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These are some packages I have just discovered which I would like to try/use in the future. For future reference, I have added a brief description and links to source code:

When we are bombarded with figures and data on COVID-19, a reflection on how data is gathered, analised and visualized is a must if data is to be of any use at all.

It’s nothing new to say that buildings age over time. Or that, like people, they can age well or not so well. José María Echarte wrote an article in this blog about how to age well (and how to appreciate age).

While I have been using R for many years now (mainly for data manipulation and visualization), and I am extremely happy with some of its features (like how easy is to deal with data or to create interactive reports that can be exported in plenty of different outputs, such as pdf, documents, slides, dashboards or blog posts like this one).

During the last 10 years I have given a number of talks in various contexts due to my job as a lecturer: either lectures for my students, conferences, workshops or even much more informal events, usually speaking about cities, commons, maps or accessibility.

In this post I will share my experience as attendee to Reconfigure Workshop. Reconfigure is a group of feminist cybersecurity advocates & researchers seeking to engage with groups excluded from tech and improve industry and academia

«Once upon a time there were three little pigs who lived in a wood. The big bad wolf was always chasing them and trying to eat them, so one day the eldest said, “We have to build a house to protect ourselves from the wolf.

As those who know me well know, I love maps: I like to see them, I like to make them and I like to use them to give answers to complex questions.

Let me propose an exercise: close your eyes for a moment and imagine a person devoted to science and research. Almost certainly, you may have visualized a middle-aged man in a white robe and glasses who is doing “things” in a laboratory or in front of a computer, probably to solve a problem related to health, the environment or making a process more efficient.

During the last few years, I have hardly shown any activity on this website. This is because they have coincided with periods of considerable intensity, especially in terms of work. I already wrote about one of the main reasons, and today I would like to write about another other one: Accessible Zaragoza, the collaborative mapping project of aspects related to urban mobility and disability that I devised in the academic year 2015-16 within a chair at the Universidad San Jorge and in which I have been working as a principal investigator since then.