Say Goodbye to 2012

Hello 2013!

Assorted Links

1. Car and train travel trends in Britan (via David Metz)
   
   
2. My tip for the next christmas gift
   
   
3. Mapping public transport accessibility in Sydney
   
   
4. John Lennon's Opinion about Over Population
   
   
5. The 31 Fastest-Growing Cities On The Planet
   
   
6. Visualization data for world development using Stata
   
   
7. Migration and Climate Change (Book)
   
   
8. India "brain drain" graphic of the day
   
   
9. Global flow of tertiary-level students via WB Viz

Urban Picture

Guess where! (via Cristiano Penna)

[click on the picture to enlarge it]

[Image Credit: Sergey Semenov, the pano awards]

Soundtrack: MJA

Assorted links on Spatial Segregation

1. Social segregation and academic achievement in state-run elementary schools in the municipality of Campinas
   
   
2. The debate on ‘the end of the segregated century’
   
   
3. The Inequality Puzzle in U.S. Cities
   
   
4. Path dependence in spatial segregation
   
   
5. Countering urban segregation in Brazilian cities: policy-oriented explorations using agent-based simulation
   
   
6. Philadelphia Redlining Maps
   
   
7. Related Posts
   
   
8. The economic segregation in America’s 10 largest cities [interactive]

Global migration trends discovered in e-mail data

e-mail data as a creative data source for international migration studies (via @MPIDRpress)

Every device which sends e-mail can be located at least at the country level by an internationally standardized code, the so-called IP address. Zagheni and Weber analyzed the countries derived from IP addresses for a set of messages sent by 43 million anonymous Yahoo! account holders between September 2009 and June 2011. In addition to the date and geographical origin of each message they compiled the self-reported birthday and gender of the sender. When a person started sending e-mail from a new location permanently, it was assumed that he or she had changed residence. This way they were able to calculate rates of migration from and to almost every country in the world.

Related Link:

• UK immigration: five essential charts

Time Lapse of Crowd Control in Tokyo

Time Lapse of Crowd Control in Tokyo Japan for Comic Market (HT João Meirelles)



Related Links:

• Model behaviour
• Crowd Modelling

Podcast List updated

I have just updated the Podcasts list on the right column of this blog. Take a look.

• Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS/Oxford)
  
  
• Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World, by Prof David Coleman (Oxford)
  
  
• Environmental and Urban Economics Lectures, by Prof Matthew E. Kahn (UCLA)
  
  
• International Migration Institute (Oxford)
  
  
• LSE Public Lectures and Events
  
  
• More or Less: Behind the Stats (Tim Harford)
  
  
• Science Magazine Podcast
  
  
• Shift: Stories Behind the Stats (CBC radio)
  
  
• The Global Lab (UCL)
  
  
• Transport Studies Unit (Oxford)

Chart of the Day

The first Line Graph in history (by William Playfair, 1786). I saw this at Leo's Blog.

By the way, Merry Xmas Everyone!

Off-topic: Missed Doomsday Predictions

 Let's see how it will work out for Sir. Isaac Newton in 2060... 

[Chart by The Economist]

Heads up

1. University Lectureship in Demography at Oxford
   
   
2. New prize on causality in statstistics education (via A Gelman)
   
   
3. Postdoc Fellowship for "Crime and the City" at Brown University
   
   
4. Current Job Fellowship vacancies at Oxford Brookes University
   
   
5. ESRC Studentships at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
   
   
6. The Job Market for New Sociologists (via Lisa Wade)

[image credit Neal]