Assorted Links

1. A rank of North American Urban Planning Scholars Using Google Scholar Citation Profiles, by Tom Sanchez (twitter)
   
   
2. On a similar note, an interesting commentary on the power of the unrelenting impact factor of academic journals and some interesting arguments to why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research
   
   
3. Isoscope:  nice work by Flavio Gortana (twitter), showing how isochrones by car vary across space and time
   
   
4. How One Brilliant Woman Mapped the Ocean Floor’s Secrets via Sabrina Lai
   
   
5. Possibly the greatest scene in documentary history via David Levinson (twitter)
   
   
6. Bill Rankin's new work on Mapping Slavery Against US Incarceration
   
   
7. A 15-min video giving an interesting summary of the largest US health insurance experiment in history - ht Carl Schmertmann
   
   
8. Beautiful data visualization of music, by Nicholas Rougeux
   
   
9. The Vertical City: The Price of Land and the Height of Buildings in Chicago 1870-2010, by Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt (twitter)