Monday, April 29, 2019

New Center for Demographic Science at Oxford

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Oxford University has recently launched the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science  (they are also on Twitter ). The center is led by...
Friday, April 26, 2019

The global population pyramid from 1950 to 2100

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New piece by Max Roser in Our World in Data , showing how global demography has changed and what we can expect for the 21st century. In...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Message of the Day

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Hat tip to Alberto Texido
Friday, April 19, 2019

The rapid growth of shared bikes and e-scooters in the US

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In 2018, people took 84 million trips using shared bikes and e-scooters in the US, an astounding growth in the past year largely due to e-...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Collaborative mapping of paratransit and GTFS data

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Jacqueline Klopp  ( Twitter ) and Clemence Cavoli  ( Twitter ) have a new paper reviewing some trends in transportation planning in Africa...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Biographical note: AAG PhD thesis award

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I am very pleased to share that my PhD thesis was awarded the best 2019 thesis award by the Transportation Geography Specialty Group of ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

off-topic: The first-ever picture of a black hole

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Just a few years ago, Katie   Bouman (then a PhD student at MIT) presented this TED talk about the massive collective research effort in...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

GTFS rotuer in R

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For those interested in public transport research and planning, there is a new R package to do public transport routing using  GTFS  data....
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Ipea Seminar - Infusing Urban and Regional policy with Geographic Data Science

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Today we are having Dani Arribas-Bel  (Geographic Data Science Lab, University of Liverpool) presenting a seminar at the Institute for App...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

The race for the largest city in the world over the past 500 years

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In previous posts, I've pointed out to an incredible open dataset with comprehensive population estimates of human settlements and ci...