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We are expanding! We are looking for a new Postdoctoral Research Associate in Geographic Data Science to join us at the Geographic Data Science Lab at the University of Liverpool (UoL).

I had an interesting experience contributing to a publication for The Journal of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee – All-Party Parliamentary Group, communicating the potential of geographic data science for policy making and the some of work we have done at the Geographic Data Science Lab (GDSL).

Francisco Rowe and Matt Mason The UK has recently experienced a wave of anti-migrant and Islamophobic riots. Towns and cities across England and Northern Ireland have seen large gatherings of rioters clash with police and hundreds of arrests have been made.

Project Description This project aims to determine the role of the spatial structure of urban activities and spatial socioeconomic segregation on the speed and geography of infectious disease spreading across socioeconomic groups.

Back in February, the European Commission Joint Research Centre published a report on data innovation applications in demography, migration and human mobility. This report is a very welcome contribution summarising all the relevant case applications in the field of migration and human mobility.

I often get asked: can I use a logistic regression on aggregate data? We generally associate logistic regressions to individual-level or micro data encoding attributes into a binary category, such as moving 1 or not 0.

A Quick Practical Guide One of my research areas of interest revolves around understanding human mobility and migration flows. Key attributes of flow data are that they are counts and a right-skewed, overdispesed and often zero-inflated distribution.

Net Internal Migration Rate Across Europe At the end of last year, we published a paper assessing the impact of internal migration on redistributing population within European countries. Specifically we assessed the impact of internal migration on promoting population concentration or deconcentration.

R Markdown This post introduces our recently published R package, CIM, to measure the impacts of migration on local population structures. We developed the methodology in this paper in 2018.

Introducing our Special Issue