new-urban-analytics

Cleaning Spatial Networks
Introduction Some transportation networks are intuitive to understand as networks. We can easily visualize intersections as nodes and roadways as edges in a road network.
Last updated on Oct 26, 2022 11 min read transportation, new-urban-analytics
Cleaning Spatial Networks
Isochrones from Routing Engines (OSRM)
Introduction In other posts, I have shown how to use external servers (google, craigslist etc.) to access information. You can also query a local (on your computer) server and your R session acts like a client (e.
Last updated on Jan 25, 2022 4 min read transportation, new-urban-analytics
Isochrones from Routing Engines (OSRM)
Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualisation
Some exploratory graphics using air pollution data in the US.
Last updated on Jan 22, 2022 548 min read new-urban-analytics, air-quality
Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualisation
Intersection Density From OSM using QGIS & R
Intersection Density is often used as an indicator of urban form in travel behaviour and urban design. In this post, I detail a way to calculate this indicator by leveraging OpenStreetMap data. I also focus on how to link R & QGIS as an illustration.
Last updated on Jan 21, 2022 10 min read new-urban-analytics, urban-form
Intersection Density From OSM using QGIS & R
Analysing Free Form Text
Free form text is ubiquitous in planning, including plans, regulations, meeting minutes, and transcripts, etc. This is a short introduction to analysing such text quantitatively.
Last updated on Aug 31, 2020 15 min read new-urban-analytics
Analysing Free Form Text
Matching Messy Texts
Using messy text fields to create some structure out of the datasets.
Last updated on Aug 24, 2020 14 min read new-urban-analytics, data-munging
Matching Messy Texts
Extracting Data from OpenStreetMap
Using R to scrape points of interest from OpenStreetMap
Feb 12, 2020 13 min read new-urban-analytics, open-data
Extracting Data from OpenStreetMap
Scraping Craigslist Posts
Using R to scrape rental listings from Craigslist
Feb 4, 2020 9 min read new-urban-analytics
Scraping Craigslist Posts
Regional Employment Structure Using Labor Market Centrality Index
Network Coreness Index can be used to measure the structure of regional economy identified through a commuting network
Aug 24, 2019 8 min read new-urban-analytics, regional-science
Regional Employment Structure Using Labor Market Centrality Index
Landscape Shape Adjusted Compactness Index
A correction to Index of Moment of Inertia that reduces the penalty of being in an elongated landscape
May 2, 2019 6 min read new-urban-analytics, urban-change
Landscape Shape Adjusted Compactness Index