#TidyTuesday Comparative heatmaps of holidays and airline passenger volumes (2010-2018) for various countries. Source: nature.com/articles/s4159… by Shengjie Lai (funded by Gates Foundation) Code 🔗 tinyurl.com/tidy-hm2 Tools #rstats #ggplot2 #patchwork #ggflags

AI is poised to accelerate understanding in infectious diseases, but its value needs to be demonstrated through close collaboration between research, industry, society, and policy. Paper free to read: rdcu.be/eaxEw Summary here: ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02-2…

WorldPop's Andy Tatem and Jessica Espey have written a piece for The Conversation on the growing global crisis in population data - please share in your networks: theconversation.com/global-populat…

The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2025 covers: - Impact of funding cuts on data availability - WorldPopProject’s population estimates - Growth of APIs - Climate data for anticipatory action Read it: bit.ly/state-of-open-…

🚨 New project: #MachineLearning for blue line tracing & #wastewater #surveillance 🚀We're creating smarter, scalable ways to track infectious diseases in low & middle-income countries using #EnvironmentalData #SatelliteData #Dhaka #Bangladesh #WHOGIS worldpop.org/current-projec…

🚨New study: Stratified sustainable vector control strategies & measures for #malaria control & elimination in #China China’s 70 year endeavour to control vectors for malaria elimination nationwide. #Health #VectorControl In BMJ 🔗 doi.org/10.1136/bmj-20…

📣Beta test our new global #population #data - 2015 to 2030 🗺️ ⬇️Now freely available to download ⬇️ 🔗worldpop.org/blog/beta-test… #HDX #HumanitarianData #Census

🚨 New research: Comparing & integrating human #mobility data sources for #measles transmission modeling in #Zambia doi.org/10.1371/journa… 📊 Integrating multiple #data sets improves validity of mobility estimates & dynamics of infectious disease transmission.

Listen to Professor Andy Tatem on #BBC Tech Life talk about how WorldPop use Google Open Building Data worldpop.org/blog/how-world… #PopulationModelling #HealthInterventions #DisasterManagement #CensusPlanning worldpop.org/blog/how-world…

🚨See how our innovative #AI & cutting edge data methodologies help improve child #vaccination coverage #data 🔗 mapaction.org/abcs-of-reachi… Funded by #UNICEF - working with in-country stakeholders, #CartONG and #MapAction 🌍 #Mapping #Cameroon #Chad #CotedIvoire #Guinea #Mali

In the latest ep of the We Society podcast🎙️Andy Tatem, Director of WorldPopProject, joins Will Hutton to discuss how innovative approaches to population data can help governments in the Global South with resource allocation & policymaking.  👂➡️podfollow.com/the-we-society…

🚨New research: Spatio-temporal patterns of #health service delivery and access to maternal, child, and outpatient healthcare in #Volta region, #Ghana A new approach to monitoring service changes using #HealthData & #SpatialAnalysis 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/165497…

🚨New article: Disappearing people: A global demographic data crisis threatens public policy 🌍Call for partnerships with LIMCs to co-develop demographic data methods as COVID, loss of trust & funding cuts mean fewer people counted. #Census #LMIC 🔗worldpop.org/blog/disappear…

🚨 New preprint led by Dorothea Woods describing 🌍 global gridded multi-temporal datasets to support human population distribution #modelling 🔗 verixiv.org/articles/2-149… 💻 Data: hub.worldpop.org/project/catego… 🧮 Code: github.com/wpgp/global2_s…

🌍 Introducing the new WorldPop #QGIS Plugin for Population Disaggregation ✅ Disaggregate population data top-down using spatial covariates ✅ Generate gridded pop estimates at 100m res ✅ Disaggregate population by age/sex ✅ No need to program! youtu.be/WPStOdqE8xE

🚀 A true honour to welcome Professor Dame Wendy Hall to WorldPop! We had an inspiring & wide-ranging conversation on using AI to fill global demographic data gaps🌍- plus insights into UK data sharing initiatives & the power of interdisciplinary collaboration 💡🔬 #AIforGood

We are excited to be co-creating the future of AI-powered geospatial intelligence through a transformational knowledge partnership with WorldPopProject and geospatial research hub at University of Southampton. Over the last 3 days, we explored how the fusion of AI, human geography, and

🚨 New preprint: 73 high-res, global, multi-temporal geospatial datasets! Covering 2015–2023 at ~100m resolution, these open data power better population modelling for health, policy & more. worldpop.org/blog/new-open-…

🔥 As extreme heat & aging populations collide #Europe faces a deadly future. A new study using WorldPop data warns heat-related deaths could soar - especially among the elderly - unless bold measures are taken. #ClimateCrisis #HeatRisk #PublicHealth worldpop.org/blog/new-study…

🌍 Big data, big impact! Join us on 4 Sep for the launch of WorldPop Global 2015–2030 - a new open-access, high-res, age & sex-disaggregated population estimate dataset covering 242 countries 📅 4 Sep | 🕒 3 pm BST 🔗 Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1374590861269 #PopulationData #OpenData