Assorted Links

1. Beijing Intersection Timelapse
   
   
2. Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon
   
   
3. Free Parking Comes at a Price
   
   
4. Global map of protests: 2013 so far
   
   
5. "Foreign students make up the majority of enrollments in U.S. graduate programs in many STEM fields [...] as well as in economics" via MR
   
   
6. The average destination of international flights
   
   
7. Global Movement of Refugees Since 1960
   
   
8. Earth's moon from a different angle
   
   
9. David Levinson alerting the Call for Papers for the World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research 2014

13th WCTR + Commute Time in Brazil

Dear readers, next week I'll be in Rio for the 13th WCTR. I'm presenting a working paper Tim Schwanen and I have recently published. In this study we explore 18 years of commute time trends in Brazil. I was planning a dedicated post to talk about this study but I've been quite busy these days. 

So here it is. You may download it here:

Commute Time in Brazil (1992-2009): Differences Between Metropolitan Areas, by Income Levels and Gender

[Portuguese version]

ps. It would be great to meet some of you in case there is anyone out there that's also attending the conference. If there is anyone out there, just leave a comment of drop me an email.

Health conditions in the United States

An interactive visualization of health conditions in the United States by the Washington Post (via Alberto Cairo, whoe runsa great blog by the way).

Related Links:

• Eastern German men gain almost six years in life thanks to unification
• Save the Date for the PRB Webinar on Education and Mortality in the US
• New book on spatial inequalities in Accra, Ghana

Urban Picture

Around the world 30 pictures architect

La vuelta al mundo de un aquitecto en 30 fotografias (via Drunkeynesian)

México DF

Norilsk (Russia)

Dubai

Barcelona

Huaxi (China)

Brasília (Brazil)

European shipping routes between 1750 and 1800

James Cheshire (UCL) have used R to create this incredible map showing some European shipping routes between 1750 and 1850. What struck me most is the existence of a remarkable dataset like this, containing digitised information from the log books of ships.

Congratulations to the team that has done such a great work recovering these data! And congratulations to James who has recently published his map.

Click on the  image to enlarge it

[Image Credit: James Cheshire]

Related Link: An animation 100 Years of ships

Returns to College Education

A nice piece by Catherine Rampell on The Return on College Around the World (ht Raquel Guimaraes). You may download the OECD report here: Education at a Glance 2013.

[Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. via Economix]

Off-topic: Internet monitoring

Image credit: someone's (can't remember who) facebook page

Assorted links

1. Departments’ characteristics that make researchers more productive (via @ADEH)
   
   
2. "3% of users post 60% of all content to Twitter" and other pitfalls in analyzing Big Data
   
   
3. A World of Rising Health Care Costs
   
   
4. The Coolest Transit Ad Ever
   
   
5. How academics can engage with policy
   
   
6. The gravity equation for on-line education
   
   
7. "Using Internet Explorer leads to murder" and 9 other Bizarre Correlations (via The Drunkeynesian)

[Image Credit: Gizmodo]

Pricing and Funding Public Transport in Brazil

 Self-promotion alert  Some colleagues and I have just published a report on 'Pricing and Funding Public Transport in Brazil' [available only in Portuguese].

Related Links:

• How Brazilian protesters are using Twitter
• About the recent protests in Brazil
• Working paper: Commute Time in Brazil (1992-2009)

Quote of the day

[Image Credit: pak9 and @over]

Full quote: "What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city"