon

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We will update this section periodically, so we are all aware of any upcoming deadlines. This can include publication submissions, University deadlines, or other important dates.

The longer ahead we can have visibility of these deadlines, the better we're able to support you (e.g. by reviewing drafts).
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- Day Month Year: Submit camera-ready version of workshop paper.
- Day Month Year: Deadline for conference submission.

# Meeting notes

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**Please note:** We will populate this section collaboratively during the meeting.
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- London Underground data
- Cleaned up from Github
- Lines and stations
- Station location in real life
- Sign up on TfL for live congestion data.
- Third party access.
- Somewhat more reliable than the Urban Observatory data
- Lecture in Undergraduate course on visualisation, on the Tube data network.
- Nexus (Newcastle transport company)
- Do they have data?

- Graphing libraries
- Graph drawing tools in R
- ...
- NetworkX
- Probably quite reliable.
- Possible to extract the network layout from NetworkX for use in `R` or `Python`
- Cytoviz
- Network layout system
- Interactive graph visualisation pacakge
- Comprehensive.
- GraphViz used to be good, but compatibility issues now?
- Laptop
- Install Python via Software Centre?
- Should be able to use `pip` or `conda` to install libraries.
- Lucy Mclaughlin has a University laptop, so she might be able to help.
- Questions about the Tube dataset
- `s1` `s2` start and end points of one line between stations - in a file named edge?
- Node file has an index, referring to the edge file.
- Node identifier in the node file, links to edges in the edge file.
- File formats for working with graphs
- gml
- not very readible for humans
- json
- Not very readible for humans.
- spreadsheets
- easier for us to work with.
- [NetworkX](https://networkx.org/) documentation covers this quite well.
- [Neo4j](https://neo4j.com/) has quite a learning curve, so not somethign to learn right away.

# Actions
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All of our actions should have the following things:
- An owner, the person leading on the activity.
- Sufficient detail so we can remember what we are supposed to do.
- A deadline for completion.
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These actions will appear in the next meeting notes either as an update since last time (if completed), on the worry list (if we have run into issues), or in the short-term plans (if we've had to push this item forward).
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- [ ] Progressing supervisor paperwork (Nick H., w/c 25th)
- [x] Nick to share lecture about using NetworkX (Nick H., November)
- [x] Sign up for TfL accounts (Matt and Aljawharah, ASAP)
- [x] Look at examples on Github for use of TfL/Tube data (Aljawharah, ASAP)
- Perhaps also included a live example?
- [ ] Matt to chase Network Rail
- [x] Add Aljawharah to CSC8631 Data Management and Exploratory Data Analysis (Matt, SAAP)