6th Anniversary of Urban Demographics !

On this 25th of June I celebrated the 6th Anniversary of Urban Demographics blog. It has been a really valuable resource  of procrastination  as a personal repository of papers, maps and texts I find interesting. Thanks for all the readers \o/

Here are some stats that show a summary of the blog over the past year. Please, feel free to drop me a line with suggestions on how to improve the blog. If you have any criticisms, please direct them to this other blog here.

• 153 posts, an average of 3 posts per week 
• 40,088 visits, an average of 11 visits per day
• 3,865 followers on Twitter
• 1,834 likes on Facebook 
• 275 rss subscribers

The most popular posts:

1. World Population Distributed by Latitude and Longitude
2. Creating tilted and stacked maps in R using ggplot2
3. Testing Jane Jacobs's ideas on urban vitality using mobile phone data
4. Data visualization with R: geographic networks
5. Where to find high spatial resolution data on population distribution

and 6 of my favourite posts:

1. Build and they will come, or The Black Hole Theory of Highway Investment
2. ReDesigning the Global Map of Refugees
3. How much faster you could travel today compared to 1914
4. Brazil Racial Dotmap
5. Global Grid of Probabilities of Urban Expansion to 2030
6. The hidden inequality of who dies in car crashes

Where do readers come from? (170 Countries, or 4,513 Cities)

1. United States (29.1%) 
2. Brazil (14.3%) 
3. United Kingdom (9.6%) 
4. Germany (3.4%) 
5. Canada (2.9%) 
6. India (2.7%)
7. other countries (38%) Not many readers in Siberia no Greenland though