Urban Demographics

Another paper to my never ending reading list (ht Flavia Feitosa ) Rothwell , J. T., & Massey , D. S. (2015). Geographic Effects on In...

Nate Silver has recently published a nice piece in his blog comparing the travel time performance of taxis (usin data from Waze ) vs pu...

An antique and insanely detailed useless map of migration in the US (via Ben Henning ) A more interactive and interesting way to visuali...

Eric Fischer (Mapbox) has has created an interactive map showing traffic density measurements for US roads . The data comes from the High...

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” (Jim Rohn)     Not sure about the math, but I quite like the gener...

Street art + Satellite pictures = the world's largest GIF, by INSA [image credit: BALLANTINES] More info here:

The emergence of "4D printing"   A great piece on New York’s Shadow Transit , by  Aaron Reiss Report: a multidimensional  comp...

Tim Harford's talk on the perils of big data  at the Royal Statistical Society (RSS): Here is a short summary of one of the main ...

Canton Valais, Switzerland [image credit:  Jean Revillard  via NYT ]

off-topic post: The Millennium Simulation Project is a simulation of the large-scale evolution of the Universe from just after the big ba...