The most visited posts of 2017

1. Mexicans didn’t cross the US border. The border crossed them
   
   
2. The people who keep us company throughout our life cycle
   
   
3. The long-term effect of slavery on inequality today
   
   
4. Creating an animated world map of life expectancy changes from 1950 to 2100 in R
   
   
5. An open dataset with 6,000 years of global urbanization
   
   
6. Two new libraries for working with Spatial data in R
   
   
7. The impressive expansion of subway systems in China
   
   
8. The effect of Uber on traffic congestion
   
   
9. Using deep learning and Google Street View to estimate the socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods
   
   
10. The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion