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==Potentially useful links for city-level data by country==
==Potentially useful links for city-level data by country==


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*Data for Pakistan is not freely available (must pay to get it).
*Data for Pakistan is not freely available (must pay to get it).
*Egyptian data appears to be national.
*Egyptian and Thai data appear to be national.
*Bangladesh data for Dhaka Division appears to be demographic only.
*Bangladesh data for Dhaka Division appears to be demographic only.
==18 June Meeting==
*Todd will finish downloading the images from openstreet
*John will run  the lattice site fractal dimension netlogo program using some of the already downloaded images to find what lattice size to use
*Todd will implement the lattice site fractal dimension algorithm in java and run it for all the images
*Todd will run the box counting fractal dimesion java program for all the images
*Everyone else will try to find some available economic/social indicator datasets online.
(a)if it's easy to download or copy, we put it in the dropbox
(b)if not, put the link in the wiki and Cheryl will try to download/extract it
*Cheryl will merge all the data into one file (data.txt file in the dropbox)
*Ian will process the data.txt file and do the scaling plots for them together with his ecological data and Jody's biological data

Latest revision as of 17:38, 18 June 2013

Complex Systems Summer School 2013

Potentially useful links for city-level data by country

List and links of international statistics offices from the US Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/aboutus/stat_int.html


Brazil: http://www.ibge.gov.br/english/estatistica/economia/pibmunicipios/2010/default.shtm

India: http://statisticsofindia.com/tatasoi/socio-economic.php?ccode=EAA700

Indonesia (appears to be at province level): http://www.bps.go.id/eng/index.php

Mexico (link to Federal District data, the entity in which Mexico City is located): http://www.inegi.org.mx/movil/mexicocifras/municipios.aspx?e=09&i=e

Philippines (appears to be at province level): http://www.census.gov.ph/survey/annual-poverty-indicator


NOTES:

  • Data for Pakistan is not freely available (must pay to get it).
  • Egyptian and Thai data appear to be national.
  • Bangladesh data for Dhaka Division appears to be demographic only.

18 June Meeting

  • Todd will finish downloading the images from openstreet
  • John will run the lattice site fractal dimension netlogo program using some of the already downloaded images to find what lattice size to use
  • Todd will implement the lattice site fractal dimension algorithm in java and run it for all the images
  • Todd will run the box counting fractal dimesion java program for all the images
  • Everyone else will try to find some available economic/social indicator datasets online.

(a)if it's easy to download or copy, we put it in the dropbox (b)if not, put the link in the wiki and Cheryl will try to download/extract it

  • Cheryl will merge all the data into one file (data.txt file in the dropbox)
  • Ian will process the data.txt file and do the scaling plots for them together with his ecological data and Jody's biological data