Social Urban Networks

Segregation is hurting our societies and specially our cities. But economic inequality isn’t just limited to neighborhoods. The restaurants, stores, and other places we visit in cities are all unequal in their own way. The Atlas of Inequality shows the income inequality of people who visit different places in the Boston metro area. It uses aggregated anonymous location data from digital devices to estimate people’s incomes and where they spend their time. ...

This is Part III of my series of posts about how to setup you blog with RStudio and blogdown. The other parts are: Part I about to setup the blog using Hugo, RStudio and blogdown Part II explains my workflow of creating new posts. Part III (this one) how to modify the theme. In this post I am going to show how I modified the original theme casper-two that I use for my blog. ...

This is Part III of my series of posts about how to setup you blog with RStudio and blogdown. The other parts are: Part I about to setup the blog using Hugo, RStudio and blogdown Part II explains my workflow of creating new posts. Part III on how to modify the theme. Workflow In Part I of this series of post we setup our new blog using blogdown and Hugo. ...

Last month I migrated my blog from Wordpress to Hugo and blogdown. Now I can post from RStudio using R/markdown, which allow me to create interactive posts including R code. It has been such a good experience that I decide to write down how to do it with three posts to help others. This one about to setup the blog. Part II explains my workflow of creating new posts. and Part III on how to modify the theme. ...

Another edition of Netmob is happening this year 2019. NetMob is the primary conference in the analysis of mobile phone datasets in social, urban, societal and industrial problems. Previous editions in Boston and Milano brought together more than 250 researchers, practitioners and decision-makers from more 140 institutions and 30 countries. I had the pleasure to organize the 2015 edition and it was a blast to put together so much interesting talks, people, projects. ...