Friday, June 3, 2016

Assorted Links

  1. [new paper] Mortality differentials by education in Brazil: Life expectancy was 6.27 years longer for men with a complete university degree than for those with less than primary education in 2010. The paper is in Portuguese

  2. A nice summary of 10 major data science methods

  3. Beautiful photos of 1908 Japan

  4. 40% of the buildings in Manhattan could not be built today under current zoning rules

  5. Will autonomous vehicles be safer then conventional cars ? Here is why answering this question is far from simple  via Tyler Cowen

  6. Lisa Charlotte Rost ‏ has gone through the painful task of creating the same chart with 12 different tools and libraries. This gives me more reasons to stick to R and ggplot2 :)

  7. Road intersections as art

  8. Making explicit the network behind air transport: by Martin Grandjean