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. 
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Selected R packages and software
Upcoming presentations
Workshop: Analysing massive open human mobility data using spanishoddata, duckdb and flowmaps at Applied Geoinformatics (AGIT) Conference 2025. Salzburg, Austria. Stay tuned for open teaching meterials.
Workshop: Mobility Flows and Accessibility Using R and Big Open Data at IC2S2 (11th International Conference on Computational Social Science), Norrköping, Sweden. Stay tuned for open teaching meterials.
Talk/poster: Impact of Temporary Location Visitors on Mobile App Usage in French Cities: Implications for Socio-Economic Segregation Studies:
Poster. The Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) Conference 2025. Dresden, Germany. Poster abstract:
Short talk. Applied Geoinformatics (AGIT) Conference 2025. Salzburg, Austria
Poster. IC2S2 (11th International Conference on Computational Social Science), Norrköping, Sweden
Recent presentations
- Workshop: Projects’ workflow for reproducibility and replicability using R at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Second Rostock Open Science Workshop.