Sunday, June 25, 2017

7th Anniversary of Urban Demographics !

Today is the 7th Anniversary of Urban Demographics. I hope the blog has been a valuable source of  procrastination  information for you as much as it has been for me. Thanks all the readers for the support \o/

Here are some stats that show a summary of the blog over the past year. Please, feel free to drop me a line with suggestions on how to improve the blog. If you have any criticisms, please direct them to this other blog here.


The most popular posts:
  1. How Brazil compares to other countries in terms of area, population and human development
  2. Mexicans didn’t cross the US border. The border crossed them 
  3. The people who keep us company throughout our life cycle
  4. Comparing house price trends worldwide
  5. The world’s most violent cities

and 10 of my favourite posts:
  1. How much of the world is covered by cities? not much
  2. The impressive expansion of subway systems in China
  3. Distributive justice and equity in transportation
  4. The cost of every Olympics Games since 1960
  5. Creating an animated world map of life expectancy changes from 1950 to 2100 in R
  6. Mapped history of population expansion in the US
  7. Income segregation at the block level
  8. Measuring exposure to air pollution using mobile phone data
  9. Map of Population Density Lines in R
  10. Visualizing the space-time geography of flow data

Where do readers come from? (202 Countries - 4,482 Cities) 
  • Brazil (44.6%) 
  • United States (17.9%) 
  • United Kingdom (4.6%) 
  • Mexico (2.8%) 
  • Russia (2.7%) 
  • other countries (27.4%) Not many readers in Siberia nor Greenland, though