Urban Demographics

All my procrastination energy led to me to create this nice little image comparing the footprint of the largest urban agglomeration in Bra...

Nice map by  Boris van der Spek , using The True Size of

A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post showing where to find data on population estimates at high spatial resolution for the world . T...

The figure below was created by  Stefan Musch  from Gradient Metrics  (hat tip  Jean Legrand ). The figure was created using R and ggplot2 ...

Ilya Kashnitsky  and  Jonas Schöley  have recently published this correspondence in The Lancet where they show a very clever way to visuali...

Quite a few, actually. You can   procrastinate   play around with your own map comparisons to  here . via @onlmaps

Text Mining with R A great Shiny app to deal with the Traveling Salesman problem Nice color palettes based on Wes Anderson movies , by K...

Here is a great exercise to test how accurate is your perception of the relative sizes of countries and continents . My score was 67% in my...

Interactive visualization of all the world's flight paths , by  Callum Prentice Chile is using mobile data to find out how an...

The next time you have "a new idea no one's thought of before",  read this list , be humble and go back to   Google   the li...

Simon Kuestenmacher tweeted the other day this map that shows the public transport network of Tokyo metropolitan area (higher quality ima...

Horizonless maps of  New York City  and  Paris , by  Peter Richardson  ( Github repo ) Stunning videos:Flying by  Jupiter   and  Mars ...

Isoscope : work by Flavio Gortana ( Twitter ), showing how isochrones by car vary across space and time Tutorial: Spatial Datasets and...

If you are familiar with this famous Joy Division cover, you might remember that last year we shared a link that shows you  how to reprod...

A rank of North American Urban Planning Scholars Using Google Scholar Citation Profiles , by  Tom Sanchez  ( twitter ) On a similar not...

Uber suspends testing of self-driving cars after crash last frieday. Uber's SUV had the right of way and bears no blame Dr. Mae C. Je...

I've created this map after a couple of hours  procrastinating  testing the gganimate package in R, which makes it ridiculously simpl...

The Lone Man Building a Cathedral By Hand Language Evolution Simulation w/ Agent-Based Modeling via Mara Averick A research consortium ...

These maps were made by  Roberto Rocco  with data from 2008. Area Population Human Development Index (HDI)

Luc Anselin and team join University of Chicago   with new  Center for Spatial Data Science  (ht  Kyle Walker ) Skydiver makes parachute-...