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Mental Health at Geolytix

17th October 2023

Mental health matters. We have some trained Mental Health First Aiders at GEOLYTIX who are able to support the team and also organise brilliant social events throughout the year.

Diversity in the Workplace

5th October 2023

Geolytix signed up to the 10,000 interns foundation to offer opportunities to black students over summer 2023. How did our 2 successful applicants find their experience?

Women in Data: The Flagship Event 2023

21st March 2023

"Women in Data® aims to bring awareness through media appearances and events; in particular, the annual Women in Data conference."

International Women's Day 2023

8th March 2023

We love to celebrate the wonderful women of Geolytix everyday but International Women's Day is a brilliant day to highlight this more.

GEOLYTIX are Geoawesome - Global Top 100 Geospatial Companies

30th January 2023

We are thrilled to make the Geoawesomeness Top 100 Geo for 2023, the annual list of the best geospatial companies in the world for geospatial companies.

Employee Benefits at Geolytix

9th January 2023

If working with an awesome team on interesting projects isn't quite enough, Geolytix employees benefit from lots of other perks too.

GEOLYTIX and the 30 Day Map Challenge 2022

30th November 2022

Daily social mapping project happening every November: https://30daymapchallenge.com/

Geolytix Model Innovation Day

21st October 2022

Geolytix recently held a Model Innovation Day, an internal event to challenge our Data Scientists. Who was the model modeller at the end of the day?

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial

19th October 2022

If you use or develop open data and software for geospatial then FOSS4G events are for you.

Geolytix: An International Location Intelligence Company

6th October 2022

From start up to scale up, Geolytix has worked with some of the biggest retail, leisure, and restaurant brands in more than 55 countries over the last 10 years.

Triple Nominations for the Women in Tech Awards

18th July 2022

You’ll know by now that there is nothing we like more than being recognised and winning the odd award.

The bright lights at Geolytix

30th May 2022

What do Geolytix and Hollywood have in common? Admittedly, on the whole, not that much! No diva attitude around here I’m glad to say!

Geolytix France

18th May 2022

Geolytix is excited to announce we open our French office. Welcome Stéphane Martis to the team.

Welcome to Oxygen!

18th May 2022

Back at the beginning of April we were invited to embrace our inner children and bounce our way around Oxygen Freejumping at the O2.

Mental Health & Team Wellbeing at Geolytix

10th May 2022

Mental Health and Our Team's wellbeing is something we prioritise at Geolytix. Click to read more about what we do for our team...

A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist

10th May 2022

Ever wondered what the life of a Data Scientist is like at Geolytix is like? Read more to find out...

A Day in the Life of a Data Analyst

10th May 2022

Ever wondered what the life of a Data Analyst is like at Geolytix is like? Read more to find out...

Geolytix: The Graduate Route

10th May 2022

Matt joined Geolytix straight from University, after graduating with a Degree in Geography. Here he tells us about his role as a Data Analyst....

A Day in the life of a Location Planning Partner

10th May 2022

Ever wondered what the life of a Location Planner is like at Geolytix is like? Read more to find out...

Geolytix: The Apprentice Route

10th May 2022

Becca joined Geolytix straight from college as a data apprentice. Now a fully qualified Data Analyst, Becca tells us about a day in her role...

Geolytix, Geolytics, Geolytic

28th March 2022

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet” - William Shakespeare

The Women of Geolytix

17th March 2022

International Women’s Day is celebrated every year on the 8th March. This year the women of Geolytix shared a more personal side to them through story maps.

GEOLYTIX and GEOMOB podcast

15th February 2022

Blair sat down with Steve of GEOMOB to talk about all things GeoInnovation. Scroll down to listen to the podcast..

Mental Health in the Geolytix workplace

26th January 2022

The first week of January saw the MHFA team in Geolytix plan on how we could help embrace and protect mental health amongst the team. Read more to see our plans...

Last Thursday was postgraduate results day at the University of Leeds, and although graduation is still a long way away (thanks to Covid-19 I haven’t even had my undergraduate graduation ceremony yet), it feels like a perfect time to reflect on this chapter of my life.

Becoming a micro multinational

25th November 2021

Over the years, Geolytix has grown internationally. Ben Purple, our Business Director, tells how our growth wasn't exactly how we originally envisioned.

10% of our team are now Mental Health First Aiders

23rd November 2021

Donna, Rachel, Josh and Kate recently qualified as Mental Health First Aiders. Here they talk about their reasons for qualifying and their plans for supporting the team at Geolytix.

How 5 coloured gazebos, social bubbles and community spirit got us through Lockdown...

28th September 2021

Martin, an associate at Geolytix, volunteers at Mudlarks, a charity which was deemed a front line care service during the pandemic. Here he discusses the challenges he faced, and how Geolytix helped support him, support others

GEOLYTIX Leeds - Setting up our new home

15th September 2021

With an ever growing team, twelve of whom are based in Leeds, we decided it was time to move into a new Leeds office. We have the Yorkshire tea at the ready...

Department for International Trade Export Champions 2021

17th June 2021

Geolytix are proud to announce that we have recently been recognised as ‘Export Champions’ from the UK’s Department for International Trade.

Working in an International Community

28th April 2021

Virtually working from home has been a change a lot of people have had to get used to in the past year. So imagine how tough it is to tackle that along with multiple time zones... Coco, based in China, discusses the perks (and challenges) of being part of a team spread across the globe

Geolytix - Going Global

28th April 2021

As Geolytix has been recognised with the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade in April 2021, we look at our successes as a small but global company.

Apprenticeship Reflection

17th March 2021

After joining the team in August 2019, I have completed my Level 4 Analyst apprenticeship and was awarded a Distinction. I thought it would be time to reflect on my time at Geolytix so far.

MAPP shortlisted for best Business Intelligence & Analytics Solution at the Cloud Awards 2020

27th January 2021

GEOLYTIX MAPP has been shortlisted for the Clouds Award 2020. Having grown considerably in the last 5 years, our bespoke predictive location intelligence and mapping tool is now used by many major retailers, leisure and F&B operators globally. We're eagerly anticipating the announcement next month

Happy New Year

13th January 2021

2020 was tough for all, but we hope 2021 offers some brighter news.

Historic England - High Street Heritage Action Zones

21st October 2020

How can you use data to identify ‘similar’ locations? For retailers, looking for areas similar to those with high performing stores, this may be a simple enough task. Counts of surrounding population, competition and demographic data lend themselves well to similarity modelling.

Geolytix scoop the ‘Data for Environment’ top spot at the Data IQ Awards

1st October 2020

“Because once Green Spaces are lost, they are lost forever” - Fields in Trust

COVID-19, Community Spirit, Colleague Support and Candy

19th March 2020

It’s not often that I get involved in blogs for Geolytix and you won’t hear much from me in the future but I thought I would take the opportunity to write one on this occasion. It's mainly to promote the difference that an enjoyable working environment & team can make to the wellbeing of its people.

Geolytix in The House. Helping the Co-op support Wellbeing in the Community

6th March 2020

On Tuesday Blair, Dan and Jasmin attended the parliamentary launch of the Co-op Community Wellbeing Index at the House of Commons. Geolytix worked in partnership with the Co-op to develop this index which aims to quantify the wellbeing of communities.