Resources by me
GIS/mapping stuff
- Getting map data from OpenStreetMap via Overpass API (slides)
Complexity theory
- Power law derivations (supplementary to Clauset 2009)
Opinion dynamics
- Deffuant–Weisbuch model implementation in Julia:
https://gitlab.com/unchitta/deffuant-weisbuch-jl
General-audience scientific communication and other writings
- Disease Detectives: Using Mathematics to Forecast the Spread of Infectious Diseases (HZ Brooks et al.)
Resources by others
Data science for social good
- Data4Justice Curriculum by Chad M. Topaz, Andrew Lopez, Jude Higdon, Tyrone Bass (edited by Brittney Bailey)
- Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (QSIDE)
Working with census/national survey data
- Downloading census shape files – https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/education/tiger/Downloading_TIGERLine_Shp.pdf
- Analyzing US Census Data: Methods, Maps, and Models in R book by Kyle E. Walker – https://walker-data.com/census-r/
- tidycensus – https://walker-data.com/tidycensus/index.html
- tidycensus (microdata) – https://walker-data.com/tidycensus/articles/pums-data.html
- a nice paper on survey weighting – http://www.asasrms.org/Proceedings/papers/1990_018.pdf
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_probability
- a very nice intro paper on iterative proportional fitting in the context of population geography/demography – https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2015.1099449
- another nice paper on IPF in the context of population geography – https://www.jasss.org/18/2/21.html
GIS / Geocomputation / Mapping
- More than you ever want to know about GeoJSON – https://macwright.com/2015/03/23/geojson-second-bite.html
- Coordinate reference system in R – https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/2020-04/OverviewCoordinateReferenceSystems.pdf
- Geocomputation in R book by Lovelace et al. – https://bookdown.org/robinlovelace/geocompr/
- Spatial Microsimulation with R book by Lovelace et al. – https://spatial-microsim-book.robinlovelace.net/index.html
- Spatial Data Science w/ Applications in R book by Pebesma and Bivand – https://keen-swartz-3146c4.netlify.app
- Spatial Data Programming with Python book by Michael Dorman – https://geobgu.xyz/py/
- Intro to Spatial Data Programming with R book by Michael Dorman – https://geobgu.xyz/r/
- Introduction to Web Mapping book by Michael Dorman – https://geobgu.xyz/web-mapping2/
- Platform for hosting/analyzing spatial databases – https://carto.com