March 02, 2011

Midterm: Urban Scaling, Continued (Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View)

In which we compare the power-law scaling model of urban economies due to Bettencourt et al. to an alternative in which city size is actually irrelevant.

This was a one-week take-home exam, intended to use more or less everything taught so far.

Assignment; master data file (each student got a different random perturbation of this).

Solution: PDF, R

Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View

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