Tuesday, October 29, 2019

City walkability and upward social mobility

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Here is a recent paper with some interesting findings suggesting that more walkable cities can facilitate upward social mobility (Thanks ...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

The urban footprint of the largest urban areas of Brazil

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All my procrastination energy led to me to create this nice little image comparing the footprint of the largest urban agglomeration in Bra...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Pushing regional studies beyond its borders

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New paper hot off the press discussing 5 perspectives to push the bounderies of regional studies. Good read to catch up with the literat...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

Quote of the day - machine learning

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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Fully funded PhD scholarship at the Transport Studies Unit at Oxford

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Heads up: The Transport Studies Unit ( TSU ) at the School of Geography and the Environment of the University of Oxford will have one ful...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

The Build-up of OpenStreetMap data in East Asia

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Another neat dataviz from the ItoWorld team, this time visualizing all the edits to road networks in OpenStreetMap for East Asia since 200...
Friday, October 11, 2019

How many people have ever lived on Earth?

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Have a guess. I can only say I was wrong by a lot :) Now select this back box to see how close your guess was.  109 billion   There is a  n...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Precious advice on academic writing

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Resubmitting to different journals pic.twitter.com/9cpsPvxG2e — Oded Rechavi 🦉 (@OdedRechavi) October 7, 2019
Saturday, October 5, 2019

World population projected to reach 10.9 billion by 2100

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The UN Population Division published this year its report World Population Prospects: The 2019 Revision  with lots of goodies, including t...
Friday, September 27, 2019

A list of my favorite entries to the 2019 'Information is Beautiful Awards'

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Every year since 2012, David McCandless (founder of  Information is Beautiful ) and a team analyze hundreds of data visualizations, infog...