ER In Santa Cruz
I am a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, in the department of Demography. My main fields of interest are spatial demography, spatial statistics, and public health demography, with a focus on residential and employment inequality.

I am a researcher with the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative working on the Mapping Spatial Inequality project. I have previously been affiliated with the Human Mortality Database and the Chicago Democracy Project.


Speeding Up OSRM Isochrone

Posted on March 11, 2021

For my work with BIMI, I am working on developing an index of service accessibility. As part of this, I need to generate a lot of travel-time buffers around points: basically, if you start at a location and drive the speed limit in any direction, what is the polygon that... [Read More]
Tags: osrm

Compiling R Markdown to Jekyll

Posted on March 10, 2021

I have to confess that my last post wasn’t written exclusively for this blog. It began as an R Markdown document about a year ago as I was fiddling around with some different autoregressive models. I thought it would be pretty straightforward to go from R Markdown to Jekyll– what... [Read More]
Tags: jekyll r-markdown

Simulating Spatially Autocorrelated Data

Posted on March 4, 2021

My first post was a lot of fun but I wanted to do a real post on something academic. I’m working my way through old markdown scratch notebooks to fill out this blog, and I’ll admit that this one is much less charming! Something I’ve struggled with is simulating good... [Read More]
Tags: spatial mcmc