Saturday, January 28, 2017

A glance of the street art murals of Sao Paulo

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The video was made by Kico Santos and his team at  Cinema de Rua . The current city policy towards the city's graffiti has been a co...
Monday, January 23, 2017

How writing to your PhD supervisor feels

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In case my supervisor sees this, this is meant to be a joke of bad taste. How writing to your PhD supervisor feels. pic.twitter.com/ver...

An open dataset with 6,000 years of global urbanization

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Patrick Gerland  points to a new paper/open dataset that provides the first spatially explicit archive of the location and size of urban p...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

Assorted Links

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Challenge:  try to guess how family income affects children’s college chances Twenty rules for good graphics , by Rob Hyndman David Lev...
Friday, January 20, 2017

off-topic: Inauguration Day

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#InaugurationDay credit: unknown
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Extreme poverty worldwide has more than halved since 1990

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The percentage of people living in extreme poverty around the world has fallen by more than half over the past three decades (via  Dina Po...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

Music for the weekend

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Good soundtrack for coding and data analysis.
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Who use active transportation in Brazil?

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The proportion of workers who cycle or walk to work in Brazil is approximately 33%, a similar proportion found in France (34.9%) and Holla...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Two open positions at TSU Oxford

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Heads ups: there are currently two open positions at the Transport Studies Unit (TSU) at Oxford University: 18-month post-doc position i...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

PhD status report

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My  procrastination  blogging activity has been lower than the usual for PhD reasons. Bear with me :)