📜📜📜Book launch day!!!📜📜📜
Four years (and many more moons!) in the making, "Geographic Data Science with Python", by @sreyog, @levijohnwolf and yours truly is published worldwide. Read more in our post:
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One year ago (23-29 March 2021) the Ever Given was stuck in the Suez Canal. This awesome animated map shows the immediate impact this incident had on global shipping. Source: https://t.co/2ndrhhpNj0
@_BartLos@v_venhorst@WileyGlobal The Journal of Periodontical Research thanked me too.. that might narrow down the set of potential darabases we were in?
What drives recruitment into global terrorist organizations? Unemployment & travel costs are important factors. Just Accepted new paper by Anne Brockmeyer, @annebrockmeyer; Quy-Toan Do; Clement Joubert, @clemjoub; Kartika Bhatia; Mohamed Abdel Jelil. https://t.co/zbc94gO6LP
The @turinginst is looking for a Research Associate in Spatial Modelling to work on the Shocks'n'Resillience stream, interfacing with Urban Analytics too. Bonus: open until Feb. 20th! https://t.co/5oyoUIms3A
/1. Yesterday at the ACS Data Users Conference, the Census Bureau described its plans to replace the American Community Survey (ACS) microdata with “fully synthetic” data over the next three years.
Wrapping up the term means new iteration of the GDS course. This time it's a biggie! Videos, new content, and new backend. All for the same right price (£0) and just as open (entirely). Geographic #DataScience 🌍📊💻 in #Python 🐍 for the masses 👭👬👫🥷🧜♀️ https://t.co/tLBDbBq2DB
Well, that was amazing. And unexpected. And (very) humbling. So, for the 15 hot seconds I might be on the spotlight and have your attention, let me say a couple of words about the award, and awarding more in general. Mini 🧵👇[1/n]
Map shows Maryland's 3rd Congressional District. Gerrymandering is pure madness. I'm puzzled why there isn't collective outrage about this in the US. Source: https://t.co/eqUxi68c5N
@ProfDiegoPuga@MiquelAngelGL@CarozziFelipe@Sefi_Roth_ Yes, I find the same thing for estimated transmission rates - density is mostly bad news in the first weeks. I also find that after a few weeks, people in denser places cut travel and stay home more (consistent with but not evidence of the mechanism).
The Covid-19 outbreak and people's responses to it look different across U.S. cities and counties - my paper is out in @cepr_org's #covideconomics: https://t.co/QQfLew8272 (with several other interesting papers there!)
The @TheEconomist has a briefing this week on cities post-COVID19, well worth a read: https://t.co/LMwV73bQOS A couple of speculative thoughts to follow 👇#my2cents (1/n)