Assorted Links

1. Luc Anselin and team join University of Chicago  with new Center for Spatial Data Science (ht Kyle Walker)
   
   
2. Skydiver makes parachute-free jump from 25,000 feet (~7,600 metres) and survives!
   
   
3. The Discipline of Philosophy Visualized with Mapping Software: See All of the Complex Networks
   
   
4. Free CAD files of more than 200 major world cities (ht Fabio Storino)
   
   
5. Keep these pictures away from your hipster friend 
   
   
6. A map maker bot that automatically generates maps based on data of the Census American Community Survey
   
   
7. Portugal runs for four days straight on renewable energy alone via Idalina Baptista
   
   
8. Analyzing 22 milion bike rides in the NYC Bike Share System in R

IPUMS-International and Brazilian census microdata

Imagine what research questions you could answer if you had in your personal computer the census microdata of several countries around the world. I am talking about over 211 census from over 68 countries  - for some countries, every census round since 1960 is available. This is made possible thanks to the IPUMS-International project. 

They do this huge effort "to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system"

By the way, Robert McCaa alerted me that the 2010 sample of the census of Brazil is now available for download at IPUMS website. Enjoy it !

Related Links:

• How we should answer Brazilian census questionnaire
• Brazil Shapefiles for download
• IPUMS Country Report: Brazil
• Interactive - Brazilian Census 2010: basic results by census tract
• Last month, Prof. Toni Lopez taught us a workshop on IPUMS here at Ipea. Thanks again Toni!

1:1 Population map of the US

An impressive interactive map from Brandon Martin-Anderson with the US population represented by 341,817,095 dots – one for each person. Via Jonathan Crowe.

[Image Credit: Brandon Martin-Anderson]

Counting the World: documentary by UNFPA

Counting the World is a not so new documentary produced by UNFPA. The film documents the many stages of the census process in five different countries: Chad, Bolivia, Indonesia, Belarus and in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.  (via John Weeks)

4-minute trailer (or 21-minute version)

2011 Census results in England and Wales

Nice article by The Guardian covering the new Census results in England and Wales.

And here is an animation with 100-years-changes in population pyramids, 1911-2011.

Brazilian Census 2010: microdata! microdata!

The 2010 Brazilian Census microdata are now available. Thanks  IBGE !

Start your engines!

Some interactive maps here.

Soundtrack: Roadhouse Blues

Brazil Shapefiles

2020 post update: My team and I have created geobr, an R pacakge that is one of the easiest and fastest ways to download the shapefiles from all sorts of official spatial data sets of Brazil, including data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

Download Shapefiles of Brazilian municipalities and census tracts. These files are made available by The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)

Related link:

• Brazilian Census 2010: first results by census tract (interactive)

Assorted Links

1. Get Ready for the 1940 Census!
   
2. Top five most common regrets of the dying
   
3. Uncovering the World's First Cities
   
4. The Age of Uncertainty (HT Bruno Cruz)
   
5. 10 key datasets to understand the British economy
   
6. Brazil's pension system:
   
   
   Bernardo L. Queiroz says: "It’s a puzzle. The unions are against changes. But without them, the workers they represent are paying for other people to get much more generous pensions than they will ever get themselves.” - what political scientists would have to say about this ?

     7.  Helsinki Public Transport Visualized (via Edward Lee)

Brazilian Census 2010: Favela population

(image credit: Alberto Pomares)

"Brazil had 6,329 subnormal agglomerates in 2010 (aka Favelas), invaded properties, grotas (type of cave), slums in glens, poor communities, shanty towns, slums in backwaters, mocambos (type of shack) and stilt houses, among others – in 323 of the 5,565 municipalities. They concentrated 6.0% of the Brazilian population (11,425,644 inhabitants), distributed in 3,224,529 occupied private households (5.6% of the total). Twenty metropolitan areas concentrated 88.6% of these subnormal households, and almost half of them (49.8%) were located in the Southeast Region."

soundtrack: Favela

Brazilian Census 2010: a few more results

IBGE released a few more results of the 2010 Brazilian Census.

• 2010 Life Tables
• Interactive charts with summary figures (HT Erivelton Guedes)

soundtrack: Embraceable You

Assorted links

• Urban Network Analysis: A Toolbox for ArcGIS 10 (via @jmichaelbatty)
  
  
• G-Econ - Geographically based Economic data (via devecondata)
  
  
• ‘Middleweight’ Cities as Growth Engines
  
  
• NYT tool for Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census (via UPB)
  
  
• A fresh look at US population trends
  
  
• Mapnificent (via The Map Room)

Mapnificent from Stefan Wehrmeyer on Vimeo.

Brazilian Census 2010: first results by census tract

IBGE released a few more results of the 2010 Brazilian Census by census tract! You can download the census tract shapefiles, some preliminary data (and more here). More information here. [portuguese only]

There are also some interactive maps and charts. You can check them out here.

[image credit: Yuri S Andrade]

[image credit: Yuri S Andrade]

[image credit: me, myself and I]

Brazilian Census 2010: a few more results

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) released a few more results of the 2010 Brazilian Census. At their website, you can check out a few maps, charts, compared historical data and population pyramids. (hat tip to Ricardo de Sampaio Dagnino)

ps. sorry about the image borders.... again

Assorted links on Spatial Segregation

• Post: On sputtering integration in Toronto (by Demography Matters)
  
  

• Demographic Buffet: explore data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey at the block level: race and ethnicity, income, education, and housing and families. (by the NY via FlowingData)
  
  
• Article: Blacks and Hispanics Take Different Segregation Paths (by Brookings).
  - Segregation Data: Download segregation measures for U.S. states and the 100 largest metropolitan areas
  
  
• extra link: US Census 2010 - first data release. (via Urbanophile)
  - Presentation
  - The data!
  

Brazilian Census 2010: first results

This 4-minute video shows Luiz de Oliveira (from IBGE) talking about the preliminary results of the 2010 Brazilian Census (Population growth rate, Fertility rates, urbanization, regional disparities and migration).

(unfortunately the video is available in portuguese only)

Not so exciting as Hans Rosling, but still interesting.

Thanks to (o)ecocidades.

Brazilian Census 2010

"...I have five dependents: one President, one Senator, two Deputies and a mangy dog."

(By Cerino)