Projects
Research Projects & Visualizations
Research
WorkReach: How Far Do We Go for a Better Job?
A model to understand why people work where they work, how far they are willing to travel for a better job, and how that changes between Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area.
Who Reaches the UTOPÍAS? Third Places and Mobility in Iztapalapa
We used mobility data from cell phones to understand who visits the 13 UTOPÍAS in Iztapalapa, where they come from, and what transit, services, and violence have to do with it.
Who Could Stay Home? Mobility and Inequality During COVID-19
We used data from 281 million phones in six countries to see who could stay home, who left the city, and who stopped going to work during the pandemic.
19S - Mexico's Resilience in an Earthquake Event
A study of Mexico City's resilience after the September 19, 2017 earthquake using mobility and social media data.
Fractals from random walkers
Using L-systems and Diffusion-Limited Aggregation to create fractals.
Analysis of a Temporal Asylum Seekers Network
Using temporal networks to analyze asylum seekers petitions between countries from 2000 to 2017.
Listening to Communities During the Ebola Crisis
How unmet needs shaped behaviors during the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.
Social Distancing and Self-Isolation in Times of COVID-19
Using a SIS model to simulate the effect of social distancing and self-isolation in the spreading of COVID-19.
A Cellular Automata Sznajd Model
Using a Sznajd model to simulate opinion dynamics in a 2D lattice and the effect of bots.
Explorations
Voting patterns in the Mexican Senate
A network representation of the voting patterns of the Mexican Senate in the LXII and LXIII legislatures between 2012 and 2017.
Scraping the Mexican Senate
Using Julia to scrape useful information from the Mexican Senate's website.
Mexican Senate Coalitions
Coalitions in the Mexican Senate from a complex networks point of view.
Bot Emmett Brown
A Twitter bot that generates text according to the Doc's dialogues in the 3 Back to the Future movies.