Monday, August 31, 2015

Some migration and refugee trends

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Tow daily charts from The Economist, showing the Annual immigration flow into the US since 2000  and the number of refugees by country of...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Data visualization with R: geographic networks

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I just bumped into this blog  from a team at SNAP , where Matthew Leonawicz  and his colleagues share some great data visualizations they...

Quote of the Day

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"The social sciences makes something everyone understands but no one is interested in and turns it into something no one understands ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

The Globe of Economic Complexity

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The Atlas of Economic Complexity is a project born from the collaboration between Cesar Hidalgo (MIT) and Ricardo Hausmann (Harvard). T...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

A Cheat Sheet for Raster analysis in R

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Etienne Racine  has written a great  Cheat Sheet for Raster analysis in R . Some of you might find it useful as well.
Friday, August 14, 2015

How I feel after a few days of data cleaning

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Thursday, August 13, 2015

Assorted Links

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The average price for a Manhattan residence is $1.7 million A nice visual introduction to machine learning Contemporary art with Classi...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Glaeser on The Happiness of Cities

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Ed Glaeser has recently delivered an interesting talk at LSE about happiness and cities. ps. On a similar topic, here is a great pape...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Which US states have the deadliest roads?

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The Economist came up with this interactive chart showing which US states have the deadliest roads . Here is a map version of the problem...
Friday, August 7, 2015

Mapping NYC Taxi Data with python

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The government of New York City has published a number of datasets with records of all taxi trips completed in NYC in 2014 and select mon...