Assorted Links

1. Web Scraping Big Data on Rental Housing Markets across the United States, by Geoff Boeing
   
   
2. Using aerial images to compare 60 Years of Urban Change in the US 
   
   
3. China's high-speed rail vision
   
   
4. 25 of the best photographs of Muhammad Ali
   
   
5. Real-time visualization of Ebola evolution and geographic spread
   
   
6. This interactive map shows how ‘wrong’ other maps are via Pablo Astudillio
   
   
7. My type of dog 
   
   
8. World’s Most Influential Universities as revealed by Wikipedia articles
   
   
9. How the Earth Would Look Like Without Oceans

My latest failed plot

Unintentionally creating abstract art in R using ggplot2. I fail my PhD, I'll try to sell my plots to an art gallery.

R Links

1. A Compendium of Clean Graphs in R
   
   
2. An introduction to Agent-Based Modelling in R
   
   
3. Implementing Spatial Segregation Measures in R
   
   
4. How long it takes from question submit to 1st answer on StackOverflow?
   
   
5. How to efficiently calculate distances between pairs of coordinates
   
   
6. A quite fast R script to download data of the Brazilian Census 2010
   
   
7. How to reproduce the famous Joy Division cover using ggplot2
   UPDATE:  there is an R package for that ! (ht @mikefc)

Visualizing globalization with shipping traffic lanes

via The Dunkeynesian

Shipping traffic lanes show who is part of globalization and who is left out pic.twitter.com/dUcy5Fravl

— William Easterly (@bill_easterly) 2 June 2016

Assorted Links

1. [new paper] Mortality differentials by education in Brazil: Life expectancy was 6.27 years longer for men with a complete university degree than for those with less than primary education in 2010. The paper is in Portuguese
   
   
2. A nice summary of 10 major data science methods
   
   
3. Beautiful photos of 1908 Japan
   
   
4. 40% of the buildings in Manhattan could not be built today under current zoning rules
   
   
5. Will autonomous vehicles be safer then conventional cars ? Here is why answering this question is far from simple  via Tyler Cowen
   
   
6. Lisa Charlotte Rost ‏ has gone through the painful task of creating the same chart with 12 different tools and libraries. This gives me more reasons to stick to R and ggplot2 :)
   
   
7. Road intersections as art
   
   
8. Making explicit the network behind air transport: by Martin Grandjean

If you ask me how my PhD is going ...

via Gif Porn

Commuting hinterland of major UK cities

Alasdair Rae (who has a great blog by the way) has posted a nice short collection of maps comparing the commuting hinterland of some major UK cities.

City Footprints: follow-up blog on commute patterns for lots of cities https://t.co/7fSGdPL18q cc @RileyResearch pic.twitter.com/MkuhCx79Xd

— Alasdair Rae (@undertheraedar) 27 May 2016

Simulados: agent-based computer simulations

A nice video of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center on the use of agent-based computer simulations to study societies. Via Andy Kirk.

Spreadsheets

true story

"Some of my best friends use spreadsheets" @JennyBryan #csvconf pic.twitter.com/elQkcUtOeW

— Rich FitzJohn (@rgfitzjohn) 4 May 2016

I'm presenting at UCL next week - Transport legacy and the redistribution of Urban Accessibility

I'm giving a talk at the Bartlett School of Planning UCL next week. Feel free to come by and say hello if you're around.

I will present a case study on the transport legacies of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and discuss the distributive aspects of how such developments affect different income groups in terms of their transport accessibility to hospitals, schools and job opportunities. This is one of the papers of my doctoral research, so I'd be glad to get any feedback  if I don't put the audience to sleep . 

There is more info about the event here. Thanks Beatriz Mella for the invitation.