I am currently a Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Digital and Computational Demography, Laboratory of Migration and Mobility at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock and at Sociodemography Research Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona.
I analyse spatial digital trace data to study human mobility patterns and the implications for disease dynamics and inequalities.
My latest paper is:
Kotov, E., & Deneke, E. (2024). Expanding the Lifespan of Software for Demographic Analysis with Containers: An Application of Spatial Sampling. The Denominator. Population Dynamics Lab.
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I worked on many R packages: I developed the wikimapR for getting data using Wikimapia API, enhanced
rangfor reproducible research, and made contributions tolayer,OpenTripPlanner,geofacet,esri2sfand more R packages.I used to teach reproducible data analysis in R and computational spatial morphology to urban researchers and planners.
Research interests
Intra-urban and inter-regional mobility, commuting and migration; determinants, external effects and spillover effects
Implications of human mobility for disease dynamics and inequalities