Out for vacation!

Close to heaven! I will be out for vacation for like a week. (and I do not intend to check my emails!)

UN Demographic Manuals On-line

Here is the link for the classical manuals and guides of demographic methods and techniques issued by the United Nations over a long period of time. It presents a series of 23 manual organized by thePopulation Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat.

JTLU - Journal of Transport and Land Use

The latest JTLU (Journal of Transport and Land Use) is on line with a special issue: Land Use-Transportation Modeling with UrbanSim. Some interesting papers!

off-topic: twitter Demographics

twitter: I'm really not into it. But if you are, you can check some twitter Demographics. [viaUrbanTick]

DEMIG research project at Oxford

The International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford seeks to award two fully-funded DPhil studentships commencing 1 October 2011 for the ‘Determinants of International Migration’ (DEMIG) research project.

Closing date for applications: 30 September 2010

More information here.

Race and ethnicity mapped

Inspired by Bill Rankin’s Chicago Boundaries (2009), Eric Fischer mapped race and ethnicity for other 40 American cities! obs. Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, and Orange is Hispanic, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000.

Washington DC

Detroit

Los Angeles

(by Eric Fischer via FlowingData)

Demographic issues discussed at More or Less

1. What the population world wide would be today if the first World War have never happend -With Professor Jay M. Winter. Click Here to listen. (from the 21th minute on)
   
   
2. How reliable are life expectancy figures? - Professor Paul Sweeting. Click Here to listen.

Via More or Less, the BBC Radio 4 programme focussing on numbers and statistics (by Tim Harford). Two great suggestions from Leonardo Monsterio.

Commute Map

What could you do if you had origin-destination commute data, zip codes and Google Maps API ?

Great job Harry Kao !

(via The Map Room)

Assorted links

• Density - How Much Is Too Much? (Thanks LMonasterio for the tip)
  
  
• A distorted cartogram of the World's Population
  
  
• GIS future: 3D city models
  
  
• Posters for the fiftieth anniversary of Brasilia. (Thanks to MarginalRevolution.)

Visualizing Migration II

Again with the challenge of visualizing Migration: WNYC (a New York based public radio station) did an informal survey asking listeners their recente migration movements (Map Your Moves). They offered the raw data (1,700 respondents) for free download and received 15 suggestions of visualization . These are my favorites (both interactive).

by Hermann Zschiegner

by Moritz Stefaner

Check the other suggestions here. (via FlowingData)

ps. sounds a bit like ManyEyes philosophy.