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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 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 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
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
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