4th Anniversary of Urban Demographics !

Today marks the fourth anniversary of Urban Demographics Blog! And blogging still makes up for an important part of my procrastination learning !

Here are some stats that show a summary of the blog and its readers over the past year:

• 190 posts
• 306 subscribers  
• 31,898 visitors 
• 51,249 visits
• 1,085 likes on Facebook 
• 1,572 followers on Twitter

The most popular posts:

1. Making 3D Maps in Excel
2. Subway systems of Rio and Shanghai 1993-2013
3. The most cited authors in Sociology
4. Urban Density Patterns in 9 Global Cities 
5. Population Density Maps

and 5 of my preferred posts:

1. 200 years of Urban Expansion
2. IPUMS-International and Brazilian census microdata
3. Accessibility Observatory + GTFS data
4. Global Innovation and Diffusion in Public Transport
5. If Christaller had Google Earth

Where do readers come from (Top 5)? (175 Countries, 4,665 Cities)

1. United States (29%)
2. Brazil (16%)
3. United Kingdom (8%)
4. Germany (4%)
5. Canada (3%)

And the Top 5 sites that sent visitors here:

1. Google (24%)
2. Direct traffic to the blog (24%)
3. Facebook (20%)
4. Twitter (9%)
5. Feedburner (3%)

Thanks everyone for the support and suggestions via comments and emails !