8th Anniversary of Urban Demographics Blog!

Just a few days ago, the Urban Demographics blog had its 8th Anniversary. I have reduced the activity in the blog quite a bit over the past year because I moved houses twice (from Oxford to Cambridge the other place, and then from the other place to Brasilia), and also because I've tried to procrastinate less focus on my thesis writing (more news on this soon). Still, this has been a great year, specially because I've had the chance to meet in person a few dozens of people who told me the blog had been actually helpful in pointing out useful study references, data sources etc. Please, feel free to drop me a line with suggestions on how to improve the blog.

Here just a few quick stats that show a summary of the blog over the past year. 

• 109 posts, an average of ~2 posts per week 
• 37,532 visits, an average of ~104 visits per day  (massive drop from the previous year)
• 7,235 followers on Twitter
• 2,959 likes on Facebook 
• 416 RSS feed subscribers

The 5 most popular posts:

1. How much residential space could you rent with $1,500 in 30 global cities?
2. The long-term effect of slavery on inequality today
3. Using deep learning and Google Street View to estimate the socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods
4. Heads up for some useful R packages
5. Making a geogif with QGIS

and 10 of my favourite posts:

1. Bicycles empower women: evidence from a quasi-experiment in India
2. The urban footprint of the largest metropolitan areas of Europe
3. Visualizing space-time networks
4. Using R to Predict Route Preferences in Bike Sharing
5. The health and economic benefits of cycling network expansion in 167 European cities
6. Globally consistent estimate of carbon footprints of 189 countries and 13,000 cities
7. Why you should always visualize your data
8. The creative process lollipop chart
9. Political populism and the revenge of the places that don’t matter
10. New tool to get population estimates for any user-defined area

Where do readers come from? (164 countries | 4,217 Cities) 

1. United States (32.9%)
2. Brazil (8%)
3. United Kingdom (7.4%)
4. Canada (3.8%)
5. Germany (3.5%)