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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 Aug 14, 2025 565 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 Nov 12, 2025 32 min read new-urban-analytics, data-munging
Matching Messy Texts
Surveillance, Sensor Networks and COVID-19 Pandemic
The following is a transcript for a podcast as part of the series called “Viewpoints on Resilient and Equitable Responses to the Pandemic" produced by Center for Urban and Regional Studies.
Apr 19, 2020 6 min read
Surveillance, Sensor Networks and COVID-19 Pandemic
Unsupervised Clustering
Pattern recognition
Mar 20, 2020 9 min read machine-learning, urban-change
Unsupervised Clustering
Some Issues with Land Suitability Analysis
In 2018, as I was setting up this website, I had a conversation about land suitabilty analysis over email with Lew Hopkins, who was my doctoral advisor when I was at Illinois.
Mar 16, 2020 7 min read land-suitability
Urban Morphology & Landscape Metrics
Creating urban landscape metrics
Mar 12, 2020 16 min read R, teaching
Urban Morphology & Landscape Metrics
Land Suitability Analysis
Land Suitability Analysis using Multi Criteria Decision Making
Mar 6, 2020 14 min read R
Land Suitability Analysis