Thursday, July 30, 2015

Urban Picture

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Embaba, Cairo (Egypt) [Photo by: Karim Shafei]  ps. I saw this via Telmo Ribeiro , who was my inspiring geography teacher at high s...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Drawing a Map from Pub Locations

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There are roughly 29,000 pubs in Britain and Ireland on OpenStreetMap. Plot their locations and you will have a map to happiness   that is...
Monday, July 27, 2015

The Art of Communicating Science

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Here is an important lesson to remember when communicating your research to a wide audience. Dawkins has good point but I'm not sure ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Assorted Links

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What The World's Cities Look Like Without People Urban street networks, a comparative analysis of ten European cities By 2030, the W...
Monday, July 20, 2015

How to Make Beautiful Charts With R and ggplot2

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Some times, this is how I feel using R . If that's the case for you as well, you might like this amazing post by Max Woolf showi...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Quote of the Day

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[via Valdis Krebs  ]
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

The world's largest megacity is larger than you think

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Quick fact about China's Pearl River Delta.  It is considered the world's largest megacity today and it already has more people th...
Friday, July 10, 2015

ReDesigning the Global Map of Refugees

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about the new UN annual report on forced migration and refugees and how the guys at the NYT ( S.Peç...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Assorted Links

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Beijing Quadrupled in Size in a Decade, NASA Finds Delhi metro could soon run completely on solar power 25+ Of The Most Majestic Libra...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

World Population Distributed by Latitude and Longitude

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David Taylor and the team at  CityMetric  have recently posted a simple and effective chart to show that the population of Canada is not ...