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OpenStreetMap Part 1: Leveraging open source data for development work

Introduction Open-source tools for development work allows for the power of big data, machine learning and AI to come together to …

US 2020 Presidental Election and Rural - Urban Divide

Introduction The US Presidential vote count has nearly finished. Trump is fighting the results in court though appears to have lost, …

U.S. Food Deserts

Introduction A considerable issue today related to food and rural population research are food deserts. Food deserts are a complicated …

Be like me - looping through shortest distance analysis

Introduction I’ve been doing some work lately on social networks that exist between organisations or institutions. This is nice as it …

Covid-19 and Rural Areas in the U.S.

First published on 26-April-2020 Last updated on 16-Aug-2020 Introduction Now that we are square in the middle of the Covid-19 …

Networks from survey data: Creating mock data

Why create a new dataset? I’d like to do a series of posts looking at social network analysis using primary data (i.e. data collected …

Apples for apples I

Introduction This is the initial Deltanomics blog post. So, in this post, I’ll cover a few different approaches to analysis and data …