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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 14 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
Basic Raster Operations in R
Basic Raster Operations in R
Feb 27, 2020 11 min read
Basic Raster Operations in R
Extracting Data from OpenStreetMap
Using R to download points of interest from various online sources, and to think about what the data can and cannot tell you.
Last updated on Oct 27, 2026 21 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 14 min read new-urban-analytics
Scraping Craigslist Posts
Introduction to R & Rmarkdown
Preliminaries To get started with this course, you will need R. I strongly recommend Rstudio. To function correctly, RStudio needs R and therefore both need to be installed on your computer.
Last updated on Aug 18, 2026 17 min read
Introduction to R & Rmarkdown
Starting with QGIS
A Quick Introduction to QGIS
Last updated on Jan 22, 2022 3 min read
Starting with QGIS