Egor Kotov

Egor Kotov is a spatial data scientist and 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. He is also a computation and reproducibility co-editor at the Population Dynamics Lab.

Egor focuses on analysis of digital trace data to study human mobility patterns and its effects on disease dynamics and spatial inequalities.

Latest article

Kotov, E., & Denecke, E. (2024). Expanding the Lifespan of Software for Demographic Analysis with Containers: An Application of Spatial Sampling. The Denominator. Population Dynamics Lab. .

Selected R packages and software

R package to access Spanish origin-destination matrices based on aggregated mobile phone based human mobility data. Featured by the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility of Spain. In collaboration with Robin Lovelace and Eugeni Vidal-Tortosa.

R package to manage Java environments from R in {renv}-like manner. Companion to {r5r} and many other Java-dependent R packages.

R package to dump source code, docs and vignettes or other R packages to plain text to feed to LLMs.

Faster spatial processing for R using {DuckDB} backend. Work-in-progress. First result: areal-weighted interpolation is 9-30 times faster than with {sf}`/{areal} packages. https://github.com/e-kotov/ducksf

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Upcoming presentations

Talk: Impact of Temporary Location Visitors on Mobile App Usage in French Cities: Implications for Socio-Economic Segregation Studies at 24th European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography, Tallinn, Estonia, September 2025
Talk: Open MNO Mobility Data in Spain: A Reproducible Sharing Approach via R package {spanishoddata} at MNO-MINDS Final Conference, Paris, France, September 2025

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Recent presentations

Tutorial: Mobility Flows and Accessibility Using R and Big Open Data at IC2S2 (11th International Conference on Computational Social Science), Norrköping, Sweden. In collaboration with Johannes Mast.
Tutorial and Workshop: Analysing massive open human mobility data using spanishoddata, duckdb and flowmaps at Applied Geoinformatics (AGIT) Conference 2025. Salzburg, Austria.
Talk/poster: Impact of Temporary Location Visitors on Mobile App Usage in French Cities: Implications for Socio-Economic Segregation Studies:
- Poster. IC2S2 (11th International Conference on Computational Social Science), Norrköping, Sweden
- Presentation. Applied Geoinformatics (AGIT) Conference 2025. Salzburg, Austria. Abstract:
- Poster. The Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) Conference 2025. Dresden, Germany. Abstract:
Talk: Massive open mobile phone derived human mobility data is coming to the EU (online slides, pdf slides) at Geomob June 4th, 2025, Berlin, Germany. #geomobBER
Workshop: Projects’ workflow for reproducibility and replicability using R at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Second Rostock Open Science Workshop.

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