Rivers are fundamentals in creating the right conditions for life: that is why most cities since ancient civilizations were built along their banks. Rivers form intricate networks linking the main branches and their smaller...
The Million Neighborhoods Map is a groundbreaking visual tool that provides the first comprehensive look at informal settlements across Africa, helping to identify communities most in need of roads, power, water, sanitation and other infrastructure. Updates...
Last week Google has published the “COVID-19 Community Mobility report”. In the context of strict confinement measures, and while some governments (China above all but also Italy, France and Spain) have resorted to mobile...
Is there a relation between a yellow slime organism called Physarum polycephalum, that can be easily found on decaying trees and leaves in the forest’s shade, and the complex organization of galaxies? Researchers Joe...
Kirell Benzi is a data artist, speaker and data visualization lecturer. He holds a Ph.D. in Data Science since 2016, which he obtained at EFPL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Building on very heterogeneous...
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the world, governments are taking measures to slow down the spread of the contagion among the population. In fact, while there is no way the virus...
“Identifying and managing risks is nowadays key in any strategic planning. Under the wording risk management, companies aim to control and minimize the risk level that could impact their short or long-term profitability. In...
The European Environmental Agency has recently published a cartographic platform to map the impact of global warming on droughts, floods, agriculture, forest fires and sea level rise in Europe. These maps are based on...
The Atlas of Urban Expansion collects and analyzes data on the quantity and quality of urban expansion in a stratified global sample of 200 cities. With the aid of satellite images researchers have gathered a...
A recently published study in Current Biology has shown that a species of termites has been colonising a huge area of Brazil – its surface is equivalent to that of Great Britain- in the past...
This month of June marks the 20th anniversary of the seminal paper by Watts and Strogatz: “Collective dynamics of small world networks” In this article on Nature, author Alessandro Vespignani elaborates on the importance...
When we consider the global network of cities, is instability an inherent property of certain network positions? Dr. Weisi Guo from Cardiff University believes this is the case. He recently co-authored a study in...
Launched in 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos from Igarapé Institute in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, the United Nations University, 100 Resilient Cities, XSeer and Canada’s Global Affairs, fragile cities is an...
Columbia University student Will Geary created an instrument to visualize public transport flows through the 24 hours of the day. For example, below you can see an example of visualization for the San Francisco...