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Why do we need journals anymore?
There was a recent email on PLANET Google Groups asking about what the ‘top journals’ were in the field. I wrote a response, while not directly answering the question. This post is an elaboration/edit of that post.
May 4, 2019 4 min read scholarship
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
A compactness index for urban patterns
Index of Moment of Inertia can be used to measure both the fragmentation levels and extent of fragmentation. This is a complementary measure to density to measure compactness of an urban landscape
Apr 24, 2019 8 min read urban-change, new-urban-analytics, landscape-metrics
A compactness index for urban patterns
Transportation Energy Consumption in the US
While urban counties consume substantially more gasoline/diesel, rural counties are thrice as profligate as urban counties on per capita basis.
Apr 2, 2019 6 min read energy-policy, regional-science
Transportation Energy Consumption in the US
Regions of Deprivation
Spatial clusters of deprivation and their patterns
Sep 24, 2018 17 min read equity, new-urban-analytics, regional-science
Regions of Deprivation
Analysing Urban Neworks
A brief introduction to network analysis.
Sep 12, 2018 13 min read new-urban-analytics, regional-science
Analysing Urban Neworks
Machine Learning for Remote Sensing
Classification trees, random forests, neural networks and the like.
Aug 7, 2018 16 min read remote-sensing, machine-learning
Machine Learning for Remote Sensing
Scraping web for data
Parsing data that is served through REST API.
Aug 3, 2018 11 min read R
Scraping web for data
Identifying Clusters of Events
Spatial cluster detection.
Jul 9, 2018 18 min read R, techniques-short-course
Identifying Clusters of Events
Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design Setup
Exploiting sharp edges at the border of a jurisdiction to test the effect of a program/policy.
Jul 8, 2018 10 min read regional-science, policy-evaluation
Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design Setup