Resources for doing better research.

WorldPop: Exploring Population Distribution and Age–Sex Structure for Spatial Research

Short description WorldPop provides gridded population estimates that help researchers explore where people live and how population characteristics vary across space. Using 2020 data for Bhutan as an example, this introduction explains the data structure, a practical processing workflow and potential research applications.

Building Footprint Data for Local Scale Analysis: Lessons from Mapping Rooftop Solar Potential in Northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Open building footprint datasets now make building-level analysis possible in countries with limited local data. This explainer shows how I used Microsoft's open building footprints to estimate rooftop solar potential for more than 1.5 million buildings across nine districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It covers where to get the data, how to combine it with elevation and population data, the problems I ran into, and other research uses such as disaster exposure analysis.

Exploring Nigeria MICS 2021: A Resource for Research on Health, Education and Inequality

Uber H3: A Hexagonal Indexing System for Multi-Scale Geospatial Research

An open-source spatial indexing system that offers researchers a consistent way to organize and explore geographic data across different scales.