The Centre for Computational Geography (CCG) is an inter-disciplinary research centre based at the University of Leeds

University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...

. The CCG was founded in 1993 by Stan Openshaw

Stan Openshaw

Stan Openshaw is a retired British geographer. His last post was professor of human geography based in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds. After eighteen years at Newcastle University, including three years as professor of quantitative geography, he moved to work in Leeds in 1992...

 and Phil Rees

Phil Rees (academic)

Professor Phillip Howell Rees FRGS, FBA, CBE is a British population geographer and demographer. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Population Geography at the University of Leeds.-Biography:...

, and builds on over 40 years experience in spatial analysis

Spatial analysis

Spatial analysis or spatial statistics includes any of the formal techniques which study entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties...

 and modelling within the School of Geography

School of Geography, University of Leeds

The School of Geography is part of the Faculty of Environment at The University of Leeds based in the UK. It is a teaching and research organisation that disseminates information and curates knowledge on diverse geographical topics.- History :...

. CCG research is concerned with the development and application of tools for analysis, visualisation

Information visualization

Information visualization is the interdisciplinary study of "the visual representation of large-scale collections of non-numerical information, such as files and lines of code in software systems, library and bibliographic databases, networks of relations on the internet, and so forth".- Overview...

 and modelling geographical systems.