Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics
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Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics
@urbandemog.bsky.social
Researcher Ipea Brazil | Visiting prof @geo_uoft | PhD @TSUOxford | Structured procrastination on Cities, Urban mobility, Accessibility, Equity, Data science, R. About: www.urbandemographics.org/
Creating large and complex projects in #Rstats can get messy really quick. Once I've learned the advantages of using the {targets} package to orchastrate my code I never looked back. #tipoftheday Use targets! books.ropensci.org/targets/ Kudos to @ropensci.org team behind this !
October 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Temos 4 vagas para graduandos na Coordenação de Ciência de Dados do Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea)! São vagas para alunos de economia, estatística, ciência da computação e áreas afins.. sendo alguma reservadas para mulheres, buscando promover maior diversidade na equipe.
Info abaixo:
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A tarifa zero pode ser uma política eficaz para tirar as pessoas do automóvel privado e usarem o transporte público? A gente mostra que a resposta é não nesse estudo que saiu publicado hoje no @jeem-econ.bsky.social
Link para o estudo abaixo, segue o fio 🧵
October 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I’m grateful to be included in the list again this year. More importantly, I feel humbled to be in the company of so many scholars whose work I deeply admire and who have influenced my own thinking.
October 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Academic rankings are all a bit arbitrary, and we all tend to highlight the ones where we look good. With that caveat in mind, Elsevier/Stanford has published the the 2% most cited researchers in 2024
Data: elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btc...
Quick search tool: topresearcherslist.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
New paper alert! In a massive collaborative effort, we surveyed 1300 transport & planning practitioners from 22 countries to ask their understanding and normative views of proximity-centred accessibility. doi.org/10.1016/j.ci... To me, the most amazing results that emerged from this paper are that:
September 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New study using 📱geolocation data to examine the impact of major transit fare subsidies in Germany (Deutschlandticket - DT). Using a time-shifted DiD model, we assessed how DT affected travel behavior in terms of visitation volumes and trips distances across the country doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
September 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
New paper where we propose the Transit Heat Exposure Index (THEI) to gauge high-fidelity heat exposure for transit riders🥵🚍 We demonstrante THEI using 1m-by-1m microclimate simulations and door-to-door transport network analysis in a case study of Miami doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...
August 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Geocoding Brazilian data with {geocodebr} in #rstats
urbandemographics.org/post/geocodi...
I've finally found some time to write a few words about #geocodebr on my personal website
July 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Atualização do📦{censobr} p/ baixar dados do censo demográfico em #rstats. Novidades do #censobr v.0.5.0:
- Dados e dicionário de agregados por setor censitario de 2022 e 2000
- Possivel escolher a pasta de cache persistente
- Download de dados mais rapido
ipeagit.github.io/censobr/inde...
July 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
{r5r} good news: now it's possible to adjust car speeds in #r5rstats to simulate different scenarios of traffic congestion and road closures. This feature is available in the dev version and will be included in the next release:
ipeagit.github.io/r5r/dev/arti... #rstats #rspatial #r5rstats
June 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Results from a 4-year longitudinal assessment of language & mathematical performance of all French 1st and 2nd graders (2.6 million kids) show that the maths gender gap emerges early on at the the first year of school
Paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pres release www.nature.com/articles/d41...
June 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📣Glad to share the logo of {geocodebr}, a really fast, scalable and completely free #rstats package to geocode Brazilian addresses 🗺️📍 ipeagit.github.io/geocodebr/
The logo of #geocodebr was created by the talented Gabriela Momberg www.behance.net/mombergabri
May 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
📢Update of {r5r} v2.2.0 on CRAN. This version includes bug fixes + allows one to get info on which OSM ids are traversed in the detailed_itineraries() function. #r5rstats
New contributions from @luyuliu.bsky.social and A.Magnus thanks to the Bousfield professorship ipeagit.github.io/r5r/index.html
May 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
from an equity standpoint, this paradigm shift enables a more comprehensive understanding of how the adverse effects of congestion are distributed across social groups – an insight not captured by traditional traffic metrics.
May 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
New preprint where we propose "Rethinking Congestion as Lost Access"
📑 osf.io/fjdbs_v2 Short 🧵!
May 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Academic advice for life
#PhDLife
May 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
📣 New preprint where we use mobile geolocation data to examine social and spatial effects of fare cuts on public transit across Germany papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Paper led by @yuanliao.bsky.social, with @jorgealgil.bsky.social, @sonia-yeh.bsky.social et al
May 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
If you're in Toronto in the next few weeks, I'll be delivering the Bousfield Lecture on April 2. This is part of my visiting prof position at Toronto Uni.
So if you're interested in 'Advancing Urban Accessibility for Inclusive Cities', you can register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
March 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Novo preprint , onde a gente encontra que gratuidade de transporte publico para idosos basicamente faz as pessoas substituírem viagens curtas a pé por o transporte publico, mas nao afeta uso do automovel osf.io/preprints/os...
February 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Glad to share our review paper on socio-spatial segregation and human mobility
📑https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0198971525000031
Another wonderful collab led by @yuanliao.bsky.social + team work with @sonia-yeh.bsky.social , @jorgealgil.bsky.social & L.Alessandretti
January 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Super glad to share that the R5 ecosystem has received the Impactful Research award by @zephyrtransport.bsky.social. I'm proud to be a part of this, particularly with the development of the r5r and r5py packages. +
#R5 #r5rstats #r5py #Zephyr #TRB Picture by
Matt Bhagat-Conway
January 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
My first day at work as a visiting prof at the Uni of Toronto and the zipper of my jacket got jammed . I'll let you know if I survive this
November 26, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Essa semana tem o 38o Congresso da ANPET e vou dar uma oficina sobre modelos de acessibilidade espacial com R. Aqui o site com todo material do curso (em português): ipeagit.github.io/oficina_aces... #rstats #38ANPET #anpet2024
November 3, 2024 at 3:06 PM
site criado em #rstats usando os dados oficiais mais recentes da ANAC baixados com o pacote
#flightsbr ipeagit.github.io/flightsbr/
#precodapassagem #procrastinacao
October 3, 2024 at 11:35 PM