Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Urban Picture

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Seoul, South Korea image credit: Maxar  and  Daily Overview
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

My interview for the Caos Planejado podcast

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Today is the 5th anniversary of Caos Planejado , a great Brazilian blog focused on urban planning, economics and innovation. Long live...
Monday, August 19, 2019

The influence of ride-hailing on users' travel behavior

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New paper hot off the press, by  Alejandro Tirachini  ( Twitter ). Tirachini, A., & del Río, M. (2019). Ride-hailing in Santiago de C...
Monday, August 12, 2019

geobr: easy access to official spatial data sets of Brazil

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I'm glad to annouce that  geobr   is now officially available on CRAN.  Here and here  are quick intros on how to use  geobr  to ge...
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.