Assessment Information

Geocomputation is assessed through two separate Assessments:

  1. Social Atlas: The first assessment will involve the completion of a spatial analysis project, based on the theory, concepts and application learnt during the module. For this coursework you are required to create a small “social atlas” on a topic or area that interests you.

  2. Exam: The second assessment will take the form of an Exam, the exact format to be confirmed.


More information on your Assessments will be provided at the end of Week 5 (i.e. 12th February 2021).

Useful additional resources

Besides the mandatory and recommended reading for this course, there are some additional resources that are worth checking out that may be useful for your first Assessment:

  1. MIT’s introduction course on mastering the command line: The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

  2. A useful tool to unpack command line instructions: explainshell.com

  3. Online resource to develop and check your regular expressions: regexr.com

  4. Selecting colour palettes for your map making and data visualisation: colorbrewer 2.0