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Introduction Drone imagery offers promising capabilities for urban planning, but its application warrants a measured and critical perspective. While drones can rapidly capture high-resolution spatial data, enabling planners to visualize land use, infrastructure, and environmental conditions with impressive detail, their use also raises concerns about data accuracy, privacy, and long-term integration.

Introduction Object detection allows computers to identify and locate objects — like cars, people, street furniture — in images or videos. For urban planners, it offers a way to gather observational data at scale.

We communicate by telling stories. In our professional world, we often use data to support our stories. But how do we tell compelling stories with data? This post explores, very briefly, the art and science of data storytelling, providing insights and techniques to help you craft narratives that resonate with your audience.

Introduction This post was last updated on 2025-08-07 Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a class of artificial intelligence systems that have fundamentally transformed natural language processing and generation. These neural networks, trained on vast corpora of text data, demonstrate remarkable capabilities in mimicking the understanding context, generating coherent(ish) responses, and performing complex reasoning tasks across diverse domains.

Introduction In this post, I am going to show how one might go about analysing the Bikeshare use in New York city.

Introduction Understanding the reach and effectiveness of public transit is important to understand how urban environments are accessible for different groups of people.

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.

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.

Some exploratory graphics using air pollution data in the US.