- Taking Data Visualization From Eye Candy to Efficiency
- Fuck Nuance, a manifesto for more bold social theories, by Kieran Healy (via Analise Real)
- Machine Learning Classes at Oxford (videos, presentation and code)
- 2015 Ig Nobel prizes: a study shows that nearly all mammals take the same amount of time to urinate (about 21 seconds)
- There is a Space Syntax Toolkit for QGIS (ht Renato Saboya, who runs a great blog about urbanism written in Portuguese: Urbanidades)
- 10 things you need to know about the Magna Carta
- Slum tourism and its discontents. Not exactly a new article but a good summary of arguments (ht Fabiana Freitas, my lovely partner)
- The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya [unagated paper]
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Structured Procrastination on Cities, Transport Policy, Spatial Analysis, Demography, R