Thursday, September 6, 2018

Assorted Links

  1. Tokyo has a great public transport system....all things considered

  2. report: Migration Data using Social Media: a European Perspective by Zagheni et al

  3. imagineRio, a searchable atlas that illustrates the social and urban evolution of Rio de Janeiro over the entire history of the city

  4. self recommending: Machine Learning beyond Curve Fitting: An Intro to Causal Inference and do-Calculus, by Ferenc Huszár

  5. Brazil’s National Museum have been lost to fire

  6. The late Waldo Tobler's legendary, seminal, (but unpublished) PhD thesis from 1961 is actually downloadable online. HT Michiel  Meeteren

  7. When should you show percentage changes on a log or linear scale? Great post by Lisa Rost. I should re-read this post every now and then.

  8. Google has launched a search tool for datasets. This is only a beta version but the idea could be really useful in the next years

  9. Calculating driving isochrones considering traffic levels in QGIS (Python script here), by David. If you are more like an ArcGIS person, Riccardo has you covered. BTW, David and Ricardo run the great blog Digital Geography which is also on Twitter.

traffic enhanced isochrones during a in Birmingham
credit: davidribbon



and some isochrones of Chicago

credit: Riccardo