R

PLAN 672: Urban Data Analytics in R

A full semester course on urban analytics in R. And a critical look at urban analytic techniques.

Aug 16, 2024

Cleaning Spatial Networks

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.

Last updated on Oct 26, 2022 11 min read transportation, new-urban-analytics

Cleaning Spatial Networks

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 26, 2024 546 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.

Will Curran-Groome, Nikhil Kaza

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 Aug 24, 2020 14 min read new-urban-analytics, data-munging

Matching Messy Texts

Unsupervised Clustering

Pattern recognition

Mar 20, 2020 9 min read machine-learning, urban-change

Unsupervised Clustering

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

Kshitiz Khanal, Nikhil Kaza

Feb 12, 2020 13 min read new-urban-analytics, open-data

Extracting Data from OpenStreetMap