Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Working towards deadlines

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Friday, July 26, 2019

Climate change and the glass half full

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Quote of the day: "Some people complain that this is the hottest summer in the last 125 years, but I like to think of it as the cool...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

A spatial database of health facilities in sub Saharan Africa

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Interesting new paper analyzing accessibility to emergency hospital care in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015. The authors have done a laborious ...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Off to the UK

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I'm off to the UK to participate in my graduation ceremony at Oxford and to celebrate my partner's graduation at  Cambridge  the o...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019

We're hiring research assistants to work with Spatial Data Science at Ipea

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A few readers might be interested in this post.  We are hiring 4 research assistants to work with ( spatial)  data science on urban, regio...
Sunday, July 7, 2019

Music for the weekend

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Soundtrack for a weekend of good bye to João Gilberto, one of the fathers of Bossa Nova. A Brazilian giant.
Thursday, July 4, 2019

The winners and losers of the transport legacy of megaevents

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Summarizing the core elements of one's research to communicate with a wide audience is among the most challenging and yet important as...
Monday, July 1, 2019

geobr: shapefiles and official spatial data sets of Brazil in R

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In 2012, I published here a blog post about where to find shapefiles of Brazil. Since then, this has become one of the most popular posts ...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

Interactive visualization of large-scale spatial data sets in R

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In the beginning, there were only static maps. Over the past years we have seen the creation of new packages like mapview and mapedit  t...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

9th Anniversary of Urban Demographics !

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Today is the 9th Anniversary of Urban Demographics. I must say the blog has never been as quiet as in the past year. This is due to variou...