{"id":900,"date":"2016-04-25T11:50:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T11:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/sdna\/?p=900"},"modified":"2016-04-25T11:50:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T11:50:37","slug":"announcing-the-sdna-3-public-beta-more-compatibility-including-qgis-easier-to-use-more-sophisticated-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research-sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/spatial-design-network-analysis-sdna\/announcing-the-sdna-3-public-beta-more-compatibility-including-qgis-easier-to-use-more-sophisticated-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the sDNA 3 public beta: more compatibility (including QGIS), easier to use, more sophisticated analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited to present sDNA version 3 for public beta testing.\u00a0 sDNA 3 is based on feeback from our research partners Arup, WSP, Sustrans and Tongji University, and adds an enormous amount of new functionality both for free and paying users.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enhanced compatibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use Open Source GIS with QGIS Support<\/li>\n<li>Increased compatibility with network formats (ability to run link-weighted analysis without fixing split links; grade separation and elevation can now be used together)<\/li>\n<li>Link to other models: export skim matrices from sDNA or use sDNA to assign an external Origin-Destination matrix (sDNA+)<\/li>\n<li>Easier to install anywhere with offline unlocking and no administrator account required<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Enhanced ease of use<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Links can be switched on and off for scenario analysis (sDNA+)<\/li>\n<li>Do your stats within sDNA, no need for external tools<\/li>\n<li>Preserve text and numeric data in sDNA Prepare (sDNA+)<\/li>\n<li>Improved interface to all functions in sDNA, more helpful error messages and it\u2019s less of a CPU hog<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sdna.cardiff.ac.uk\/sdna\/wp-content\/downloads\/documentation\/manual\/latest.html\">Full user manual<\/a> &#8211; not just for sDNA but guiding you through the theory of spatial network analysis and how to prepare networks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Enhanced analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Produce maps of who uses a selected link (sDNA+)<\/li>\n<li>Easy to use cycle, vehicle, pedestrian and public transport metrics (sDNA+)<\/li>\n<li>More realistic behavioural models with hybrid and banded radius, enhanced hybrid metrics for turns (sDNA+)<\/li>\n<li>Robust multivariate learn and predict tools based on generalized cross-validation<\/li>\n<li>Geometry outputs are now fully 3d (sDNA+)<\/li>\n<li>OD Matrix Input and Skim Matrix Output (sDNA+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Users wishing to test sDNA3 can find it in the downloads folder under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sdna.cardiff.ac.uk\/sdna\/wp-content\/downloads\/experimental\/\">experimental<\/a>.\u00a0 Your previous serial number will work but <strong>must be deregistered from sDNA <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">version 2<\/span> before uninstalling the old version<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The user manual is <a href=\"https:\/\/sdna.cardiff.ac.uk\/sdna\/wp-content\/downloads\/documentation\/manual\/latest.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively if you wish to wait, the official release of sDNA3 is scheduled for September 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I'm excited to present sDNA version 3 for public beta testing.\u00a0 sDNA 3 is based on feeback from our research [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"cu_profile":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-all-sdna"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research-sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/spatial-design-network-analysis-sdna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research-sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/spatial-design-network-analysis-sdna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research-sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/spatial-design-network-analysis-sdna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research-sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/spatial-design-network-analysis-sdna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research-sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/spatial-design-network-analysis-sdna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research-sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/spatial-design-network-analysis-sdna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research-sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/spatial-design-network-analysis-sdna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research-sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/spatial-design-network-analysis-sdna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research-sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/spatial-design-network-analysis-sdna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"cu_profile","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research-sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/spatial-design-network-analysis-sdna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_profile?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}