On Wednesday 26 February 2025 James Cheshire, Director of the Social Data Institute, delivered a talk on ‘The Power of Maps’ to a group of A Level students at the Royal Geographic Society in London.

For others it distracts from addressing the more fundamental and resistant issues of inequality — such as social class differences and racism. Given the weight the concept of “social cohesion ...

unveils a refined land cover map for Siberia. By leveraging multiple sources and applying a random forest classifier (a machine learning algorithm), the team addresses the inconsistencies between ...