Today is the 7th Anniversary of Urban Demographics. I hope the blog has been a valuable source of procrastination information for you as much as it has been for me. Thanks all the readers for the support \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.
- 152 posts, an average of 3 posts per week
- 148,370 visits, an average of 406 visits per day
- 5,060 followers on Twitter
- 2,413 likes on Facebook
- 388 RSS feed subscribers
The most popular posts:
- How Brazil compares to other countries in terms of area, population and human development
- Mexicans didn’t cross the US border. The border crossed them
- The people who keep us company throughout our life cycle
- Comparing house price trends worldwide
- The world’s most violent cities
and 10 of my favourite posts:
- How much of the world is covered by cities? not much
- The impressive expansion of subway systems in China
- Distributive justice and equity in transportation
- The cost of every Olympics Games since 1960
- Creating an animated world map of life expectancy changes from 1950 to 2100 in R
- Mapped history of population expansion in the US
- Income segregation at the block level
- Measuring exposure to air pollution using mobile phone data
- Map of Population Density Lines in R
- Visualizing the space-time geography of flow data
Where do readers come from? (202 Countries - 4,482 Cities)
- Brazil (44.6%)
- United States (17.9%)
- United Kingdom (4.6%)
- Mexico (2.8%)
- Russia (2.7%)
- other countries (27.4%) Not many readers in Siberia nor Greenland, though
